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Kurdish Alliance rejects more than a dozen proposals on the election law

MP from the Sadrist bloc, Fawzi Akram Tarzi said more than a dozen proposals were submitted on the electoral law of the various political blocs have been rejected by the Kurdistan Alliance bloc.

Terzi said during a press statement that the latest proposal submitted by the Mission to the United Nations provides for the holding of elections according to the current record, noting that they had accepted this proposal in return for compensation Arab bloc and Kurdish seat and one of the national compensation list.

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Adnan al-Dulaimi: Kirkuk has become a node in front of the election law

Said the President of the People of Iraq, Adnan al-Dulaimi, the crux of Kirkuk continued to stand in any solution to resolve the differences be put on the Law of the legislative elections controversial.

Dulaimi said in a press statement that the bloc in the parliament had yet to reach a compromise solution satisfactory to all, on the law of parliamentary elections, adding that a node of Kirkuk continued to stand in the way of a solution arises.

The al-Dulaimi, the ideas and put forward several proposals for discussion, but did not get any consensus on it, pointing out that among the masses who want to postpone the elections in general, and others suggested to postpone the elections in Kirkuk, only for one year and then extend the deferral for six months.

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MP Mahmoud Othman reject the U.S. intervention in resolving the issue of Kirkuk

Rejected Kurdistan Alliance MP Mahmoud Othman, the U.S. intervention in resolving the issue of Kirkuk, saying efforts to senior American commanders and the means of pressure to push the Kurds to accept solutions that included a disadvantage to their entitlements.

Osman expressed in a press statement has expressed regret to pressure from the U.S. side on the Kurds in order to pass the issue of Kirkuk as he put it.

As un-neutral and therefore coercive pressure to disregard their demands and entitlements known about the issue of Kirkuk, which is unacceptable for us, does not contribute to resolving the crisis, but compounded, he said

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Independent lawmaker: Stop the draft election provides the justification for the Americans to impose their views

Warned the independent MP, Khairallah visual project that stop the elections or boycott would give an excuse for the Americans to impose their views.

He explained in a press statement released on Tuesday that no one can be opposed to the elections or to cancel or ignore it in everyone's interest.

He added that the parliamentary blocs, if not agree with the view of the interests of all U.S. forces will intervene to impose its view and then cancel all the logos submitted that glorify the sovereignty and independence, as he put it.

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Attorney Taha Shield: political parties want to keep the current electoral law to ensure victory

MP from the coalition Taha shield that the issue of Kirkuk, sandwiched in the electoral law for the purpose of passing through closed-list system Almqublpoo postponed parliamentary elections as a whole.

The shield in press statements that there are blocks seeking to return to the old electoral law amendment that does not guarantee an election victory, he said.

The shield on the belief that the mediation of Foreign Affairs, which seeks to push for adoption of the electoral law could complicate the political scene.

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House of Representatives convened to discuss the approval of its election law

Council will hold its House of Representatives on Tuesday to discuss the approval of election law, which has encountered many obstacles.

And on the topic that spoke Kurdistan Alliance MP Mohsen al-Sadoun said in a statement singled out by the Radio Tigris.

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Ali Keywords: claim to interrogate al-Shahristani, and beyond political goals

MP said the Islamic Dawa party Keywords The political objectives behind the House of Representatives claimants questioned and Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani, describing the ministry's performance as unacceptable.

Keywords added in a press statement that there is no need to question the oil minister Hussain al-Shahristani, because the ministry's performance is acceptable and commensurate with the difficulties experienced by Iraq.

He noted that it is possible to clarify some things for the Congress, but it is not up to questioning, likely to be behind the claimants questioned the minister political goals.

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Rizgar Ali rejects U.S Embassy, U.N Envoy proposal

In an exclusive statement to Kurdsat S.atellite channel, Head of Kirkuk Provincial Council Rizgar Ali rejected a proposal by the U.S Embassy and the U.N Envoy in Iraq, to give a compensatory seat to each of the Arab and Turkmen representatives in Kirkuk in the Iraqi Parliament in upcoming parliamentary elections.

Ali also said that this proposal violates the Iraqi Permanent Constitution and the Iraqi laws describing the proposal as an attempt to satisfy some Arab and Turkmen sides.

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Sources: al-Maliki and the British Ambassador request that Parliament not to question al-Shahristani

Agency has learned (Orr) news that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki sent a message under the title (Confidential and Urgent) asking the House not to question the oil minister, Hussain al-Shahristani, justified his demand that the legitimate parliamentary procedure hurt investment. This comes at a time when leaked information indicated that the British ambassador in Baghdad, who asked the President of Dr. House. Iyad al-Samarrai not to question the oil minister Hussain al-Shahristani.

