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Maliki confirms that the prospects open to those who did not

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Maliki confirms that the prospects open to those who did not join the political process

Baghdad - (Voices of Iraq)

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, the prospects open to those who did not join the political process, pointing out the importance of creating ways to ensure the participation of everyone in the nation-building and assume responsibility.

A statement issued by the Presidency of the Republic received the news agency (Voices of Iraq) independent copy, today, Sunday, that "Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and Vice President Dr Adel Abdul Mahdi met yesterday, Baghdad, and stressed the need to activate the work of political forces in order to build state institutions and strengthen its presence in order to provide better services for citizens. "

"The statement added, quoting al-Maliki as saying that "the prospects open to those who did not join the political process, pointing out the importance of creating ways to ensure the participation of everyone in the nation-building and assume responsibility."

On his part, Vice-President Adel Abdul Mahdi, the work of the executive requires the support of everyone to face the challenges and achieve the partnership between the components of the Iraqi people.
The statement also discussed the political and security developments and the country's economic, as well as the progress made in the draft national reconciliation.

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Dr. Fouad Hussein : all political forces in parliament.

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Dr. Fouad Hussein : all political forces within the European Parliament are unanimously against the exercise pressure on the people of the neighboring countries Kurdstan

Brussels : in the framework of his visit to Brussels, met with Mr. Massoud Barzani, President of the President of Kurdstan Friday his European Union, during the meeting were discussed the situation in Iraq in general and the Federal Territory of Kurdstan in particular and Europe to support Iraq. Dr. Fouad Hussein, head of the Office of the Presidency of the territory Kurdstan told Channel Kurdstan space that Barzani's visit comes within the framework of strengthening relations between the people of Kurdstan and the European Parliament, held official meetings with the President of the European Parliament and other officials. In the introduction to important meetings during this visit is to meet with official foreign aid, which has been discussed by many to send aid to Iraq even though that aid did not reach the territory of Kurdstan never, Mr. President territory Kurdstan invitation to the European Union delegation to visit the territory of Kurdstan.

He added Dr. Fouad Hussein : that the EU assesses the situation in Kurdstan different form, and they help Kurdstan territory as possible to become experience Kurdstan experiment Iraqi territory, as had been discussed during the visit of many hubs, including the role of Iraq's neighboring countries, especially countries, which exerted pressure on the people of Kurdstan. The EU countries it is against the practice of those pressures on the people of Kurdstan.

In concluding his statement, Chief of Staff of the presidency said that the province visit was successful, because for the first time be receiving Mr. President Kurdstan region in the European Parliament as official.

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Almchidani decide adjournment of the Parliament until tomorrow

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From the hushed Abdulamir
(In addition to the adjournment of the meeting and details)
Baghdad - (Voices of Iraq)

Dr Mahmoud Almchidani President of the Council, today, Sunday, to lift the parliamentary session until tomorrow, after the Council approved the third amendment to irrigation and drainage.

During today's meeting, which was chaired, Almchidani second reading of a proposal to amend the draft law abolishing a Revolutionary Command Council dissolved No. (91) of 1977, which provides for prevention workers filed a lawsuit to gain extra hours of wages.

The Council of the Iraqi parliament voted unanimously earlier today to choose Mr. champion Ani member Accord Front secretary-general of the presidency of the presidency of the republic rank of minister.
The voting came after transfer this file from the Presidency of the Republic with the consent of all members of the Presidency to the House.
Bahaa Al-Araji was a member of the House of Sadri trend has objected during the meeting to grant post degree Minister saying that Ani is the only post office Unrespectable degree Minister, With Judge Wael Abdel Latif, a member of the House of Representatives from the national list that Iraqi must have the rank of minister to be able to address the ministers.

On the other hand, a media source said in the House that the Council will also discuss during today's meeting a number of issues on its agenda, including reading the names of the deputies absent and the ratification of the appointment of Mr. Ismail Ali Mohsen Ilaq secretary general of the Council of Ministers and Minister for a vote on the draft law on the third amendment to the law the maintenance of the irrigation and drainage networks (No. 12) of 1995 and the second reading of the proposed law and the Supreme Judiciary Council continued to discuss a draft law to amend the Code of Criminal Procedure.

