Thread: Archive News - Iraqi Dinar Think Tank - 06/10/2010 - 24/01/2011

Abdel Mahdi stresses the importance of central bank independence

Stressed Vice President Adel Abdul-Mahdi, the need to keep the Iraqi Central Bank retains its independence and not allow for the impact on fiscal policy or financial prejudice to its origins.

A statement issued by the Office of the Vice President of the Republic, received the morning copy of it,: "The Iraqi economy is still economical Rieia depends mainly on oil imports, and should work hard to diversify sources of national income through encouraging businessmen and investors and provide investment opportunities in front of them."

Abdul-Mahdi, and stressed "the need to keep the Iraqi Central Bank retains its independence and not allow for the impact on fiscal policy or financial prejudice to its origins."

The statement said: "The Vice President of the Republic sponsored a panel discussion yesterday on the prospects for the development of the Iraqi economy and promote private sector investments, and attended the meeting Shabibi Governor of Central Bank of Iraq, and Sabir al-Issawi Mayor of Baghdad, and advisor to the Central Bank of the appearance of Mohammed Saleh, Ibrahim al-Baghdadi, President of the Iraqi Business Council, and a large number of businessmen, investors and managers of private banks in Iraq."

Abdul-Mahdi said, "The agricultural and industrial sectors in the country Asabhma neglect and vandalism and does not constitute Mentugema only a small percentage of the national production-General calls for the development of scientific and well thought out plans to increase the pace of production in those sectors vital and open investment."

He explained: "There is a lack of strategies that regulate the banking sector in Iraq, and economic process without a banking system successful in futility," emphasizing "the importance of supporting the private sector and providing the requirements of promotion, as well as encourage private banks as playing a key role in building the country's economy".

The statement said: "Some speakers hinted at the talk that the Iraqi constitution to the stage after the fall of the former regime, said the adoption of policy and market economy, but the reality of the situation indicates that the government still controls all the joints of the economy and the economic process in the country." And said vice-president Republic: "that those speakers stressed the need to restore life to the private sector and civil banks and the importance of activating the investment law, and that there is an urgent need for government decisions that do justice to the private sector and encourage its economics as well as support the policy of the market."

The statement noted that "some of the speakers noted the need to build an industrial city a modern and sophisticated on the outskirts of the capital, including housing for workers and the plant to generate electricity and transportation network actors as well as factories and plants that contain them, to suit the stage to provide access to industry promotion next Iraqi."

And: "The businessmen have come to need to have advisors from the private sector accredited institutions and ministries concerned the economy, industry and development in the country in order so they can be to take advantage of views and experiences, representing the side of the field of the process the country's economic contribution in advancing development and economic advancement foreseen in the country.

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Iraqi forces cordon off several Baghdad quarters in search of unidentified assassins

Iraqi security forces have intensified their presence in Baghdad and cordoned off several quarters in search of assassination groups targeting military and police officers.

The unidentified assassins have spread terror in Iraqi security ranks with a high-ranking Interior Ministry official admitting that “large numbers of Iraqi officers” have been killed recently.

Iraqi government officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, say more than 2,000 army officers have been killed the past few months.

Hussein Kamal, Interior Ministry Undersecretary, said “we have placed some of Baghdad’s neighborhoods under our firm control in order to put a halt to the assassinations.”

He said 17 new “armed cells” have entered Baghdad recently with the specific aim of “assassinating army officers.”

Asked how many officers have been killed so far, Kamal said: “large numbers have been killed among them some of the most senior and most efficient officers.”

He said he himself narrowly escaped an assassination attempt in Baghdad.

Kamal also leads a special intelligence unit and said, “240 personnel from his unit among them his assistant and senior officers have been assassinated.”

He said the weapons used in the killing of army personnel, particularly officers, were those in use during the rule of former leader Saddam Hussein.

However, he said silencer guns were pouring into Iraq from “a foreign state” which he declined to name.

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Insecurity surges as unidentified assassins spread terror in Iraqi security ranks

The last two years saw an upsurge in insecurity due to an unprecedented hike in assassinations whether in Baghdad or other major Iraqi cities.

These assassinations, which have so far claimed more than 2,000 lives among the country’s security forces, are carried out in two major ways.

