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November Handover for Iraq Command

Command of UK forces in Iraq is to be handed over from 7 Armoured Brigade to 20 Armoured Brigade in November, Defence Secretary Des Browne has confirmed.

The handover of responsibilities is part of the regular rotation process as troops return home after a six-month tour of duty in the country.

Britain's troop level in southern Iraq will remain at around 4,100. No announcement on possible reductions in troop numbers is expected until November at the earliest.

The majority of units serving in Iraq over the next six months will be provided by 20 Armoured Brigade, including The Queen's Royal Hussars (The Queen's Own and Royal Irish), 35 Engineer Regiment, 1st Battalion The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires), 1st Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own), 5th Battalion The Rifles and 1 Logistic Support Regiment The Royal Logistic Corps.

Members of the reserve forces will continue to deploy to Iraq as part of this force package, and the Ministry of Defence expects to issue around 175 call-out notices, Mr Browne said in a written statement to Parliament.

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Parliament: Arabs and Turkmen demanding an amendment to the proposals of de Mistura, gives parliament the right to issue a special law to Kirkuk

According to a member of the House of Representatives Iraqi deputy Arab bloc of the national dialogue Omar al-Juburi, "representatives of Arabs and Turkmen in the Iraqi parliament calling for adding amendments to the proposals on de Mistura Kirkuk to guarantee the rights of all components of the city."

The head of the Kurdistan Alliance bloc in the Iraqi Parliament Fouad Massoum told "Uzmatik", the evening yesterday, Wednesday, that "the Kurdistan Alliance refuses to add any amendments to the proposals of de Mistura on election law."

The al-Juburi, a member of the coordinating parliamentary assembly in an interview with "Uzmatik", today, Thursday, that "Arabs and Turkmen representatives belonging to combine CALL develop proposals for amendment to de Mistura, the Iraqi parliament is giving the right to issue a special law for the city of Kirkuk, where power is divided evenly If the components are not implementing these proposals. "

The release naming IPU assembly coordinating all the forces that voted to approve the election law in the twenty-second month of last July, a trend-Sadr, the Virtue Party, the Iraqi List, the national reformist movement, the independent Arab bloc, and some independent MPs.

The Nation said, "This amendment is essential to the approval of the coordinating assembly of the proposals de Mistura, because it gives clear guarantees of the components of the Iraqi parliament that the city will come out eventually end decisively to resolve the issue of Kirkuk."

The Nation that "Arabs and Turkmen claim this amendment they came to the politically weakest of the Kurdistan Alliance, and to understand this need to ensure that all proposals de Mistura on Kirkuk and without any hindrance."

The deputy said on the Arab bloc of the national dialogue that "Arabs and Turkmen representatives could alienate the paragraph, if they find faith in the fact that the Kurdistan Alliance to implement the proposals de Mistura."

The head of the Kurdistan Alliance bloc in the Iraqi Parliament Fouad Massoum sign in an interview with "Uzmatik" The vote in Parliament today, Thursday, at its election law, "if not to add any amendments to the proposals by de Mistura other political blocs" as he put it.

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Iraq submitted a proposal to reduce deductions of Kuwait compensations to 1 percent

Kuwait, Iraq promised to study a proposal by Baghdad recently, provides for deductions reduce damages from 5 percent to 1 percent. Revealed that of the "morning" parliamentary source, noting that Finance Minister Jabr Al-Zubaidi statement made this proposal during his visit to Kuwait recently. The source confirmed that Kuwaiti officials promised to study the proposal, despite assurances that the decision by deductions from the Security Council. The Security Council had passed after the first invasion of Kuwait, a decision to deduct the rate of 5 percent of Iraq's oil revenues to compensate Kuwait for damage suffered, and what amounted to push Iraq to Kuwait So far, more than 24 billion dollars of the total around 52 billion dollars. Meanwhile, the Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council of Islamic Mr. Amar al-Hakim: Iraq wants to put a definitive end to all problems with Kuwait. He described the upcoming visit of the wise Prime Minister, Sheikh Nasser - Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah to Baghdad as "historic", he told reporters after his meeting with National Assembly Speaker Jassem Al-Khorafi, respect the government and the parliament and all political forces of the sovereignty of Kuwait. He said that "trading with Kharafi latest developments in Iraq and the relationship between the two countries, pointing out that Such meetings have contributed greatly to the picture to clarify and unify visions and attitudes required developments towards the most important issues of common concern. He noted that it had been addressed to the files involved in the relationship of Iraq - Kuwait, "which we are working hard to promote the day, especially, we see clearly the political will For mutual development and strengthening of the relationship the two countries.

