Thread: Archive News - Iraqi Dinar Think Tank - 01/10/09 - 27/03/10

Deputy Karim Yacoubi: a fierce attack led by foreign agendas to challenge the legitimacy and fairness of the elections

MP Karim al-Yacoubi said "There is a fierce attack on Iraq led some foreign agendas aim to challenge the legitimacy and integrity and transparency of the elections in general and to the Electoral Commission in particular."

Yacoubi said in a statement to correspondent In Najaf, said that "the upcoming electoral process is the process determine the fate of the Iraqi people and the future of the political process in the country." Adding, "We believe that the party that will have appeal process, distortion is the Electoral Commission, so call to strengthen the Commission, supports and directs the right direction and call upon the Commission to exercise to act with all means available, which provides high transparency and integrity of the elections."

Iraqi National Coalition candidate for the upcoming elections, said: "must be the Electoral Commission's response to these arrows and such appeals through accurate information and effective measures to reduce fraud," adding, "We call upon the Commission to adhere to the electoral law, which emphasizes that the candidate has the right to access to counting of votes obtained from the UNHCR office in the province nominated them, this requires the need for counting and initial screening of the votes obtained by each candidate in the Office of High Commissioner in the province and this procedure must take within the limited possibilities and I mean go back and hand count for the purpose of comparison with the results announced centrally in Baghdad, and this procedure would be a harsh response for anyone who wants to challenge the transparency and impartiality of the electoral process."

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South Korean STX signs deal with Iraq

Local media said on Thursday that STX South Korean Heavy Industry Company said it signed a preliminary deal for a $3.2 billion petrochemical project in Iraq. Unlisted STX Heavy, part of STX Group led by STX Corp, said in a statement it would build a petrochemical complex and related facilities in Basrah. However, officials in the company told Reuters that the company did not sign the memorandum of understanding yet.

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Iraq talks with Shell prolonged, continue-official

Talks between Iraq and Royal Dutch Shell on a natural gas deal near the southern oil hub of Basra are taking longer than expected but still ongoing, a senior Iraqi oil official said on Friday.

"The heads of agreement will be extended and the project will be presented to the next government," the official told Reuters on condition of anonymity.

The Iraqi government has been working to finalize the joint venture between its South Gas Company, Shell and Mitsubishi. The deal would capture huge amounts of gas for domestic use or export, which is currently wasted by being flared at the oil fields.

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US returns 1,000 historical artifacts stolen from Iraq

Half of Iraqi National Museum's 15,000 items remain lost following US-led invasion.

WASHINGTON - US officials have returned more than 1,000 archaeological and historical items stolen from Iraq after the 2003 US-led invasion, Iraq's ambassador here said Thursday.

Six pieces ranging from an ancient Sumerian stone tablet to an AK-47 rifle bearing Saddam's image were handed over to Iraq at an embassy ceremony on Thursday.

"As Iraqis, we remain steadfast in our effort to return each and every one of these cultural treasures to their rightful home," Ambassador Samir Sumaida'ie said at the ceremony.

Baghdad's envoy said that the Iraqi National Museum lost some 15,000 items due to looting after the collapse of law and order due to the US-led invasion. Half of the items have since been found and returned "due to the diligence of our allies," Sumaida'ie said.

Items returned included an Iraqi coin from circa 250 AD, during the Roman occupation, abandoned at a Houston museum by a man who said he was a US contractor in Iraq.

They also included neo-Assyrian gold ear rings from the 8th century BC that were stolen from the Baghdad Museum and were about to be auctioned by Christie's in New York, and a Babylonian clay foundation cone with an inscription from 2100 BC, intercepted at a Chicago airport.

A US soldier brought the AK-47 home as a war trophy, and the item was on display at Fort Lewis, in the northwestern state of Washington. Saddam often personally handed out weapons like this one to Baath party loyalists.

The ambassador thanked the US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE), which he said "has devoted considerable time and effort in identifying, investigating, seizing and ultimately returning Iraqi cultural property, art and antiquities."

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Washington confirms that Iran is meddling in Iraqi elections

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was "no doubt" that Iran and other countries trying to influence the Iraqi elections scheduled on the seventh of next month.

Clinton said during a meeting of the Foreign Affairs Committee U.S. House of Representatives Thursday that they are more concerned and focused on Iran because of its ties with many of the Iraqis who have sought in the past to deportation or asylum to Iran."

