Thread: Iraq/Dinar News. 09/05 to 01/14/07

Originally Posted by CORY

News is great but it should have to do with reval or our investment and i wish people would have important parts highlighted to save space. i can hear about all the people dieing and car bombs and attacks on CNN or and news chanel
JMHO

ok got it, no comments, nothing that isnt economic, but i cant hilite what I think is important because it might not be the same as what someone else would hilite and i dont want to influence anyone one way or another.

Originally Posted by Webster

1:30 pm S-226 Press Conference: Mr. Georg Kell, Executive Director of the UN Global Compact Office, to brief journalists on the World Investment Report 2006
(UN PHOTO,INTERNATIONAL MEDIA)


I think this one is the one that was embargoed. 1.30 pm, I don’t know what time zone this is but it is in the UN building. You smart people can work this out. It is set for Monday, October 16. Here is the link.

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Georg Kell
Executive Head of The Global Compact Office



Georg Kell is the Executive Head of The Global Compact Office, overseeing a network that includes several hundred companies, international labour, non-governmental organizations and other civil society groups. Mr. Kell was one of the chief architects of The Global Compact initiative, launched by Secretary-General Kofi Annan in July 2000 to promote good corporate citizenship and responsible globalisation.

Mr. Kell joined the executive office of the Secretary-General in 1997 as a senior officer responsible for fostering cooperation with the private sector to advance broad UN objectives.

Mr. Kell has extensive experience in international trade and development issues. In 1990, he joined the New York office of the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) where, from 1993-97, he served as office head, closely interacting with delegations and the UN General Assembly. Mr. Kell began his career at the UN in 1987, spending three years in Geneva with UNCTAD.

Prior to joining the United Nations, Mr. Kell worked as a financial analyst in developing countries in Asia and Africa, appraising industrial projects for banks and multilateral institutions.

Mr. Kell holds advanced degrees in economics and engineering from the Technical University in Berlin. Following his postgraduate studies at the Fraunhofer Institute, he spent two years in Tanzania where he helped establish an industrial research institute.

Georg Kell

Georg Kell is the executive head of the United Nations Global Compact, the world's largest voluntary corporate citizenship initiative with more than 2,400 participants from more than 80 countries. Following extensive experiences in Africa and Asia as a financial analyst, Kell began his career at the UN in Geneva, where he worked from 1987 to 1990 with the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). In 1990, he joined the New York office of UNCTAD, which he headed from 1993 to 1997. In 1997, Kell became a senior officer in the Executive Office of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, responsible for fostering cooperation with the private sector. He has served as head of the UN Global Compact since 2000. A native of Germany, Kell holds advanced degrees in economics and engineering from the Technical University of Berlin.


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DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL


KELL: James, I have to -- I want to make a point here that, indeed, after 15 years in the organization, working with many people in many departments, I can assure you I have not seen a single time any act of corruption.

The United Nations, by any standard, I would claim, if you were to apply the same scrutiny to other public institutions, would rank very much higher on a good performance list, there is no doubt.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan is a very decent person. Many people can testify to that. There is no doubt. There is no corruption of anything like this involved.

The incidents that have happened -- and that has been truly recognized -- oversight issues, which are corrected. But the world seems to forget now that the United Nations is quite a complex, big organization that --

BONE: Georg, have you read the report?

KELL: Yes, I have, in great detail.

BONE: Well, explain to me then how it is that Kofi Annan in multiple occasions has to be given the benefit of the doubt where other witnesses words contradict his.

For instance, Pierre Muselli (ph), former business partner of his son, Kojo, said that he had a lunch with Kojo and Kofi Annan at which they discussed Kojo and Pierre Muselli's (ph) plans to go into business in Iraq, with the father. Again, the father says that didn't happen.

KELL: Look, there are all incidents (UNINTELLIGIBLE). The secretary- general is meeting every day hundreds of people and hundreds of people are saying things that --

BONE: He met his son's employer, George Massey, he originally claimed he had not met him, and then when the Volcker Commission presented him with evidence he had indeed met him, he remembered that he met him.

ROTH: They're not very politically savvy at the United Nations, are they, Samir? And shouldn't they realize that, in effect, it always comes down to the cover up is worse than the crime, and here it is the perception, and who knows what else is out there.
CNN.com - Transcripts


Georg Kell is the executive head of the Global Compact Office at the United Nations, overseeing a network that includes several hundred companies, international labor, nongovernmental organizations and other civil society groups. Kell was one of the chief architects of the Global Compact initiative, launched by Secretary-General Kofi Annan in July 2000 to promote good corporate citizenship and responsible globalization. Kell has extensive experience in international trade and development issues. In 1990, he joined the New York office of the UN Conference on Trade and Development where, from 1993-97, he served as office head, closely interacting with delegations and the UN General Assembly.