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Nine billion dollars budget for the Kurdistan region in 2009

The Deputy Minister of Finance, Thursday, that the budget for the Kurdistan Regional Government in 2009 amounting to more than nine billion dollars, or approximately 11 trillion dinars.

He said Fadel prophet, after he directed the sovereign and the governing expenditures from the federal budget, announced the Ministry of Finance on the federal budget in 2009, amounting to more than 78.88 billion dollars (94 trillion dinars) ", pointing out that the share of the Kurdistan region of this sum amounting to 9.16 billion dollars (10 Trillion and 928 billion and 239 million and 478 thousand dinars). "

The expenditure is a sovereign expenses Presidency and the Council of Ministers and the House of Representatives and the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defense, in addition to Arab and international obligations and debts of the country and compensation for the invasion of Kuwait. Expenditures are those governing the amounts allocated for the purchase of medicines and materials and supply expenses and the purchase of pilgrimage electrical stations and other service expenses.

The prophet "had been sent the budget to the Council of Ministers is scheduled to be ratified in the month of November next November, and sent to the House of Representatives for approval."

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Center for Development of Iraqi business community intends to intensify its

Centre ended the Iraqi business community to develop its training programme on the development of capabilities tables House of Wisdom shorthand period allocated to the programme two months instead of six months and economic expert, said President Hamid Baker Center jewelry that the center and this achievement, one of the most important of its training programmes for this year had achieved the objectives for which the foundations.

He added that the training element of the 135 employees of the House of Wisdom him playfully in the value tables to board a prestigious cultural institution scientific study and training chair affirmation of the importance of communication with science and knowledge and access to the latest global developments after the blockade lasted more than 35 years.

Jewelry pointed out that the training courses organized in Turkey, Syria, Lebanon and 13 per cycle in which more than 135 trainees, and lectures dealt with in scientific research and human resources management, management, leadership, management and legal secretarial and public relations, accounting, finance, marketing, computer and the Internet, libraries and engineering maintenance of equipment and media production.

The jewelry that the Centre has organized many training programs aimed at actors and Youth Rehabilitation to lead the work in the private sector and ways to search for investment opportunities and how to establish small and medium enterprises and Kdechrj many Cadres had found jobs, are now implementing the vocabulary training programmes on the ground .

He announced the readiness of the Centre for advanced training of Cadres in the State Parliament, according to specialized training programmes at the hands of professors and a professor from various foreign countries in the world.

The jewelry modern reference to the table a few specialised centre was able to fully implement the training plan, both inside and outside Iraq and is now preparing training programmes in the area of investment.

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Education between good intentions of the decision maker & controls the market objectivity

Milton Friedman points in the big economic theorizing substantive and senior supporters of free economy methodology sender Almedd political democracy and His Holiness the human right to freedom and emancipation and perhaps the most profound points referring to the economic decision to build on the goodwill of the decision maker, but is governed by variables of a substantive nature, can not The decision maker ignored, and if Mafl therefore out of the area Cress is money they point to the consequences of that decision.

It will not be for the good faith presumed ability to reduce the cost of that resolution sinner.
Education is one of the economic activities that fall within the framework of public goods and services of non-sailing (the goods and services that Makedmt if anyone will be able to withhold submission from the others (for example, defence), as some people think the health of mothers and the definition of deception and the health of flimsy argument.

Friedman refers rebuttal that definition to build a bridge, for example, might consider him as a public service benefit of all people alike (and a glaring example of this assumption reflects the goodwill of the decision maker) and the fact that building the bridge will benefit from the rich at the expense of the poor and thus the situation For University building or opening a centre for vocational training or even a house for religious education.

