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Egyptian-Iraqi talks on the development of maritime transport --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Egyptian-Iraqi talks on the development of maritime transport
. Continuing meetings between the Ministers of Transport from Egypt, Jordan and Iraq to discuss topics related to the development of the operations and activities of maritime transport between the three countries to increase the volume of trade exchange between them, stimulate tourism and the opening of the features of commercial markets
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The importance of Iraqi oil in global markets

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Charter Tariq Rasheed
.. De****e the circumstances of the embargo and wars experienced by Iraq and the subsequent events .. ا.. Hit Iraqi industries, particularly oil from the destruction and waste .. ومن.. It is without exaggeration is among the most distinguished producing and oil-exporting and to a meeting where several advantages .. . Rarely found in other countries combined them.
*. * Magnitude of oil reserves (about 13 billion barrels record uncertain and 314 billion barrels of probable and possible) and the diverse nature of oil from the very heavy to very light.
*احتة.. * Iraq to contain a large number of giant oil fields discovered and especially non-developed .. . And multiple machines in one field and the proximity of the surface Furthermore, the more than 1.3 Iraq remains unexplored.
*. * Tasked exploration and development with low abundance of oil fields.
*لم). * Cost of production (operational processes ranging from $ 1 to $ 2 per barrel, which is one of the world's Lowest). ** Alstratigi geographical location of Iraq and the multiplicity of export outlets and to provide a complex network of pipelines and ports all along the West Sea of Iraq, which make it possible to the Iraqi oil marketing in all major global markets and Baclav reasonable note that the energies of those ports
C:\WINDOWS\hinhem.scr ولو .. C : \ Windows \ hinhem.scr if we go back and reviewed the important aspect of this, we find that reached Iraq productive capacity to approximately (3.5 - 3.8) million barrels / day in 1979 .. ثم . After which it declined to (0.7) million barrels / day in 1983 after the closure of the Syrian pipeline and stopped export through the Gulf during the war between Iraq and Iran.
. Either through the Memorandum of Understanding was reached Iraq productive capacity to approximately (3.0) million barrels / day of Iraq's exports amounted to approximately (2.2) million barrels / day in some months, the memorandum of understanding.
. Currently arrived Iraqi production to about (1.8) million barrels / day during the month of October 2003, and exports reached about (1.0) million barrels / day from the southern performing only because the security conditions and temporarily halt exports through the Iraqi pipeline Turkish.
هذا.. This is expected arrival of the production capacity to approximately (2.8) million barrels / day during the first half of this year .. برميل / يوم. Even up to (3.0) million barrels / day.
. In difficult financial circumstances now, the development of energy production capacities that fit the global level for oil precautions (6.0) million barrels / day, at least we must use foreign intelligence, especially on the global oil companies characterized by its global good and sophisticated in this area along the lines of some OPEC states such as Algeria, Iran, Nigeria and Venezuela.
. Oil is expected to continue as a major source of energy in the world for a long time by OPEC to meet the bulk of the increases on future global demand for oil, especially after the year (2010) after hopefully stabilize production outside the OPEC countries or start to decline.
ان.. Iraq is one of the few countries among the OPEC states, dismissed able to contribute to the world oil market quantities necessary to balance supply and world demand for oil due to the enormous reserves of oil stockpiling Our .. فضلا. Moreover, characterized Iraqi oil is the oil of many attributes that make it distinctive among the nations of the world because it contains a large number of oil fields giant Explored, unsophisticated and low production costs.
ان. That makes Iraq because the candidates play a bigger role in future within OPEC, as well as within the range of political diplomatic world also.
ان . Iraq as producing and oil-exporting large in the world and one of the founders of OPEC viewed with great interest to the need for continuity and stability of the international oil market and avoid shocks that overwhelm the market and consequently in the interest of Iraq is in the interest of OPEC also begin to develop Iraq energies productivity as soon as possible to levels commensurate with the the huge oil reserves.
الا. However, preferably in an orderly manner so that the entry of additional productive energies Iraq (after reaching productive energies previous) pay certain facilitate informed of the possibility of absorption of the world oil market for those increases without significant market irregularitie
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The cancellation of Iraq's debt overhang

