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Araji: We have reached a settlement with the Hashemite about not canceling of the election law again

Committee chairman unveiled the parliament's legal Bahaa al-Araji to reach a settlement with the Vice President Tariq

Hashemi include the lack of veto to the election law again. The agency said Araji that summed up this statement gave no details of that settlement.

Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi aside the election law in the eighteenth of this month and was returned to the House of Representatives introduced amendments, approved last Monday.

The amendment that the House of Representatives consists of a number of seats by one seat per one hundred thousand people, according to statistics from the Ministry of Commerce of the provinces in 2005 to be added to population growth rate (2.8) for each province annually.

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Director of the Southern Oil Company: thirty drilling oil wells in the Basra Governate

Director of the Southern Oil Company Jafar Hjam The thirty oil wells have been drilled in Basra province within the program that work by the company to increase production.

Hjam said that drilling of oil wells that have been started by the beginning of this year succeeded in drilling wells in thirty different parts of Basra, as part of an agreed program and is designed in the beginning of the year for the drilling of new wells to meet the natural decline in production levels and upgrading production to levels above.

He added that the drilling plan being implemented by the Iraqi Drilling Company as well as other companies and under the supervision of the competent authorities in the Southern Oil Company.

Indicating that the size of the total energy of the Southern Oil Company is currently one million seven hundred and eighty thousand barrels per day part goes for domestic consumption and the other part being exported through the oil port of Basra and the port deep with an average daily export and 500 million barrels.

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Faraj al-Haidari: If the failure of Parliament only option is to adopt a law in 2005

Commission President Electoral Faraj al-Haidari that UNHCR does not yet have an election law is working.

He called al-Haidari in a press statement published today, has the Presidency of the Republic to resolve the election law, either by passing it or bring it back to parliament.

Stressing that in the event of failure of the House of Representatives to approve a law this election, the Commission would be required to return to the previous electoral law of 2005, which supports closed list.

On the issue of displaced and the mechanism adopted by the Commission towards them, Haidari said that UNHCR has pre-law mechanisms and formed and conducted contacts with Iraqi embassies around the world to work on this subject, but those countries did not respond negatively to positively Commission.

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Jubouri NOAA reveals the existence of a conflict of wills on the election law

The spokesman for the Iraqi Accordance Front Salim al of a conflict of wills on the election law from the Presidency and access to the political blocs.

He Jubouri told Radio NOAA Hashemi to set aside the election law is not necessarily the opinion of the Accordance Front.

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Nujaifi NOAA reveals the existence of attempts to amend certain paragraphs of the election law

A member House of Representatives Osama Nujaifi the existence of attempts to amend certain paragraphs of the election law with instructions issued by the Electoral Commission for elections.

The Nujaifi told Radio NOAA that these instructions will be issued in the event to re-seat carved out of some provinces, this will solve the problem, noting that if the Commission does not exceed this point, there will be a tendency to overturn the law again.

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U.S. and international proposals to end the crisis in the Iraqi elections
Sunni and Shiite efforts to convince non-Hashimi veto election law

Sources in the presidency should be parliamentary blocs and political figures in conjunction with the proposals seek to U.S. officials and of the United Nations, to convince the Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi not to veto the amended election law again, while demanding the Electoral Commission for elections and the Ministry of Commerce by providing them with records in 2005 in preparation for scrutiny and approval in the event Adoption of the recent amendment of the law.

According to sources within the Council Presidency parliamentary blocs and parties to the Presidency of the Republic is seeking to persuade al-Hashemi not overturn the law again. The sources said that President Jalal Talabani and Vice President Adel Abdul-Mahdi, as well to the parliamentary blocs, aiming towards this persuasion.

However, sources from within the Office Hashemi stressed that the latter would not sign a law which no unfairness to any Iraqi, whether at home or abroad.

Abdel-Ilah Kazem spokesman for the Information Office of Hashemi said the U.S. ambassador, Christopher Hill, and officials from the United Nations Mission in Iraq were among those who visited Hashemi's office Tuesday as proposed suggestions on the mechanism and the mobilization of support to resolve the crisis.

He explained that the proposals to resolve the crisis involves a mechanism to meet the demands of the Vice-President for more representation for the Iraqis abroad, including many of the year in the next parliament, which would use this mechanism to avoid a change to the electoral law.

Kazim added, "We still say that this law is more abusive than the first law, but we also say if there was a fair and mechanisms are real, and not a formal application to ensure a fair vote for the Iraqis of the outside and ensure non-deduction of any seat from any province will accept this law and this mechanism, otherwise the objection coming again. " He said representatives of the Shiite forces visited the Vice-President in support of the proposed mechanism.

This was confirmed by MP Hadi al-Amiri, the Badr Organization of the Supreme Council, said that there is serious attempt at do not break the law again by Tareq al-Hashemi said, adding that "there are ongoing contacts with Al-Hashimi, and now we are going to search for what is assured Vice-President and discuss the issue of seats and distribution mechanism As authoritatively stated in the electoral law based on the 2005 census In the province of Kirkuk, with the addition of (2.8) each year."

