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Iraqis are paying thousands of dollars in exchange for visas

(Voice of Iraq) - 11-12-2006
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In search of immigrant : Iraqis are paying thousands of dollars to get the visas
Baghdad / Ali Yassin
Paid security situation deteriorating, as well as unemployment, a lot of Iraqis are searching for safe havens in the immigrant far corners of the world, and some reports indicate that tens of thousands of Iraqis crossing the border of the country heading to the neighboring countries, to apply for asylum humanitarian

The news agency reported that the German newspaper (The Age), quoting the Ministry of Immigration to 24000 Iraqi citizen provided in the past year requests for visas (humanitarian asylum) in Australia, compared with 3500 request in the past, 2001 - 2002, making the second largest Iraqi refugee situation to Australia in 2005 and this is a reflection of the high proportion of immigrants, There are thousands of families and individuals. migrating daily on the roads linking with the neighboring Iraq, and except in cases of asylum, Some have had to sell their property to real estate and land, and shops purchase price to pay for their purchase price to obtain entry visas to some countries in Europe. Tourist travel offices in Baghdad / Sadoon Street received hundreds of entry visas for amounts Ttrah between 7.500 to $ 10.000 on the way to Mindful of the citizen Ali Ahmed, 28, and I asked him about his trip, He told me spirits : a week ago, I returned from Istanbul, which spent more than two months searching for an escape route from the failures, there identified more smuggling networks in the latter paid for them against $ 3.500 marks to Athens, of course, that price is the cheapest among multiple smuggling routes, It can Edjalk to Greek territory on foot outlets secret known only to smugglers skilled and adventurous, If the smuggling truck driver without the knowledge of price will be higher if the knowledge of the price much higher in any case, the amount did not get paid only on the promise and hope and, ultimately, traveled smuggled pregnant with the amounts and the amounts of Iraqis and others blasted the offices of travel he said : try to get an entry visa to an Arab country, since that some offices can get you a visa and prices ranging between 7000 to 1000 dollars and may increase or decrease depending on the importance of the country and location.
Added Ali Ahmed, saying : the migration issue for me has become a life will not yield him.
Recovery work and travel and the increasing number of Iraqis who are searching for opportunities for Migration, feature opinion, one of the owners of offices, who preferred to remain anonymous, and the name of his company and began by saying :
- In fact hesitate to our company daily. a large number of Iraqi families and young people, for the purpose of obtaining visas to Europe. the aim of immigration, and access to humanitarian asylum course, main reason for the increase in migrants, the security situation, He said the non-approval of more embassies located in the capital, Baghdad, and away from Iraq, to grant an entry visa to the Iraqi territory, rose entry visas to European countries such as : Germany, Jikia, Italy, Slovakia, the 6500 dollars, and sometimes up to 7000 dollars. most citizens do not concern them, thousands of dollars paid as much as them entry visas. of course, any process of obtaining a visa is through a network of agents. as well as a multiplicity of mediators, It is no secret to anyone that there mafiosi focused programs aimed fraud, some citizens who are in Ahabilha day, both here in Baghdad, or in Damascus, Amman, Istanbul, and of course these mafias fishing families and individuals, Under the slogan of the law does not protect the dupes. in the meantime, Dakhaltna talk (...) one employee in the airline to say : more passengers Iraqis, tend to Istanbul to see that, as researchers on migration, the station between the capitals of the most important countries in the region, for a springboard to Europe, Speaking from the point of traveling to Turkey re-company owner (...) Travel and Tourism, commenting : You can find long queues of people in front of the Turkish embassy to obtain a visa, but one of the more than one thousand people, almost does not get a visa, only one of them!. To find the most resort to the mediation of some offices, or that interrupt the ticket to Istanbul round-trip to assume office without any responsibility in the case not to grant him a visa at the airport, and then returned to Iraq on the same plane. This is often what happens and the work of the offices, they are subjected to the problems, he said : As stated there the active and strong travel either by land, air or what we are suffering in light of the security situation known, is that some offices to the raid by some persons or armed gangs and kidnapping workers to bargain and get this in the absence of any protected office during working hours limited to daylight hours.
Take, for example, I personally had been kidnapped by an armed group during I left the office and moved me to an unknown place of detention was for five days was released after only four books of securities serial Alsquilh of green.
However, I say you (do not) Thank God فحياتي more valuable than leaflets paid much.
He added the company (...) Travel and Tourism : sweating often to get a ticket on flights of Iraqi Airways, It requires the company to delegate more than five hours to get the ticket. The reason was the lack of communication with the control of the Iraqi Airways at Baghdad Airport, the secretariat, employee Discount say that seeks to provide service to the passengers but the barrier stronger than control.
A female company (...) Tell us saying : we must tell the truth and Njaher by : the fact that more customers who are reluctant to our company are willing to get a visa, and especially to the European countries, not for the purpose of tourism or visit or any other purpose others, except for some very rare cases, and so characteristic of business travel, The reasons are well known and are no secret to anyone, But of course, the most important of the security situation, as well as widespread unemployment among young people, I imagine the employee, here me access to the office for more than three hours ... But agree with me that this time enough for him to hit one of the provinces.
During graduation, we asked citizens (...) It matters to enter the bureau on his hand ... Vajapana Mtavva :
My brother-Look for a Visa for me and my family to Sweden, I sold my house and sold seven books Athathi, I believe that the amount is sufficient to receipt, and if we do not get out of Baghdad, we Sntokl during the week to Istanbul. Yes to Istanbul to take things from there!.
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I am skipping around the house, and the other half thinks i have completely lost it. Hmmm maybe i have? :-P