The Network (Faiha) that "the British ambassador Christopher Prentice asked Ayad al-Samarrai of procrastination on the issue of questioning the minister al-Shahristani, and thus cancel the interrogation threatened him that if the insistence on the grill and oil minister Hussain al-Shahristani, Britain will detect and open all files of corruption that involve members of Parliament which belong to the Iraqi Accordance Front and the Islamic Party and other members of the current parliament."

And criticized the head of the parliamentary oil and gas, Ali Hussein, as stated in the Blue Book of Prime Minister directed to the Chairmanship of the House of Representatives, which asserted that the question the oil minister Hussein al-Shahristani, but gives the message that is not encouraging for companies wishing to enter the Iraqi oil market and respond with the message of the terrorists to disrupt progress in Iraq.

Blue said that this book is a direct charge to the Commission on oil and gas because of its demand to question oil minister, noting that the Committee Odv anarchists this is unacceptable and we condemn.

He said: "It was the Committee's request is seven months at a time in which he called the Prime Minister himself to fight corruption and we let this section to maintain the oil wealth that the concerned minister has failed in the administration of his ministry in the form that meets the aspirations of the Iraqi people, noting that the mistakes of its registered many carried out by al-Shahristani, and all of this is documented with evidence and documents ".

Blue and stresses that "such a book means that the Prime Minister himself j p Rql the supervisory role of the House and got delayed in the questioning of the minister specified on 11-11 - 2009, it will prove the existence of Atalp LLC and an agreement between the presidency and the prime minister's block question the oil minister and thus would be a step towards the promotion of corrupt practices."

The House of Representatives has demanded through a decision of the Commission on oil and gas Jaber Khalifa Jaber several times to call and Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani told parliament to answer questions from MPs on the contracts signed by the Oil Ministry with foreign companies, which raised around a lot of uncertainty and financial corruption and the theft of oil through the pipeline to keep counters without having shattered by British forces during the occupation of the export of oil platforms, but government agencies were pushing for non-appearance of al-Shahristani, Minister of Parliament. "She (Network Faiha) that" the brother of al-Shahristani, Oil Minister Reza is the godfather of oil deals Views with several internal and external. "

To the official spokesman for the Oil Ministry, Asim Jihad signed on Monday initialed by an international consortium led by Italian energy giant (ENI) comprises two (Occidental) and American (Koriagaz) South Korea to develop oil field Zubayr in southern Iraq.

Jihad said in a press statement that "the contract for six years running, and signed by representatives of the companies mentioned contract with the Department of Building and Licensing Department on Monday, will enter into force upon approval by the Cabinet during the next few days." "This is what is expected, where he would catch it as a declaration of signing the contract in question and the establishment of a formal ceremony attended by all the way and the media."

He pointed out that "the combined companies Eni and reviewed with them during the last period price set by the Ministry of Oil during the first licensing round is two dollars per barrel more than the ceiling set for the field in question and approved it, which opens the door to enter the world's largest businesses, which has an excellent record" in this area

The spokesman for the Ministry of Oil, the belief that "the investment climate enjoyed by the country will encourage many other companies" to enter this area. The rate of production of Zubair oil field near the city of Basra, 227 thousand barrels per day at present, for exploratory studies indicate that reserve strategic than 4 billion barrels With regard to the oil field of Nasiriyah, which had been looking forward (ENI) to obtain a contract to invest, "said Jihad" I think (ENI) only access to the development of field-Zubayr, which is larger than the first, which is negotiating at present several firms that are led by the company (Nippon), where broke off negotiations with the way large and will begin over the next few days negotiations on this matter supplementary after the arrival of representatives of those companies to Baghdad, where he is expected to arrive, with a final agreement on the field mentioned in the very near future."

On the declaration of the second oil licensing round Jihad noted that "it is expected to be on schedule on atheist and twelfth month of December next in Baghdad, according to the previously announced unless there is an emergency leads to delayed," noting that "will be an important step in the way of oil investment in the country".

On the roof of the Iraqi oil production at the moment, "said Jihad said that" production in the country exceeded two million and a half million barrels per day at a time when oil exports exceeded the threshold of two million barrels "per day.

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Iraq signed the biggest oil contracts since the U.S. invasion in 2003

Iraq signed the first agreement a major oil since the U.S. invasion in 2003 with the oil company British major (me. B) and (CNN.. Me. C) Chinese Tuesday as grabbed two companies contract to develop Rumaila one of the largest oil fields in the world.
The contract to develop Rumaila, which runs for twenty years, is the first of several decades is expected to be entered into by Iraq in the weeks and months ahead as he seeks to rise from the center atheist ten to the third-largest oil-exporting countries in the world.

And Rumaila, with an estimated oil reserves at 17 billion barrels is the cornerstone of the Iraqi oil sector, pumping about half the total production of 2.5 million barrels a day.

Iraq has the third largest reserves of crude oil in the world, but it failed to increase oil production dramatically after decades of war, sanctions and underinvestment.

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