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Sources: the approval of the Minister (sovereign bags) the Security Agreement
Maliki emphasized the national unanimity and Barzani to visit Washington to discuss ((Sofa))

Sources within the Alliance bloc, the preliminary approval of the Ministers of the five bags sovereign items to be signed security agreement with the United States

The sources said the "morning" The ministers of defense, interior and foreign affairs, finance and planning supported in principle the treaty, and they (ministers) have comments on certain items, but not considerable ability.

The Council of Ministers canceled an important meeting was supposed to be held Wednesday to determine the paragraphs to be adjusted before sending the draft security agreement to the Americans.

The sources confirmed that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki stressed during the recent session of the Council of Ministers on "the necessity that the agreement would be a national consensus, and the first and last opinion of the Iraqi people enjoyed considerable freedom after years of oppression by the dictatorial regime denied Iraqis express their views of crucial issues."

In Irbil, said the presidency of Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani will travel to Washington later this week at the head of a high-ranking delegation to discuss convention security. The news agency Voices of Iraq Fuad Hussein, president of Presidium of the region, Barzani's visit comes the request of the U.S. State Department a few days in order to discuss the security of understanding, indicating that the Kurdistan delegation will meet senior U.S. officials. The head of the Kurdistan province recently announced the approval of Kurds final draft of "Sofa", stressing that it (the Convention) the best current alternative, although his remarks on some of its clauses. In a similar framework, a new leadership in the Kurdistan Alliance MP Mahmoud Othman, near the visit of U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to Baghdad to discuss the Convention. Osman said that the final opinion on the agreement Sitblor today, adding that the U.S. side rejected any amendments.

On the other hand, agreed Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, with his British counterpart David Miliband, the need to reach an understanding on the future security of British forces in Iraq before the end of the year. A statement received a "morning" yesterday a copy of which was that the two ministers discussed relations between Iraq and telephone - the British, particularly with regard to the future of British forces in the country.

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Iraq asks to return to the Federation of GCC Chambers of Commerce

Gulf sources said that the restoration of Iraq has asked the Federation of Chambers of the Iraqi Federation of Chambers of the Gulf Cooperation Council, according to those sources, the President of the Federation of Chambers of cooperation

Dr. Essam Abdullah Fakhro had asked members of the rooms on the Iraqi request for proposals submitted by the President of the Federation of Chambers of Iraq to enable the Secretariat to prepare a comprehensive memorandum submitted to the next meeting of heads of chambers of the Gulf.

The memorandum of President of the Federation of Iraqi Chambers of the Union was one of the members of the GCC Federation of Chambers until 1990 when its membership suspended since that date after the invasion of Kuwait that the Iraqi Federation of Chambers has not received any notice to freeze its membership in the Council.

The source added: for Iraq to take its role in the Arab area through its membership in the Arab labor institutions in order to enhance relations of cooperation and trade exchange and economic development in the Arab countries, especially the Gulf states, the Federation of Iraqi Chambers hopes to restore its membership in the Council of the Federation of GCC Chambers.

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Resuming flights between Baghdad and Istanbul

The Turkish Airlines to resume flights between Istanbul and Baghdad, interrupted since 1991. The Turkish Transport Minister Binali Yildirim at a ceremony launching the air route today, Monday, "The company will be organized in the first three flights a week between Turkey's largest city and the capital of Iraq." Yildirim said that other flights may be organized from Iraq to Ankara, Antalya (southern Turkey), Gaziantep (South East), Izmir (west) and from Turkey to Erbil and Mosul (northern Iraq), expected to intensify bilateral relations with the improvement of security conditions in Iraq.

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Iraqi relations - Canada will see more joint cooperation in the fields of economy & trade

Dr. Abdul Falah Hassan, Sudanese Minister of Commerce and the Canadian ambassador in Baghdad and discussed with him ways of activating and strengthening economic and trade relations between the two countries add to the development of relations in various fields.

This came in a press statement of the Office of Information Ministry received (long) a copy of which was "The Sudanese say that stressed the desire of Iraq in the development of economic relations and trade with Canada as well as the importance of the participation of Canadian companies in investment projects in Iraq through cooperation and coordination with private sector companies Through bilateral partnership or enter directly to the implementation of various architectural projects.

He added that the Iraqi government appreciates Canada's position on the political process in Iraq and the great transformations that took place after 2003 was for its positive impact on the support and cooperate with Iraqis to overcome the problems and complications created by terrorism and now are invited to participate in real investment and achieve mutual benefit, especially as Iraq is any Positive attitude is in the interest of building the legacy of previous years of destruction and the welfare of people who have suffered injustice and deprivation over thirty years.

The statement added that the Sudanese Dr. eighth clear understanding shown by Canadians for effective participation in the construction and reconstruction campaign in addition to supplementing the requirements of the ration card needed special article wheat with friends where we Canadians are critical to providing contracts to fill the requirements of the ration card.