Skilful and analysis (long-term analyses) Friedman found that the availability of good faith, this will not prevent future focus of those benefits to the children of construction of large owners of wealth and depriving children of low-income. The goal of this declining functions goodwill with the objectives that posed reality and this is the case of higher education and the state of education and the state of training and rehabilitation.

In the framework of the market, understand all these affairs on the basis that they goods or services if they were subject to the decision maker's intentions in the broader screening mostly far-reaching objectives are contrary to the goals espoused by the decision maker according to a presumption of good intentions.

Therefore it is right in a developing country, even ones starting at the micro level, to place this important matter to market forces. It is the true guarantor of balance and consistency and harmony between the demand for labour force quality and quantity gives us important requirement that the lowest cost.

If we do not trust this evidence proved the pilot to accept that there is no doubt one case enables government intervention and good intentions of the decision maker to ensure completion of this important balance goal, in addition to other secretions such poor quality education, high output and the absurdity of quantum product of the strong public, and even turned into Government are required from the government to create a convincing to absorb unemployment and repression of popular discontent, resulting in distortions in the market helped create more distortions in other sectors in promoting continuous distortions inherited blatant government intervention in this regard Economic year.

From this we want to say that in Iraq and the availability of the will and the circumstances of transition towards democracy and political conditionality linked to the sender free economy, we have to change the point of view about education, particularly (higher education) and perhaps a rare opportunity and a unique, Privatization is important and a very important mechanism for adaptation to Guarantor market controls to create the required balance in the demand for and supply of manpower, and the cost of depriving some people will not be harsher than the cost of the accumulation of huge amount of the labor force as to provide capacity for absorption of productive jobs.

Also hoped to develop and diversify the economy and then develop and diversify the areas of education variable continued. In other words, a last resort will not be limited to the creation of market and the resurrection metres or any kind of education output required by an evolution in any activity or economic sector and the public to possess the full argument, but some, but I beg empirical historical evidence to enhance the credibility of this vision, which was concluded by saying:

Market automaticity able to solve the problems of education minimum cost is not good intentions. The government is capable of goodwill on the complexity of the problems of education. If the market deficiencies resulting from the availability of mechanisms to avoid the possibility of the market accompanied by some of the sins.

But the effects of government intervention distorted as to provide absolutely no possibility to avoid and is the only available replacement market, and not promote distortion and official bases and complicated consequences.

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Kirkuk and the Provincial Elections Law

Amongst the current political conflicts on the Kirkuk issue, in order to avert the emergence of greater crisis in the city and eventually blowing up the situation, Kurdish political leadership demonstrated modesty on all of the issues that are related to Kirkuk.

From the very beginning, Kurds asked for upholding the law and the Iraqi permanent constitution for settling the crisis, but some parties, namely those who call themselves (the group of July22nd), rejected this justifiable offer by the Kurds.

For settling the same issues, Kurdish leadership accepted suggestions of some sides for delaying the elections in the city until figuring out a sensible solution, however, it was rejected by the same sides as if their rights have been denied and asking for their rights.

Kurds accepted the mediation of UN and showed their approval on the two previous projects and the current one for Kirkuk provincial elections, as well as, the distribution of administration in the city.

It was expected that the Iraqi parliament would discuss and vote on the project of the UN in yesterday's session, but again the process failed ,because the sides ,we referred to, have made so many changes to the project and amended it in such a way that closely resembled the article 24 of July 22nd.

The political leadership and the Kurdistani bloc, despite the fact that they have chosen to have a moderate stance until now in order to have a healthy path for the developments towards solution and consensus, even accepting Kirkuk to have a special status, but rejected that amended project.

Despite the provocative goal of these sides, they also aim at widening and deepening the crisis to an extent that mediation and interference of certain countries would deem inevitable.

