Thread: Archive News - Iraqi Dinar Think Tank - 22/06/2010 - 04/10/2010

Kuwait denounces Iraq statements

Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry announced that it has summoned Iraqi Ambassador to Kuwait Mohammed Bahr Al Uloum and handed him an official memorandum protesting Arab League’s Iraqi representative ambassador Qays Al Azzawi.

Al Azzawi had called for a re-demarcation of borders between Iraq and Kuwait.

Kuwait denounced Al Azzawi statements which it believes they contradict with the Security Council resolutions.

Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry requested from Iraq’s Foreign Ministry an official clarification thereof.

http://www.alsumaria.tv/en/Iraq-News...tatements.html

Iraq blacklists 146 company and contractors

The office of General Inspector in Iraq Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation said that 146 company and contractor were added to the black list for submitting falsified documents. Meanwhile, 4 employees were secluded for submitting fallacious studies documents. An official source in the General Inspector office said that it reassessed the official papers in order to categorize the contractors according to financial ability and the achieved works.

http://www.alsumaria.tv/en/Economics...ntractors.html

Germany companies plans to invest in Iraq worth 400 million dollars

The detection of the General Coordinator of the Group of German companies, on Wednesday, about the intention of his companies Investment large sums of money in three Iraqi provinces, noting that the security situation has improved in most Iraqi provinces encouraged the entry of a number of companies to Iraq.

Jeff said Halldorin told Kurdistan news (aka News) Today, during his attendance at a ceremony held in the province of Karbala to an appropriate day to maintain that the " roup of Companies (ICOM) German, specializing in the areas of energy and construction waste recycling and expressed interest in investing in three Iraqi provinces, Karbala, Babil, Najaf".

He explained that "a visit by now to Karbala is the second," pointing out that they "came at the invitation by the local government", noting that the "Group of Companies (ICOM) German invest amounts estimated (400 million dollars) to establish a plant for waste recycling And exploitation in the manufacture of chemical fertilizers in addition to generating electricity."

He Halldorin "The security situation in Iraq improved dramatically, particularly in the regions North, Central and South", expressing "the desire of German companies to enter the Iraqi market power", viewing it as "a promising market hungry for investment."

The chairman of the Karbala provincial council Muhammad Hamid al-Musawi was revealed in a previous statement (Akaniwz) to provide company Crane Tower with German power generation offerings in Karbala for the investment power over the dissemination of windmills and solar panels production rate to more than four hundred megawatt, But the Federal Ministry of Electricity and rejected the offer without giving reasons, he said.

http://www.aknews.com/ar/aknews/2/163916/

Next week's announcement of results of the investigation on the smuggling of oil through the territory of Kurdistan

Announced that the Iraqi government ended its mandate on Thursday, they approached to the regional government about the validity of reports that indicate that the region export oil to Iran.

A spokesman for the Iraqi government outgoing Ali al-Dabbagh told Kurdistan News (Akaniwz) that "a meeting soon between representatives of the Government of Kurdistan and the central government will be held to resolve outstanding differences regarding the export of oil."

"The Kurdistan Regional Government understanding of reality and it has not accepted the export of oil from it to any country from neighboring countries," noting he was "set up a committee by the Iraqi government to determine the veracity of that information and Mamoagaf KRG them to correct it."

Meanwhile an official source in the Iraqi government that the investigation committee on the information on which indicated that the smuggling of oil passes through the region of Kurdistan to Iran will give its final and final on Saturday.

Salam al-Quraishi told Kurdistan News (Akaniwz) that "the prime minister formed an investigative committee with regard to rumors that refer to the smuggling of oil passes through the region of Kurdistan to Iran and it will give its final report on Saturday."

He explained that "the committee formed by the security experts make clear in its report details an extensive file is important and controversial."

He added that "Iraq export oil through the first two means Ceyhan pipeline, and the second port of Basra and in any other way is a clear violation."

Quraishi said that "There is no doubt that the Kurdistan Regional Government issue, but denied the government had set up a paradise for the purpose of investigating the expanded smuggling operations, if any."

The press information indicated that the process of oil-smuggling across the region to Iran and sold at nominal prices without the knowledge of the Government of the Territory.

He was minister of natural resources in the Kurdistan regional government has denied earlier, the news about the region to export crude oil illegally to Iran, while describing provincial government spokesman that the news that does not baseless and far from reality.

The drastically made it clear to (Akaniwz) that "there is not any form, the smuggling of crude oil to Iran's Kurdistan province, and that what is being exported from oil derivatives is a surplus of the need for the citizens of the region, is exported by specialized companies after fulfilling duties Customs and obtain the requisite approvals in this regard."

http://www.aknews.com/ar/aknews/2/163975/

MP Salman al-Moussawi confirmed that the meetings of the Parliament will not be postponed again

A member of the House of Representatives of the Iraqi coalition, the rule of law Salman Mohsin al-Moussawi said that "the question of postponement of the parliamentary session came after a prior agreement between the heads of political blocs can not be held meetings of the Parliament only after a deal to resolve the three presidencies."

