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Statistics criticizing the Iraqi Central Bank to publish inflation indicators

criticized the Central Bureau of Statistics and Information Technology Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation, Central Bank of Iraq to publish monthly inflation indicators.

The head of the device, Dr. Mahdi Keywords in a statement to the reporter Agency (news) today said the central bank issuing the monthly inflation indicators may override the right of the Central Bureau of Statistics on the grounds that the issuance of inflation indicators are a function of device statistics.

Keywords and questioned the validity of some indicators of inflation, which is issued by the Central Bank, noting that inflation figures come in sometimes inaccurate view of the lack of dependence on the indicators adopted by the Bureau of Statistics in its work.
The Central Bank of Iraq issued a monthly bulletin on the level of inflation that exists in Iraq, the issue during the same month the special bulletin of the Central Office for Statistics and prices for food and the level of inflation in Iraq.

The appearance of the central bank adviser Saleh has announced a decline in annual inflation in Iraq, after controlling the levels of liquidity and reduce inflationary expectations, pointing at the same time said that Iraq needs, imports from Turkey in Euro.

He attributed the appearance of low inflation, monetary policy of the Central Bank, which succeeded in gaining control of the levels of liquidity and reduce inflationary expectations.

Saleh said in a press statement that Iraq is important and imported from Turkey and a strong euro, which will cause the dollar to decline against the cheap and low prices of products entering Iraq.

And Saleh said the signs are good for low inflation, which fell to the level of one decimal after it was tied.

He said the central bank works to keep the mattress to one decimal place in order to achieve stability in the introduction to this development and this makes it convenient to put the investor the absence of price fluctuations in the exchange rate and the general level of prices.

And on why he would not lend the government $ 5 billion shortfall in the budget of 2011, said Saleh refused to Central Bank of the matter, adding that the bank is not an institution for development projects and bank reserves are to achieve economic stability and because Alastaqraralaguetsadi is the incubator for development.

He said we are working to lend to the government only in the case of economic disasters or large floods and there are indications we have suggest that we have surpluses sufficient does not require resort to the easy money, but require re-calculation of oil prices by the Ministry of Finance correctly, management and efficiency of resources optimally.

And the favor of lending to be within the general budget of the State any of the fiscal policy where it will be the port for the financing of development and as a source for the provision of cash and liquidity.

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UN delegation: Basra has the makings to be the spot the biggest investment in Iraq

Research chief investment Basra Haider Ali with a delegation of the United Nations headed by the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Iraq, Christine McNab process of investment and private sector development and infrastructure projects.

McNabb showed that Basra is much better than the former as it is witnessing a marked improvement on the security front, investment and helping foreign companies to enter the private sector.

The coordinator of the UN mission said Jonathan Robinson, and despite the media focus on the security breaches in Basra, but it is much better than the rest of the provinces because they contain features that qualify to be the biggest investment spot in the near future.

For his part, Ali said the caution by limiting the amounts of movement of the foreign investor on the ground, pointing out that Basra secure, stable and a lot of foreign companies opened offices for its branches in Basra and began its work.

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Mobile phone companies have indicated their willingness to use the influence of international gateways

Responded to the mobile phone companies operating in Iraq recently to the demands of the media and the Ministry of Communications using the gates of the influence of international incoming and outgoing calls.

An official source in the media and communications said that the commission held a joint meeting with the Ministry of Communications and mobile phone companies operating in Iraq to discuss the influence of international connectivity gates of the ministry, according to the licensing contracts concluded between the parties.

For his part, said Executive Director of the Asia-Cell Telecom mobile homes Ahmed said the mobile phone companies expressed willingness to use influence to the gates of all calls.

He added that the paper provided by the companies during the meeting, consisting of 10 general points have been approved by 9 of them and remained one point will be discussed by the Ministry and the Commission.

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Attorney-Shara: the wave of assassinations will end

The deputy on the mass of the Supreme Council were part of the National Alliance Furat al-Shara expressed his belief that the wave of assassinations taking place in Baghdad will end with the progress of security and stability, adding that the reasons behind many of them internal and external agendas. He expected al-Shara said in an interview with the "weekly" success relatively gradually to the government of Nuri al-Maliki recently formed by the incomplete. Shara said The competence, integrity and standards of specialization required for the candidate to the position of a government but it is difficult to meet those standards, all in one person and the.

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* How do you explain the wave of assassinations taking place in Baghdad and what are the reasons behind them?
- The truth does not stand behind a single cause, and should not Nallaha because of one. There are different reasons that lead to a variety of physical demand, and intersections in the political interests and agendas, including internal and external, as well as security vulnerabilities. Then there is the existing experience in the factories that manufacture muffler and the assassins and those who stand behind them, from within and outside the border. But I think that the security stability and progress towards the wheel of the political process forward will shrink these processes. This wave will end as the band ended the previous

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Q: How do you evaluate the political process in Iraq today?
- The political process in Iraq started, like everything from trying to evolve and change to the Imam and the better and therefore stepped up the cart track, but it is a slow and very narrow steps. Maybe not the level of ambition at the present time.