Demonstration of modesty in politics and diplomatic issues, like the one the Kurdish leadership currently adopting, does not mean turning blind eye to the rights and certain documented historic realities, like the proportion of Kurdish population and its historic, geographic belonging to Kurdistan,

Moreover, the injustice policies oh previous regimes which were practiced against the city.

Demonstration of modesty is evidence that Kurds seek figuring out a solution to get out Iraq of this current political and legal crisis. Therefore; those sides, which are until now against all these suggestions and projects that are in amount to the minimum of reality and constitution, should know that how they are fanatic and unwavering in minimum of their unlawful demands, Kurds also who are the first owner of this right in this case, when demonstrates modesty, does not mean that they will keep making concessions on these indispensable demands and rights that for decades they are striving for.

What the Kurds, including both the Islamic Union and the Kurdistan Alliance Bloc demand and insist on, are in the best interest of the entire Iraqi political process and the future of all the components of Kirkuk province, not only in the interest of Kurds.

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Lower demand for dollar on Thursday

Demand for the dollar was down in the Central Bank of Iraq's (CBI) auction on Thursday, registering at $100.710 million compared to $115.825 million on Wednesday.

"The demand hit $15.710 million in cash and $85 million in foreign transfers outside the country, all covered by the bank at a stable exchange rate of 1,180 Iraqi dinars per dollar, unchanged for the sixth consecutive session," an official source from the bank told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI).

None of the 12 banks that participated in the session offered to sell dollars.

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

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Short-term Technical Licenses to Oil Companies Worldwide

The Deputy Chairman of the Committee on the oil and gas in the Iraqi Parliament Abdul Hadi ABOLHASSANI that his country intends to grant licenses to short-term technical sessions for international companies to improve the reality of oil production.

ABOLHASSANI said in a statement to Agence (Lucky) Italian news Thursday that the "two sessions of the new licences, which expires in the second month of October next, will be the alternative to decades of short-term technical support with major oil companies that have been postponed due to lack of time between the conclusion These contracts and their usefulness, as well as the overlap offers the service provided by these companies. "

He pointed out that such licenses would not be limited to five giant oil companies are Chevron, Exxon ******, Royal Deutsche Shell, TotalFinaElf, British Petroleum, which will soon be the first licenses aimed at briefing Iraq expertise and technical studies to explore ways to develop oil fields and oil production.

The "Licensing second session will be devoted to other companies offered on Iraq also provide technical assistance for oil and gas extraction."

He continued that belongs to the parliamentary bloc of Shiite coalition unified "Iraq wishes through the granting of licences to develop its potential in the area of oil production and rehabilitation of cadres in theory and in practice in order to promote the reality of this vital sector, as well as the empowerment of various foreign companies to participate in the reconstruction efforts of Iraq's infrastructure-affected Ruin because of the war years. "

The news reports stated that the Iraqi government had recently "the withdrawal of six oil contracts from non-tender was supposed to refer to global oil companies, having faced criticism and objection from members of the U.S. Senate."

It quoted reports from the Iraqi Oil Minister Hussein Shahrastani said that "talks with major oil companies to sign contracts for one year, announced in June last, slowed to the extent that these companies are no longer able to fulfill its promises within the time period proposed."

The group of members of Congress, Democrats led by U.S. Senator Charles Shumar asked the Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice last summer opposing the oil contracts because, according to the reports and "undermine the efforts of the Kurds, Sunnis and Shiites to reach agreement on the distribution of oil revenues." She stated that this refusal was transferred to Shahrastani through the U.S. embassy in Baghdad in late June last.

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Report on Iraqi elections law delayed until Sunday

A special report concerning the Iraqi provincial elections law, which was scheduled to be presented in today’s Iraqi parliament session, was delayed until next Sunday.

“Some Iraqi lawmakers, especially those participated in the July 22th voting do their best to avoid passing the Iraqi provincial elections law,” Abdul Bari Zebari, a lawmaker from the Kurdistan Alliance bloc, told PUKmedia.

127 Iraqi lawmakers adopted the provincial elections law on July 22th in a secret ballot which was consequently rejected by the Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.

PUKmedia :: English - Report on Iraqi elections law delayed until Sunday