She said the United States is trying to ensure the participation of Iraqi voters in the upcoming parliamentary elections "to undermine Iranian influence, adding that Washington was also trying to" ensure that Iraqi refugees in Syria, Jordan and other countries can vote."

The Clinton hauled before a committee of the Congress on Thursday to defend the request of the U.S. State Department to allocate 8 ر $ 52 billion budget in fiscal year 2011.

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Ali al-Dabbagh announced the apprehension of all cases of fraud in the elections

Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said all worried about cases of fraud in the next parliamentary elections, but not as much concern.

And Aaudhav Dabbagh in a statement to Radio NOAA it would not affect any election fraud, since the Commission has mechanisms to reduce fraud and there is also monitored by the competing political blocs.

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Chalabi rejects UN intervention in the affairs of the Iraqi elections

Search Iraqi National Congress leader Ahmad Chalabi, with the delegation of the European Union on the Iraqi elections the current political conditions in Iraq and the ongoing preparations for the electoral process to be set up in the seventh month of March next year.

The two sides discussed and as stated on the independent press agency Friday question are excluded from the election, where Chalabi said that what happened is the application of the provisions of the Constitution, which banned the Baath Saddam or promoted by political action and that all that happened was illegal and unconstitutional.

Chalabi expressed during the meeting concern the role played by some members of the UN representation in the Electoral Commission for elections, denouncing what he is doing by the Director of the UN Office of Iraq, which take from the Jordanian capital Amman-based as well as what the Assistant Director of the United Nations in Baghdad, Ad Melkert was seen as a blatant interference in like the Iraqi elections, which is rejected by the Iraqis.

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Non-payment of dues traders will negatively impact on the supply of card items for 2010

Head of the Federation of Iraqi Chambers of Commerce, on Friday, said that non-payment of the Ministry of Trade receivables traders suppliers of the items of the ration card, will reflect negatively on the supply of the card for 2010.

The peasant commune told (Voices of Iraq) that "non-payment of the Ministry of Trade receivables traders suppliers of the items of the ration card in 2009, will reflect negatively on the overall supply of ration cards for 2010," indicating that "the ration card items were actually missing in the past months, because of this subject."

He Kammouna traders "have a full supply of goods to the stores and the Ministry of Commerce in 2009, is a fundamentalist and matching each specification, but the ministry did not pay their dues for almost eight months," referring to traders "lose the profits they Itomlunha of the contracts they signed with the ministry, because there are many benefits of banking would result from the merchants because of the delay."

The Commune traders "began Eetmlmlon delay their entitlements, which does not happen even in the simple business practice between individuals," according to the commune in which he stated that the Baghdad Chamber of Commerce "I asked the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers may request the Ministry of solving the issue of trade receivables traders" He expressed his hope that "The Ministry shall monitor this matter."

The Trade Bank of Iraq and loaned the Ministry of Commerce in late 2009, one billion dollars for the payment of traders and settle their debts, and to ensure the ration card items, in addition to payment of Alclb and wheat-backed, with an estimated debt traders alone in an amount exceeding one billion dollars.

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A conference in Cairo to discuss the elections and the future of Iraq next Monday

The center organizes the Arab Democratic for Strategic Studies and the political and economic development in Cairo next Monday a conference on elections and the future of Iraq in the region.

Dr. Mustafa Al Alawi professor of political science at Cairo University and head of the center, said the conference will discuss over two days, papers to identify the political map of the upcoming Iraqi election, and partisan forces and various sectarian and political norms and programs and the nature of electoral alliances, and the expected outcome of this election change or development in the form of the future Iraqi government, and in the nature of the relationship between the ****utive and legislative branches and the future of regional entities in Iraq.

The upper part of the conference papers will be used to study the positions of regional powers, especially Iran and Turkey, these elections, as well as the immediate neighbors such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Jordan and Syria, in addition to the Egyptian position.

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Allawi: ready to hold a televised debate with Chalabi

Iyad Allawi said at a news conference in reply to a question on the request of Ahmad Chalabi, his debate: "I am ready to debate, but before that Inazerni Chalabi has to take evidence on the de-Saleh al-Awadi, Dhafir al-Ani. And accountability and justice lost its reality there is no accountability, no justice".

Allawi launched an attack on the leaders of the exclusion list by the Justice and Accountability, which said: "The Iraqi List, a united and determined to fight the election battle to defeat the forces of evil are trying to abuse the Iraqis, through the removal of national figures to participate in the political process and by writing the Constitution. We're going to crush the political sectarianism and to build Iraq of all sects, except the terrorists.

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