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Iraqi deputies: Adoption of the law for the distribution of wealth will be one of the first House of Representatives

The Iraqi deputies, Tuesday, that the adoption of a law for the distribution of wealth on the Iraqis will be one of the first House of Representatives in the next phase.

The MP said the Iraqi List, the beauty of the melon Kurdistan News Agency (Rn) that "the Iraqi Council of Representatives put his key priorities of passing a law which distributes wealth fairly to all Iraqis."

He added that "the law of distribution of wealth will come before the Council of Ministers and presented to the House of Representatives and taught well to approval and regulation".

Between the melon and that "there is a near agreement between the political blocs on the need to pass a law regulating the distribution of wealth in the country according to population density in each region."

For his part, MP for the National Alliance of Abbas Hammoud Xiaa Kurdistan News Agency (Rn) that "the adoption of a law regulating the distribution of wealth will contribute to raising the economic level of the Iraqis in line with developments in the field of reconstruction and the economy."

He suggested discussing the law of distribution of wealth with the law of oil and gas being the "clinging to one another to develop a mechanism for the development of the reality of wealth in the country and take advantage of them."

He said the "House of Representatives will give priority to passing laws that are not approved by the previous parliament a private laws of an economic or organizational work of the government."

Intends to present the House of Representatives approved a package of laws that could not be adopted as law on the former oil and gas law and the federal budget for 2011.

In the opinion of specialists that there is a need to define and regulate the distribution of wealth in the country, especially that the Constitution affirmed this, depending on the ratio of population and the extent of Mahromep provinces.

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Iran FM meets Al Maliki and Talabani

Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akber Salehi met with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki.

Salehi, Talabani and Al Maliki agreed to enhance a number of common issues between both parties.
Iranian acting Foreign Minister met as well his Iraqi counterpart Hosheyar Zebari.

Zebari stressed that the Iraqi Constitution does not allow any “terrorist” group including Mujahideen Khalq on Iraqi territories.

The Iraqi government is determined to impose its sovereignty in the country while refuting any other policy, he added.

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Arab League Confirms Iraq Hosts Next Summit

The Undersecretary General of the Arab League, Ahmed bin Helli, has confirmed that Iraq will host the next Arab League summit — the country’s first in 20 years.

Associated Press reports that Arab League Secretary-General, Amr Moussa, will travel to Baghdad on Saturday to discuss preparations for the meeting.

Bin Helli told reporters on Wednesday that the league was committed to its decision in Libya last year that Iraq should hold the next meeting in March.

It will be the first major event held in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.

Iraqi officials had said that Baghdad was going ahead with the preparations to host the 22-member organization summit despite misgivings by many countries over the security situation.

Iraq last hosted the summit in May 1990, three months before Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait.

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Two sub-contracts granted to develop Iraq’s Badra Oil Field

Two new sub-contracts have been granted for two local companies to participate in developing the Badra Oil Field in southern Iraq’s Wassit Province, a Wassit Province’s official said on Thursday.

“The Russian Gasbromneft Company, that won the contract to develop southeastern Iraq’s Badra Oil Field, 90 km to the east of Kut, the center of Wassit Province, has decided to grant two sub-contracts for two local companies to participate in the development works of the oil field,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

He said the Russian Company had also granted “the local Arab Gulf Company, to carry out the works of eliminating mines and war remnants from the oil field’s site and its surrounding areas,” pointing out that the period of the work is expected to continue till May next.

“Another Iraqi company, specialized in oil and gas excavation works, was granted a sub-contract to carry out seismic works in Badra Oil Field, to continue till April next,” he said.

He said the granting of the two sub-contracts had been part of the Russian Company’s plan to start excavation and development works in Basra Oil Field, planned to produce 15,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd) by the year 2013, according to the contract concluded between the Company and the Iraqi Ministry of Oil.

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Maliki confirms the Iraqi government's keenness to develop relations with Iran

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on the importance of activating the work of the High Commission between Iraq and Iran to push forward the relations between the two countries forward in various economic fields and in the field of construction and reconstruction.

