Thread: Iraqi/Dinar News History 2-3-07 thru 3-5-07(at 11:30am cst)

Ahmed Chalabi head the National Congress Party and the Chairman of the crowd support of the plan maintain law that the Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki dedicated million dinars for each family back home. .He called Chalabi, the families returned to their areas of contact to receive commissions on the amounts allocated to them, in a step aimed in which government Iraq to facilitate the return of displaced Iraqis to their homes and establish security and stability.

التفيل:Details of the correspondent of "Radio Sawa" Omar Hammadi in Baghdad :

Radio Sawa - المالكي يخصص مليون دينار لكل عائلة مهجرة تعود إلى منزلها

Could this be why they rallied around the radios? (secretly hoping not of course, lol)

I wish the Thanks Button was still available. I would of use it on those post above.

Hello members, Marek is retiring for the evening. Please bare Rolclub as upgrades will be coming and going over the next few days. I know it is bad timing with Dinar News coming as it is. we will just need to worj thru it. I believe all that is going to happen today is done for now. So lets bring this baby home. What do you say.

HI FELLOW DINAR GANGS. JUST WONDERING IF THE HCL HAS BEEN PASSED OR IS IT STILL ON IT'S WAY TO PARAMONT. SEEMS LIKE SOME SAY IT'S ALREADY BEEN SIGNED.

INTERVIEW-World Bank to boost Iraq presence despite shooting
02 Mar 2007 20:01:01 GMT
Source: Reuters

By Lesley Wroughton

WASHINGTON, March 2 (Reuters) - The World Bank's No. 2 official on Friday defended the lender's decision to ramp up its presence in Iraq after a staff driver was caught in cross-fire and wounded at a checkpoint in Baghdad last month.

Managing Director Juan Jose Daboub said the World Bank regretted the incident and had evacuated the Iraqi man to neighboring Jordan for treatment.

"We are in many countries and Iraq is not an exception," Daboub, who visited Baghdad last month for discussions with the Iraqi government, told Reuters in an interview.

"We define our offices in each country according to our programs," he said, noting that the bank's strategy was to support Iraqi government efforts to rebuild the country, including restoring basic services and enabling private-sector development.

The World Bank's involvement in Iraq has been a delicate issue for bank President Paul Wolfowitz, the former U.S. deputy defense secretary. He still faces questions about his role in the planning of the four-year war, which is opposed by some of the bank's biggest members including France and Germany.

A Washington-based whistle-blower protection group this week charged that the bank was trying to cover up the shooting as it prepares to broaden its operations in Iraq and appoint a new country director despite an increase in violence.

Quoting inside sources, the Government Accountability Project said a bullet pierced the driver's right shoulder while he waited to cross a checkpoint on his way to the protected Green Zone, from where the bank operates.

"Wolfowitz's apparent determination to use the World Bank to further questionable American military goals in the Middle East is a fundamental distortion of the bank's mission, a violation of its founding Articles of Agreement, and a reckless waste of donor resources," Bea Edwards, the group's international program director, said in a statement.

STAFF MEETING

Daboub said he informed staff of the incident in a regional meeting he called the day after he returned to Washington from a seven-nation Middle East tour.

"We are not hiding anything," said Daboub, a former El Salvador finance minister. "The bank has previously worked in many such countries, and currently have two offices in Sudan," he added, citing the bank's role in rebuilding El Salvador, where a 12-year civil war killed an estimated 75,000 people and drove a million people from their homes.

The bank has nine employees in Iraq and will soon increase the number to 11, Daboub said.

He said the bank's planned expansion in Iraq followed pressure from both donor countries eager to ensure foreign aid is properly spent and the Iraqi government looking to restore services to Iraqis.

Daboub said he urged Iraqi officials during his visit to Baghdad to speed up the disbursement of already approved funds for reconstruction projects.

The bank has approved $700 million in rebuilding funds for Iraq -- $285 million from its own resources and $411 million from a pot of cash contributed by donors.

The European Commission, Japan, Spain and Britain are among the biggest contributors to the International Reconstruction Fund Facility for Iraq, which consists of two trust funds.

Mindful of his own experiences in El Salvador, Daboub said of rebuilding Iraq, "There is a good possibility as long as people ... do not allow the challenges to become obstacles."