* There are those who accuse him of efficiency has not been adopted in the selection of his cabinet ministers?
- Without doubt our great country has a legacy of science and civilization and a lot of characters rich talent, but the intersections of the political blocs Loro worse trying to get the full opportunity in Luxor. And everyone knows that Time was not enough. So there are things that remain in conflict with each other. It is possible that the conflicting efficiency with time and with the initialization. We now need Agreed to provide the most efficient him politically, because there is an efficient and non-agreed politically. Then it is not confined to the minister himself, there are agents of the ministers and directors of the agents there, and thus specialization is something beautiful, but a lot of professionals do not work in their jurisdiction not only in Iraq. The only Arab countries but in many countries of the world. I think of efficiency, competence and integrity are all the things needed, but hard to meet all at the same time and in a personal one.

* There are some provinces complain that they did not get the Ministry What is your response?
- The truth if we look to regionalism and the demands of political entities and national and religious, efficiency, integrity and citizenship, it means that he will not come today Which formed the government. But quotas are In the composition of the government and this is well known.

* However, you can see that the building of State institutions have an impact on the quota system is bad?
- It is important that we get to form a government by a certain amount of satisfaction relative By the people and the same, namely, that the government settle for itself, and be promoted in the days after the last delivery of services to citizens.

* Do you expect the success of the Maliki government?
- Yes gradual relative success.

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Iraq President meets Al Sadr in Najaf

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani met in the holy city of Najaf on Friday Cleric Sayyed Moqtada Al Sadr. Following the closed meeting, President Talabani gave no statement.

President Talabani had met earlier with Grand Ayatollah Ali Al Sistani and reassured him that the new government is capable to attaining its benchmarks.

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A report of the Bank of America, Merrill Lynch said on Friday that Iraqi oil production could rise to 4.4 million barrels per day by 2015 ...

The research team said commodities strategist at the Bank in a research note that the amendment of expectations last year to produce 3.8 million barrels per day was the result of "raising the estimates of the reserve" by the government.

The Iraqi government raised the volume of proven oil reserves by a quarter in October to 143 billion barrels, putting Iraq in third place in the list of my company. Me to the biggest reserves in the world.

The bank said the combination of strong growth in demand from emerging economies with the decline in production of non-OPEC members at least partially offset by an increase of 1.9 million barrels a day in Iraqi production in the period up to 2015.
He said the bank "is expected to rise in the prices of crude oil in the coming years."

Iraq's oil production rose to 2.6 million barrels per day in December for the first time in 20 years, but remained below the level of three million barrels, which was produced in the late eighties before the invasion of Kuwait.

The bank said it remains "skeptical" about the possibility of applying the Government's plans to double production by 2020, adding that he is likely to continue to the security problems and issues of infrastructure, reduction of production.

The Iraqi government expects production to increase to 12 million barrels per day during the six to seven years to come, according to the Iraqi Oil Minister Abdul-Karim Allaibi new in December.

They expected the note continued high commodity prices in 2011 due to strong growth in emerging markets and that remains the balance between supply and demand for oil is accurate in 2011

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Syrian PM in Iraq to promote economic ties

Syrian premier Mohammed Naji Otri arrived in Baghdad on Saturday in a bid to boost economic ties between the two neighbours, which only re-established full diplomatic relations four months ago.

Otri's visit is his first to Iraq since an April 2009 trip in which he pledged to support reconstruction in the war-torn country, and comes after the two sides ended a year-long row in September.

"He arrived, and an official welcoming ceremony was held at the airport," said Ali Mussawi, an aide to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.

"The visit is firstly to congratulate Iraq on forming the government," Mussawi added, referring to the December 21 formation of an administration more than nine months after parliamentary elections.

"It is also a business visit -- a big delegation including Syria's oil, finance and economy ministers has come with him -- and the visit will be about implementing previous agreements."

During a visit by Maliki to Damascus in October, the two countries signed an agreement for a pipeline to export up to 2.75 million barrels of crude oil per day from Iraq through Syria to Mediterranean seaports.

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20 years after Gulf War, Iraqis prefer to forget

Twenty years after bombs were dropped on Baghdad to force Saddam Hussein to withdraw his troops from Kuwait, many Iraqis see the anniversary simply as a time stamp of their prolonged suffering. At a small market in central Baghdad's Tahrir (Freedom) Square, vendors dressed in many layers of clothes and black caps to protect them from the biting cold confessed to having forgotten about the January 17, 1991 bombardment, which followed Saddam's invasion of the neighbouring emirate.

"The big tragedies make you forget the smaller ones," said Sabah Hamid, a CD and DVD salesman.

"And in 2003, the bombardment was much heavier than in 1991," the 43-year-old said, referring to the US-led invasion that ousted Saddam.

"Today, the only thing we want is to live in peace."