Okay what does the BRAIN TRUST make of this? Will they reval the currency on the day that Sixteen hight-ranking officials fromt he CBI are out in training?

Sixteen high-ranking officials from Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) are to attend five-day training programme on banking supervision in Bahrain, starting tomorrow. The five-day programme is being conducted by the Bahrain Institute of Banking & Finance (BIBF) in co-operation with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Federal Reserve Bank of New York (Fed NY) .

The workshop, at the BIBF premises in Juffair, will be conducted by a team of international experts from the IMF and Fed NY.

BIBF was selected to host this important workshop because of Bahrain's excellent reputation as a leading world financial hub and the Institute's ability to provide world-class training and business advisory services, said BIBF deputy director and head of Banking Learning Centre, Hussain Ismail.

For the last two-and-a-half years, the IMF and the Fed NY have co-ordinated their efforts to provide technical assistance to the CBI to help in the reconstruction and development of the Iraqi economy.

A comprehensive initial training curriculum was defined and has been implemented between 2004 and early this year for staff of the CBI's Banking Supervision Department (BSD) and a series of joint workshops were delivered, covering all key banking supervisory issues.

The workshop in Bahrain is the first in a new series of training programmes. It will be focusing on the practical implementation in the field of banking supervision as well as reviewing the actual work and outputs produced by the Iraqi supervisors, in order to give them feedback and guidance on how to improve their scope and their quality, both for off-site and on-site supervision.

"This programme is part of a series of successful workshops, which will further contribute to the training and education process of the Iraqi people," said Mr Ismail.

Another workshop on banking supervision was conducted successfully at the BIBF in June 2004

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Financial will continue to pay the martyrs of the army and the police

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Baghdad / long
The Ministry of Finance has decided to continue the payment of pensions to the martyrs of the army and police and the same concessionaire currently in place until 2007 so that it can take appropriate actions to develop a new mechanism to unite pensions and privileges and incentives for distribution according to him will be announced at an appropriate time, He announced that an official source at the ministry added that the Cabinet had agreed to continue regardless pensions for the martyred army and police within the controls in place in the rest of government banks to serve this segment, which provided the pure blood for the sake of their homeland.

The distribution of residential land in Karbala and Amarah

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Karbala - Maysan / correspondent term
The Governor of Maysan, Adel Mhoder Radi told (long) 1000 on the distribution of a plot of land housing the families of the martyrs of an area of 200 meters.
The governor pointed out that the plots include families of the families that Adamha the former regime, especially those who do not have the land plots and this initiative comes for the purpose of rehabilitation of this segment. He pointed out that the allocation of plots of land affected will be the disabled, political prisoners and land distribution will be by birth and mentioned that held a large hall was built on youth Amarah during distribution bonds land was attended by a large number of officials in the province and the families of the martyrs.
On the other hand, the city of Karbala during begins early next month, the distribution of five thousand piece of land housing the families of the martyrs and political prisoners, immigrants and staff.
This came during a seminar held by the city of Karbala to maintain Mokhtari and members of local councils to explain the conditions of the land distribution to beneficiaries of these categories.
The head of the agency and the city of Karbala Abdel-Aal Yasiri in the symposium that the Council will distribute housing plots to citizens at the beginning of next month, according to benefits ordered by the prime minister. He added. The selected members of local councils will be responsible for the determination of these categories of non-staff of the Age to give the piece of land housing to eligible families and for the purpose of screening due to screening and other political prisoners. He pointed out that the share of families of the martyrs will be 40% of the land and will take precedence in a time of martyrdom, as well as the largest ever in detention in time of the former regime as well as the number of children if he was married, because there are good and bad among the applicants because of the limited spare residential land compared to the number of distribution of land covered by the decision.

