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United Nations recognizes the 302 million new dollars in compensation to Kuwait for Iraq
The Public Authority for Assessment of Compensation yesterday that the United Nations Compensation Commission approved a new compensation value of Kuwait 302 million U.S. dollars.

An official source in the body in a press statement that the compensation for the category (E) of the claims of corporations and other entities, however, individual and group (F) of the claims of government and the environment.

He added that this installment of compensation is within the resolution of the Board of Directors of the United Nations Compensation Commission No. 256 for the month of December 2005 in the rest of the system of providing compensation to those
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Postpone the meeting of the Iraqi parliament to elect a new president has been postponed to Thursday

Member of the Iraqi Council of Representatives bloc MP Abbas al-Bayati, the Alliance for the postponement of the parliamentary session for Wednesday to elect a new president to the parliament on Thursday.

Al-Bayati said in an interview with "Uzmatik", on Wednesday, that "the political blocs failed to reach a specific ply for a new head of the Iraqi parliament during today's meeting, as well as the increasing number of candidates for the post from eight to 11 candidates."

Al-Bayati said that "among the new candidates for the post of President of the Iraqi parliament deputies are Falluji Mohamed Hussein Mohamed Jubouri G'dud," likely that "the large number of candidates will lead to the delay in the selection of a new president of Iraq's parliament," he said.

Al-Bayati and ruled that "at the parliament session on Thursday to choose a new president of the Iraqi parliament because of the large number of candidates and the lack of a method or a specific mechanism to vote for the candidates to the presidency of the Iraqi parliament."

The House of Representatives decided in the twenty-second of December 2008 to make the meeting open to the House of Representatives of the fourth in January 2009, a date, a date for the vote on the Speaker of the Parliament, political parties has nominated a number of personalities to the presidency of the Iraqi parliament, including Iyad al-Samarrai and Osama Najifi and Mason Damaluji Tamim, Mohammed Taha and the behind-Olayan Luhaybi and Mahdi Al-Hafiz.

Is noteworthy that the Iraqi parliament speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, he submitted his resignation from his post in the twenty-third of December last, a member of the Iraqi Parliament Speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, resigned, to the National Dialogue Council, which withdrew from the Accordance Front, the day after the resignation of al-Mashhadani, the number of parliamentary seats to the consensus 29 seats out of a total of $ 275 parliament seats.

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Arab Monetary financial cycle is regulated by Iraqi officials

Tuesday morning session was called to order «financial programming and macro-economic policies» for Iraqi officials organized by the Economic Policy Institute, Arab Monetary Fund and the Institute for International Monetary Fund in the framework of the Joint Regional Training Program for 2009 in Abu Dhabi during the period from 1 12 2 2009. The course aims to deepen understanding of participants in the design and implementation of financial policies and the College in light of the experience of the International Monetary Fund to monitor economic performance.

Financial and program design. And participate in the course 29 participants from Iraq, and on this occasion Dr. Saud Albraikan, Director of the Economic Policy Institute, on behalf of Dr. Jassim Al Qenae, the Director-General Chairman of the Board and explained that the session will be based on main courses dealing with the fundamental characteristics of the various accounts used in macroeconomic analysis and diagnosis macroeconomic performance and analysis of the effects of macroeconomic and structural policy on the key variables such as GDP, prices and balance of payments, and prepare a program of macroeconomic policies.

He noted that this session is to prepare a financial program aimed at strengthening economic stability and intensifying structural reform on the economy and, therefore, deals with the study of macroeconomic policies, including fiscal, monetary, trade and exchange rate.

Will be in session focus on the integration between the policies of macroeconomic stabilization and structural reforms and the importance of coordinating policies to achieve outstanding growth.

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Banks to discuss "investment funds" in a seminar set up by Thursday

President of the Association of private banks, on Tuesday, as the organization of his Association for a seminar aimed to discuss the economic proposals of the Central Bank to allow banks to set up investment funds to support its share price on the stock exchange said.

Abdul Aziz al-Hassoun told (Voices of Iraq), "The association of private banks will on Thursday (2-5), a symposium to discuss the economic proposals of the Central Bank to set up investment funds by private banks in support of the prices of shares with each other."

Hassoun said that the symposium, "which will be representative of the Central Bank of Associate Director of banking and credit, Walid Iddi, a representative of the Central Bank", in addition to the "****utive managers of a number of private banks and its officials."

The central bank introduced in late 2008, a proposal to the banks for the creation of investment funds among themselves to buy stocks experiencing a decline in prices, for the purpose of ensuring stability, and encouraged to grant loans against shares before the stock market.

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Barzani, in the Gulf discuss the issue of debt, investment

The Kurdistan Alliance MP Abdul Khaliq Zangana that the president of the Kurdistan region Massoud Barzani on his visit Gulf seeking to discuss the issues of Iraq's foreign debt and investment in the province of Kurdistan.

He said in a press release published on Wednesday that the compensation paid by Iraq to Kuwait, which negatively impacted on the budget, Iraq, and therefore the share of the Kurdistan region budget, and we must find definitive solutions to the issue.

He added that Barzani would also discuss the issue of investment in the Kurdistan region by foreign companies, pointing out that the visit falls within the framework of strengthening Iraq's relations with its Arab brothers.

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Postpone the meeting of the Iraqi parliament to elect a new president has been postponed to Thursday

Member of the Iraqi Council of Representatives bloc MP Abbas al-Bayati, the Alliance for the postponement of the parliamentary session for Wednesday to elect a new president to the parliament on Thursday.