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N02285701.htm

Turkey, Iraq, U.S. to meet on Iraq oil

Turkey, Iraq, U.S. to meet on Iraq oil
Earth Times - [02/03/2007]
Turkey's energy minister said Ankara was asked for help developing oil in northern Iraq and will meet with U.S. and Iraq officials this month.

But Hilmi Guler said the negotiations will be with the central Iraqi government, not the Kurdish leaders that control the oil rich north and are at odds with Turkey.

The meeting this month will be the first step in talks on developing Iraq ' s northern oil, the Turkish Daily News reports. Investment in Iraq's oil sector will be governed by a hydrocarbons law that has been approved by the Iraqi cabinet but hasn't reached the Parliament yet. Negotiations have been heated and took nearly a year. At issue is who has control over development, the regions or the central government.

The meetings, which will take place in Turkey, were instigated by Iraqi officials, Guler said.

Turkey has said it could invade Kurdistan if the Kurdistan Regional Government attempts to break away from the rest of Iraq. Turkey, along with Iran and Syria, fear an Iraqi Kurdish move would empower their Kurdish populations.

Iraq has 115 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, of which the KRG controls a large share, though not the majority.

Turkey is deciding whether to form diplomatic relations with the KRG.

http://www.iraqdirectory.com/DisplayNews.aspx?id=3302

Draft Legislation Seeking Peace With Oil?
Iraq Oil Law Would Attempt Balance Between Regional, Central Control

Posted 1 hr. 42 min. ago

If a struggle for wealth and power lies at the heart of Iraq's sectarian violence, then a well-functioning oil industry and an equitable oil revenue policy may lie at the heart of national reconciliation. In the run-up to the 2003 invasion, U.S. officials predicted that oil finance the country's post-war development. That prospect languished as brain drain and insurgent sabotage eviscerated the oil sector.
Iraq's cabinet approved on Monday a draft law for the revival of Iraq's moribund oil industry, in a significant show of compromise among Kurdish, Shiite, and Sunni lawmakers. However, key issues such as the ability of the oil producing Kurdish and Shiite regions to enter into contracts with foreign companies, and the distribution of revenues have yet to be elaborated.
Privatization or State Control?
At the heart of the bill is the provision that the governments of Iraq's oil producing regions - located in the Kurdish north and Shiite-dominated south - will have the power to negotiate production-sharing agreements with foreign oil companies.
Prevalent in Central Asia, production-sharing agreements (PSAs) generally assign ownership of the physical oil to the host country, while allowing foreign companies to manage and operate oil fields. Revenues from the oil are shared by the government and the oil company on a pre-specified basis.
Allowing regional governments to contract with international oil companies, with their abundant capital and technical expertise, "would allow the country to rehabilitate its oil sector more quickly -- thereby enriching the national coffers -- than were it to go the nationalization route," reports Radio Free Europe.
Alternet reports that the draft law, by allowing for production-sharing agreements, "would represent a u-turn for Iraq's oil industry, which has been in the public sector for more than three decades."
PSAs generally shift all financial and operational risk to the foreign oil company, and do not require the host government to invest its share of profits in further development. Depending on how they are designed, PSAs may be canceled or terminated, or they may be enacted into law to give the oil company greater security.
Writing for The Nation, Christian Parenti characterizes the legislation as "re-creating a single Iraqi National Oil Company, which will in turn dole out oil income to the regions on a per-capita basis." He takes a dim view of a proposed Federal Oil and Gas Council that would have veto power over all production-sharing agreements, noting that it will be "controlled by the prime minister" and will "effectively bypass Parliament."
The law would have "disastrous effects" by allowing for regional autonomy, Fadil Chalabi of the Centre for Global Energy Studies in London tells Al-Jazeera. "It will lead to fragmentation, it will have no central planning, no central policy-making authority - and if this is going to be the case, this law could negative effects on the oil industry in Iraq."
Sharing the Wealth
"All revenue from oil sales would go into a single national account," reports the LA Times, "but all regions and provinces would have a seat on an energy policymaking body, and provinces would receive shares of revenue and have control over how they spent it."
Voice of America reports that a not-yet-drafted "revenue sharing agreement" will determine how oil revenues are to be distributed, but it will most likely be based on "population distribution." The Nation's Parenti notes that this per-capita arrangement "might help de-escalate sectarian conflict."
Parliament Vote
The bill now goes to the 275-member Parliament, where the likelihood of its passage is "unclear," the AP reports.
Iraq and Turkey may have removed a potential obstacle to the law's adoption last week by shelving plans last week for a referendum on the autonomy of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk for another two years (see Azzaman report here).
However, Sunni lawmakers will almost certainly scrutize the bill's still-vague revenue-sharing provisions, while Shiite and Kurdish lawmakers may question the power of the proposed Federal Oil and Gas Council, with its power to veto regional contracts with foreign oil companies.
If the oil law does pass, it will by no means end the violence, incompetence, and corruption that paralyzes the oil industry and makes Iraq an abysmal investment climate for foreign oil companies - and there is little question that Iraq will need the latter's vast resources of capital, security, and technical expertise.