Peace has been brief and sporadic for Iraqis in recent decades. The 1991 Gulf War came just three years after Iraq's prolonged 1980-1988 war with Iran. The six-week-long "Operation Desert Storm", which was launched five months after Iraq invaded Kuwait, left between 130,000 and 180,000 Iraqi casualties. And even after coalition troops expelled Saddam's army from Kuwait, Iraqis were subject to 12 years of crippling sanctions, some of which remain in force today, that crippled the country's economy. Iraqis then lived through the 2003 war, which was followed by years of vicious communal bloodshed and instability that has left tens of thousands more people dead. Mirroring the public mood over the 1991 conflict, no official commemoration is being planned by Iraqi authorities, and the anniversary has garnered little mention in local media.

"To be honest with you, if you had not said the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the bombings was in a few days, I would not have even remembered," said shoe salesman Karim Hussein.

"No one thinks about the Gulf War any more," Hussein noted, as a small crowd shuffled through the small market where he sold his wares.

But Hussein can vividly recall a string of evenings in January 1991 when he wrapped his three children in his arms in hope of protecting them from any bombs.

"We do not want to remember this war, because we are tired after 20 years of suffering," he said.

Symbols of the war remain but are often cloistered in inaccessible parts of the capital. Among the most notorious is the bomb shelter in the west Baghdad neighbourhood of Al-Amriyah that had been built for civilians. An air strike in February 1991 badly damaged it, killing several hundred civilians. Saddam opened the shelter to the public in the aftermath of the war in a bid to highlight "the extent of the tyrants' barbarity". Today, the shelter is inside an Iraqi military base in the neighbourhood, regarded as a radical Sunni Arab bastion. A memorial, a statue of a woman covered in flames, is inaccessible but can be seen over the walls of the base compound.

"Iraqis have lived through so many wars, so many battles, that they have lost the sense of symbolic commemoration," said political analyst Ihsan al-Shammari.

The Gulf War is particularly hard to look back upon because, in his words, it was "the result of a crazy man's crazy dream," a reference to Saddam's invasion of Kuwait.

"Invading Kuwait was a huge mistake," said 45-year-old Abu Shalash, who sells remote controls in the market. "That's the reason for the tragic life we have lived since then."

The anniversary is also unlikely to be marked officially, because the current government, led mostly by Shiites and Kurds, consists largely of opponents of Saddam's Sunni-dominated regime, according to a leading historian.

"Since 2003, the victims of the time, the Shiites and Kurds, have come to power thanks to the US invasion and may not want to portray American forces in a negative light," said Pierre-Jean Luizard of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France's main public research institute.

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U.S. ambassador in Baghdad: Iraq's new government the most comprehensive community since 2003

He said the U.S. ambassador in Baghdad James Jeffrey, said that the new Iraqi government, the most comprehensive of Iraqi society since 2003, indicating that the visit of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden to Baghdad comes under the application of the security agreement between the two countries.

According to Jeffrey at a news conference Saturday evening, at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, said Biden's visit to Baghdad comes under the application of the security agreement between the United States of America and Iraq, reiterated his country's pledge to continue its cooperation a long-term relationship with Iraq in the areas of training, equipping, mentoring and other areas political, economic and security as well as energy.

He was pleased to form a new Iraqi government, noting that it was one of the most totalitarian governments of the components of the local community since 2003 and even before him.

He noted that U.S. Vice President discussed with Iraqi leaders about a hearing on the recent Security Council (15/12/2010) and opportunities to remove Iraq from Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations, pointing out that Iraq had made significant progress on the level of security as demonstrated statistics and an improvement in situation for the better.

The U.S. ambassador said that Biden said during his meetings with Iraqi leaders that the U.S. will work with Iraq and Kuwait to end the outstanding issues between them, and down to remove Iraq from the tutelage of Chapter VII, also urged Iraqi politicians to find a compromise formula to resolve the issue of the disputed areas.

He pointed out that Biden said the Iraqi leaders also United States commitment to full withdrawal at the end of this year. The vice president urged Iraqi politicians to find a compromise formula to resolve the issue of the disputed areas.

With regard to statements that the leader of the Sadrist bloc Moqtada al-Sadr's rejection of Iraq's cooperation with the U.S. ambassador said the U.S. Deputy Biden said that the ruling on the political blocs must be based on the actions of the blocks, stressing that the Sadrists part of the political process, and we are happy to share this cluster in the political process. It is not important to love the United States or the cluster of Athbha but the important thing is commitment and other blocks of democracy in Iraq.

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Zobaie: some politicians will go to the House of Representatives calling for U.S. troops to stay in Iraq


An Iraqi MP from the list, Talal Hussein Zobaie that some politicians will go to the House of Representatives calling for the U.S. occupation troops to remain in the country.

He Zobaie during a media statement that Washington will have a larger role in the naming of security minister, adding that over the administration doesn't matter at the present time is to keep its troops in the country after 2011.

And we follow that America will look for characters supports their survival in Iraq after the said period, pointing out that it will make the politicians calling for U.S. troops to stay in order to obtain these positions

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