The meeting in Baghdad, and the initiative to unify the Kurdistani directions

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Baghdad / Hisham became
Witness in political circles, the patient, to push the stalemate in the various actors, at a time when Baghdad is preparing to receive the Kurdistani pronounced President Massoud Barzani's Kurdistan region to narrow the gap in viewpoints between the adversaries.
In this context, member of the House of Representatives from the United Iraqi Alliance, Bahaa Al-Araji, the government intended to hold an extended meeting of the leaders of the political blocs and parliamentary participation in the political process in order to address the weak points in the political process and to find suitable solutions. He said in a statement addressed by the (short) there are some political forces that participated in the government did not provide the support and backing of the government, but stood by the emergence of the position and therefore anticipated meeting will discuss this issue in order to understand the intentions of these forces from the political process.
And on the initiative, which intends to head of the Kurdistan declared when attending an enlarged meeting of the political leaders said Al-Araji Kurds felt that the brotherhood of risk embroiled in Iraq and that danger is possible that affects Kurdistan also is the position of the sense of responsibility they move quickly to address the risks facing the political process e stressing that these moves will meet at the mouth of a project of national reconciliation, which the government announced.
For his part, the representative of the Iraqi Accord Front d. Iyad al-Samarra'i, an urgent need now for holding such a meeting, especially as we on the verge of a cabinet reshuffle. Therefore, the leaders of the political blocs must consult and dialogue to discuss these important issues.
It pointed to the member of the House from the Kurdistan Alliance Mahmoud Othman noted that the expanded meeting of the leaders of political forces will certainly create an atmosphere of pacification and reconciliation, particularly in light of accusations from one party to another, the dialogue and debate will end in one way or another, these reactions and statements tension between a strong for political. He added that the meeting in which it is hoped will be held shortly opportunity to review the papers signed by the leaders of the political blocs composed of the government such as the composition for the purpose of application and re-activated.
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Iraq's Ambassador to Japan to visit a company for auto industry

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Baghdad / long
The ambassador of Iraq in Japan Ghanim Alwan Department as one of the biggest car manufacturers in Japan.
The Ambassador met with company officials during the visit and discussed with them the cooperation between Iraq and the company especially in light of the distinguished relations between the two sides. Ambassador urged company officials to seriously consider returning to the Iraqi market because of the size and urge them to set up a factory for the company's products to serve Iraq and the whole region.
And through officials in the company of happiness visit and understanding importance of the Iraqi market promising arena and continuing communication among the Iraqi market and the company.
On the other hand, Japan intends to extend a loan to Iraq at a value of 20199 million yen for the development of engineering services in the Basra Refinery project and the rehabilitation fertilizer plant in Khor Al-Zubair.
This was announced by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan, said that, despite the withdrawal of his forces from Iraq, Japan will continue to support efforts to rebuild Iraq.
In the same context, he said the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Japanese Mr. Akira Amari after his meeting with Iraqi Oil Minister Dr. Hussein Shahrastani said that "Iraq is an indispensable partner for Japan because it is one of the sources of energy."
The ministers confirmed in a joint statement that the deepening of bilateral cooperation in these projects would help to strengthen relations between the two countries and to provide for the needs of Japan's energy.

Sorry if this is a repeat...it's good enough to read again!

Head of Stock Exchange Trustees demands for rapid activation of the investment law
Modernizing its performance despite the repercussions of the security situation
11/11/2006
Source: Translated by IRAQdirectory.com



The non- activation of the Iraqi new investment law in terms of forming its management, supervising body, naming its members and starting their work, caused a great disappointment among investors in the Iraqi Stock Exchange, especially that vigorous efforts being made to update its performance: installing new equipment and supplies of electronic trading and organizing Stock Exchange halls, in preparation for the start of adopting this mechanism, which is exercised for the first time in Iraq.
Head of Iraqi Stock Exchange Trustees, Talib Attabataba'i, hopes that some factors which he considers crucial for the continuation of investors in this vital sector will help to employ their investments for the best. On top of these factors: the stability of the security situation.

