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

Originally Posted by texaslonghorns

Int''l Compact with Iraq preparatory meeting issued final communique

ECO-7LD KUWAIT-IRAQ-ICI
Int'l Compact with Iraq preparatory meeting issued final communique

KUWAIT, Oct 31 (KUNA) -- The fifth and final preparatory meeting for the International Compact with Iraq (ICI) Tuesday said recognizing challenges facing Iraq has helped shaping up strategies, objectives and benchmarks to overcome all difficulties facing the nation.

In a final communique following a one-day meeting, the ICI said the participants recognized the current challenges facing Iraq, which lead to shaping a series of strategies, objectives and benchmarks that would help in composing an integrated plan to overcome all difficulties.

"The compact, jointly co-chaired by the Government of Iraq and the United Nations, with the support of the World Bank, will over the next five years, bring together the international community and multilateral organizations to support Iraq in achieving its national vision" that would achieve security, democracy, freedom, equality and prosperity for Iraq, noted the communique.

ICI aims at creating a mutually reinforcing dynamic of national consensus and international support that would back up the Iraqi government's programs, restore Iraqi people's trust in the state, establish a framework of mutual commitments to support Iraq, settle security and political challenges, ascertain good governance, as well as kick start economic development.

The compact's members have pledged to provide Iraq with financial, technical and political support to overcome all current difficulties.

"Mindful of the urgency of rapid progress and firmly endorsing the compact as presented, the formal adoption of ICI is scheduled for a high-level event during the next six weeks," explained the communique. (pickup previous) kt.

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Kuna site|Story page|Int''l Compact with Iraq preparatory meeting issue...10/31/2006

especially like this part!

Originally Posted by texaslonghorns

Int''l Compact with Iraq preparatory meeting issued final communique

ECO-7LD KUWAIT-IRAQ-ICI
Int'l Compact with Iraq preparatory meeting issued final communique

KUWAIT, Oct 31 (KUNA) -- The fifth and final preparatory meeting for the International Compact with Iraq (ICI) Tuesday said recognizing challenges facing Iraq has helped shaping up strategies, objectives and benchmarks to overcome all difficulties facing the nation.

In a final communique following a one-day meeting, the ICI said the participants recognized the current challenges facing Iraq, which lead to shaping a series of strategies, objectives and benchmarks that would help in composing an integrated plan to overcome all difficulties.

"The compact, jointly co-chaired by the Government of Iraq and the United Nations, with the support of the World Bank, will over the next five years, bring together the international community and multilateral organizations to support Iraq in achieving its national vision" that would achieve security, democracy, freedom, equality and prosperity for Iraq, noted the communique.

ICI aims at creating a mutually reinforcing dynamic of national consensus and international support that would back up the Iraqi government's programs, restore Iraqi people's trust in the state, establish a framework of mutual commitments to support Iraq, settle security and political challenges, ascertain good governance, as well as kick start economic development.

The compact's members have pledged to provide Iraq with financial, technical and political support to overcome all current difficulties.

"Mindful of the urgency of rapid progress and firmly endorsing the compact as presented, the formal adoption of ICI is scheduled for a high-level event during the next six weeks," explained the communique. (pickup previous) kt.

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Kuna site|Story page|Int''l Compact with Iraq preparatory meeting issue...10/31/2006

Sounds like there is one more hoop to jump through.

Originally Posted by texaslonghorns

Int''l Compact with Iraq preparatory meeting issued final communique

ECO-7LD KUWAIT-IRAQ-ICI
Int'l Compact with Iraq preparatory meeting issued final communique

KUWAIT, Oct 31 (KUNA) -- The fifth and final preparatory meeting for the International Compact with Iraq (ICI) Tuesday said recognizing challenges facing Iraq has helped shaping up strategies, objectives and benchmarks to overcome all difficulties facing the nation.