Details of the draft law of oil and gas approved by the Iraqi government
Zulfiqar Ali-02 / 03 / 2007-9:49

The draft law on oil and gas, which was approved by the Iraqi government a few days ago that the ownership of oil and gas belong to each Iraqi people in all regions and provinces, and that the law applied to oil operations in all parts of Iraq ... Including land and the land underneath, as well as in internal waters and territorial waters.
Left bill, the scope of the areas of oil refining and gas and manufacturing Astkhaddamathma industrial, as well as storage, transport and distribution of oil products.

The deployment bill, which will be presented to the parliament soon, the powers of gas and oil ... It gave validity of the legislation all federal laws related to the oil and gas sector of the Iraqi parliament, also grant the power to ratify all the oil agreements with the International stomach and communication operations in the oil and gas sector ... And concluded by the Republic of Iraq with other countries.

With the award of the project powers of the Council of Ministers "recommendation of the House of Representatives with respect to the proposed draft legislation related to the development of sources of Iraq's oil and gas."

The bill was considered the cabinet "the authority's jurisdiction to approve the federal policy the oil, and supervising the application of that policy, "as well as the" supervision of the total oil operations, including the Adoption federal policy governing all matters governed by this law, including exploration and production, transportation and marketing and propose legislative tools in the oil sector, and to ratify the necessary regulations for the things listed above from time to time. "

It said that the Council of Ministers to ensure that "the adoption of the Federal Council of the oil and gas ministry and the appropriate and effective means of consultation and coordination with regional authorities and provinces producing oil and gas. "

As a draft law foundations of the formation of the Federal Council of oil and gas in order to facilitate the tasks of the Council of Ministers in connection with the adoption of the policy petroleum plans implications, which are being prepared by his ministry in coordination and consultation with the regions and producing governorates, as well as to develop the necessary instructions to conclude the contracts for exploration and production paves the body, the Council of Ministers (the Federal Oil and Gas), and the Prime Minister or his nominee Its membership includes representatives from the Zarat oil, finance and planning and development cooperation in the federal government, the governor of the Central Bank of Iraq, and a representative of the each province is the Minister, in addition to a representative of each province producing irregular in the territory, Presidents and heads of the most important institutions oil with the relationship among which is the Iraqi National Oil Company and oil marketing company, and experts deal with matters relating to oil and gas, finance and economy of no more than three are appointed for a maximum period of five years, a decision of the Council of Ministers.
The council is responsible for formulating policies and plans of federal oil exploration and development fields and plans major pipeline in Iraqi territory, as it the right to approve any substantial modification of such plans.

The Board considered the contracts for exploration and production licenses are granted for operations in the oil sector, and adjusted in accordance with the "mechanisms contained in the article No. 9 of this Act all of this with respect to the Republic of Iraq.

As the adoption of models of development and production contracts and the selection of the appropriate model contract for the workers or the nature of the exploration area or opportunity been presented.
Also, the Council puts special instructions to negotiate licensing or development contracts and Alantah and eligibility criteria companies.
The body empowered to approve transfer of quotas rights among undocumented licenses for the exploration and production and subsequent amendments to the contracts, provided that does not affect the above inversely to the degree and quality of national involvement in the percentage of quotas in the national project.

The Federal Council of oil and gas, the Oil Ministry to ensure the exploration, development and exploitation of oil sources on the best use for the benefit of the people, according the provisions of the laws, regulations and contractual terms and recognized international standards.
As the law-making powers and functions of the Ministry of Petroleum to consider the ministry's power to propose policy, laws and federal plans oil. The ministry is also preparing regulations, directives and instructions for the implementation of the policies and plans of Yugoslavia.
For the Ministry to carry out the oversight and supervision of the oil operations in coordination with the regional bodies and producing provinces to ensure a uniform and homogeneous application all parts of Iraq.

