Thread: Archive News - Iraqi Dinar Think Tank - 08/09/09 - 09/01/10

Agriculture declares its readiness to activate the agreements signed with Egypt

revealed the Ministry of Agriculture Astaadadaha activating the agreements and memoranda of understanding signed last year with the Arab Republic of Egypt.

A source at the ministry told the independent press (Iba) said Saturday that there are contacts held by the ministry recently to implement what has been agreed upon with the Egyptian side after the agreements signed between the two countries to benefit from the expertise and technical support to enhance agricultural enterprise.

He added that these steps are part of the ministry's policy aimed at achieving agricultural integration between Iraq and the countries of the world according to a strategy based on the best use of available water resources and food security from national sources, increase production and promotion of joint ventures with the contribution of the private sector.

The source noted that memoranda of understanding with Egypt included developing the capacity of veterinary quarantines to raise their efficiency and the development of technical skills and capabilities of staff to deal with consignments of agricultural and livestock to protect people and livestock and plant resources and the environment from pests and diseases.

The source said Iraq has a viable key to make it one of the favorite destinations and promising directions for the application of international initiatives and partnerships, which means investing in the agricultural sector and to provide solutions to the problems of food production. He pointed out that the problems of Iraqi agriculture is still going on because of the difficult circumstances in recent years.

It should be noted that Iraq signed with Egypt last year a number of memoranda of understanding for investment in the agricultural field

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Ali Mayali: a proposal the United Nations is not in favor of Iraq and its unity

MP Ali Mayali from the Sadrist bloc, "The proposal submitted by the United Nations to resolve the crisis over Kirkuk, not in the interests and unity of Iraq", noting that he "complimented by some political forces at the expense of other political forces."

He Mayali told the independent press (Iba), "The UN role in Iraq was not the required level and that intervention is sometimes shy in stating that its proposal for resolving the crisis was a surprise."

The proposed adoption of the UN special register of voters in 2009 had been confronted with the Arabs and Turkmen reject as a false record and introduced the names of many.

He Mayali states that "the occupying forces a significant role in influencing the UN and its resolutions, which are in the final outcome in their favor noting he did not seek a clear interference in solving the problems of Iraq."

Is noteworthy that more statements by U.S. officials of the upcoming elections that he gathered in the case of postponement of the elections will extend the stay of U.S. forces in Iraq.

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Parliament reduces the importance of sending a UN envoy to investigate the deadly bombings on Wednesday

Played down the Iraqi Council of Representatives member of Izz al-Din state the importance of sending an envoy of the Secretary of the United Nations, who will hold talks in Iraq on Iraq's request for an international tribunal to investigate the deadly bombings on Wednesday.

The State said in a statement quoted by the uncertainty of the news that the parliament wants to be relevant for the decision detent in the country a serious question of investigation since the first day of the bombings, but has not fulfilled the purpose did not give any result.

The state that everyone with any mechanism put forward to expose those involved in Iraq, questioning the seriousness of the investigations conducted by the government, which had not been disclosed by the House so far, playing down the importance of sending a representative of the Secretary-General and the International Tribunal, in explanation of the reason is that the problem is not serious in Search and Moktefi doubt ballots, he said.

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Describes proposals regarding the parliamentary elections in Kirkuk without a constitutional

Description of the Kurdistan Alliance MP Abdul Bari Zebari proposals made during discussions of parliamentary blocs on Kirkuk's status in the election law as unconstitutional, saying the insistence of some of the division of parliamentary seats in the province on the basis of ethnic Balambahthat may lead to an impasse.

Said Zebari told a news briefing that there were three proposals submitted on Kirkuk, but they are all inconsistent with the Constitution. He pointed out that the first proposal is based on the delay Alatkhabat in Kirkuk for a year and then extend the deferral for six months, which is inconsistent with the Constitution deprives the people of Kirkuk, as the right to enjoy democracy just like the rest of Iraqis without justification, constitutional and legal.

The second proposal is based on dividing Kirkuk into four electoral districts distributed on the basis of race, Kurdish, Arab and Turkmen, and this proposal is inconsistent with the Constitution as well as stated in the court's response to the request of the Federal House of Representatives on the proposal.

Zebari said that the third proposal is based on the distribution of parliamentary seats on the basis of race also by five seats to Kurds, two Arabs and Turkmen, two to a proposal is unconstitutional because the Constitution provides that people have the power and decision, not the confiscation of the Parliament of this right.

He pointed out that if the vote in the House of Representatives on Kirkuk, the Federal Court has the right to veto the vote in the event of incompatibility with the Constitution.