In a final communique following a one-day meeting, the ICI said the participants recognized the current challenges facing Iraq, which lead to shaping a series of strategies, objectives and benchmarks that would help in composing an integrated plan to overcome all difficulties.

"The compact, jointly co-chaired by the Government of Iraq and the United Nations, with the support of the World Bank, will over the next five years, bring together the international community and multilateral organizations to support Iraq in achieving its national vision" that would achieve security, democracy, freedom, equality and prosperity for Iraq, noted the communique.

ICI aims at creating a mutually reinforcing dynamic of national consensus and international support that would back up the Iraqi government's programs, restore Iraqi people's trust in the state, establish a framework of mutual commitments to support Iraq, settle security and political challenges, ascertain good governance, as well as kick start economic development.

The compact's members have pledged to provide Iraq with financial, technical and political support to overcome all current difficulties.

"Mindful of the urgency of rapid progress and firmly endorsing the compact as presented, the formal adoption of ICI is scheduled for a high-level event during the next six weeks," explained the communique. (pickup previous) kt.

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Kuna site|Story page|Int''l Compact with Iraq preparatory meeting issue...10/31/2006

The date on the article at the bottom shows OCT 6,so don't anybody freak,I think we are there,Lets wait to hear about the meetings,that need to be translated.A big wooooooooooot for all of us!
GO DINAR GO!!!!
sarah!!!

I hope someone else can take the time to listen, I am having a difficult time talking with the boys and listening to get the story right with the UN fellow, but I just heard him say that documents will be signed and this is the pre-meeting! The PRE-Meeting to the MEETING. I tried the "Live Feed" it came on momentarily and then failed; even with my sophisticated system it could not handle the protocol they are using, sorry again! I am just a sorry dude today, eh?

Originally Posted by snottynose

The date on the article at the bottom shows OCT 6,so don't anybody freak,I think we are there,Lets wait to hear about the meetings,that need to be translated.A big wooooooooooot for all of us!
GO DINAR GO!!!!
sarah!!!

Good catch, the Oct. 31st was a bit misleading.

Originally Posted by texaslonghorns

Sounds like there is one more hoop to jump through.

I could be wrong but we need article VIII signed to reval we don't need every detail, I would think, for compact. So if they did in fact sign article VIII and just referring to 6 weeks as "fanfare" finally done etc. then they should be able to reval now.....I could be wrong, this is just how I read this....???

Originally Posted by Treater

Can anyone please give the link?

PREPARATORY MEETING FOR THE INTERNATIONAL COMPACT WITH IRAQ

I posted it on page 10 or 11 this morning and page 13, plus yesterday - it goes with

International Compact with Iraq

gives ya a huge hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm what's up iraq???

CLICK THE LINKS - OPEN SESSION AND INSIDE THE MEETING

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061030...r_061030135559




Sadr himself approved Sadr City raid: aide


Mon Oct 30, 8:55 AM ET



NAJAF, Iraq (AFP) - Moqtada al-Sadr gave the go-ahead to a US-led raid on the bastion of his Mahdi Army militia in Baghdad and plans to purge his movement of violent elements, according to an aide to the radical cleric.

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Sheikh Abdel Razzaq al-Naddawi, a senior assistant to the firebrand Shiite preacher, said Sadr had given the green light to last week's action by US and Iraqi forces after meeting Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.

"It was meant to pinpoint the bad elements and hold them accountable before the law," Naddawi told AFP in the Shiite holy city of Najaf. "This movement does not protect those who abuse people and the innocent."

Last week Iraqi special forces and US advisers raided an address in Sadr City, a flashpoint suburb of Baghdad, hunting what they described as a death squad leader. A subsequent battle left 10 militants and four civilians dead.

Previous raids by US forces in Shiite districts have drawn criticism from Sadr supporters, but the powerful young cleric is trying to reposition himself as an ally of Maliki's struggle to halt a wave of sectarian violence.

Naddawi said Sadr had set up a committee to purge the Mahdi Army of members suspected of involvement in violence against Iraqis.