He said the ministry, after consultation with regional bodies and the oil-producing provinces to prepare policies and plans against Yugoslavia for exploration and development production and annually or whenever the need arises, to address these policies and plans to determine the level of production necessary both short-term or long-term, and to reach optimal solutions with regard to the geographical distribution and the timing of exploration and production platforms for consultation and coordination with regional and provincial bodies, and provides oil policy proposals and plans related to the Federal Council of oil and gas for review and approval.
The ministry with the authority to represent the Republic of Iraq in regional and international forums regarding Bamuralnft and gas. The Ministry grants the power to negotiate international and bilateral agreements with States and other organizations relating to oil and gas will be subject to the approval according to the "provisions of the Constitution."

The Ministry will bear the responsibility of overseeing operations of oil in order to ensure its conformity with the laws, regulations and contractual requirements. Also at the ministry, in addition to the regulatory functions in the field of administrative and technical, to conduct verification of the costs and expenses that incurred by the licensees in order to ensure the recovery of these sunspots fairly and correctly in order to determine receipts for the government.

The ministry on the investigation and scrutiny of technical and other methods to achieve harmony with the laws, regulations and contractual requirements and practices the approved, the ministry and consult with the territorial government and the provinces to develop productive formations competent to carry out these tasks on behalf of the ministry.
The draft law also gives the Iraqi National Oil Company the power to contribute to the exploration and production operations in Iraq on behalf of the government.

The company is committed to sell its share of crude oil to the oil marketing company at a price which covers the delivery cost in addition to a reasonable profit the company can be a vital development in the areas of exploration and production.

They include the functions and scope of operations of the Iraqi National Oil Company implement exploration, development, production, transportation, storage, marketing and sales up to a point extradition for oil and gas, and by virtue of the rights and duties stipulated in this Law and the relevant contracts and approvals and permits applicable all other license holders. Additionally, the company's right to contribute as a trading partner in international contracts associated with the transfer, marketing and sale of oil and gas, as it to contribute to the contracts for exploration and production outside of the Republic of Iraq after it obtained the approval of the Council of Ministers.

And given the company the right to set up subsidiaries and its wholly owned in selected areas of Iraq build "on the presence of the fields and the size of reserves oil and gas production capabilities and verify the feasibility or at the reorganization and the distribution of functions between the companies list according to the volume of work, including to increase efficiency and benefit, through internal regulations and procedures issued for this purpose.

Also granted the right to establish companies preoccupied with other companies or owning shares in companies based in the Republic of Iraq, and for the company Iraqi National Oil right outside of the Republic of Iraq subject to the approval of the Council of Ministers. in addition to the right to own tangible assets The intangible belonging to the natural or legal person, in order to achieve its objectives in accordance with the law.
The company has the right to establish service companies to participate with partners from the regions and producing governorates.
The draft law has defined the Iraq National Oil Company as the "Iraqi National Oil Company, a holding company wholly owned by the government of the Republic of Iraq position Baghdad, financially and administratively independent, and works on a commercial basis. "
The scope of operations, "the management and operation of the fields of current production and linked to each of the South Oil Company and Northern Oil Company, in addition to develop, manage and operate the fields already discovered and developed-mandated, and implementation of exploration and production in new areas outside under the logic of its operations in accordance with the law and the progress of applying for exploration and production licenses in the new areas on a competitive basis. "

In addition to managing and operating a network of oil and gas pipelines and the main ports of export in Iraq and enter into contracts in the shipment of oil and gas current and the future and that under this law. The responsibility of the company and will continue in the management and operation of oil and gas pipelines and the main ports of export during the transitional period up to two years and until the completion of re - organization of the companies affiliated to the Oil Ministry, then the Council decides federal oil and gas responsible for the management and operation of oil and gas pipelines and the main ports export on the proposal by the ministry is in coordination with the Iraqi National Oil Company basis of this law and the consent of the Council of Ministers.
Basing the Iraqi National Oil Company operator owned companies assume full operational processes in the regions and producing governorates, which represent in company boards, and operate these companies cover the cost for wages in addition to a reasonable profit and specific position to develop and improve operations.

, Oversees the management of the Iraqi National Oil Company and affiliated companies boards where bodies are directly related to the government Federal, provincial and district produced in accordance with the law of the Iraqi National Oil Company.

