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Symposium on preliminary reading in the oil and gas




عقد مركز الدراسات والتطوير لحركة الرَّفاه والحرية ومركز الفرات للتنمية والدراسات الإستراتيجية ندوة تحت عنوان قراءة أولية في قانون النفط والغاز حضرها الأستاذ عادل الأسدي وزير الدولة لمنظمات المجتمع المدني والشيخ مقداد البغدادي والدكتور محسن القزويني والأستاذ أبو جواد العطار والسيدة عقيلة الدهان أعضاء الجمعية الوطنية، وأعضاء من مجلس محافظة كربلاء، وممثلين لمكاتب دينية وتيارات سياسية ومنظمات المجتمع المدني، وعدد كبير من أساتذة الجامعات والباحثين بالإضافة إلى شخصيات علمية واجتماعية.The Center for the Study and Development of the welfare, freedom and Euphrates Center for Development and Strategic Studies seminar under the title preliminary reading in the oil and gas professor just attended Assadi and the Minister of State for civil society organizations and Mekdad Sheikh Mohsen Al-Baghdadi, Caspian and Professor Abu Jawad Al-Attar, the wife of Ms. paint members of the National Assembly, members of the council of the province Karbala, and representatives of the offices of religious and political currents, and civil society organizations, and a large number of university professors and researchers, in addition to the scientific and social personalities.

وقد بدأت الندوة بتلاوة مباركة للذكر الحكيم تلاها القارئ الحاج مصطفى الصراف ثم تلا ذلك الوقوف لقراءة سورة الفاتحة على أرواح شهداء العراق، ثم ألقى الأستاذ حسين الطويل كلمة حركة الرَّفاه والحرية ، حيث أشار فيها إلى أن الهدف من عقد هذه الندوة مناقشة قانون النفط أولاً والعمل على أن يمارس المواطن العراقي دوره في اتخاذ القرارات المتعلقة بقضاياه المصيرية.The symposium began a recitation of the blessing of the wise reader followed Haj Mustafa al-Sarraf, then read that stand to read Sura beginning for the souls of the martyrs of Iraq, Mr. Hussein then gave a long speech in the well-being and freedom, in which he noted that the aim of this symposium was held to discuss the oil first and work on that exercise Iraqi citizen role in the decision-making on the fateful engagement. ثم بعد ذلك اعتلى المنصة مدير الندوة الدكتور أحمد باهض مدير مركز الفرات للتنمية والدراسات الإستراتيجية، والأستاذ القانوني أحمد المطيري ممثل مركز التطوير والدراسات لحركة الرَّفاه والحرية والدكتور صفاء الموسوي والأستاذ محمد حسين الطويل والأستاذ عدنان الشروفي والأستاذ ضياء الجابر.Then they took to the podium Director of the seminar, Dr. Ahmed Bahad Euphrates Director of the Center for Development and Strategic Studies, and Professor Ahmed al-Mutairi, legal representative of the Center for Development Studies and the movement of prosperity and freedom and Dr. Safaa al-Musawi and Mr. Mohamed Hussein Tawil, professor Adnan Sharovi and Professor Zia-Jaber.

وقد جرت مناقشة بنود القانون وأبديت الملاحظات من قبل الباحثين ثم فتح باب المناقشة حيث شارك عدد من الحاضرين في إبداء ملاحظاتهم ثم ختمت الندوة بعد ذلك ، وسيصدر عن إدارة الندوة تقريراً بما تضمنته الندوة.The items were discussed law and observations were made by researchers then reopen debate where he participated in a number of those expressing their opinions and then concluded the symposium thereafter, to be issued by the Department of the symposium report the contents of the symposium.

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Shahrastani : we will ask Japan to increase its imports of Iraqi oil