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Originally Posted by bob1940

Is there really anything to get Excited about here, with the Pending RV? Just another Sunday In this great PLAY(act) another day to watch slowly pass as the S, and S keep trying to divide the great Country Of IRAQ. another day for Hoping, and Praying for an end to violence, and an RV Of The DINAR . While another Brave Seviceman, or 2, or 3, or 4, or maybe MORE, Loses his/her LIFE to a sneak attack by the Sunnies, Or shihites, and another MOM loses her SON, or Daughter, On this FINE DAY dedicated to MOTHERS through-out the World. Where are the brains of this NEW Democracy IN Iraq? can't they see the GOOD in Having a RV? not just for our benefits, but For their OWN PEOPLE! So, as I wait For the long Hours, Days, WEEKS, MONTHS, and YEARS roll by with Jubilation, and predictions, This war lingers on, and Iraq is still a war torn Country with riches of oil beyond compare. and Yet in reallity the Poorest country in the MIDDLE east. with a government that should have worked for the People by now. OH well Maybe JUNE will be the MONTH---and maybe this comming week will be the week----or maybe tomorrow will be the day Of the great IQD RV! WHO KNOW WHAT LIES IN the HEART of the "GREAT" Leaders .------any how I want to WISH each, and every Living MOM a happy MOTHERS DAY --- and to MY MOM who has long been free from worriement , I bend my head in Prayer with a special MOTHERS DAY WISH ---I wish YOU were still here MOM!
BOB1940

Well said Bob.

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The Technical Education launched its campaign for major rehabilitation

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A press / Press Release

The Technical Education launched its campaign to rehabilitate major unemployed

The Technical Education launched next Tuesday, 5-15-2007, signal the start of major campaign to rehabilitate unemployed in the province of Baghdad.

The head of a body. D. Mahmoud Shaker Mullah Abdul Hassan Khalaf, that this campaign comes as ordered by the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, a. D. Abdul Dhiab Al-Ojaili, under the ministry directed to contribute to the plan to impose the law, through rehabilitation and retraining of the unemployed, the strength of active and influential revive the national economy and meet the growing needs of the labor market, and thus one of the springs drying Chairperson exploited by those who do not want the good of Iraq and honorable people.

He added that the technical education began early, early implementation of this campaign, when it succeeded in the investment potential and experience of its affiliates, in the rehabilitation of a group of unemployed workers, particularly in the city of Najaf, about enabled them to acquire the scientific and technical skills of a new, and joining in the labor market with confidence and competence.

The authority chairman, said the new campaign includes a program in rehabilitation specialties auto mechanics, carpentry, refrigeration repair and maintenance of home computers and television maintenance and construction, tailoring and design jewelery, first aid and blue needles and welders and welding and Altassisat electrical and computer operation skills and printing.

He explained that this qualification programs will be held at colleges and technical institutes scattered in many places in Baghdad, including those in the Zafaraniyah section glorious and Mansour and the session.

He said the programs with durations ranging from four to six weeks, free of charge, and each one of them training curriculum prepared very carefully consistent with the nature of trainees and their wishes and needs, with a focus on the practical side and skills, and requirements of the labor market, in the disciplines covered by the rehabilitation programs.

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Central initiate the application of electronic payment system

Source : The morning-13 / 05 / 2007

The Central Bank of Iraq began applying electronic payments RTGS system, the accession of a number of Iraqi banks effectively.

A source in the World : talk that the payments system would facilitate payments between banks and between them and also to the central fact that all banks have accounts in the Central Bank reconciliations are moving through these accounts also added that the bank seeks to develop such a mechanism in the future and beyond the scope of the banking sector, pointing to link the Ministry of Finance pointed out that the work to link the Iraq market for securities, as well as remittances and bonds in the Central Bank.

The source indicated that the bank was working on the establishment of a clearing instruments electronically and has a good and concrete preparations to develop the Iraqi banking sector to cope with global development.

Claims to distribute Iraqi oil revenues centrally
13 May 2007 (Iraq Directory)


Former Iraqi oil minister of oil, Dr. Ibraheem Bahr al-Uloom, said: "The preliminary indications started to rise towards identifying the Iraqi economy pathways in light of the political and social transformations taking place in Iraq, and chart features on the ruins of totalitarian policies, which included most of the economy over the past decades", adding: "The economic situation in Iraq today requires a strategy capable of producing a balanced view in support of the private sector to activate its role in the process of building".
He stressed: "That does not come through the method of the "shock", but through the scientific treatment and thoughtful balance between external variables and the Iraqi reality within a gradual transition".
Dr. Bahr Al-Uloom said: "There are disadvantaged and poor living standards, which is shown in a study by the Central Agency for Statistics in the Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation recently", indicating that: " balancing the needs of the governorates and the distribution of development projects need to end the injustice and unfairness".
He called: "to distribute oil revenues centrally, taking into account the need standard in investment programs and subsidies".