Al-Bayati said in an interview with "Uzmatik", on Wednesday, that "the political blocs failed to reach a specific ply for a new head of the Iraqi parliament during today's meeting, as well as the increasing number of candidates for the post from eight to 11 candidates."

Al-Bayati said that "among the new candidates for the post of President of the Iraqi parliament deputies are Falluji Mohamed Hussein Mohamed Jubouri G'dud," likely that "the large number of candidates will lead to the delay in the selection of a new president of Iraq's parliament," he said.

Al-Bayati and ruled that "at the parliament session on Thursday to choose a new president of the Iraqi parliament because of the large number of candidates and the lack of a method or a specific mechanism to vote for the candidates to the presidency of the Iraqi parliament."

The House of Representatives decided in the twenty-second of December 2008 to make the meeting open to the House of Representatives of the fourth in January 2009, a date, a date for the vote on the Speaker of the Parliament, political parties has nominated a number of personalities to the presidency of the Iraqi parliament, including Iyad al-Samarrai and Osama Najifi and Mason Damaluji Tamim, Mohammed Taha and the behind-Olayan Luhaybi and Mahdi Al-Hafiz.

Is noteworthy that the Iraqi parliament speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, he submitted his resignation from his post in the twenty-third of December last, a member of the Iraqi Parliament Speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, resigned, to the National Dialogue Council, which withdrew from the Accordance Front, the day after the resignation of al-Mashhadani, the number of parliamentary seats to the consensus 29 seats out of a total of $ 275 parliament seats.

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somehow this DELAY again doesn't surprise me....thats all this government is about is DELAYS on how not to do things....lol....what a joke they have become IMHO...Pat

Central to the rise in sales of more than $ 195 million

the U.S. dollar sales of the Central Bank in an auction for the sale and purchase of foreign currency, on Wednesday, to 195 million and 690 thousand dollars compared to the previous meeting and a stable exchange rate was 1170 dinars per dollar.

The bulletin issued by the Central Bank and the Agency has received (Voices of Iraq) a copy of which was that "the total volume of demand for the dollar stood at 195 million and 690 thousand dollars, a stable exchange rate was 1170 dinars per dollar."

The figure rose significantly from the previous meeting, which recorded a total volume of demand for the dollar stood at 141 million and 490 thousand dollars at the exchange rate was 1170 dinars per dollar.

The Bulletin that "the demand for the dollar by 3245 distributes million and 280 thousand dollars in cash, covered by the bank at the exchange rate was 1176 dinars per dollar, including the central bank and a commission of six dinars per dollar."

According to the bulletin, "the value of remittances outside the country reached 163 million and 410 thousand dollars, covered the central exchange rate was 1173 dinars, including the central bank and a commission of three dinars per dollar," did not make any of the 11 banks participating in the auction, offers to sell the dollar.

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Seminar to explain the access of private sector investment law

Alzerkani Haider holds national seminar under the title of investment (private sector, a fundamental pillar for the success of investment in Iraq) on Saturday VII of the next February in Baghdad To clarify the importance of the role of the private sector in investment and the access of private sector investment law, said Statement of the Received with a copy of the seminar today, which comes in a series of promotional activities within and outside Iraq, to promote and attract investment to the country in 2009 will be the most important constraints faced by the investment sector and the possibility of finding solutions to them, and identify a mechanism to support and joint cooperation between the private sector, the National Authority for Investment and bodies provinces to facilitate the investment of the investment sector and its partnership with the foreign investor.

The statement added that the Commission invited representatives of the Adviser to the Prime Minister and the Economic Committee in the House of Representatives as well as representatives from the investment bodies of the provinces and the Ministry of Commerce and representatives of the International Union for the business in Iraq and the Union of Exporters and importers of Iraqis and the Center for Development Economic Development and representatives of various economic and financial activities and a number of businessmen and academics said.

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Irbil to discuss the oil law in cooperation with (UNAMI) next April

The Coordination have initiated the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq for the United Nations, on Wednesday, that the United Nations Mission in Iraq, UNAMI is preparing to organize a symposium on oil and gas law in April next in April 2009, according to a statement.

The statement, which received money (Voices of Iraq) a copy of Dr. Dindar Zebari, the Coordinator of the Government of the Territory for the United Nations "to discuss the day in his office in Arbil with official Adubisi Abiora of Legal Affairs in the Office of UNAMI in Baghdad preparations for the holding of this seminar in the month of April of the next cooperation Office of Constitutional Support UNAMI with a group of senior officials of the Federal Government and the Kurdistan Regional Government and members of the Iraqi Council of Representatives. "

The statement that the objective of this seminar is to "bring the views and find consensus for the ratification of the oil and gas law by the Iraqi Council of Representatives."

The legal officer in the Office of UNAMI in Baghdad that the office "will be published a report on all the positive and negative aspects of the draft law of the Iraqi oil and gas in the aftermath of this seminar."

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Planning Minister: Budget to be presented to parliament for approval

"The Minister of Planning and Development Cooperation, on Wednesday, that the financial budget for the current year will be some changes before being submitted to parliament for ratification.

Ali Baban said in a press conference held by the ministry building, attended by agency (Voices of Iraq), "The budget for Iraq in 2009, there will be some minor changes before it is paid to the House of Representatives for approval," and because "the volatility in oil prices, after that the amount of the price of a barrel during the calculation of the budget fifty dollars. "

Baban said that "the allocation of government funds 80% of the general budget to the operational budget is wrong, but the result justified the State's obligation to the staff and workers to pay their salaries and allowances."

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