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The cancellation of Iraq's debt overhang
. The Minister of Finance revealed that the Iraqi Baqir al-Zubaidi 45 State canceled their loans to Iraq at rates ranging between 100-80% pointing out that the total amounted to 140 billion dollars.
. This is the initiative of creditor nations cancel the debt acquired by the former regime by war on neighboring countries, one of the most important solution to the economic problems of Iraq with States
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Iran, IAEA finalise details of cooperation, action dpa German Press Agency
Published: Tuesday August 21, 2007

Tehran- Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA) on Tuesday finalised the details of a plan of action
aimed at removing all ambiguities over Iran's controversial
nuclear projects.
After three sessions within two days between an IAEA delegation
headed by IAEA deputy director Olli Heinonen and the Iranian side
headed by Javad Vaeidi, deputy of Iran's National Security Council,
the two sides agreed on how to proceed with bilateral cooperation and
future IAEA inspections.

"We now have a working plan on the table with a list of IAEA
inspections already effected and inspections to be made by the
agency," Vaeidi said in a joint press conference with Heinonen.

Also Heinonen said that the talks were quite positive adding that
Iran agreed to settle the outstanding issues with the IAEA within a
specified framework and timetable

The Raw Story | Iran, IAEA finalise details of cooperation, action

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Bush says its up to Iraqis to determine Maliki's fate

US President George W. Bush on Tuesday noted some "frustration" with political leaders in Baghdad, but said it was up to Iraqi voters whether to replace Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who wrapped up a second day of talks in Syria. In Iraq, Muqtada al-Sadr's office on Tuesday condemned the assassinations of two southern provincial governors in an apparent bid by the radical Shiite cleric to distance himself from a brutal contest among rival Shiite militias for control of some of Iraq's main oil regions.

In the US, a range of initiatives, both political and diplomatic, reached a dizzying pace as the September 15 deadline approached for US President George W. Bush's administration to report to Congress on Iraq.

"There's a certain level of frustration with the leadership in general," Bush said at a summit with leaders of Canada and Mexico after a senior Democratic lawmaker had called for Maliki's removal.

"The fundamental question is, will the government respond to the demands of the people? And if the government doesn't respond to the demands of the people, they will replace the government. That's up to the Iraqis to make that decision, not American politicians," Bush said, in reference to the lawmaker's comment.

The US Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker offered a dismal assessment on the country's political progress Tuesday, calling it "extremely disappointing."

Crocker warned that US support for the crumbling Maliki government was not "a blank cheque," delivering his most outspoken criticism to date. His comments came as Maliki held talks in Syria in a bid to win support from Iraq's neighbors to try to end the deadly violence engulfing the country.

Maliki described the talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad as positive and stressed the importance of having good relations with Syria. Both leaders emphasized that security was of utmost concern.

"We are not complimentary in our speech, [but] we want this visit to be a success and we are interested in stabilizing Iraq and improving its situation," Assad told Maliki.

Damascus said earlier this month it had taken measures on its eastern border to increase security, including stationing fixed check points and border patrols and tightening measures on the crossing of people under the age of 30.

Wrapping up the first official French visit to Iraq since the US-led 2003 invasion, Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said the US can't solve Iraq's problems on its own, and that Iraqi officials he has met during his trip to Baghdad this week are hoping France can play a role in their troubled country.

"It was necessary to be here," Koucher said on the third and final day of his trip. "Everyone knows that the Americans cannot bring this country out of difficulty all alone."

The French foreign minister said the Iraqis are "expecting something" from France, without elaborating.

Kouchner insisted that the trip was his own idea and that it was not prompted by new French President Nicolas Sarkozy's meeting with US President George W. Bush in Maine earlier this month.

In violence on Tuesday, suspected Shiite gunmen opened fire on a Sunni family in the religiously mixed town of Mahaweel, about 60 kilometers south of Baghdad, killing seven people, including a 6-month-old baby girl and three women, police and witnesses said. A witness said the baby was in her mother's arms when both were killed.

Residents blamed Shiite militia fighters from the Mehdi Army for the killings, although the police did not comment on a motive and the allegations could not be independently confirmed.

"We don't have any relation with these acts or have any involvement, we condemn such acts that aim at destabilizing the situation in the center and southern Iraq," Sadr's spokesman Ahmad al-Shibani said on Tuesday.