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The public integrity issued a fairness

The integrity of the public service of education and public relations / public relations section published the first issue of the Interior (integrity), which included all the activities and events and the news and branches in the governorates, this means bulletin also the culture of integrity and transparency among staff since it is distributed free of charge to all Zarat and state organizations and receive proposals and complaints

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Base : «» Islamic state in Baghdad, five Iraqi provinces

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Base : «» Islamic state in Baghdad, five Iraqi provinces

In response to the State «» Kurds in the north and Shiites »« federalism in the center and south

London : «» Middle East
Four days after he announced to the gathering fundamentalist militant leadership of a new rule «» yesterday what he called «» Islamic state in Baghdad, five Iraqi provinces, in response to what it described as «a» Kurds in the north and Shiites »« federalism in the center and south.
The spokesman said in a video broadcast on fundamentalist website on the Internet, but has not been possible to verify the credibility «you convey its NATO Almatibin human creation and the establishment of the Islamic State of Iraq», He called «Mujahideen and the ulema of Iraq and clan elders and the general Sunnis» to the sale of the recipe b «Prince of Believers Sheikh Abu Omar al-Baghdady», according to the French Press Agency. For its part, Reuters news agency quoted the spokesman said the aim of establishing an Islamic state that «» «is to protect our religion and our families and to prevent conflict and to avoid the dissipation of the blood and sacrifices Shahdaekm». The spokesman added that concealed the point that the Islamic State »« This must include Baghdad and the governorates of Anbar, Diyala, Salahuddin, Kirkuk and Nineveh and parts of the provinces of Babil, Wasit out of the 18 provinces comprising Iraq, as reported by Reuters. According to the spokesman, the decision to declare an Islamic state «» «came after it happened Kurds in the north and the State of Roafeda (in reference to the Shiites) federal center and south». the intention of the Iraqi Parliament's decision to ratify the federal law last Wednesday.

The speaker called «to work to strengthen the foundations of the state and sacrifice which sacrifice», He emphasized that «Baghdad governance and succession of their ancestors will not come out of our hands only to Ashlaena». It is noteworthy that the so-called «» Mujahideen Shura Council, led by the organization «» Qaeda had announced last Thursday that the NATO Almatibin «», He pointed out that includes three armed groups and dignitaries clans.

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here is what happened to the reconciliation conference.

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The Republic of Iraq
Council of Ministers-the governmental communications
Media Relations
A press statement / Press Release
Monday 10-16-2006

Iraqi forces assume command of operations in the Ramadi area nationalization

Received the first batch / First Brigade / seventh division of the Iraqi army, the responsibility of the area of operations in Al-Ramadi nationalization of the multinational forces.
The Colonel ordered the regiment in the way the word : This event made the first batch a milestone in the seventh division in Consequently leadership in the area of operations of its own, He added : It is a great achievement for the group less than a year old and serves in Ramadi.

This will Regiment with the Iraqi police to secure the nationalization in Ramadi, The members of the regiment recently arrested three terrorists and killed another.

The statement issued by the media liaison team in the multinational forces.

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Radio Nawa

Essam Al denounce the Mujahideen Shura Council, the establishment of the Islamic State of Iraq

Shura member of the Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq (Essam narrator) Declaration (Mujahideen Shura Council) administration of the Islamic State of Iraq and said (the narrator) in contact with the channel (the island) space that "any project of dividing Iraq in a bid treason, and that Baghdad is the capital of each of Iraq, and this announcement only lure of the state of retail. " He pointed out that "the Council talked about the part of Iraq in the establishment of an Islamic state, and this contradicts the foundations of what they preach, Muslims are one nation, We must confront those who try dividing them, and that Iraq is one of all stripes. " The Mujahideen Shura Council, linked to the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda had announced yesterday the establishment of an Islamic state covering the provinces (Anbar, Diyala, Salahuddin, Kirkuk and Nineveh and parts of Babil, Wasit).


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A document of bloodshed signed officials and clergymen near Kaaba

Al-Maliki up to Ankara today was to leave Saudi Arabia
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Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to Ankara today, where he is likely to leave to Mecca, after two days of the signing of the document of the Iraqi Mecca on the 20th of October 1st of this month. The deputy said Hassan Al-Sunaid : Mr. Maliki will spend one day in Ankara pointing out that a large delegation including a number of ministers and members of parliament and politicians will accompany Maliki to hold talks with Turkish officials. on economic issues, security issues like energy and oil.