Claims to distribute Iraqi oil revenues centrally | Iraq Updates

Leading Iraqi Shia party rebrands
13 May 2007 (Aljazeera)


Iraq's largest Shia party has pledged its allegiance to the country's most senior cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, distancing itself from Iran where it was formed.

The Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) also changed its name to the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC), dropping the word Revolution on Saturday.
Party officials said they had introduced significant policy changes.

They said the changes were aimed at giving the party more of an Iraqi flavour and to reflect the changing situation in the country since the US-led invasion overthrew Saddam Hussein, then president, in 2003.

They said the party had been close to al-Sistani for some time, but a two-day conference on Baghdad that ended on Friday had formalised relations with the influential cleric.

Rida Jawad al-Takki, a senior group member, read out the party's decisions to reporters.

"We cherish the great role played by the religious establishment headed by Grand Ayatollah Sayed Ali al-Sistani ... in preserving the unity of Iraq and the blood of Iraqis and in helping them building a political system based on the constitution and law," he said.

He also said the party pledged to follow the guidance of the Shia establishment.

Spiritual leadership

Al-Sistani, a reclusive figure who lives in the Najaf, is the spiritual leader of Iraq's majority Shia. He rarely makes public statements but his utterances are closely monitored by his followers.

Officials said the party, which was formed in Iran in the 1980s to oppose Saddam, had previously taken its guidance from the religious establishment of Welayat al Faqih, led by the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Iran.

Islamic experts say the authority of the Faqih, who "surpasses all others in knowledge" of Islamic law and justice, is not limited to his home country, but extends to all Shia Muslims who pledge obedience and believe in the Faqih.

The Faqih has the final word on matters related to Islam from political, social and religious issues.

Al-Hakim

Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, leader of SIIC, is a powerful religious leader who has good relations with the US.

A key player in post-Saddam Iraqi politics, SIIC holds around a quarter of the seats in parliament occupied by the ruling Shia Alliance of Nuri al-Maliki, the prime minister. Iraq and Iran fought a bitter war for eight years in the 1980s.

Relations have improved since the fall of Saddam, although Iraqi leaders have to walk a delicate line between the United States and Iran, which are at loggerheads over Tehran's nuclear programme and the violence in Iraq.

Leading Iraqi Shia party rebrands | Iraq Updates

Analysis: Iraq funding bill too oily
By BEN LANDO
WASHINGTON, 13 May 2007 (UPI)
A new measure to fund the Iraq war has run into opposition from congressional Democrats who say it does not offer enough provisions to keep the United States away from Iraq's oil.
"We have to be concerned that the oil in Iraq belongs to the Iraqi people," said Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif. "It's absolutely that simple."
Woolsey is co-chair of the 72-member Congressional Progressive Caucus and 76-member Out of Iraq Caucus, a coalition from both chambers attempting to champion an exit strategy from Iraq. A bill to do so received 171 votes, including two Republicans, but was defeated Thursday prior to the supplemental passage.

Woolsey and seven caucus colleagues voted against the supplemental. Unlike the supplemental bill vetoed earlier this month, the new bill does not have a timetable for U.S. troops to end combat operations, and it still includes provisions concerning Iraq's oil.
"All I can say is I'm not satisfied that what we're doing will actually benefit the Iraqi people and not billions of dollars for oil companies," Woolsey said. The Washington Post reports at least 138 of Iraq's 275 parliamentarians signed onto a draft bill proposing a timetable, enough to carry the measure.

The U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act of 2007 was approved 221 to 205. The Chicago Tribune reports it will likely not make it through the Senate and will be vetoed again. It authorizes $42.8 billion now but forces Congress to assess President Bush's success in Iraq in July before giving him another $52.8 billion.

Congress would look at, among other things, "whether the Government of Iraq ... enacted a broadly accepted hydrocarbon law that equitably shares oil revenues among all Iraqis," according to the bill's language. This is one of four benchmarks for Iraq Bush outlined in speeches back in January.
United Press International made numerous requests to ask House Appropriations Committee Chairman Dave Obey, D-Wis., about the oil benchmark but received no response. His committee drafted the language. When House Democrats asked him about the issue in a private meeting this week, The Politico reports, he cussed them out.

Negotiators in Iraq are trying to find common ground on three key issues governing Iraq's oil: which fields the central or regional governments will control; the percentage of and mechanism for distributing Iraq's oil revenue; and the scope and method for foreign investment. Much of the dispute boils down to interpretation of the Iraqi Constitution, passed in 2005.