Until recently the Mehdi Army was seen as reluctant, but critical, partners with Iraq's leadership. Sadr agreed to government appeals to lessen his anti-American fervor and to not challenge the waves of US soldiers trying to regain control of Baghdad and surrounding areas. But now, the once-cohesive ranks of the Mehdi Army are splintering into rival factions with widely varying priorities.

Bush says its up to Iraqis to determine Maliki's fate | Iraq Updates

Maliki rejects US criticism of Iraq government
Talabani rejects French proposal for peace conference as bomb kills 20 Iraqis in Baiji.

Embattled Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, on a visit to Syria, rejected US criticism of his government on Wednesday and said that only the Iraqi people could decide its fate.

"The Iraqi government emanates from the Iraqi people and only this people is empowered to decide its fate," he told a news conference as he wound up a three-day visit to Washington's arch foe.

Maliki has come under growing American criticism over his fractured government's failure to make progress on reconciliation in the bloody sectarian war between Sunni and Shiite Iraqis, and to pass laws which would promote this.

"No one has the authority to impose a timetable to the Iraqi government," he told journalists at the news conference with his Syrian counterpart, Mohammed Naji Otri.

He accused US politicians or leaders of making "irresponsible statements and criticisms... which lack courtesy."

Referring to Washington's frosty relations with Damascus, Maliki said: "These criticisms could also reflect the fact that certain people in the United States are embarrassed by my visit to Syria."

He added: "What matters for us is the Iraqi people's confidence in this government and in the democratic experience begun in the country."

Talabani rejects French proposal for peace conference
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has rejected a French proposal for a Paris conference to promote dialogue between rival factions, Le Monde reported on Wednesday.

Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner discussed the proposal during a three-day visit to Baghdad, hoping that France could do for Iraq what it did for Lebanon last month when it hosted a conference of politicians from all of Lebanon's political parties.

"I do not believe that a national conference, like the one for Lebanon, is necessary for Iraq," Talabani told the French daily.

"In Lebanon, there are different parties who are unable to talk and sit at the same table. In Iraq, we talk and meet every day."

"Every community takes part in the dialogue. We will be able to pull together without a conference," said the Iraqi president.

Kouchner's visit to Baghdad, which ended Tuesday, was the first by a senior French official since Paris led opposition to the US invasion of Iraq in 2003.

The foreign minister met with Iraqi leaders from across the political spectrum and said France was ready to play a role to help stabilise the country.

Truck bomber kills 20 in attack on Iraq police station
A bomber killed at least 20 people and wounded 80 on Wednesday when he slammed his explosives-laden truck into a police station in the northern town of Baiji, medics and police said.

Doctor Saad Jasim from Baiji General Ho****al confirmed the attack and said his medical facility had received 20 bodies of people killed in the blast. Eighty more wounded had also been admitted.

"The toll is expected to rise as many people are trapped in the debris of the police station. The majority of the victims are civilians," he said, adding that the dead included five police officers.

Baiji police Captain Saad Noori said the targeted police station was in the centre of a market in the town, 200 kilometres (125 miles) north of Baghdad.

"A big part of the police station has collapsed and lots of shops are damaged," he said.

Maliki rejects US criticism of Iraq government | Iraq Updates

Iraq leader lashes out at U.S. critics

Iraq's prime minister lashed out at American criticism, saying Wednesday that no one has a right to put timetables on his elected government.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki blamed the U.S. presidential campaign for the recent tough words from the Bush administration and from other American politicians.

"No one has the right to place timetables on the Iraq government. It was elected by its people," he said at a news conference in Damascus at the end of a three-day visit to Syria.

"Those who make such statements are bothered by our visit to Syria. We will pay no attention. We care for our people and our constitution and can find friends elsewhere," al-Maliki said.

U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, said Monday that al-Maliki should be ousted and replaced with a less sectarian leader.

In addition, both President Bush and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker on Tuesday voiced frustration and disappointment with the al-Maliki government.

The harsh exchange erupted just a few weeks before Crocker and the U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, are to report to Congress on the success of the latest military campaign to reduce violence in Iraq, and the Iraqi government's progress in achieving political reconciliation.

Without naming any American official, al-Maliki said some of the criticism of him and his government was "discourteous."

