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

Originally Posted by fsndirector

He has also spent many years working with and learning from Paul Wolfowitz and is considered to be a fianancial genius by many.

Isn't that a nice connection. One of the architects of the Iraq War who's now President of the World Bank and his student is the governor of the CBI...Hmmmmmmmmm

Article 140 committee receives $15 million monthly


The article was endorsed completely and presented to the Council of Ministers.

Kaka Rash, head of Kirkuk's Article 140 Committee office, told the media that after a committee meeting on December 6, the article was endorsed completely and presented to the Council of Ministers. He also pointed out that during the meeting, the budgets for the Kirkuk, Khanaqeen, and Shangar offices were approved. Rash indicated that one of the members of the committee from Turkoman group proposed a suggestion, but was refused by the committee.
Source: The Kurdish Globe

garage being built in Sharazor


The Kurdistan Investment Corporation will oversee construction of the Sharazor terminal project in Suleimaniyah.

It is scheduled for completion in 36 months, at a cost of over $9 million, local media reported last week. Al-Sard Company and Farhad Zanmy, both from western Iraq, will carry out the project.
Upon visiting the project site, Suleimaniyah municipality president Hakim Qadir said that the terminal will have a modern design and will be equipped with state-of- the-art necessities. The Suleimaniyah municipality provided nine hectares of land for the new terminal. Qadir added that the new garage should accommodate all the vehicles that owned lines in the old garage.

Source: The Kurdish Globe




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Posted on Sunday, December 10 @ 08:14:46 PST by admin

Progress in 4 Bridges registered In Baghdad


Engineering and technical staff achieved advanced proportion in the 4 bridges project which binds the capital districts with others.

A source at the project said that, Talibia bridge in Sha'ab district amounted 12% , Dabash bridge in Khadimya district amounted 75 %, while bridges Baya'a ( Shariqa & Shabab) amounted 80% , pointing that the bridges would witnessing a normal traffic jam.
On the other hand, the source declared that designing department lately achieved the design for 4 other bridges which would carry out through the coming period the first would be in Kahtan square in Yarmook district costing $ 26,5 M, the second would be in Mathaf square in A'lawi district costing $ 26,5 M, the third would be in Khalani square costing $ 21 M, while the fourth would be in Kholafa'a square costing $ 31m.

Source: Al Sabaah




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Posted on Sunday, December 10 @ 08:12:18 PST by admin

activities continue


Activities of Baghdad international Fair for products of ministry of industry continued for the fourth day, following its opening by vice president Adel Abdul Mahdi.

An authorized source in the general company of Iraqi fairs informed al-Sabah that first week allocated to visits of officials and businessmen, while rest of days would be for citizens.Sources added that the fair would last for a month in which products of the ministry of industry would be sold directly. These products include petrochemicals, chemicals, furniture, foodstuffs, clothes, carpets, and vegetable oils
Source: Al Sabaah




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Posted on Sunday, December 10 @ 07:59:36 PST by admin

Partial, need to login for the rest of the story, sorry!

CBI denies fixing US dollar price rate
Baghdad (NINA) - The Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) has denied rumors of its interfering to fix the US Dollar exchange rate to be 1,000 Iraqi Dinars. The head of researches department in the CBI, Mudhir Mohammed Saleh said Sunday, "The issue of controlling US Dollar price rate against Iraqi Dinar,

Translated version of http://www.ninanews.com/

International Herald Tribune - 2 hours ago

Turks told not to meddle in oil-rich Iraqi city
The Associated PressPublished: December 10, 2006

MANAMA, Bahrain: Turkey renewed its frustration on Sunday with the Kurdish bid for domination of Iraq's oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk, which lies on Iraq's volatile ethnic fault lines between Arabs and Kurds.

Mehmet Vecdi Gonul, Turkey's defense minister, said Kirkuk's future status carries major implications for Turkey and Iraq's other neighbors no matter who controls the city and its surrounding oilfields. Gonul asked the Iraqi Shiite and Kurdish-led government not to impose an "unrealistic" future on Kirkuk.

But Iraq's Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, an ethnic Kurd, warned Turkey not to meddle in "our Kirkuk."

"You speak of Kirkuk as if it is a Turkish city," Zebari said told Gonul. "These are matters for Iraq to decide."

Turkey wants to prevent the city and its giant pool of underground oil from becoming an economic engine that could fund a bid by Iraqi Kurds for independence, a move would threaten to draw Turkey, with its 15 million Kurds, into a regional war.

"We hope the natural resources of Kirkuk would be used by all groups in Iraq without discrimination," Gonul told the International Institute of Strategic Studies conference in the Bahraini capital.