He Ameri "We are not looking for compromises, but are looking for a way out legal and technical guarantees the right of all and Aibouks the right one and this is the compromise solution that satisfies everyone," he said. "I visited Dr. Tareq al-Hashemi held a meeting with him for over an hour and a half and found that he understands that for all and to find a collaborator solution to the issue will not be broken. but we are now very close to get out of this problem and I think it will not invalidate the law as I think that the elections Will be held on time Specific and reflect good. "

Omar al-Mashhadani, a spokesman for Speaker Iyad al-Samarrai said that "al-Samarrai called the Presidency Council to study the consequences of any veto, veto, because the second needs to be about 60 percent of the votes of Parliament, three-fifths of the members of parliament, for approval." He called on "anyone who wants to invalidate the law to pay attention to this matter and make sure that there is consensus to achieve the rate that allows the manipulation of veto." It was considered that the first veto of Hashemi was "a strategic mistake because it cost some provinces, the loss of a large number of seats, and al-Hashemi not to do as he did last time."

"The ball is now not at home. The House of Representatives ended it and sent it to the Presidency Council. The ball is in the court of the presidency. Hashemi and take responsibility for his decision. Reversal of the decision for him to looking for a way out of this impasse."

Despite the recognition that al-Mashhadani, a constitutional right of veto to any member of the Presidential Council, but noted that "there is a sharp division in the parliament, can not achieve a rate of 60 percent to accept or reject the veto, if it does happen, what compels us to return to the Electoral Act 2005 with all its shortcomings, or to postpone the elections, which draws us into a constitutional vacuum lose all legitimacy of state institutions. "

And the exchange of Iraqi politicians, especially the Sunnis, the charges on the reasons for truncate some seats from Sunni-dominated provinces such as Nineveh province, some carrying Hashemi responsibility because the former set aside the First Amendment of the election law, and warned that any appeal will bring another election law in 2005.

It seems that some of the Sunni Arabs against victimizing Hashemi, who was a political star began Iovl before returning to the spotlight use of the veto, said Rashid Azzawi, deputy of the Islamic Party, which had belonged to al-Hashemi, colleagues tried to discourage the vice presidential veto it has enjoyed, and added, "Al Hashimi made a mistake and he should be courageous and recognize this error and apologize for, especially in the provinces which has been damaged."

In this context the members of the Board of Commissioners and a team of international assistance in the Election Commission meeting with officials of the Ministry of Commerce, which expressed their readiness to cooperate fully in any circumstances in any detail in which UNHCR may need to be answered and statistics. With new Qasim Aboudi, head of the electoral administration in the Office of the elections saying that the Commission can not conduct the elections under the time limit allocated to the days preceding the elections of 60 days.

He said that the UNHCR had so far received no electoral law does not specify a date by presidential decree. He pointed out that the mechanism of action will change to delay the law, as well as the dates assumed and which have not received UNHCR has so far been issued by presidential decree.

The Presidency of the Republic declared in earlier times that the elections will be on the eighteenth of the month of January next year.

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Coalition of the willing and change threatening to boycott the elections and demanding Hashemi take responsibility for

Threatened to change the will and the coalition led by Mahmoud Aldham boycott of the upcoming Iraqi parliamentary elections in protest at what he disappears voices of displaced, refugees, and the injustice done to a certain component from the governorates of the confiscation of their voices and to silence their throats, and add the voices of small lists to the lists of what was known major (denominator votes), stressing that he would boycott the elections unless justice is done and the required restitution.

The coalition has demanded in a statement issued by the Vice-President Tariq Hashemi, the irreversibility of the new amendment to set aside the election law, warning that those who had deceived him in the Constitution to pass Ikhaddaoh and Iraqis once again, and called on all patriotic forces in the province.

The statement offered a vision of what it says is an objective basis for the holding of justice and fairness, include the issuance of bill of parties, conduct a census which would cover all provinces in the country, and genuine national reconciliation does not exclude anyone from the Iraqi people, and to repeal and amendment of the articles and paragraphs of the Constitution does not serve the national interest.

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Iraq and Kuwait share a border oilfields!!

Kuwaiti official announced that Iraq and Kuwait hold «technical negotiations» in order to reach an agreement to exploit oil fields located on the common border between the two countries, which formed the subject of dispute between them previously.

The agent said the Oil Ministry for Technical Affairs Ali Bin Sabit said "substantive negotiations underway between Kuwait and Iraq in order to reach an agreement that brings the best use of the common fields between the two parties."

"The consultation is under way for the selection mechanism to ensure rights of the parties in a fair and verify their interests," as quoted by the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA).

He said he "is currently examining a number of tests applicable in such cases for guidance and access to the best solutions by mutual agreement."

However, the Kuwaiti official did not give any indication on the progress of negotiations and their level. Baghdad had recently announced a meeting of the joint technical end of November, without any further details.

And several oil fields located at the border between the two countries, notably Iraq's huge Rumaila, which stretches into northern Kuwait, where there is a field called Ratqa. There are also other fields in Al-Zubayr and Safwan. The two countries in 2005 to form a joint technical committee to resolve the problem of the exploitation of oil wells in the border.

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Heritage Oil: Drilling starts on Miran West-2 appraisal well

Heritage Oil PLC, an independent upstream exploration and production company, said Thursday it has started drilling the Miran West-2 appraisal well in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, adding the Miran West structure could contain up to four billion barrels of oil in place as it's one of the larger structures in Kurdistan, with an areal extent of 200 square kilometres.

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Qatar to call for GCC regional bank

Abdulrahman Al Attiyah, secretary-general of the Gulf Cooperation Council, has said that Qatar will propose that GCC countries create a regional development bank at next month's heads of state summit in Kuwait, Reuters has reported. The proposal is aimed at 'establishing a development bank for the GCC, similar to the European development bank, which will undoubtedly contribute to enhancing the GCC joint work', he said.

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