For its part, praised the Canadian ambassador in Baghdad, the level of advanced relations between the two countries confirmed the desire of the Canadian government in strengthening these relations to serve the two countries.

Stressing that the next time will further bilateral cooperation which covers all areas of economic, trade, scientific, in the light of the desire shown by the large Canadian companies to invest in Iraq, especially in light of the situation to stabilize all Iraqi cities.

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Iraq, Kuwait may sign free trade agreement

Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Burham Saleh and the new Kuwaiti Ambassador in Baghdad Ali Al-Momen yesterday discussed the possibility of setting up a joint free trade zone. News of the talks came in a press release from Saleh's office. "Kuwait's naming of its ambassador in Baghdad has many political indications as Iraqi-Kuwaiti relations are important. We have common interests and bonds binding us, so we will work together to resolve all outstanding issues and to bring views closer with patience and wisdom," said the release.

The time is ripe for burying the past and for looking optimistically and confidently at our distinguished current and future relations in the common interest of both countries and peoples," it continued.

During the meeting, the Iraqi official and Kuwaiti diplomat exchanged views on several significant issues, including a joint free trade agreement.

Last Wednesday, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani received the credentials of the new Kuwaiti ambassador to Iraq.

Meanwhile, Kuwait is determined to press ahead with close cooperation with brotherly Arab states to robustly confront "various security challenges," the interior ministry announced on Sunday.

The official spokesman of the ministry and the director of the security media department, Colonel Mohammad Al-Sabr, said in a statement, "There is no way for confronting the hazards threatening the region other than bolstering the Arab security cooperation and coordination.

Kuwait's participation in the annual meeting of the Arab police and security chiefs in Beirut on October 28-29 constituted a step forward on the path of bolstering the ties among the Arab interior ministries, Col. Al-Sabr said.

The Kuwaiti delegation, that would be headed by the assistant undersecretary for security and criminal affairs, would seek closer coordination with the Arab authorities for combating crime and terrorism, in line with guidelines of the top leaders, the ministry spokesman said.

He affirmed significance of the conference for bolstering the joint Arab efforts in the fight against crime, terrorism and narcotics. Kuwait is a member of the Arab League that groups more than 20 Arab countries and the six-seat Gulf Cooperaton Council.

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Diwaniya refinery opens in 2 weeks

The al-Diwaniya oil refinery will be inaugurated within the next couple of weeks with a capacity of 10,000 barrels per day (pbd) for each of its two units, according to a statement by the National Information Center on Sunday.

"The project comprises two units: the first one was completed by 100 percent while work on the second reached 50 percent, with a total production capacity of 10,000 bpd for each unit," read the statement as received by Aswat al-Iraq.

The Diwaniya refinery produces oil and gas oil and the crude that produces benzene, it added.

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US-Iraq pact and sovereignty

It seems that the Iraqi leaders have not yet paid much heed to the importance of the security agreement for US. The Americans feel that some Iraqi leaders have been deliberately hindering the negotiations.

They make use of Iraqi sovereignty issue as a pretext to show their reluctant. But the excuse of sovereignty is not so unyielding, because the leaders who have the sovereignty excuse are the same leaders who cooperated with the U.S and assumed high posts thanks to "invaders" or had their role in supporting the U.S. agenda.

The Americans in the ongoing negotiations sought to avoid the pretext of considering the deal an infringement on national sovereignty and retreated from most part of their demands. This move has stimulated further opposition from a number of critics in their attempts to cancel the agreement.

Among the fractions, the Shias are the most uncompromising and each time they take a different position in this regard.

The Shias hardly know how to introduce a balance between the ideological and political obligations in one hand and the regional pressures on the other.

Shias must know that all that they achieved since 2003 were through American support and whenever the Americans want they can strip them from all these achievements and earnestly turning to the Sunnis.

The current American administration feels that some sides inside and outside Iraq are coupling the passing of the pact with the American elections aiming at creating a circumstance that would be in the best interest of Obama.

The Americans also are not willing to return to the Security Council to extend the US troop presence in Iraq, because they are uncertain that they could get the approval of the Russians, especially since the emergence of the Georgian crisis as the US - Russian relations go through a very ill-starred stage.

The agreement has a lot of advantage for Iraq and expected to prevent any kind of internal and external threats over the coming three years. This move itself will be a vital one and the American will be able to promote their plan for another three years for balancing their interests. The agreement serves the interests of Iraq more than that of the American. But if they failed to sign the agreement, then no one could ever compensate the damages that will face Iraq and the situation may reach the extent of some dramatic changes that no one ever foreseen.

*Farid Asasard is member of PUK Leadership Committee and Head of Center for Strategic Research.

