IRAQI DINAR POLITICS & ECONOMY

Planning with the United Nations signed an agreement to develop the private sector

Planning with the United Nations signed an agreement to develop the private sector

2018/1/11 13:25

{Baghdad: Al-Furat News} Ministry of Planning signed with the United Nations Development Program, the Convention on the implementation of the strategy of private sector development.
A statement issued by the ministry received a copy of the Ministry of Planning for Technical Affairs Maher Hammad Johan said after signing the agreement with the Read more…

US Ambassador: Iraq will achieve the desired democracy

US Ambassador: Iraq will achieve the desired democracy

2018/1/11 13:09

[Ayna-Baghdad]
US ambassador to Baghdad, Douglas Silliman, said Thursday that the upcoming elections in Iraq will contribute to achieving the desired democracy, as he put it.
“The elections will help achieve the desired democracy,” said Sileman, who is visiting Basra province at a news conference. “There will be a conference Read more…

Things entered a dark tunnel and can not predict its fate … For the third time the parliament fails to vote on the budget of 2018 and reason !!

Things entered a dark tunnel and can not predict its fate … For the third time the parliament fails to vote on the budget of 2018 and reason !!

10-01-2018 All times are GMT

Baghdad News –

For the third time in a row, the parliament failed to vote on the draft budget of the country for the current year 2018, because of serious differences between the political blocs, forced the Speaker of Parliament Salim Jubouri to call Prime Minister Haider Abadi to discuss the budget items, which was postponed consideration for Read more…

Sudan: Iraq begins production of weapons to provide about one billion dollars annually

Sudan: Iraq begins production of weapons to provide about one billion dollars annually

Wednesday, January 10, 2018 at 11: 06 am

Baghdad / Sky Press:

The Minister of Industry and Minerals Mohammed Shiaa al-Sudani said in an interview with the newspaper “Asharq Al-Awsat” on Wednesday, the start of the production of various types of weapons with the participation of specialized international companies soon, stressing that this will save about one billion dollars a year to Iraq, Read more…

The World Bank focuses on financing three areas in Iraq

The World Bank focuses on financing three areas in Iraq

2018/1/10 12:10

[Ayna-Baghdad]
World Bank officials have announced that the bank has identified three areas of potential funding focus in Iraq.
“Secretary-General of the Council of Ministers Mahdi Al-Alak chaired the workshop on the policy of financing projects between the World Bank and representatives of government and economic Read more…

Abadi: Elections will be held on schedule

Abadi: Elections will be held on schedule

10/1/2018 12:00 am

Criticized the delay in the adoption of the budget and stressed that the reconstruction will include the whole of Iraq
Baghdad / Alaa al-Taie
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi called on the House of Representatives to begin the first reading of the budget for 2018 in order to approve it, criticizing attempts to block it, which aims to embarrass the government for Read more…

Kuwaiti official unveils details of Iraq reconstruction conference

Kuwaiti official unveils details of Iraq reconstruction conference

2018/1/8 19:00

(KUNA) – Kuwaiti Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Al-Jarallah said on Monday that the Kuwait International Conference for the Reconstruction of Iraq will be held from February 12 to 14, stressing that “Kuwait’s support for Iraq has not stopped and will not stop.”
Al-Jarallah said during a press conference held in Kuwait on the occasion of the announcement of the conference on reconstruction of Iraq that “the security and stability of Iraq from the security and stability of Kuwait and logic, and Kuwait has won its humanitarian, Read more…

Deputy: Budget is not worth the price of paper printed on it

Deputy: Budget is not worth the price of paper printed on it

2018/1/7 9:46

{Baghdad: Al Furat News} Deputy stressed the need to include an important article on the benefits of the provinces in the draft federal budget law for the year 2018.
The MP from the coalition of state law Zeinab al-Khazraji in a statement received by the agency {Euphrates News} a copy of “to include the rights of the oil-producing provinces of the petrodollar within the budget this year as a constitutional entitlement and a public demand to maintain that Read more…

A new UN resolution for Iraq

A new UN resolution for Iraq

2018/1/7 10:59

[Baghdad: Al Furat News} The United Nations issued a new resolution in favor of Iraq.
“In continuation of its efforts to re-represent Iraq in international forums to the fullest extent, the efforts of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs culminated in the issuance of a resolution during the meetings of the third session of the United Nations Environment Read more…

Parliament votes on two resolutions and ends reading four laws [expanded]

Parliament votes on two resolutions and ends reading four laws [expanded]

2018/1/7 16:02

[Ayna-Baghdad] The
voice of the House of Representatives in the second regular session of the second legislative term for the fourth legislative year held under the chairmanship of Salim al-Jubouri, Speaker of the House of Representatives and the presence of 195 deputies today on the decisions of deputies and ended the reading of four laws and started Read more…

Parliamentary Finance reveals surprise: can not approve the budget before this date

Parliamentary Finance reveals surprise: can not approve the budget before this date

06 January 2018 – 14:13

Sumer News: Baghdad .. The parliamentary Finance Committee, on Saturday, that the adoption of the financial budget law for the current year will be extended to the month of July, noting the inability to approve the budget before the elections.