قال وزير النفط حسين الشهرستاني امس السبت إن العراق سيطلب من اليابان زيادة كميات النفط المشتراة منه كونها لاتناسب الطموح في الوقت الحاضر.He said Oil Minister Hussein Shahrastani yesterday, Saturday, that Iraq will be required to Japan increased quantities of oil being purchased from the Atnasp ambition at the present time.
وأوضح الشهرستاني لوكالة أنباء ( صوات العراق) المستقلة ، قبل سفره مع رئيس الوزراء نوري المالكي الى طوكيو ، أن العراق حصل على قروض ميسرة من اليابان سيذهب معظمها لتطوير القطاع النفطي.The Shahrastani News Agency (Swat Iraq) Independent, before traveling with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to Tokyo, that Iraq obtained soft loans from Japan will go mostly for the development of the oil sector.
وأضاف أنه سيتم تاهيل مصفاة الشعيبة وتطوير منافذ التصدير وبناء ميناء جديد.He added that the rehabilitation of the Shuaiba refinery and the development of export outlets and build a new port.
وأعرب الوزير عن امله في ان توفر اليابان مزيدا من هذه القروض الميسرة لمساعدة الشركات اليابانية للبدء بمشاريع واسعة في العراق.The Minister expressed the hope that Japan provide more of these loans to help Japanese companies to start large projects in Iraq.
واشار الى ان الشركات اليابانية تستعد لتطوير حقول النفط العراقية فور دخول قانون النفط والغاز حيز التنفيذ ، موضحا أن الشركات اليابانية أبدت إهتماما بتطوير حقول الناصرية والحقل الضخم الموجود شرقي بغداد اضافة الى عرض الشراكة بين تلك الشركات وشركة النفط الوطنية في تطوير حقول نفط عملاقة حاليا تنتح اقل من طاقتها.He pointed out that Japanese companies are preparing for the development of Iraqi oilfields once the oil and gas law into effect, pointing out that the Japanese companies showed their interest in the development of oilfields Nasiriyah, the huge field located east of Baghdad, in addition to the partnership between those companies and the national oil company to develop giant oil fields currently produced less capacity.

Iraq, UAE oil companies sign agreements

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(MENAFN) An official at the UAE 's Crescent Petroleum Company announced that the company has finalized a 10-month study on oil exploration in Iraq jointly with Iraqi officials, Iraq Directory reported.

He said that the Iraqi area to be included in the study is between the southern city of Basrah and the borders of Kuwait. He added that the firm has also conducted studies on other Iraqi regions and has drawn up a development plan for the giant southern Ratawi field.

It is worth mentioning that the UAE Crescent Petroleum and the Iraqi Oil Exploration Company have signed several technical cooperation agreements since 2005 in order to encourage foreign companies to invest and develop Iraq's oil sector.
http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story_...yId=1093149133

Iraq's Ayatollah Sistani ill in hospital

09 April 2007 (BBC Monitoring)

yatollah Seyyed Ali Sistani, the great Shi'i cleric, was taken to hospital in Najaf by ambulance on the morning of 9 April after his physical condition deteriorated, Iranian Fars News Agency website has reported citing the "Al-Anba Iraq news agency".

The report added that Sistani's doctors were saying that he is suffering from shortness of breath and rapid heart beats and that he has passed out twice this morning.

The doctor, who asked not to be named, also said: Ayatollah Sistani's office has refrained from announcing this news "out of consideration for domestic Shi'i concerns".

Source: Fars News Agency website, Tehran

Iraq's Ayatollah Sistani ill in hospital | Iraq Updates

British troops move out of key southern Iraqi base
AFP

April 8, 2007


BRITISH HANDOVER: British (L) and Iraqi soldiers stand at attention during a handover ceremony in Basra, south of Baghdad, April 8, 2007.
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BASRA, Iraq -- The British military Sunday handed over a key base in the southern Iraqi city of Basra to the Iraqi army as part of its gradual withdrawal plans from the war-torn country.

The military transferred the Shatt Al Arab Hotel base, one of five occupied by the British military since the March 2003 US-led invasion, to the 10th Iraqi Army division.

Major General Habib Taleb, of the 10th division, said at a ceremony marking the handover that Iraqi forces will soon take over other bases in and around Basra from the British military.

"Iraqi forces have moved into the Shatt Al Arab base and British troops are moving out as we speak," British Lieutenant Colonel Kevin Stratford-Wright said by telephone from Basra.

"The Shatt Al Arab base in now entirely manned by Iraqi forces."

Last month the military handed over a base at the Old State Building to Iraqi forces.

The military further plans to transfer security at the Shaiba base later this month, Stratford-Wright said, adding that a fourth base at Basra palace is expected to be transferred by late summer.

However, plans to hand over the main Basra airport base are not finalized yet, he said.

In February, British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced that the number of British troops would be cut from 7,100 to 5,500 by the middle of this year.