He explained that "the investor in the Iraqi bourse faces the challenges and difficulties, arising from the deterioration of the security situation, with high spirit reflecting his view that the current situation is exceptional, and therefore it is necessary to keep on maintaining the performance of the bourse. This is evident from the general indicators, which confirms that the development in performance remains a salient feature in the march of the market".

Attabataba'i took last September as an example, and said that the number of shares traded during that month was 4.212 billion shares; that is, 527 million shares a session. In comparison to the number of shares traded last August which hit 720, the number of shares traded this month increased by 54.9% from the number in August. As for the volume of transaction in September, it hit 8.422 billion dinars; that is, 1.052 billion dinars a session, and compared to the volume of trading in August of 4.622 billion dinars, the volume of transactions for this month increased by 82.2%. As for the number of contracts executed in September, they increased by 2928 contracts from the previous month at a rate of 29.4%. He added that last month indicators show stability in prices and volume of transactions, despite the continuing impact of the security situation on the overall economic activity.

Attabataba'i said that the banking sector is almost the main engine of the market. This sector achieved, during the same period adopted in comparison above, the largest relative importance in terms of the number of shares traded and the volume of transactions which was 74 per cent and 78.8% respectively of the total after circulating more than 3.117 billion stocks at a circulation volume of more than 6.551 billion dinars.
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The shares of Basra International Bank, which is preparing to hold its annual meeting in Arbil next Sunday, were the most circulated ones for this month since the ratio of the shares traded, was 34.1% and 26.8% respectively of the total, where more than 1.063 billion shares were circulated valued at more than 1.757 billion dinars in Basra Bank alone.

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South Oil donated 60 thousand dollars to Service

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South Oil donated 60 thousand dollars to the Department of Health. Basra municipality allocated 14 billion dinars for the establishment of public parks


Basra / long
Director of the municipality of Basra that the municipality allocated 14 billion dinars for the establishment of parks and recreational facilities in different parts of the city. held on an area of dunums (30).
The head of the municipal engineer Ghazi Ismail return, "cadres Engineering Directorate in Basra municipality had prepared a design for the parks and Khawrah Alsraji and several casino and a cinema summer, all held in a land area (30) without. "
The return to work "will include planting street Internal parks. The surfacing of streets and sidewalks, in addition to the establishment accessories service provides its services to the visitors of those places. "
He explained that the return of the municipality "will refer all such acts to companies and local contractors.
The source explained that the Council is authorized to maintain that the Council has decided to allocate one billion dinars for the advancement of the health sector and health institutions in the province. He pointed out that this amount came after the Board up to the reality of the health institutions in the province, stressing that the amount would be used to renovate the lobbies, halls medical and buy some medical equipment and reserve materials necessary for x-ray machines and sonar exist. The South Oil Company donated b (60) thousand dollars to the health of Basra, , said Kadhim Radhi, the official media in the Department of Health and added that the amount contributed was for the purchase of x-ray film and supplies needed for development of film, The official pointed out that the media, Undersecretary of the Minister of Oil, donated medical equipment and treatment to Basra General Hospital.

Karbala' governor calls for economic conference and capital investment
Karbala' governor calls for economic conference and capital investment
11/11/2006
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Aqeel Al-khaz'ali, governer of Karbala', said last Tuesday "We agreed with Karbala' Trade Chamber to hold an economic conference attended by economic efficiencies, traders and local authorities in an attempt to revive the economic status of the city being a religious and tourism center.

Al-Khaz'ali said, "We hope through the conference, which will be determine later, to invite traders to invest in Karbala' and exploit their capital for developing the city."

He pointed out "We must establish grounds for economic investment and trade in the province and help the private sector to arrange the economic situation and investment through openness to Iraqi, Arabs and foreigners investors, especially that the State is on the verge of applying the privatization after stabilizing the security and political situation."

Shakir Shuheib, Head of Karbala' Trade Chamber, said "that 12 thousand traders are, now, in Karbala' and they can invest their money to develop the economy in the province."

Shahib called for the allocation of buildings for the establishment of trade fairs for investors, changing Karbala' into an exhibit hall for being a tourist and religious city attractive for capital.
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Karbala' witnessed large constructional movement after the fall of the former regime on April 9, 2003; expanding the building outside the narrow city center. Markets, shops, buildings and hotels were constructed in the center of the city and its surroundings.
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