"Those proved to have abused people shall be expelled from the Mahdi Army and shall be subject to legal measures," Naddawi said. A source in Sadr's movement said as many as 40 unit leaders could be disciplined.

US commanders now say that militias like the Mahdi Army are the biggest single threat to Iraq's stability, but the movements appear to be fracturing into hardline or criminal elements and mainstream radical movements.

this from paynes 1 at iif, i'm sure he won't mind since he post here some
"The reconstruction plan was developed at a meeting of the participating European states in July 1947. The Marshall Plan offered the same aid to the Soviet Union and its allies, if they would make political reforms and accept certain outside controls. In fact, America worried that the Soviet Union would take advantage of the plan and therefore made the terms deliberately hard for the USSR to accept. The plan was in operation for four fiscal years beginning in July 1947"

"The emerging doctrine of containment argued that the United States needed to substantially aid non-communist countries to stop the spread of Soviet influence. There was also some hope that the Eastern European nations would join the plan, and thus be pulled out of the emerging Soviet bloc. "

"On July 12, a larger meeting was convened in Paris. Every country of Europe was invited, with the exceptions of Spain (which had stayed out of World War II but had sympathized with the Axis powers) and the small states of Andorra, San Marino, Monaco, and Liechtenstein. The Soviet Union was invited with the understanding that it would refuse"

This group is comparable to the ICI Prepatory group.


"Stalin saw the Plan as a significant threat to Soviet control of Eastern Europe and believed that economic integration with the West would allow these countries to escape Soviet domination. The Americans shared this view and hoped that economic aid could counter the growing Soviet influence."
The Soviet Union's "alternative" to the Marshall plan, which was purported to involve Soviet subsidies and trade with eastern Europe, became known as the Molotov Plan, and later, the COMECON.

The communist threat was a matter of national security because they did not want the Soviet union to control the Eurpean nations.

Marshall Plan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The International Compact.

Yesterdays news article Old Shier posted on the International compact thread. the link Kuna site|Story page|UN officials explain aims of Int''l Compact with I...10/30/2006 post # 33

the thread http://www.investorsiraq.com/realist...tional+compact



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"While saying tomorrow's meeting was part of preliminary steps, he believed that ICI's actual "launching will see to it that these steps can actually be measurable in the real sense because it is in the best interest of the region and world community that Iraq is back on its feet." He said Iraq would receive economic and financial aid to achieve stability, but if the situation worsens, Iraq's problems might spill to neighboring nations and that would not serve the region."

Sound Familar.

This statement is a matter of national security for not only the US but all the ICI members. They do not want to see a destabilized mid east. This would not be good for the whole world. Have you noticed who is in the ICI prep group. The US, UK, France , Germany, Japan, Italy, Canada was asked to chair the compact but is not listed, Russia has worked out a debt arrangement with Iraq and is not listed. Seven out of the Eight G-8 members are pushing on the compact toget it moving. The G-8 is responsible for 65% of the worlds trade.

"Regarding ICI's five-year mandate from 2006-2011, he said "It might take less or more and so on. But I think a five-year period is a very realistic timetable," noting that the compact's strategy was aimed at focisung funds on practical steps without getting carried away with mechanics."

The 5 year plan fits into the time limits of the IMF's critera for aid.
This was a statement made in the Marshall plan its self.


preparatory group included the UN, US, UK, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kuwait, World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), European Union (EU), Arab development funds, Islamic Development Bank (IDB), France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Saudi Arabia, South Korea and Spain. (end) mge.

This is the Marshall Plan renamed the International Compact for IRAQ.

(Voice of Iraq) - 10-31-2006 | Sotaliraq.com

President Talabani told Allovigaro : Alkord right to self-determination


2006.10.31
PUKmedia preparation / Luay dry from Paris :

He said Iraqi President Jalal Talabani : each Iraqi site and the fate in the new Iraq, provided that respected the law and respect the principles and values contained in the Constitution, such as human rights, peace, democracy and freedom, the Iraqi president's statements came in an interview with this newspaper interview Allovigaro French.