In the first, the assassins rely on silencer guns which are either imported or produced locally. In the second, the assassins rely on stick explosive charges most of which are imported.

The problem with these assassinations is two-fold. First, the assassins select their victims very carefully and make sure they have a role to play in the country’s armed forces and security ranks. Second, they have turned into an unstoppable contagious disease.

The paradox is that no one can say exactly who is behind these assassinations and why they are being carried out at this particular junction.

There are no Wikileaks reports to reveal the secrets behind these terrifying killings. But one can say with certainty that both U.S. and Iraqi government claims of having succeeded to reinstate relative calm in the country are false and hollow.

Blaming them on al-Qaeda branch in Iraq, the so-called the Iraqi Islamic state, is the worst conspiracy theory-hatched scenario one can imagine. If the assassinations are truly of al-Qaeda making, then we the Iraqis and the whole world with us should lament not only our future but the future of our children.

Such an allegation, if true, it will mean that al-Qaeda is unbeatable and that the U.S. has cut and run in Iraq and that our shaky government will soon be overthrown with the terror group’s operatives taking over.

Who other than the world’s mightiest intelligence agencies is capable of carrying out such highly coordinated and well-targeted assassinations? How come that the mighty U.S. armed forces could not put an end to them?

The ongoing assassinations leave more than on question mark about whatever the U.S. and Iraqi government officials say in regard to conditions in Iraq.

They tell every Iraqi person that nothing is secure in Iraq. If government army and security officers can be killed in droves every day, what about ordinary Iraqis? If those supposed to protect Iraqis cannot protect themselves, one can imagine the hell the Iraqi people have been in since the 2003-U.S. invasion.

Large-scale assassinations carried out with such intensity and precision are not the work of an individual or even a group firing at random or planting a bomb on the side of a road.

These assassinations are the product of a complex intelligence effort determined to liquidate a class of Iraqis for purely strategic benefits.

This year will turn into a fertile ground for the agencies carrying out their assassinations. There is good reason to believe that 2011 will see further intensification by these assassinations targeting and selecting more important individuals in government ranks.

2011 will become one of the most difficult years for the Iraqi street since the 2003-U.S. invasion.

http://www.azzaman.com/english/index...01-14\kurd.htm

Talabani says Iraq to boost relations with rest of the world

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said that Iraq will boost relations with all countries in the world in the coming stage, asserting the importance of strengthening relations with the United States.

This came during his meeting with the visiting U.S. Vice President Joe Bide.

“Talabani received Biden and his companying delegation in Baghdad on Thursday, with whom he discussed ways of bolstering bilateral relations in various domains for the good of the two peoples’ interests,” said a presidential statement received by Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

“The president explained to the American official the security developments in the country, expressing hope that the Iraqi army would be ready soon to defend the nation,” it added.

Talabani told Biden “you are one of our best friends ... we count on you.”

“And when you leave our country, I know our relations will remain,” Talabani said.

The US has said it will pull its remaining 50,000 troops out of the country by the end of the year.

Biden reiterated Washington’s congratulations to Talabani on his reelection and the formation of the new Iraqi government.

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Qusay al-Suhail: There is a great improvisation in the process of file management Financial in Iraq because of political interference

Search First Deputy Chairman of the House of Representatives Qusay al-Suhail with a delegation from the World Bank on Thursday, a number of financial matters that would provide a development in the area of managing financial budgets and ways to exchange allocations.

The delegation stated that there is a big waste of public money through the increase of the proportion of operating expenses at the expense of investment expenditure, which will reflect negatively on economic growth in Iraq.

For his part, pointed to the existence of al-Suhail great improvisation in the process of file management Financial in Iraq because of political interference is unwelcome required to provide advanced studies and set up this particular developmental workshops for the purpose of upgrading the administrators of this file is important.

The First Deputy Chairman of the Board of Deputies and a plan to activate and stimulate the work of the research department of the Council of Representatives in order to play its part in supplying them with information and research and development plans to the competent committees.

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Arab Economic Unity Council: Iraq's economy recovered

Ambassador Mohammed spring for the attention of Arab Economic Unity Council to invest in our sister State of Iraq, And that he will head a delegation from the Council to visit Iraq during the month of March prior to the upcoming Arab summit by, where he called to organize an exhibition of Arab products in Iraq to increase trade exchange between Arab countries, ranging from inter-Arab trade between 10-12% only.