“The adoption of the budget before the elections is impossible Read more…

These are the conditions of Abadi to advance Iraq to the most advanced countries

These are the conditions of Abadi to advance Iraq to the most advanced countries

2018/1/5 19:02

(Baghdad: Al-Furat News) Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Friday that the advancement of Iraq will take only a few years, “noting that” the country is able to become in the ranks of the emerging and advanced 20 countries. ”
“Iraq is able to rise and become in the ranks of the developed countries, the unity Read more…

US adviser: Washington is trading “alternative names” Abadi in case of stumbling for a second term .. Who are they?

US adviser: Washington is trading “alternative names” Abadi in case of stumbling for a second term .. Who are they?

Thursday, January 04, 2018 at 15:53 ​​PM

Baghdad / Sky Press

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Washington’s decision-makers are lobbying with political names to push for a second term if incumbent Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi is to stand down, a White House source said on Thursday.

The political adviser, Zaki Abdul Hamid al-Bayati, a foreign expatriate who has been working for the White House for decades, Read more…

Parliamentary Finance reveals the requirement of the Kurds to approve the budget of 2018

Parliamentary Finance reveals the requirement of the Kurds to approve the budget of 2018

2018/1/4 8:50

(Baghdad: Al-Furat News) Revealed a member of the Finance Committee parliamentary Jabbar Abadi, the abstention of the Kurdish deputies to approve the financial budget for 2018, but the approval of 17% and not 12% as approved by the federal government.
“Abadi told the {Euphrates News} that” Kurdish blocs confirmed in a meeting yesterday not to vote on the paragraphs of the budget, Read more…

Responding to Ayna .. Rafidain issues MasterCard card to reporters

Responding to Ayna .. Rafidain issues MasterCard card to reporters

2018/1/4 10:42

[Ain-Baghdad]
Rafidain Bank directed its branches in Baghdad and the provinces to facilitate the procedures for granting the MasterCard card to international journalists.
“The bank’s branches were directed to issue the MasterCard card to journalists,” the bank’s information office said in a statement. “Journalists can go to any branch and bring personal documents to issue the card to them shortly.”
A source at the bank told [Ayna] that Read more…

The government reveals “great facilities” for investors in Iraq

The government reveals “great facilities” for investors in Iraq

2018/1/4 11:10

[Ayna-Baghdad]
Secretary-General of the Council of Ministers Mahdi Al-Alak expressed the government’s intention to provide “great facilities” for investors wishing to work in Iraq.
A statement by the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers received the agency Read more…

Zaher Abadi: Passing the oil and gas bill is difficult

Zaher Abadi: Passing the oil and gas bill is difficult

Date Posted 03/01/2018 01:03 PM

A member of the Committee on Oil and Energy Parliamentary Zaher Abadi passage of the draft oil and gas law in the current parliamentary session is difficult.

Abadi said that the Kurdistan region refused Read more…

A parliamentary source predicts that the budget will not be approved soon

A parliamentary source predicts that the budget will not be approved soon

2018/1/3 13:28

[Ayna-Baghdad]
expected a parliamentary source, not to approve the financial budget for 2018, in the near future.
The source told the agency of all Iraq [where], that “problems exist in the draft budget law with the desire of some parties not to pass.”
It is scheduled to resume the House of Representatives Read more…

Jubouri: Problems with Erbil began solution [expanded]

Jubouri: Problems with Erbil began solution [expanded]

2018/1/3 15:33

[Where Follow-up]
Parliament Speaker Salim al – Jubouri confirmed that ” the problems with the Kurdistan Region began a solution, through dialogues create the ground for a broader dialogue , ” adding that ” the next few days will witness the presence of a delegation from the Kurdistan region to Baghdad for the purpose Read more…

Cougars: Oil and gas law will go to the next parliamentary session

Cougars: Oil and gas law will go to the next parliamentary session

2018-01-02

Al-Abba channel / Baghdad
A member of the Committee on Oil and Energy Jamal Cougar, on Tuesday, the widening dispute between the center and Kurdistan on the law of oil and gas, pointing out that he will go to the next parliamentary session.
“The oil and gas law is still in the inclusion of the government has not been sent to the House of Representatives to resolve the dispute on it,” he said in a press statement that “the expansion of the dispute Read more…