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

International companies will seek investment opportunities in Iraq to compensate for losses

said a member of the Economic Committee in the House of Representatives is full of Baldawi "The decline of the global financial crisis does not mean the disappearance of its implications for companies in the world. Predicting that such companies seek to capitalize on the opportunities available in Iraq to compensate for losses over more than a year".

She Baldawi told the independent press (Iba) today, Sunday, "The recent amendments to the Iraqi investment law is an important step to persuade the companies in the custody of the share of the work of investment in sectors and fields in addition to Amatranh ministries of the opportunities and contracts during the recent years."

And invited "the official authorities and the provinces to make efforts to provide the appropriate climate for the work of investors and to serve as predicate to those responsible for the investment file. Confirmed that no amendments to the law alone is not enough without the cooperation of those responsible."

She Baldawi "that the Iraqi economy can not remain dependent on oil, where there will be a great potential to diversify the economic base, or looking for new financial resources to consolidate resources, oil or ease the burden of the public treasury and increase the contribution of the private sector."

Reports indicate that the recent global losses resulting from the financial crisis, high-risk widened in a number of countries, exceeding the accounts of those pessimists, and this Masrah by the President of the U.S. Federal Bank "from Berne" a few days ago.

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There is U.S. pressure on the Iraqi parliament to approve election law

A member of the House of Representatives of the United Iraqi Alliance, Mohammed Mahdi al-Bayati said Iraq He has a sovereign independent parliament does not accept any pressure from the paper The United States.

Al-Bayati said in a telephone conversation with (News Agency, Iraqi Information/conscious) that the statement U.S. Secretary of State Clinton is a paper put pressure on parliament and the Iraqi government by U.S. forces to approve the election law, noting that failure to approve a law Does not mean to cancel the final, but explaining the meaning of her statement is in the event of postponement of elections, not a failure to approve the law."

He said we have Law and must make some adjustments to it Will see future meetings scheduled to vote on amendments to this law."

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No one can predict the outcome of today's meeting

Presidency of the Council of Representatives plans on Sunday to resolve the election law by a vote in the parliamentary session which is scheduled to be held on Sunday.

The independent MP in the House of Representatives in a statement attributed Shabandar paid by the Radio Tigris that nobody can predict the results reached by the meeting.

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Parliament for the Tigris Radio: Today's meeting will discuss many of the laws and proposals

Declared a member of the parliamentary legal committee Anwar Ahmed that today's meeting will discuss many of the laws and proposals and the most important of the country's federal budget for 2010.

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No one can predict the outcome of today's meeting

Presidency of the Council of Representatives plans on Sunday to resolve the election law by a vote in the parliamentary session which is scheduled to be held on Sunday.

The independent MP in the House of Representatives in a statement attributed Shabandar paid by the Radio Tigris that nobody can predict the results reached by the meeting.

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I predict thay don't come to a conclusion on the election law!

Parliament approved all the amendments in the Investment Law

Independent MP in the House and Wael Abdul Latif said the House had approved all the amendments in the Investment Law and submitted to the Presidential Council for approval, He explained in a special statement for Radio Tigris.

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Sadr rejects closed list and the postponement of parliamentary elections

Sadr expressed deep concern about the delay in adoption of amendments to the law on parliamentary elections, believing that the matter is not free from external interference.

He called Salah al-Obeidi, spokesman for the current to accelerate the adoption of the amendments before the entry into force of the time, so as not to Iztr Parliament to return to the old law, which is rejected and popular religious and political containment of a closed-list, he said.

Obeidi and expressed its support to make Kirkuk a special status, saying: This will silence all of the claims of fraud in voter registration there, and noting that his movement is not with the postponement of the election as unconstitutional.

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The United Nations presented a new proposal regarding the election law

Called a member of the parliamentary legal committee appearance wise citizens to not download the House of Representatives passage of a law for obstructing the elections, saying that the Council is not the reason to disable approval.

Hakim said in a press statement that the House is now disabled because of the Kirkuk issue, because everyone Egypt's position, and everyone is threatening to withdraw to the past by the Council in the process of voting on proposals submitted.

And al-Hakim was concerned that the House of Representatives is currently discussing a new proposal by the United Nations on the elections, and stipulates that elections take place on time and according to the new register of voters to allocate one seat to another component of the Turkmen and the Arab component of the compensatory seats.

He explained that the proposal means that the share of Kirkuk in the coming legislative elections to be members exercise the functions of office for a year, after new elections, after a thorough review of the voter register according to the census of 1957, pointing out that discussions are ongoing and may lead to the formation of a committee of the Board and the Independent Electoral Commission and the United Nations to formulate such a proposal if they all agreed.

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Iraqi Parliament OK's law to raise pensions

The Iraqi Parliament on Sunday passed a law to increase pensions for those who retired before 2008. “Pensions for those who retired before 2008 will be raised by 70,000 Iraqi dinars per month,” a member of the parliamentary financial committee, Sami al-Atroushi, said today during a press conference attended by Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

The Parliament has voted unanimously for the law, Atroushi explained, calling on the Iraqi presidential office to ratify the law.

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Three options for political blocs on elections law- MP

An Iraqi lawmaker on Sunday said that three options are available for political blocs negotiating the long-disputed elections law, adding a consensus has not been reached on the matter thus far.

The first option is to vote on all proposals to decide which one is to proceed to implementation, Mohammad Salman from the Dialogue Council told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

The second is to return to the old law and the closed list system, Salman noted.

The third option, according to Salman, is to postpone the elections for at least one legislative term to provide an opportunity for further negotiations.

“The third option is the most likely route,” Salman said, arguing that it is better to put off elections than to have corrupt elections.

Throughout the past week, the Iraqi Parliament has failed to pass the elections bill due to differences over the status of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk in the law on parliamentary elections, scheduled to be held on January 16, 2010.

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