He said al-Maliki during a meeting on Wednesday, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi Iraqi government's keenness to develop relations with Iran in all areas.
Maliki said that the new situation which came to him after the formation of the government make them for the challenges of counter terrorism and terrorist organizations, adding that they are confident in their ability to meet these challenges and overcome them, and their concern for the safety and security of Iraq is part of keenness on the security of all countries in the region.

He went on to say that Maliki's government of national partnership which we hope to achieve successes formed in the stage better than the stage were formed national unity government, which has faced many challenges, particularly in the security aspect.

He noted that his government today, after the additional security and stability "is determined to achieve the aspirations of the Iraqi people and to further the process of construction and reconstruction."

For his part, Salehi aspiration for his country after the formation of the Iraqi government to the strong ties between Iraq with "and open a new page in bilateral relations, and push forward the wheel of the Supreme Committee to forward and contribute to the process of construction and reconstruction and development of Iraqi economy."

"The Iraq under the new situation is a unified, independent country has a lot of energy and potential human and economic."

He announced his country's readiness "to provide support and expertise to Iraq in different areas .. We have seen Iraq's desire to develop relations with all countries of the region."

He noted his country's happiness, "because the next Arab summit will be held in Baghdad," saying it "confirms the stability of Iraq and its progress."

The meeting was attended by Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, Minister of State and government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh, the Iraqi ambassador to Tehran Mohammad Sheikh, Iranian Ambassador to Baghdad Hassan Dnaii.

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A joint committee from the ministries of finance and foreign affairs for the protection of Iraqi funds abroad / 5/1/2011 3:23 pm

Was formed A joint committee between the Ministries of Finance and Foreign Affairs of Iraq. The development of mechanisms to protect Iraqi funds in foreign banks.

A media source in the Ministry of Finance's "the Committee formed a head and Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari is developing mechanisms to protect Iraqi funds in foreign banks after the UN Security Council resolution the middle of last November, which was spent to raise protection for Iraqi funds the end of next June.

For his part, Deputy Minister Zia Alckheon "The committee, headed by Zebari and the membership of the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers, Ministry of Finance began its work through the mechanisms established professional that provides necessary protection of Iraqi funds and not make them susceptible to manipulation by certain countries."

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No government department and one in Basra, free from corruption

The deputy governor of Basra, Nizar spring of grace, that work is continuing In order to combat the phenomenon of corruption in all its forms and to hold accountable the perpetrators came during a conference on the integrity and sincerity in the work of government officials.

For his part, Vice-Chairman of the provincial council in Basra, Ahmad Al-Sulaiti, that "all government departments in Basra suffers from a financial and administrative corruption, although to varying degrees."

Sulaiti explained that "the provincial council in Basra lived the bitter experience with the problem of corruption in the past two years where there is no accountability for officials in spite of all robberies that have occurred in government circles, and delays in completion of projects and their poor implementation in the province."

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Announcement of the discovery of large quantities of oil in Kurdistan

Gulf Keystone announced the discovery of large quantities of oil in the region which was granted prospecting license in the Kurdistan region and at a depth of less than previous large discoveries.

Gulf Keystone has estimated it had discovered 220 million barrels of potential oil reserves in the well was drilled to test the layers of chalk near Beer Shikan huge discovered at depths greater in 2009.

The company, which owns 75 percent of the franchise he would transform the well to produce oil from deeper geological layers while the plan is being prepared for the development of resources located at a depth of less.

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Zebari Heads Committee to Protect Iraqi Funds Abroad

A senior Finance Ministry official said on Wednesday that Iraq’s Foreign Minister, Hoshyar Zebari, will head a governmental committee developing mechanisms to protect Iraqi funds deposited in foreign banks after the UN Security Council resolution to withdraw its protection of those funds at the end of June.

Diya Khayyoun, the Undersecretary of the Finance Ministry, told AKnews that the committee includes the Secretariats of the Council of Ministers and the Finance Ministry.
“The Commission began its work by implementing measures that provide the necessary protection for the Iraqi funds, preserving them from manipulation in certain countries,” he explained.