He is scheduled to visit President Jalal Talabani, France next Thursday and this visit will meet the French leadership, headed by President Jacques Chirac, who will receive him at the presidential Elysee Palace. Following is the text of the interview :

Allovigaro : Is it possible to avoid civil war in Iraq?

President Talabani : Iraqi political leaders recognize that did resort to violence will not be useless. Everyone pledged to participate in the national reconciliation process launched by the government, So the civil war can be avoided. But the violence in Iraq is not only for sectarian reasons, there is a terrorist threat foreign allied with the henchmen of Saddam, who tarnished their hands the blood of Iraqis. They want to restore dictatorship and the return of Iraq to the era of darkness.

We work on the training of security forces well-trained and well-armed arming also, As we promote the national reconciliation. These things in progress and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is facing a great challenge but I am confident and I know he will succeed.

Allovigaro : what is the location and fate of the militias in the new Iraq?

President Talabani : each Iraqi site and the fate in the new Iraq, provided that respected the law and respect the principles and values contained in the Constitution, such as human rights, peace, democracy and freedom. As for the carrying of weapons, this right of the government only, should the Commission to the hands of the government alone.

The militias must be disarmed and reintegrated into the police and security forces, but here we must differentiate between the militias that fought and the dictatorial regime Karat and the militias that carried the weapons after the war for the liberation of Iraq.

The integration of the armed militias with the security forces and the Iraqi police must be part of an overall plan and comprehensive. For the s Alcordeh understand forces defended the Alkord and fought against dictatorship and will merge with the security forces, police and border guards in the local Cordstan.

Allovigaro : Is that the withdrawal of potential American Ekelkkm?

President Talabani : We discussed this issue, We await the day when we say to our friends that we thank you for your support. But there is agreement between the Iraqi forces that withdrawal at the present time lead to disaster in Iraq, the Middle East and the world as well. Republicans and Democrats agreed on this point, Please be understanding of this point in Europe. The withdrawal of the coalition forces must come after the preparation of Iraqi forces to assume responsibility for security in the country.

Allovigaro : Are they allowed the rebels to engage in the political process?

President Talabani : There were contacts with some groups on disarmament. Now there are contacts to Andamjahm in the national reconciliation process and there are debating a draft amnesty bill in the National Security Council.

Allovigaro : in a democratic Iraq. Is the Baathist political practice?

President Talabani : during the forty years the Baath rule in Iraq by force and iron did not give room for anyone to express their opinion, Prevention of the Baath political action is natural. But as individuals, they can participate in political life, provided that Adem not tainted with the blood of Iraqis.

Allovigaro : Al-Qaida forces in Iraq, by your Why?

President Talabani : started weakening, power was allied with the Sadamiin and foreign aid directly or indirectly. Tribes sought by the Sunni areas has started discussions in fierce battles with them. Alarhbion from al-Qaeda, Islamic Amarthm say if the coalition forces withdrew, this is not propaganda.

Allovigaro in Iraq : Federal, the oil would rule out any universally?

President Talabani : items Iraqi constitution refers to how to manage the natural wealth between the center and regions. I am confident that we will reach agreement on this issue because everyone committed to the constitution.

Allovigaro : The Kurds?

President Talabani : Alkord right to self-determination, The federal chose in Iraq and the federal parliament elected them.

Allovigaro : the letter to France, which opposed the war on Iraq?

President Talabani : the goal of my visit to France is to renew our relations, the past is past, and I see the future. We have a historic link with the French people heir to the values of democracy : liberty, equality, fraternity, these values we want them in our country. They claimed the French to change their views towards Iraq. war was not the best choice, but the war was the only option to get rid of the dictatorship, we look forward to the support of France to Iraq in these difficult circumstances that we are confronted with terrorism.