While the asserted Dr. Loai goodness of God that the Iraqi economic institutions recovered and began to engage in activity again, where he was in Iraq now is investment opportunities in the fields of agricultural, industrial, tourist and service and also in the housing sector and construction.

Called Dr. Hoda Yassa, President of the Federation of Arab businessmen, entrepreneurs, investors and Arab investors to establish joint investment projects to participate in the reconstruction of Iraq, stressing the need for future cooperation between the Union of Entrepreneurs and Investment Authority, Iraq for further investment in Iraq.

Said Jesse, during the visit of Dr. Loai goodness of God, chairman of the investment, Iraqi Ambassador Mohammed Al-spring, the Secretary-General of the Arab Economic Unity Council of the Union of entrepreneurs, she discussed with Dr. Muharram crescent, Chairman of Investors Association Tenth of Ramadan, the possibility of establishing projects in Iraq such as station to fill the gas plant for the manufacture of gas cylinders, which confirmed its readiness to immediately start the implementation of these projects, noting the importance of establishing a commercial center in Iraq to serve as a permanent exhibition to display products and marketing aimed at strengthening trade cooperation between Iraq and Arab countries.

http://www.theiraqiobservatory.com/s...-14-07-31.html

Talabani: Al-Sistani told us the government's ability to achieve its objectives

Said President Jalal Talabani, on Friday, he had told the religious authority of Ali Sistani, the new government's ability to achieve its objectives, noting that the latter called for the fight against corruption in government institutions and the protection of all components of the Iraqi people without exception.

Talabani said during a press conference held in the city of Najaf after meeting Sistani Ali al-Sistani and the presence of "Alsumaria News", "the latter emphasized the need for the new government for the good of Iraq and provide essential services to the Iraqi people," noting that "inform al-Sistani that the new government is serious in achieve the goals required of them."

Talabani added that "Sistani emphasized its condemnation of attacks against Christians, the work aims to draw a distinction between the components of the Iraqi people and to discredit him among States, as well as what he suffered Kurds Alvelln during the period of the previous regime after being accused by association because they were Shiite and Kurdish nationalism," citing Sistani as saying that "Iraqis are all brothers and can not accept injustice to any one."

Talabani added that "the religious authority stressed the need to provide protection to all components of the Iraqi people and the adoption of integrity and combating corruption in government institutions," asserting that "the value of Sistani's instructions about the need to work to serve the Iraqi people."

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Ministry of Transport and its potential exposure to oil companies operating in Iraq

Ministry of Transport offered potential for international oil companies for the transfer of equipment for the development of Iraqi oil fields by means of air transport, maritime and land transport.

The Jordanian Minister of Transport in a speech to the Conference of the Ministry under the slogan Afdth (transport, oil tributaries to Ainillan for Economic Development) to review the capabilities and Kablyatea to the success of licensing rounds contracts signed by the Oil Ministry with foreign oil companies.

He pointed out that the ministry would put all of their equipment and their potential in all sectors of transport to the international oil companies in the transfer of equipment for the development of Iraqi oil fields, especially after the great development that took place in the possibilities of the ministry, which encouraged the holding of this Conference.

The conference was attended by Vice President Adel Abdul-Mahdi / oil minister, Abdul Karim and coffee, and former transport minister, Amer Abdul-Jabbar, and the President of the advisers in the prime minister Thamer Ghadhban and the number of agents Ministries and Integrity Commission and representatives of foreign embassies and oil companies operating in Iraq.

For his part, Vice President of the Republic on the importance of full coordination and cooperation between the ministries of transport and oil that is complementary to one another, and thanked the Ministry of Transport on the successes achieved and is committed to the success of the work of the Ministry of Oil and companies contracting with them.

With thanks and Minister of Oil and Ministry of Transportation on this initiative and hoped to do all the ministries and institutions related to the example of the Ministry of Transport to provide support and assistance for the success of these important projects.

The president of the advisers to the Ministry of Transport of the most prominent Iraqi ministries, which have made progress in the projects financed by Japanese loan and this means that there is a major development which will contribute significantly in raising their submissions in better services to the oil companies.