The UN Security Council voted unanimously to lift of three key sanctions imposed on Iraq following the Saddam Hussein-led Kuwaiti invasion of 1990.

Alongside the lifting of sanctions, the Security Council decided to extend their protection of Iraqi funds in foreign bank accounts until June 2011.

Since the sanctions were imposed, Iraq had been listed under United Nations Chapter 7 which declares the country a threat to international peace and security.

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Washington and Baghdad: to sign a huge deal to buy U.S. weapons Oaadadamn include aircraft, tanks and warships

has signed contracts and the United States to buy weapons worth $ 13 billion, including many of the planes, tanks and warships, which will help the Iraqis build a Qdarathmalascrip, according to a U.S. official.

The official in charge of training Iraqi forces, Gen. Michael Barbero - in a press statement - that these contracts include - in addition to arms sales - contracts for maintenance and training long-term, adding that half of sales amounting to $ 13 billion has been the definitive signature, while still Contracts other in the process of negotiation.

And confirms a spokesman for the Iraqi Ministry of Defense, Major General Mohammed al-Askari of the island revealed that the deal includes a variety of weapons in preparation for the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 2011, and said, "Our plan for the readiness of the Iraqi armed forces", which will be responsible for protecting the country from any external threat or internal.

Diversity Almncobiv military to buy arms deals not only with the United States, but no deals with other countries, such as France and other European countries and Asian countries, a manufacturer of a weapon as well.

He says that amounts to little in the media dedicated to the purchase of aircraft multiple and especially the Army Air Corps, such as helicopters, have been the receipt of the first three aircraft, including, an American helicopter gunships, pointing out that there was agreement in principle to the F-16, and a deal to buy tanks and M1 Abrams, received forty-tank of the total transaction of $ 140 a tank.

There is also a field artillery deal up to a hundred weapons, artillery, and a variety of other weapons such as M4, M16, which are used as weapons of light infantry, and a number of armored vehicles and other mechanisms.

The official spoke on the Iraqi contract with France for the purchase of helicopters, in addition to negotiations on the French Mirage fighter fixed-wing, "because the Iraqi officers have extensive experience in the use of French arms."

He stressed that there is other contracts concluded with Italy, Serbia, Bulgaria, South Korea and Russia, pointing to the need not to rely on a single origin in the arms deals.
The military confirms that the price, quality and efficiency of the product and delivery time are determined by transactions, not origin.

Technology Aalipoicol Lt. Gen. Raad al-Hamdani - a division commander in the former Republican Guard and the expert in the Iraqi military of the island - that the arms deals based on fundamental factors, the most important doctrine of the armed forces and the tasks assigned to them, and the level of scientific and technical employees of the armed forces, as well as their understanding of these weapons.

He adds that American weapons are considered a high-tech and scientific levels need to accommodate this technique, for example, U.S. tank (Abrams) you need staff to the level used by the major scientific, to be able to drive it, and this level is not available in the Iraqi armed forces now.

Institution-building Alascripoiwkd Hamdani that reinforcement is not the basis to build strong armed forces, but the foundation is to build the military and their capacities to achieve the principles of fundamental factors and make this a cohesive military forces and work towards the goal of a national one.

He pointed to the need to ITSAM these military units unity of command, and the possibilities and preparations for the training units, and the potential for raising the level out the equivalent of the use of such weapons and their insurance defense requirements to address potential threats, pointing out that the Iraqi armed forces suffer many of the shortcomings of technical and administrative.

Hamdani and question the possibility to investigate the ability of these deals are good for the armament of the Iraqi armed forces present, he says, "You need the Iraqi armed forces now is to revisit the basic rules on building-level administrative, technical and scientific."

The equipment the former Iraqi army had been destroyed a large part of them during the American invasion in 2003, while offering the other part to the looting and robbery, was quoted by warplanes and helicopter remaining to the Kurdistan region, has been dissolved and the Ministry of Defence decision of the Governor American Paul Bremer in 2004.

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