IRAQI DINAR POLITICS & ECONOMY

Vice Kordstani: Maliki rose from the political crisis .. and we are heading for the withdrawal of confidence about the lack of implementation of the Convention on Arbil

On: Friday 05/11/2012 10:25

Arbil (news) .. MP for / Kurdish coalition blocs / Qassim Mohammed Hmokhta, that the outstanding problems between the political parties can be resolved within hours, pointing to the absence of positive indications to resolve the crisis, but there are steps to escalate by the government which will have the political blocs to resort to withdraw confidence from the Prime Minister after the deadline on the seventeenth of this month. 
said Hmokhta in a statement to the Agency (news): The political crisis between blocs / reached the end unbearable and reflected negatively on the street and on the performance of government to provide services. and added to political Read more…

Disclosure of details of serious agreement Barzani _ Allawi secret?

Disclosure of details of serious agreement Barzani _ Allawi secret?

05/10/2012
Palm – British Observer newspaper published details of an exciting secret agreement was recently among all of Iyad Allawi and Massoud Barzani, the newspaper said its reporter Robert Doclas obtained from a reliable source of Kurdish was reserved for the newspaper to be named. 

The agreement includes several points of serious ones that writes Iyad Allawi, a written undertaking to agree to the annexation of Kirkuk and Khanaqin, and the plains of Mosul and Badra and Jassan to the Kurdistan region and that agrees to grant the Kurds 90 percent of the oil extracted in the region.

In turn Read more…

Iraq’s oil industry is witnessing leap and prosperous

Iraq’s oil industry is witnessing leap and prosperous

05/10/2012 0:00

Iraq plans to export natural gas in 2017

Iraq plans to export natural gas in 2017

09/05/2012 17:03

Baghdad, May 9 / May (Rn) – The Iraqi Oil Ministry, said on Wednesday its intention to export natural gas as standard during the year 2017, noting that the next phase will focus on investment projects of natural gas. and Oil Minister Abdul Karim and coffee, at a press conference at the Ministry, “The ministry has developed a plan to focus on the natural gas investment in the coming years,” adding that “the ministry has a giant projects in the field of natural gas investment, most notably the contract with Shell, which exceed $ 18 billion dollars.” The Laibi “There are other projects gas investment is fully in the fields of Majnoon and West Qurna in the powder and Hlvaip, “noting that” Read more…

Iraq launches plan for economic development to reduce the poverty rate to 16 percent

Iraq launches plan for economic development to reduce the poverty rate to 16 percent

10/05/2012 18:34

Baghdad, May 10 / May (Rn) – Iraq launched Thursday a draft plan of development for the years 2013 to 2017 in a bid to boost the economic reality and reduce the poverty rate to 16 percent.and focus new plan to improve the gross domestic product, which has suffered years of neglect, international sanctions and violence. Iraq relies mainly on imports. said Deputy Minister of Planning Mahdi Keywords during a conference in Baghdad that he reviewed the previous plans to cope with the new changes in the country through economic growth. “There’s improvement is positive in some aspects of economic growth and increased oil revenues, but on the other hand Read more…

Legal expert: Do not entitled to any Iraqi authority to freeze the constitution

Legal expert: Do not entitled to any Iraqi authority to freeze the constitution

10/05/2012 11:57

Baghdad, May 10 / May (Rn) – An expert on Iraqi law and international Thursday that the Iraqi constitution does not contain any item refers to the possibility of freeze it or some of its paragraphs, noting that the three powers had met on this matter will not be able to from a constitutional standpoint, implementation of the decision freeze. comes to emphasize the inability to freeze the constitution after sunburn Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki yesterday in an interview televised on the possibility of going to the freezing of the Constitution as if it remained other political parties rejecting the application. Maliki said Read more…

National Coalition rejects the “infringement” on the right to withdraw confidence from the government or not

National Coalition rejects the “infringement” on the right to withdraw confidence from the government or not

10/05/2012 13:32

Baghdad, May 10 / May (Rn) – The Iraqi National Coalition, one of the leaders of the National Alliance, the Shiite Thursday rejection of “infringement” on the right to withdraw confidence from the lack thereof of the present government, as he emphasized that other parties can express their observations on the government without going through the details of no-confidence . and was an agreement signed last week in Arbil, in the presence of Read more…

Iraqi provinces impose restrictions on Japanese goods

Posted 07/05/2012 02:56 AM

Basra – Ahmed Waheed

Parliamentary rule out Iraq’s accession to the WTO

On: Wednesday 5/9/2012 6:59

 Baghdad / range 
ruled out by the Economic Committee in the House of Representatives Nahida Daini Iraq’s accession to the WTO during the current period because of the many internal problems and the reluctance of economic projects in the country. 
said Daini according to the Agency (news): Iraq will stay away from the Arab world and the EU as a result concern political problems that started sour in the country, as well as the lack of real will for the advancement of economic reality, noting that this needs to bring international experts and plans a five-year range based on scientific grounds, and on the track Iraq will be fit to enter the global organizations and international organizations.