Moussawi said in a statement singled out by the reporter The "political blocs have yet to reach effective solutions for the three presidencies deal and the dialogues ongoing in this regard and we believe that the political blocs should take time to resolve their differences they do not want to enter the parliament and political differences still exist."

He pointed out that "we do not want the birth of the Government of lame Is not supported by Parliament and be like its predecessor, and so we resolve political differences by Bright in the formation of the government."

On the issue of choosing a candidate prime minister, said Moussawi, we are "the rule of law ahead with our candidate only Nuri al-Maliki and delays endured by the other party in the National Alliance because they did not submit a candidate and we proposed to the National Coalition to present their candidate with our candidate and there is a trade-off and is agreed upon will be the president The next government."

He explained that "to speak of the arrival of the National Alliance to a dead end, he is mistaken because there is no so-called in the political thing as a 'dead end' and we still hope for the best in the National Coalition and the coming days will witness agreements, stressing that the parliament sessions will not see a delay After these two weeks."

http://al-iraqnews.net/new/political-news/17099.html

Iraqi port is struggling to meet the requirements of major oil companies

facing Iraq's hopes of achieving economic prosperity through agreements worth billions of dollars to develop its vast oil reserves, a major obstacle is the lack of berthing space and bureaucratic vulnerable in the largest ports.

Neglect and lack of investment and red tape, corruption and bureaucracy are all factors that left the port of Umm Qasr near Basra's oil industry in the country is ill-equipped to deal with the requirements of major oil companies are trying to move tons of equipment to Iraq.

Ismail Ashour, owner of a pool Basra local freight port of Umm Qasr, while the ships were lined up in the Gulf and waited for the trucks in long lines to receive the shipments "for the mechanisms are missing .. minus mechanisms ports of Iraq. lacks ports Iraq any to him, even if they have a mechanism operates Iattloha to blackmail Trader Of Iraq."

Iraqi authorities seek to improve the country's port facilities including the upgrading of berths at Umm Qasr port and plans to create a huge new cost six billion dollars in the FAO in the far south of the country.

Complained that companies that import wheat, sugar and rice from the bribes the large, poor services and high costs of handling that make the Umm Qasr, one of the most expensive ports in the world for shipping companies.

Ashour said "the customs and shipping each one of them tariff. This tariff equivalent to several times the number of neighboring ports. Now that the Iraqi trader started playing on the transfer of goods through the ports of Iraq. began work on a Kuwaiti port of Bandar Abbas ... on ... on the way."

The agents say that the shipping fee to dock in any port in the world does not exceed one thousand dollars, but traders in Iraq are forced to pay eight thousand of the representative line.

Reliable and Iraq, which pass into decades of war, sanctions and economic decline to raise the production capacity of the quadrupling of oil out of the chaos launched by the US-led invasion in 2003.

But companies such as BP, Royal Dac, Shell Lucy. & C Chinese compete to raise the capacity of Iraq's oil finding it difficult to just drop the equipment you need on board the ships and transported from the port to some of the biggest projects to develop oil fields in the world.

And lies over Iraq's third largest oil reserves in the world have signed agreements to increase production capacity to 12 million barrels per day during the seven years in a major leap for a country struggling to provide the most basic needs of a population of 30 million people.

And prompted complaints from officials of the foreign oil companies of the capacity of the port and roads and crumbling infrastructure, dilapidated Iraqi oil officials to conclude an agreement with Kuwait to open the border crossing, particularly for oil companies.

Said Jafar Director-General of the Southern Oil Company owned by the Iraqi state "There's a volume of great work in ports. possibilities ports operator Iraqi .. potential and human resources, technical resources may not be sufficient to cover these things. in addition to the presence of some failures of human and these are present in all constituencies And not in Iraqi ports company only."

Iraq is not and does not have a narrow coastal strip between Iran and Kuwait and Umm Qasr port receives 80 percent of its imports. The Iraq's imports of grain for the food rations huge large part of this activity.

Jaafar stressed that the new border point will facilitate the flow of equipment to oil companies that won contracts to develop Iraq's oil fields after he complained of the capacity of the country's busy ports.

He said the ministries of oil, finance and Interior is considering the proposal but should also be approved by the Kuwaiti government.

"I put Another solution is to create a port another border in the North Rumaila. Coordination is now in the circles of the Iraqi state, either in the Oil Ministry or Ministry of Interior or Ministry of Finance. must be coordination between these bodies in order to open this port is also proposed to the minister. There Considerable understanding of this issue by the Ministry of Oil we need desperately. "

In the field of Rumaila largest oil field in Iraq prescribed product executives, engineers, workers digging in the process of large development to raise the daily production of one million barrels for about three-fold.