"Were what was being presented simply and exclusively a piece of legislation to clarify the constitution's position on the sharing of Iraq's oil revenues, that might make some sense," said Antonia Juhasz of Oil Change International and visiting scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies. "There's absolutely no reason why the United States should be involved in those discussions."
"The Democrats adopted the benchmarks to sound reasonable, to say to the president, to say to the public: 'We'll give the Iraqis the opportunity to show some political movement and if they don't show the movement then we will end the occupation,'" said Juhasz, author of "The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time."

Juhasz, Woolsey and others fear it could play out poorly for Iraqis. Iraqi political leaders are being pressed by oil technocrats who want to ensure federal control over oil development and are urging a delay in the law. The Kurds are pushing for action by the end of this month -- a deadline adopted by the central government also, but likely to be missed -- and want regional autonomy, as well as the free market to replace oil nationalism.

Iraq has more oil than every country except Saudi Arabia and Iran, but its sector has been hurt by the U.S.-led war and subsequent civil war, U.N. sanctions and mismanagement by Saddam Hussein. There are concerns, especially from Iraq's oil unions, that foreign companies will be given too much access to, possibly control over, the oil. The Iraq Federation of Oil Unions is threatening to strike Monday in opposition, which could take Iraq's 1.6 million barrels per day of oil exports out of the global market.

Michael Eisenscher, national coordinator for U.S. Labor Against the War, said the supplemental passage means Congress is "complicit in what amounts to a backdoor privatization of most of Iraq's oil reserves." USLAW, an umbrella group representing affiliates here with more than 5 million members, is in regular contact with Iraq's unions.

The bill does state appropriated money can't be used to "exercise United States control over any oil resource in Iraq." Eisenscher and others, however, point to other language that gives U.S. military authority to protect "American diplomatic facilities and American citizens," even if combat operations are ended, thus potentially using U.S. troops to protect American oil workers or companies pumping Iraq's oil, be it from foreign insurgents or angry Iraqis.
"It's a concern," Woolsey said. "It should be debated, it should be out in the sunshine, what does it mean and how many of our troops would have to stay for just that reason?"

Analysis: Iraq funding bill too oily | Iraq Updates

Iraq's reconstruction efforts continue amid major security problems
13 May 2007 (Iraq Directory)


The exhibition of rebuilding Iraq was opened in the Jordanian capital Amman on Monday amid consensus among many on the increasing security problems which impede the reconstruction efforts.
The huge exhibition which is the fourth of its kind included companies from all over the world including the United States , Brazil, Italy, United Arab Emirates and Japan.
The organizers of the exhibition said that the market of reconstructing Iraq worth $100 billion; however, the worsening security situation, the daily explosions and kidnappings prevent foreign companies from sending their workers and experts and rely more on Iraqis.
Faris Muslih, Executive Director of Reconstructing Iraq Council, said that Iraq's poor security situation is deporting foreign firms from Iraq and slowing down the reconstruction efforts, but it also opened the way for Iraqi companies which are in need of capital and basic materials.
He said that holding such forums provide an opportunity for foreign investors to meet the real needs of the Iraqi market and to create an opportunity to form partnerships with Iraqis especially that Iraq faces major problems in the infrastructure of water and electricity and others.
The companies participating in this forum represent all commercial and industrial sectors of electricity and oil plants to food and raw materials and other needs.
Harry Korkain, chief executive of HP in Britain and the Italian Bertoli transformers, said: "There are significant security problems ... Everyone is facing problems in Iraq".
Korkain, who lived in Iraq for two years and was wounded in Fallujah, added that he won't send any foreign workers unless the project is huge and that his company is using Jordanian companies for the transfer of power transformers which it wishes to instill in Iraq where it relies on Iraqi staff there.
He said, "We rely more on Iraqi workers and we train them either in Amman or in Turkey, but some of them who left Iraq do not wish to return, and this is a problem we are facing".
A security campaign backed up by the United States led to the retreat of sectarian killings in the capital but the gunmen intensified their attacks on highways around the capital, and the American leaders believe that the armed men are re-assembling there.
American President George Bush, who is under pressure from the democratic opposition to set a timetable for the withdrawal of American forces, says that the American Forces will leave Iraq when the Iraqi forces are able to assume responsibility for security in the fighting against the death squads and gunmen.
Ali Shamara, an Iraqi businessman, said that investment companies in his country have been greatly affected by poor security situation, but he called on Arab and foreign companies to be proactive in investing in Iraq without waiting for the security situation to improve.
He said: "We hope that companies do not wait till the security situation is settled to invest in Iraq. Certainly there are risks but sometimes there are positive points as well".

Iraq's reconstruction efforts continue amid major security problems | Iraq Updates