She added that the entry of Iraq into the World Trade Organization is Read more…

Spokesman for the presidency of the region calls on Maliki to implement Article 140

Date: Thursday, 10.05.2012 8:33

 Erbil / range 
called a spokesman for the Kurdistan Region Presidency, Dr. Omid Sabah Osman Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to the implementation of Article 140 and to allow Kirkuk residents to self-determination without ignoring this constitutional article. The spokesman said in a statement received (range) a copy of it on Wednesday: We have revealed Nuri al-Maliki about his real intentions about article 140 of the constitution during his visit to the city of Kirkuk, where he was to ignore the male or even reference to Article 140 and select from him the identity of Kirkuk maneuver him to win over some Alshovیnیn. Read more…

Maliki held a lengthy meeting with Allawi

05/09/2012   04:37 pm
BAGHDAD / electronic integrity
Visited Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said the Ministry of Communications, and briefed on the outcome of the work and the constraints faced by the work of the ministry and held a long meeting attended by the Minister of Communications Mohammed Allawi, and a number of general managers and officials in the ministry.

A statement issued by the prime minister, said al-Maliki said during the meeting on the need to Read more…

Kurdistan Presidency: Maliki must put Article 140 into action

ERBIL, May 9 (AKnews) – If the Iraqi Prime Minister wants to solve the issue of disputed areas between Erbil and Baghdad, he must implement Article 140 of the Iraqi constitution, said the office of the Presidency of Kurdistan Region. Read more…

Iraq oil industry experiences new boom

BAGHDAD — Over the past four decades, Iraq’s oil production has traced the path of a roller coaster, propelled upward by geysers of crude and dragged downward by the weight of war and sanctions. In the aftermath of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, Iraqi output has failed to achieve the heights it reached under Saddam Hussein — until now.

In April, Iraq exported more crude than it has in any month since it invaded Kuwait in 1990. This success, according to analysts and policymakers, could jolt the global economy and help offset the loss of oil supplies from Iran.

It also signals the rise of Iraq as a modern petro-state, with all the power and problems that enormous oil wealth brings. Read more…

Kuwaiti, Iraqi FMs discuss planned cooperation accords

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, May 9 (KUNA) — The foreign ministers of Kuwait and Iraq discussed on Wednesday prospected agreements for cooperation in security and oil and cultural sectors.

The talks between Kuwait’s Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah and Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, were held at a meeting on the sidelines of Read more…

Proposals to amend Investment Act will remove impediments to the investor; boost economy, says Member of Economic Commission

Date: Wednesday, 09-05-2012

Baghdad (newsletter) … Member of the Commission on the economy and investment, the National Alliance Deputy//Salman al-Musawi submitted a working paper containing proposals by several national investment Commission and the parliamentary Economic Committee to amend the investment law No. (13) of the year (2006), to boost investment in the country. Read more…

Iraq’s $13bn budget deficit will be covered DFI fund

08/05/2012 13:23 BAGHDAD, May 8 (AKnews) – The money retained in the Development Fund of Iraq will cover the deficit in this year’s federal budget.

The Finance Committee in the Iraqi council of Representatives made the assurance today, adding that the deficit calculated is only an approximation.

Last February, the Iraqi Council of Representatives approved the 2012 budget of around $100bn (116.5tr IQD) and at a deficit of up to $12.6bn (14.7tr IQD). Read more…

Economic Committee Member calls for the reduction of currency smuggling and hold those accountable as negligent

Dani calls for the formation of a committee to stop the smuggling of the dollar and hold negligent

05/08/2012

demanded parliamentary economic committee member and MP for the Iraqi List, the formation of a joint committee between the Iraqi Foreign Ministry and the Central Bank and Finance Committees and the Parliamentary Economic addition to the Ministry of Finance to reduce the smuggling of foreign currency abscess Iraq. Read more…

Iraq asks for Italy’s support in their removal from Chapter VII

Suhail during a meeting with Italian Ambassador renewed his call for the EU to play a positive role to remove Iraq from Chapter VII Wednesday, 09 May / May 2012 13:16

New First Deputy Chairman of the House of Representatives Qusay al-Suhail call for the EU to play a positive role to remove Iraq from Chapter VII. “ Read more…

UN official expresses concern about the lack of implementation of the Convention on the collapse of Arbil and democracy in Iraq

WEDNESDAY, 09 MAY / MAY 2012 11:01

expressed a senior official at the United Nations, Wednesday, concern about the “non-implementation of the” political agreements in Iraq, especially Erbil agreement, as he warned that Iraqi democracy tends to “collapse” due to lack of implementation of these agreements.

He said UNDP Administrator of the United Nations in Iraq, Peter Batchelor’s “Twilight News”, “program, which participated in the monasteries of the agreement and contract agreements, the political support for democracy in Iraq.” Read more…

Iraq will not become full member of WTO if internal problems continue says parliament finance committee member

Parliamentary rule out Iraq’s accession to the WTO

On: Wednesday 5/9/2012 6:59

Ruled out by the Economic Committee in the House of Representatives Nahida Daini Iraq’s accession to the WTO during the current period because of the many internal problems and the reluctance of economic projects in the country.

Said Dani, according to the Agency (news): Iraq will remain Read more…