Thread: Archive - Latest News Think Tank - 15/01/09 - 04/05/09

The draft Arab resolution in favor of Iraq at the Arab summit

Said Hoshyar Zebari, Foreign Minister of Iraq from the Qatari capital Doha that the demands of Iraq is to issue a positive decision in connection with the developments taking place to restore the role and power in the Arab, regional and international levels.

He (Zebari) that the draft resolution which had been prepared, especially after the visit of the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States Amr Moussa to Iraq and his recent turn, will summarize the leaders, kings, and the Arabs Alrwoads positive and constructive developments that have taken place in Iraq.

With regard to the priorities of the Iraqi issue in the presentation of the Arab Summit and the twenty-first session, which starts on Monday and Tuesday said Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, the Iraqi file .. no longer a priority, but there are important issues, including the promotion of Arab reconciliation and Arab solidarity and the peace process and the issue of Sudan and the possibility of adopting a resolution in support of Sudan.

With regard to relations Syrian - Iraqi relations, Zebari said the Iraqi - Syrian developed, especially after the visit of the Minister Walid al-Moallem of Syria to Baghdad and the prospects for his recent cooperation between the two countries on the rise.

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Adviser to the Central Bank of Iraq: the entities of public enterprises are still teeming with the unemployed and the official dogma of the investment and technical

Advisor, Central Bank of Iraq, Dr. Mohammad Saleh, said that the appearance of re-characterization of the national economic system is still absent because of the rents of the economy and the dominance of the State to eighty percent of the imports, which focused on oil revenues and the added financial benefit of .... In a statement published on Saturday that the description of the economy will set the limits of the policy and the size of the overlap with the orientations of the economic ... Stressing the need to guide the State in support of the private sector from the individual level to the corporate level ...

Adviser to the Central Bank of Iraq, also pointed out that the entities, public companies are still full of unemployed and the official dogma of the investment and technical points to an imbalance in the public policy of the economy .. His is easy to attract investment in the economy has achieved a surplus of male relative Kalaguetsad Iraqi economic program to be able to achieve the level of optimal balance of the country and away from the specter of recession, continued low rates Twcrh real output growth in the non-oil, which does not leave its rates in a similar level of growth rates of the population of Iraq for more than two decades.

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Seaview, it seems that you are the only one still posting here for the most part regarding the dinar. Do you have any idea or heard anything as to when this ride might be over? I have been in this thing for over four years now and have no clue; I stopped visiting forums so often because of frustration over this investment. Any insite you may have would be appreciated. Wish I had the number to Shabibbi. lOL

Originally Posted by smcquiller1

Seaview, it seems that you are the only one still posting here for the most part regarding the dinar. Do you have any idea or heard anything as to when this ride might be over? I have been in this thing for over four years now and have no clue; I stopped visiting forums so often because of frustration over this investment. Any insite you may have would be appreciated. Wish I had the number to Shabibbi. lOL

Hi,

My impression is that the dinar will remain stable where it is at the moment for the foreseeable future, maybe a few pips here or there.

I'm sorry I cannot give any more than that, but that is what the Central Bank has stated. The Monetary Policy is being kep tight for the time being.

Debt cancellation is coming along nicely and Iraq is becoming a member of the GCC which I think is a step in the right direction. JMO.

Withdrawal of some units of credit from the central Baghdad

The spokesman for Baghdad's operations command Maj. Gen. Qassim Atta said the army to withdraw part of his forces in the area of credit for the establishment of a central Baghdad, the situation after the clashes broke out two days ago.

He said Atta told a news briefing on Monday that a number of military units began withdrawing from the credit after the stability of the security situation, explaining that life is returning to normal as shops opened their doors.

And imposed a U.S. and Iraqi forces crack down on the entrances to the credit of the oldest areas of Baghdad, after clashes in the wake of the arrest of the commander of al-Mashhadani, just awakening there.

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Citizens Radio Dijla hope the Arab summit to contribute to the debt cancellation

Iraqi citizens hope the Arab summit to be an opportunity to turn their differences and unite the Arab states and Iraq.

He called on citizens to talk to Radio Dijla Arab countries to stand by Iraq and to contribute to the cancellation of debt owed to it.

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The mixed sector calls for the Iraqi capital to direct their investments to home

The Ministry of Industry said that the mixed sector employers called the Iraqi capital to bring their investments to Iraq, as it represents a promising market and has the ability to extend consumer and at least twenty years with that enjoyed by Iraq's huge oil wealth.

A statement of the ministry received a copy of the Tigris Radio today quoted a source in the private sector be invited to guide Iraq toward the enactment of laws protecting local products, and consumer protection, competition law, to represent a major boost to the mixed sector companies.

The index of the stock market, the Baghdad Stock Exchange to substantiate, since some of the shares multiplied by the companies after the security situation improved.

It should be mentioned that the Iraqi consumer retains great pride in his memory products sector mixed companies, which had been in the forefront of household appliances, soft drinks and food, plastic products, and dyes.

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Financial denies responsibility for the late delivery of the budget of the Presidency

Ministry of Finance attributed the delay in delivery of the financial budget for the current year of the Presidency of the Republic not to send the House schedules for the balance to the body.

Denied in a statement the ministry has received a copy of the Tigris Radio on Monday that the budget will be responsible for late delivery of the budget as stated in a number of media.

He added that the Presidency of the Council of Representatives and the Finance Committee, the Council had to send the tables with the basic law to the Presidency.

He continued that work is under way day and night to reduce the budget based on a decision to reduce the House of Representatives (5) trillions of dinars out of the budget.

The statement said that the budget will be implemented after ratification of the budget law is amended by the House of Representatives, and the preparation of new tables after validation.

The tables could not be sent by the Presidency of the Council and the Finance Committee and the ratification of the follow-up with the Presidency, because the House of Representatives began its spring recess after the vote on the budget on the fifth of March 14 until next month.

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Minister of Finance: new fines will be imposed on the m.obile phone companies

A Finance Minister Bayan Jabr of the existence of a new fines will be imposed on the m.obile phone companies in Iraq because of poor services.

Zubaidi said in a statement to Radio Dijla fines that could range between 500 million dollars a day in the event of the continuation of this poor service time today.

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Baghdad, has been in the conference next April for the Iraqi opposition

News sources confirmed the intention of twenty-one movement of liberal and secular Iraqi opposition, from both home and abroad, held an extended conference in Baghdad in mid-April, with the participation of 750 tribal and political figure.

The conference aims to develop a common vision and identify the demands to engage in national reconciliation and political process, according to sources close to the government that the conference comes against the backdrop of official meetings with several leaders of the national trend in Iraq, and the Union of Iraqi Democrats, the majority of the leaderships of these organizations, the opponents of the Baathist sent in addition to former communists. With the exclusion of the Baath party, Izzat wing season.

The sources added that the goal of the conferences to reach a working paper submitted to the Government and the demands to create a unified engage in national reconciliation and then in the political process.

And personalities that work to organize this Conference sources said that the workers now to create an atmosphere people with a known history, such as Moaz Abdulraheem, and Zidane, Persia, and Abdullah al-Lami, Ali Jassim, the Arab movement in Iraq. And Abdul-Rikabi, the leader of the Union of Iraqi Democrats, and others.

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