Kirkuk is an ancient city once part of the Ottoman Empire, with a large minority of ethnic Turks as well as various Christians, Shiite and Sunni Arabs, Armenians and Assyrians.

Since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, Kurdish forces in northern Iraq have rallied to reverse what they claim to be an Arabization policy of Saddam Hussein, which purged Kirkuk and other oil-rich areas of Kurds and replaced them with Arab settlers.

Thousands of Kurdish settlers from northern Iraq have flooded back into Kirkuk, colonizing the city's desert outskirts. Many believe the influx is a bid to change the city's ethnic balance ahead of a 2007 census and referendum that aims to decide whether Kirkuk will be annexed to Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region.

The grim Iraq Study Group assessment issued in Washington last week described Kirkuk as a "powder keg" and recommends the referendum be delayed.

Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt warned those in favoring in the partition of Iraq that they were treading on dangerous ground.

"Every partition is written in blood," Bildt told the security conference in Bahrain. "The carnage we see today is only the beginning of the bloodshed we will see if there is a partition."

Gonul agreed, saying Iraq's fragmentation "will be the beginning of a disaster that will engulf the whole region."

The International Institute of Strategic Studies conference has brought together some 200 security representatives from more than 20 countries, including Iran, Iraq and the United States.

WRD implements Irrigating, service projects in Nassiriya


The Water Resources Department in Thai Qar province has implemented several irrigating projects within Accelerating Construction Project, 2nd phase.

The projects include the implementation of 17 bridges for cars and another ones for pedestrians, the total cost of the project is two ID billions and 140 millions.The Head of the Engineers Isma'el Qassim Ahmed, the Director of the Water Resources in Nassiriya confirmed that the work is continuing in the irrigating projects, cars' and pedestrians' bridges in several regions in the province with total cost exceed ID 5 billions.
Source: Al Sabaah




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Sulaimani bans seven companies


Some companies did not comply with the procedures and conditions of the contracts.

Sulaimani municipality decided to ban seven local and foreign companies as a result of insufficient work performance, local media reported last week.
"Sulaimani municipality has executed many projects so far, particularly services projects such as water projects, roads, etc., through tenders from the private sectors and ministries of the former Sulaimani administration. Some companies did not comply with the procedures and conditions of the contracts, especially the period completion. W tried to help them, but still they did not complete their projects. Therefore, we have blacklisted seven local and foreign companies. These companies shall not execute any project for one year in Sulaimani. At that time, they must ask for consent to complete a project," Hakim Qadir, chairman of Sulaimani municipality, said.

"If they believe that they were treated unfairly they can sue us in the court," he added.

Source: The Kurdish Globe

Originally Posted by CharmedPiper

The prime minister-Press release

(Voice of Iraq) - 12-10-2006
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The name of God the Merciful
The Republic of Iraq

Prime minister
Media Bureau
Sunday, 10 / 12 / 2006

Press statement

The Prime Minister invited Mr. Nuri Kamal al-Maliki to effective international presence in the International Conference on Iraq, stressing that the issues to be discussed at the Conference will Tekatasserali economic side, but will extend to aspects of security, politics and international relations and the issue of national reconciliation, This came during the meeting of the ambassadors of the sovereignty of participating in the International Covenant with Iraq.

He stressed the importance of activating the sovereignty principle of national reconciliation and integration between the central aspects of the political, economic, security and Iraq's desire to create a relationship based on common interests.

And Mr. Prime Minister : Iraq suffers from the obligations imposed on them by the policies of the previous regime, including the debt which was imposed on him, and hoped that the conference is a practical step on the road to helping Iraq and revive its economy.

He suggested sovereignty to the participating States to the International consider that the solution to the debt problem in order that Iraq will be able to achieve a decent standard of services, indicating that the debt burden on the Iraqi economy now stands at $ 75 billion.

The price of Mr. Prime Minister efforts the Japanese government for its initiative in launching the first batch of very soft loan worth $ 1.6 billion for the development of the oil and electricity.

He pledged the support of the ambassadors of the participating Iraq and fulfill its commitments to the advancement of the Iraqi economy and improving the infrastructure and developing the standard of services and contribute to the national reconciliation efforts.

The meeting was attended by ambassadors of the United States, Britain, Japan, Italy, Turkey and Germany and representatives from the United Nations, the World Bank and the European Union, and attended by the Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih and the ministers of planning, finance and State for Foreign Affairs

What day is the Compact for Iraq supposed to be OFFICIALLY signed? I can't find any current info.