But Britain's The Sunday Telegraph, quoting a confidential planning document, reported that the troops could be serving in Iraq until as late as 2012.

what good is it to invest like they want us to do if they don't rv they keep putting it off now they want us out of bagdad i dont understand these people

BAGHDAD (Reuters)
Iran refuses air space entry for Iraq PM’s flight

Iran refused to allow a plane carrying Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri AlMaliki (pictured) on a trip to Asia to cross its air space overnight, a senior adviser to the Iraqi leader said yesterday.
Sadiq AlRikabi, who is accompanying Maliki on the trip to Japan and
South Korea, said the prime minister’s plane entered Iranian air space at about 8:30 p.m. on Saturday.
“Suddenly the Iranian aviation authorities ordered the pilot to go back,” Rikabi said.
“We were obliged to fly to Dubai where we stayed for more than three hours to file a new (flight) plan,” he said by telephone from Bangkok, where the plane was just about to depart for Tokyo.
Rikabi said it was unclear why Iran had barred Maliki’s plane from crossing its territory.
Asked about the reports, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini implied Maliki’s plane may have faced an issue over permission to fly across Iran but said it was not an unusual problem.
“Permission for Maliki’s flight is a normal issue. All flights need permission,” he told a weekly news conference in Tehran, without giving further details.
Iraq’s US-backed government has often had to tread a delicate path in trying to maintain good relations with both Iran, its neighbor to the east, and the United States.
Maliki, a Shia, visited Tehran last September to urge Iran not to interfere in Iraq. President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, made an official trip to Tehran in November.
Washington accuses Shi’ite Iran of stoking violence in Iraq and in January detained five men it says were linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and backing militants. Iran insists they are diplomats, wants them freed and has requested access.

Act or face consequences, Tehran tells Baghdad

TEHRAN (Reuters)
Iran has warned neighbouring Iraq that its failure to secure the release of five Iranians detained there by US forces could impair Tehran’s cooperation with Baghdad, a senior official was quoted yesterday as saying.
Washington says the five men, detained in January in northern Iraq, are linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and backing militants. Iran insists they are diplomats, wants them freed and has requested access.
“We are serious about the way we will confront those behind the arrest of the Iranian diplomats in Iraq,” the semi-official Fars news agency, seen as close to the Revolutionary Guards, quoted Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki as saying.
“On Friday I sent a letter to the Iraqi foreign minister and other officials in Iraq and pointed out that their efforts over the release of the diplomats have had no results and I emphasised that if this situation continues we will have problems in taking other steps to help Iraq,” he said.
Earlier on Sunday, a senior adviser to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al Maliki said Iran had refused to allow a plane carrying the Iraqi leader on a trip to Asia to cross its air space overnight.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini played down the incident at a regular news conference on Sunday and it was not clear whether it was linked to Mottaki’s warning

Iraq


Published: 09/04/2007 12:00 AM (UAE)

Increased diplomacy ahead of meeting
By Basil Adas, Correspondent



Baghdad: Iraq will intensify diplomacy ahead of a new meeting with Iran, Syria and the United States on May 3 and 4.

The meeting will include representatives of Iraq's immediate neighbours as well as the five permanent members of the UN Security Council.

The role of Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs has become increasingly difficult - reaching out for agreements between Syria and Iran on one hand and the Americans on the other.

Hoshyar Zebari, Iraqi Foreign Minister, told Gulf News: "Our role will be intensified in the coming days to create greater understandings between Syrians and Iranians and the Americans.

"The [success of] international conference for Iraq's future depends on the success of Iraqi role in achieving broader and deeper rapprochement between Iran, Syria and the United States. We are about to announce a positive progress in this regard."

Zebari went on to say: "The committee, in addition to the refugees and energy committees, will be established within a week."

It is rumoured that some Syrian, Iranian and American problems could intercept the efforts of establishing a joint security committee for Iraq.

'No blocks'

Zebari denied the existence of any problems concerning the establishment of the security committee among Iraq, Syria, Iran and the United States.

"Our correspondences with the concerned countries show that there are great reactions from Syria and Iran to form this security committee. Yet Iraqi contacts with Americans, regarding the fate of the five Iranian detainees, would not succeed to release them," he said.

Iraqi premier seeks resumption of Japanese business activities



Tokyo, April 9, SPA -- Visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has expressed hope for the early resumption of Japanese business activities in Iraq, Japanese officials said.

According to Japanese news agency Kyodo, these remarks came during a meeting with Japan's Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma earlier today.

In their talks at a Tokyo hotel, Kyuma assured al-Maliki that Japan will continue assisting Iraq's reconstruction efforts such as taking steps to extend for two years its troops' airlift support to U.N. and multinational forces, the officials added.

Al-Maliki told Kyuma that Iraq highly values Japan's aid activities, including the deployment of the Ground Self-Defense Force in the southern Iraqi province of Muthana until July last year and the ongoing Air Self-Defense Force's airlifting of supplies and personnel.

The Iraqi prime minister asked for cooperation from the Japanese government to allow Japanese businesses to return to Iraq, noting that the security situation in the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq and the southern part of his country are ''relatively stable,'' the officials said.

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