And offered the Ministry of Transport capabilities to international oil companies for the transfer of equipment for the development of Iraqi oil fields by means of air transport, sea and land, especially since the Iraqi ports have been able to accommodate all the large vessels, having been recovered all Aguarq affecting the ports of Umm Qasr and Zubair, and access to the depths design of the ports of entry Mmaysmah large ships to the ports of Iraq.

Were offered transport mechanisms integrated sea and land, as well as the possibility of ministry in the provision of helicopters and planes vip, has raised the ministry of transport services at affordable prices is very much less than is found in the transport market.

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Delayed resolution of the security ministries allow the Kurds to demand a share and embarrass Maliki

Considered the Iraqi List led by Iyad Allawi, to postpone naming the security ministries open area in front of some blocks of the claim and embarrassing Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told the Kurds, while indicated the Kurdistan Alliance bloc that its request to take over the Ministry of National Security, "reminding me and not conclusive", he criticized the National Alliance, a file entry ministries security in the political quota system.

The adviser says the Iraqi List, Hani Ashour in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "the late Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in the resolution of file security ministries and non-advertised with the first section to form a government clearing the way for other blocks Kalthalv Kurdistan and the Supreme Council of the claim in one of those ministries."

Ashour and describes the claim of the Kurdistan Alliance to take over the Ministry of National Security to "snap", saying it "embarrass the Maliki and force him to give the Kurds a security position to satisfy them."

Ashour and describes the requirement of the Kurdistan Alliance to "legitimate" for the time being because of the delay announcement of candidates to run the ministry," noting that "the government adopted the principle of political consensus in the distribution of key ministries, including security."

For his part, asserts that the Kurdistan Alliance, "a demand the Kurds is not obligatory, but demand for reminding me on the right of all nationalities and sects in the defense of Iraq by taking to one of the security ministries."

According to a member of the Kurdistan Alliance Muhsin al-Sadoun said in an interview for "Alsumaria News", to "demand the Kurds is not a firm nor its implementation requires the prime minister is as much a requirement designed to give priority to recall the involvement of all ethnic groups and communities to defend the country by receiving one of the security ministries."

Shows Sadoun that "the ministries of interior, defense and national security on the table in front of the political blocs of winning the election to submit the names of their candidates, so the requirement for the Kurdistan Alliance to receive and Department of Homeland Security will not cause any complication or delay in resolving the file of such ministries as some politicians."

Sadoun shows that "impedes the resolution of the security ministries is to file the required specifications of candidates, like the need to agree all the blocks it and Biography and independence of its own party and Ketloip These specifications are difficult to find a quick impact," he said.

On the other hand, criticizes the member from the Iraqi National Alliance try to enter the file security ministries in the circle of consensus and the political quota system by requiring the existing Iraqi Ministry of Defense and claim the Kurdistan Alliance bloc, Ministry of National Security.

Said Khaled al-Asadi said in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "a claim the Iraqi List and the Kurdistan Alliance bloc ministries of certain security contract and difficult to resolve the file," stressing "the need to leave the selection of characters appropriate to take over these ministries to the Prime Minister and can then blocks accept or reject candidates".

And calls on al-Asadi to "deal with the file of the security ministries positively more to be able to head the government from presenting candidates efficiently able to manage the security file in Iraq, well away from the partisanship," asserting that "al-Maliki adheres to the principle of removal of the security ministries by the Department of political quota system will be considered in the files of candidates provided to be independent. "

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Communications and Media Authority confirms that allowing the sale of shares of companies without their mobile

Announced the media and communications that may not be selling shares of a mobile telecommunications company operating in Iraq to another company without her knowledge and consent.

A member of the Board of Trustees of the Commission on the jurist, in a statement to the Agency's news that a French company was willing to buy a company Cork mobile operating in northern Iraq, where the Authority has a claim the purchasing company to examine the contract between the Authority and Company (Cork) to allow them to operate in Iraq and the legal requirements and penal contained contract.

And Awsi no objection from the sale of the shares or sell them all to another company and there is no any restrictions or prohibitions on the sale, noting that this item is contained within the license contract, the deal struck with the companies during the previous years

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