According to Zebari, there is insistence by those who want to divide the parliamentary seats in Kirkuk on the basis of ethnic quotas without taking the opinion of the people, which is the author of the resolution under the Constitution, the talks likely to reach an impasse, in the event of a continuation of that.

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Kurdistan Alliance insists on Kirkuk are not excluded from the elections

Kurdistan Alliance bloc renewed its call for legislative elections in the country, timing of the decision, noting that failure to reach a compromise on the election law would refer to the 2005 law.

The MP said the Kurdistan Alliance Rauf Osman told a news conference Saturday that the Kurdistan Alliance stresses the holding of parliamentary elections in Iraq as scheduled, because this popular demand.

He said the coalition Alchristani insists that the Iraqi province of Kirkuk can not be excluded and can not be covered by special laws to the contrary demands of some Arab and Turkmen parties, which want to disrupt the political process in Iraq to sow divisions and discord, chaos and by affirming the exemption of Kirkuk, which is incompatible with the Constitution and the decision of the Federal Court.

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Oil Ministry will soon sign a contract with an international consortium to develop the Zubair

Advertise Ministry spokesman Assem Jihad, the oil that the oil ministry will sign Sunday initialed a contract with an international consortium led by Italy's ENI to develop the huge field Zubair in Basra.

The agency quoted the French press as saying that the jihad of the initial signing ceremony between the Ministry of Oil and the International Company will be held next Sunday in Baghdad, pointing out that the move came after the approval of a corporate group on the conditions in Iraq.

The Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani, said this month that international companies led by Eni, which accepted the ceiling put Iraq, U.S. dollars and 90 cents for each additional barrels of oil became eligible for assignment of contracts it.

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New oil well north of Amara

Engineers and technicians in Missan embarked on drilling a new oil well north the city of al-Amara, according to the Missan Oil Company information official on Friday.

“Works to drill the Nour-9 well, located five kilometers north of Amara, started today (Oct. 30) in association with the Iraqi Drilling Company as part of a new plan by the Missan Oil Company to increase production,” Ali Abbas Sadeq told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

He said the plan envisages the drilling of 10 new wells in the al-Halfaya field in 2009/2010.

“The company had finalized drilling works on the Halfaya-7 well, from which crude oil already flowed, contributing to an increase in oil production,” Sadeq added.

Missan is home to six productive oilfields – al-Bazrakan, Abu Gharb, al-Fakka, al-Halfaya and al-Amara in addition to Majnoon, an oilfield that belongs to the province in partnership with the South Oil Company. The province also houses five discovered non-productive fields – al-Huwayza, al-Rafie, Rafidain al-Sharqi, al-Dujaila and Kemit.

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Lawmaker: Purpose behind delaying Election Law passage

Lawmaker in the Iraqi Parliament from Kurdistan Alliance Bloc Abdel Bari Zebari, in a statement to PUKmedia Correspondent said that the Supreme Federal Court is the first who rejected a proposal by some Arab and Turkmen MPs to grant Kirkuk a special status in Election Law.

Zebari also said that the proposal is rejected by Kurdistan Alliance Bloc pointing out to this procrastination in passing the Election Law that will lead to delay the electoral process.

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Concern of some blocs reason to delay adoption of a law increasing the salaries of retirees

Revealed the Parliamentary Finance Committee Chairman Alaa al-Sadoun was scheduled to vote on the law visit pensions in order to reduce the gap between the retired before 2003 and beyond.

Saadoun said in a press statement on Saturday that her not to vote on this important law is because of lack of seriousness of some of the parliamentary blocs to attend parliament sessions which led to the disruption of the quorum and no vote.

It said Finance Committee Chairman that the law is disabled for nearly two weeks, was supposed to vote on it but it is disabled for the third time because of lack of quorum is achieved and the concern of some blocks its own interests the interests of retirees by her own people.

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Undersecretary of Ministry of Oil: oil export is in the Kurdistan region in Iraq's interest

Undersecretary of the Ministry of Oil Mutasim Akram said the Kurdistan region to export oil for the profit of Iraq.

Akram said in a press statement that "under article 112 of the Constitution, there must be coordination between the region and Baghdad in the export of oil.

Indicating that coordination is none so far, and the two sides have not done enough to solve the problem of oil contracts, however, the export of oil is in the Kurdistan region in Iraq's interest.

Oil revenues and the Kurdistan region, Akram explained that "the oil revenues deposited in the Fund dfi, which deals with the Ministry of Finance with the Oil Ministry, so the region must be coordinated for this purpose and is negotiating with the Council of Ministers and the Ministry of Finance said.

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