Not clear whether Maliki will return to Baghdad on the way to Mecca, or whether he would arrive from Ankara. The news most likely he will attend the signing of a document Mecca in the 20th of this month.
In addition to al-Maliki, it is expected to witness Mecca, where he arrived Vice President Tariq Al-Hashmi attended formal high-level addition to the twenty-five influential religious personalities to participate in the ceremony of signing the document will be transferred directly via satellite channels.
The document contains a Mecca of the Iraqi ten items dealing with all issues of the current Iraqi regime and met with religious leaders.
The d. Salah Abdel Razaq One of the participants in the meeting that a tripartite committee comprising addition to Sheikh Mahmood Sumaida'ie, representative of the complex doctrinal Saudi prepared this document.
Abdul Razak said in a telephone conversation with the "morning" of Mecca that the document had been drafted in the form of heresy fatwa prohibiting any Muslim from the Islamic doctrine may not be subjected to a Muslim, whether Shiite or Sunni murder and assault on the capital or incitement to any of these unacceptable acts prohibited.
He pointed out that the committee had discussed a number of issues affecting the situation in Iraq, as conferees stressed the need to put an end to the bloodshed in Iraq and addressing the issue of displacement and sectarian kidnappings, assassinations and continued that the document touched on a number of issues and phenomena rejected Under prevent the phenomenon of name-calling between the communities a the Islamic.
Well-informed sources told "Sabah said that" a number of senior scientists Hawza in Najaf, head of the Association of Muslim Scholars, Sheikh Harith al-Dhari, who is currently in Saudi Arabia attending the conference held in the 20th of this month as well as a large number of members of the House and preachers and religious scholars from Baghdad and the provinces. The document is designed Mecca to the end of sectarian tension in the country and extinguish the fire of sedition and stop the bloodshed and to define the role of scientists and religious authorities in this area.
Observers believe that the signing of the document next Kaaba will give new impetus to the initiative of national reconciliation and peace in Iraq, pointing to the emergence of a strong Dorsaudi towards restoring peace and security in Iraq comes as a conference sponsored by the International Islamic Fiqh Academy in Jeddah after weeks of hosting the Kingdom of Ldo danger three of the Conference of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the neighborhood.
And although the outcome of the conference issuing fatwas religious However, observers believe that the political nature will impact on the delegates scheduled to attend the intense political and intense political consultations that preceded the conference.
And some of them go out that the conference may be a gateway to other political conferences are held under the auspices of Saudi Arabia has put a real end to the violence in Iraq.
So, to coincide with preparation for the conference called for the President of the Court of stay Shiite favor Haydari, who is in Mecca, religious scholars and senior scholars and imams and preachers Mosque and the Prophet's Mosque in Saudi Arabia to issue a fatwa, a statement to outlaw the killing of an Iraqi Shiite and Sunni alike before any person as provided for in the teachings of Islamic Sharia magnanimous.
Haydari said in a statement to Al (morning) : call that the fatwa to coincide with the convening of the Iraqi religious scholars in Mecca must pass a fatwa explicit the need to prevent heresy Shiite or Sunni alike, He added that those who come to Iraq and blowing up booby-trapped cars and themselves on the innocent citizens believe that the killing of (Shiite) Segurbhm from God and because of the positions of some of this extremist preachers and imams of mosques in some areas who are not aware of them in the Kingdom and others who unknowingly Lifton of the book and the Sunna of the Prophet.
He continued : Haydari. We are confident that these instructions regarding the killing of an Iraqi Shiite or Sunni was not issued by scientists from the distinguished senior scientists or the Standing Committee for an advisory opinion or the Supreme Council of Magistracy, or imams and preachers Two Holy Mosques, or any knowledge of the world and fully aware of the book and the year in Saudi Arabia, as we have son They accept all respect the opinions of others, but the issue of extremists and ignorant young people who are not aware of them.
He explained : Haydari. asked us to Sunni, Shiite, to pass an appeal is to be to identify any of the Koran and talk Nabawi Sharif refer to the sanctity of Iraqi blood, He pointed out that the moratorium Shiite welcomed the idea, noting that the lofty goal : we seek is forbidding and stem the shedding of Iraqi blood.


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The 790 daily currency auction was held in the Central Bank of Iraq day Monday 2006 / 10/ 16 so the results were as follows :
Details Notes
Number of banks 10 -----
Auction price selling dinar / US $ 1470 -----
Auction price buying dinar / US $ ----- -----
Amount sold at auction price (US $) 43.800.000 -----
Amount purchased at Auction price (US $) -----
Total offers for buying (US $) 43.800.000 -----
Total offers for selling (US $) ----- -----



Exchange Rates

Hi, I have a couple of questions.

When does the investment law come into effect. I know it was passed last week, was it seven days from that date?. Also a question I asked some pages back, what if any would it be advantageous to Iraq not to peg or revalue the dinar?.