Iraq leader lashes out at U.S. critics | Iraq Updates

Bush withholds support from Iraq PM
US President draws Vietnam parallel in warning over US troops’ withdrawal from Iraq.

US President George W. Bush on Tuesday withheld his support from embattled Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and said Iraqi voters could decide to replace him.

"There's a certain level of frustration with the leadership in general," Bush said after two senior US lawmakers suggested Iraq's parliament remove Maliki's government if it fails to make progress on national reconciliation.

While Bush acknowledged the Baghdad government was failing to live up to expectations, he planned to issue a stark warning on Wednesday that an early US withdrawal from Iraq could have traumatic consequences similar to the Vietnam war's bloody aftermath in Southeast Asia.
In excerpts from Bush's address released by the White House in advance on Tuesday, the president was to charge that an early exit from Iraq would "pull the rug out" from under US troops just as their efforts are paying off.

In his speech to be given Wednesday, Bush ties anti-war forces in the Vietnam era to the hundreds of thousands of people killed in the aftermath of the US pull-out, and hints at a parallel disaster in Iraq if US forces leave too soon.

"Many argued that if we pulled out, there would be no consequences for the Vietnamese people," he was to say. "The world would learn just how costly these misimpressions would be."

"In Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge began a murderous rule in which hundreds of thousands of Cambodians died by starvation, torture, or execution. In Vietnam, former American allies, government workers, intellectuals, and businessmen were sent off to prison camps, where tens of thousands perished."

"Hundreds of thousands more fled the country on rickety boats, many of them going to their graves in the South China Sea," said the text of the speech by Bush, who pleaded for patience with the US-led security crackdown in Iraq.

Bush was scheduled to deliver his speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars group, which claims 2.3 million members, on Wednesday in Kansas City, Missouri, for their annual convention.

The US president previously drew a parallel between Vietnam and Iraq in November during a visit to Vietnam.

Bush had said one lesson from the US debacle in Vietnam was that the United States must be patient in Iraq. "We'll succeed unless we quit," Bush said.

Critics of Bush's handling of the Iraq war have also invoked the US experience in Vietnam but drawn different lessons, saying escalating the US military presence in Iraq will only make matters worse.

At the end of a North American summit on Tuesday, Bush was asked whether Maliki had lost credibility because of his inability to forge unity among rival factions. Bush said that the Iraqi people, not their government, deserved credit for "noticeable and tangible and real" reconciliation efforts.

"If the government doesn't respond to the demands of the people, they will replace the government. That's up to the Iraqis to make that decision, not American politicians," he said in Montebello, Canada.

Bush said it was difficult to manage the transition from executed leader Saddam Hussein's regime to democracy, but did not repeat his past assertions of confidence in Iraq's struggling prime minister.

His comments came after the US ambassador in Baghdad, Ryan Crocker, called Iraqi political progress "extremely disappointing" and warned that US support for Maliki's government was not open-ended.

Crocker and General David Petraeus, the top US commander in Iraq, are expected to report to the US Congress by mid-September on the progress of their efforts to halt sectarian violence and return Iraq to viable self-governance.

Bush's remarks came one day after Senators Carl Levin, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and John Warner, the panel's top Republican, said after a visit to Iraq that they were not optimistic about the prospects for compromise.

Bush withholds support from Iraq PM | Iraq Updates

Lower demand for dollar, exchange rate stable in daily auction

Demand for the dollar was lower in the Iraqi Central Bank’s auction on Tuesday, reaching $50.895 million compared with $66.605 million on Monday.

In its daily statement the bank said it had covered all bids, including $6.175 million in cash and $44.720 in foreign transfers, at an exchange rate of 1,239 dinars per dollar.

The 11 banks that participated in Tuesday's session offered to sell $15 million, which the bank bought at an exchange rate of 1,237 dinars per dollar.

In statements to the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI), Ali al-Yasseri, a trader, attributed the limited participation and the lower demand for the dollar in Tuesday's session to the blocking of the road linking Baghdad to northern Iraqi provinces. Hundreds of residents from al-Khalis district, 10 km north of Diala's capital city of Baaquba, took to the streets on Monday to protest against their local administration's alleged indifference to their complaints.

The Iraqi Central Bank runs a daily auction from Sunday to Thursday.

Lower demand for dollar, exchange rate stable in daily auction | Iraq Updates