The project is the first contracted by Baghdad, and won by British Petroleum . my Lucy. that. Me. C . There are 300 workers already there for the oil services company Weatherford International, a company that won a contract worth 500 million dollars to drill new wells. It also starts the implementation of agreements for the development of ten other oil fields.

http://www.babnews.com/inp/view.asp?ID=24805

Zebari calls for Washington to help Iraq in the formation of this government

Foreign Minister of Iraq the United States to help Iraqi politicians to form a government, saying that the inability to achieve this political vacuum on the rise. Arrived in the Iraqi political parties have been deadlocked since inconclusive elections that took place on the seventh of March, due to disagreement over which parties should form a coalition government and holds the post of Prime Minister and President of the Republic.

The Iraqi parliamentary blocs agreed on Monday to delay the parliamentary session, which was scheduled to witness the election of a speaker and president of the Republic to the period of "up to" two weeks because of continued disagreement between the blocs on the identity of the cluster that have the right to form a government.

During a visit to Washington included talks with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari told reporters that the United States can help Iraqi politicians to get out of this impasse.

Zebari told reporters, "We believe that there is a role for more participation for the assistance, encouragement and facility is not to identify and select the next government, or the next leader, but really to play a greater role in this process."

He said: "Gone are the days when U.S. officials are conducting interviews with officials and ministers and so on. This is a process led by Iraqis, but we believe that they can provide a helping hand."

Zebari declined to state precisely what he wants to do the United States. Asked whether he had any suggestions in this matter, and he replied "Maybe I can not be disclosed to you about."

At a news conference with Zebari on Tuesday, Clinton urged the Iraqi politicians to give "the national interest to their personal interests" and said the Government of President Obama is prepared to do everything in its power to render a helping hand.
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Zebari said Iraqi politicians about the efforts to form a new government "really has been no tangible progress, and therefore the longer this process without the presence of government has increased the space more and more. Therefore, the time is so important."

http://www.babnews.com/inp/view.asp?ID=24831

Press release on the new interpretation of Article (76) of the Constitution

Baghdad, July 15, 2010

That the new interpretation of Article (76) of the Constitution submitted by Mr. Medhat al-Mahmoud President of the Supreme Judicial Council, in his press conference on 10.07.2010 and as a bloc meant that the largest number is (mass, which was formed within the parliament and not the winning list) is a serious turning point in the process of The Iraqi judiciary that is affected, especially in the recent pressures and fickle political to some bodies and clearly, has moved Mr. Medhat al-Mahmoud in the interpretation of the latter on the right, and the philosophy of logic, when he contributed in the interpretation mentioned cancel the meaning of victory in the elections, and violated all norms and principles that the practice of the Practices of democracy in the world, and if it was that Mr. Mahmoud marketing of the new interpretation in order to satisfy this side or that he has committed a dangerous precedent set by the Iraqi judiciary and put in front of the historic responsibility of : -

1. to contribute to the complexity of the political landscape and increase the negative effects resulting from the delay in forming a government.

2. override the will of voters who cast ballots in order to reach a government that represents their aspirations are real, and lift them out of the painful reality of their lives because of instability and lack of services.

3 . Convert Iraqi judiciary authority of the senses that people are an influential factor in the establishment of justice and rights into a tool for the implementation of the specific points of wills against the others.

And Iraq, as recorded profound astonishment that this interpretation is far from fair, it recalls that the President of the Supreme Judicial Council that he was better by the consolidation of justice and end the controversy on this issue as the proceedings of writing the Constitution, which confirms that the intended mass larger number is the mass of winning elections as a legal basis on the basis of The principle of the wisdom of the legislation and intent of the legislature, rather than put into the Federal Court interpretation of crawfish in the previous report in which the 25/3/2010 that it was intended (the winner of the cluster or mass gathering of two or more in the House of Representatives), although our reservation was.

And stresses that it is holding Iraqi electoral and constitutional entitlement, they will not concede any price, in deference to the will of voters and the will of our people who are looking to consolidate the constitutional rights and not to circumvent it.

Iraqi bloc

Spokesman Iraqi Ms. Mason Damluji

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http://nahrain.com/d/news/10/07/100715bc.htm

Hadi al-Amiri Radio Tigris : the National Coalition refused to postpone the parliamentary session

A member of the National Coalition Hadi Al-Ameri coalition refused to postpone the parliamentary session two weeks, considering it a violation of the Constitution.

He called al-Amiri told Radio Tigris parliamentarians to play the role required and to accelerate the formation of the government, indicating rejection of the National Coalition to postpone the parliamentary session

http://www.radiodijla.com/cgi-bin/ne...?id=2010-07-15

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The arrival of the first passenger plane to Saudi Arabia Basra after 20 years of interruption

Received the Basra International Airport, Thursday, the first passenger plane from Saudi Arabia after a hiatus of nearly twenty years, as the Director of the airport.

Said Abdul Amir Mattar told (Voices of Iraq) that the Basra International Airport received this morning (Thursday) was the first passenger aircraft Saudi Arabia after the reopening of the Basra Air Arabia, which had ceased in 1991.

He added that a reception was held on this occasion was attended by a number of local officials in Basra and will be organized flights between Basra International Airport and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on a regular basis.

http://radionawa.com/ar/NewsDetailN....054&LinkID=151