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Economists: auctions central bank reduced the volume of investment

Economists warned the Iraqi Central Bank policy by the presentation of the dollar in the auction and sold less than its true value way for the withdrawal of liquidity from the market, which led to the disruption of the development of the country..Indicating that the causes of inflation

Not due to cash flow but because of structural imbalances and lack of investment ..The economic expert and professor of economics at the University of Mustansiriya Dr. Iyad Alwan said in a newspaper interview the present value of the Iraqi dinar compared to the value of the dollar as "Bekaz lifted and the central bank is a policy three years ago led to the disruption of overall development in the country when it adopted a policy based on the premise as inflation The result of cash .. reason, therefore, adherence to the principle of supporting the dinar's exchange rate more than its true value. "

The central bank has for some time for quite some time to withdraw cash from the Iraqi street, which is marked by the establishment of inflation auctions for the sale of foreign currency (dollar) .. almost daily, which was welcomed by some and criticized others .. as economists stressed that the procedure can be Limit and a significant proportion of the investment process in Iraq due to lift interest rates by the Iraqi Central ..

The Alwan to Amaaljpaltdkhm in Iraq by increasing domestic production, because the financial and monetary stability does not come only through spending on investment, pointing out that citizens miserable faces a sharp rise in prices without knowing the reasons for the increase and ways to address them.

Baghdad markets, which witnessed a continuous price rises after the government raised the prices of oil derivatives, which amounted .. inflation rates in many occasions more than 60 percent .. it, which some economists said would cause disaster to block economic reform, which seeks to Iraq, As well as the variance of inflation caused by the growth process could be paralyzed due to the increasing rates of inflation, especially over the past few months ..

Consistent member of Baghdad Chamber of Commerce with the view of the intransigence of Silwan expert Iyad Alwan, he said: The general rise in prices should not be seen from the perspective of exchange rate depreciation of the dollar only, because the consumer does not have any details on the economic process in his country, especially as they expected a decrease in the price level Commensurate with the rate of decline in the dollar exchange rate for the Iraqi dinar.

The dollar was quoted at auctions in the Central Bank of approximately 1,180 dinars, a figure much lower than it was two years ago or more, when the more than 2,500 dinars, but paradoxically, the devaluation of the dollar, with prices rising or .. which is of particularly surprising President currency trading the dollar is in Iraq ..

But the view of the intransigence of the need for citizens to consider all aspects of the process because the cost of imports from transport, power and security of increased commodity prices rather than a cause of decline as it is required to bear this result the Central Bank of Iraq.

The researcher economic policy of the economic as not based on a specific point in the direction of the future of the Iraqi economy, stressing that it is wrong to state intervention in setting prices at the same time moving towards free market policies and privatization.

He adds that the intervention would contradict their words, eight market competition can solve the issue of exchange rates rather than the central bank intervention the wrong way and the process..Baghdad markets suffer from a rise in overall prices of materials and goods which, as well as the high prices of some services as well as various kinds of transport .. It is the opposite of many statements that refer to low or low rates of inflation and of the officials at the Central Bank or the Ministry of Planning.

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Haider Abadi: Change name of Security Agreement with the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq

Revealed a Shiite close to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki today, Monday, the final name of the security agreement with America in the latest draft, which is currently being debated around the changed security of the Convention on long-term strategy to the Convention on the withdrawal of American forces from Iraq and organization of its presence until the provisional withdrawal from Iraq. The MP said Haider Abadi, a senior wing of the Islamic Dawa Party, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in an interview with the ********** (Iraqi) government: "We have shifted from a security agreement to the Convention

That the withdrawal of the title must be content to tell where the first draft of the Convention of America was talking about legitimizing the American presence in Iraq now Acharanp These non-existent."

He added: "We have many objections and perceptions of the latest draft of the Convention in terms of language and some additions and omissions that may lead to the erosion of sovereignty and that the current draft is not final despite the fact that the Americans say it is final and they will not make concessions because there must be changes in the Convention."

He explained that so far, "there is no consensus to reject the Convention, unanimously accepted by the Iraqi political forces and the government which is now a reality between the junction of the Political Council of Iraq and the U.S. government and more on the other countries which have regional interests and internal forces, including (party) Baath (Degenerate) Saddam (in relation to the former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein), terrorists and organized crime and in conflict with the law for the confusion and chaos to enter the country in security."

Ebadi said that "the United Iraqi Alliance did not agree with the convention as drafted, but wants to change the clauses in the Iraqi negotiator and demonstrated an enormous capacity in the course of the negotiations by accepting the American side and determine the scheduling time for withdrawal from Iraq and withdraw him broad powers through the use of the critical situation of the U.S. Now by the American elections and the end of the mandate of the UN Security Council before the end of the year for the Iraqi national cause."

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Surge in dollar demand in CBI auction

Demand for the dollar was remarkably higher at the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) auction on Monday, registering at $221.33 million, compared to $68.86 million in the previous session.

“The demand hit $60.33 million in cash, covered by the bank at an exchange rate of 1,179 Iraqi dinars per dollar; and $161 million in foreign transfers outside the country at an exchange rate of 1,176 Iraqi dinars per dollar,” according to a release issued by the CBI.

None of the 13 banks that participated in the session offered to sell dollars.

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

Surge in dollar demand in CBI auction : Aswat Al Iraq