And on the powers of the territory, the draft law gave the task of the preparations necessary for the proposal to the activities and plans of the federal authorities on behalf the territory to be included in those plans and activities in the plans of the federal petroleum operations.
They must also help the federal authorities in the deliberations leading to the completion of the plans of Yugoslavia, in accordance with the requirements.

As the licensing procedures relating to his activities in the territory in the area of exploration and development of discovered fields and the adoption of non-developed models contractual stomach before the Federal Council of oil and gas, on the instructions issued by the Federal Council of oil and gas and oil companies world eligible according to the principles established by the Federal Council of oil and gas.

Cooperating with the ministry to carry out monitoring and supervision of the operations of oil in order to ensure its conformity with the laws, regulations and directions and special conditions of contracts exploration and production concerned, to ensure uniform application and harmonious in all regions of Iraq.

As for the rehabilitation and development of the fields and exploration of oil and gas, is the Iraqi National Oil Company and the High operator to enter directly into contracts services or management contracts with companies suitable for oil or services, if appropriate.
The draft law grants the Oil Ministry or the National Oil Company, or regional body, each according to his competence, and after completion of the initial actions of licenses, the first signing of the contract for exploration and production with the contractor selected.
The bill requires that a contract to take effect unless rejected by the Federal oil and gas where it should assign the contract first the Federal Council of oil and gas during the 30 days of the signing of the first, and not be considered null and void.

And to the Cabinet submit a draft federal law to the parliament regulates the distribution and sales of oil imports into account include oil imports the amounts obtained from the sale of oil, gas and property of the state, royalty, the rewards of signing bonuses and production contracts with oil companies foreign and domestic, and imports deposited into an account called "the oil resources" opened on behalf of the Iraqi Central Bank, and allocated for this purpose administered by the Council of Ministers of Finance and ultrasound.

Supervise the management of the fund, an independent body headed by a minister and a membership of representatives from the federal and provincial governments and district and a number of independent advisers, and are linked to the Council of Ministers and distributed imports Assembly of the State, including the oil imports under the federal budget for the State to guarantee equitably distributed in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution.

It also paves the name of "future fund" into which a portion of the oil resources, and regulated by law.

The law requires the government to obtain national participation in the management of real and develop its oil and exploration and production licenses, including the their fields currently producing oil and gas granted under this law for the Iraqi National Oil Company, as well as granting licenses to explore and produce additional With regard to non-developed oilfields will be activated through the Federal Council of oil and gas,
As for licenses main pipelines inside Iraq with regard to the existing pipeline, granted under this Act to the Iraqi National Oil Company, or any company specialized created ministry.
The organization of the official procedure for granting such licenses by the Federal Council of the oil that Iraq retains the right to participate in oil operations in any stage of the operations of oil as paragraphs and conditions existing contract.

The separate bill mechanisms Meng exploration contracts by giving the contract for exploration and production, and will give the exclusive right to carry on operations the exploration and production of petroleum in the contract. However, unless there is a need for additional time to complete the assessment of operations for the discovery, the exclusive right of exploration and production will be according to grant a trial must not exceed four years, provided the licensee to implement all its obligations, and the competent body a second grant for a period of up to two years provided submission of the substantive work achieved during this period, and that the competent body to grant a third of exploration, with special regard to the continuity provided that this extension is justified on the basis of quality and the objectivity of the program work on the extension period not exceeding two years only.

All extensions mentioned must be subject to the conditions prevailing in the retrieval area contracted by oil regimes. In the case of the discovery of what, the owner of exploration and production license will retain the exclusive right for the completion of operations that have been initiated within the the specific region to assess or determine the commercial value of the discovery, for a further period of two years or in the case of the discovery of natural gas - companion, for an additional term not to exceed four years. Based on field development plan prepared and approved under this Act and the relevant contract, the Iraqi National Oil Company of the campaign other licenses for exploration and production can be maintained Bhassereh rights to develop and produce oil in the border area development and production for a period to be determined before the Federal Council of the oil and gas of up to 20 years, commencing from the date of approval to develop the field and depend on the facts associated to the best of extracting oil and the best use of existing infrastructure.
In justified cases the technical and economic considerations, it is possible to grant two additional operating by the Council of Ministers upon the terms are negotiated again so that the granting of the extension not to exceed five years. And in all cases, be the restoration of the region outside the area of development and operating license at the end of exploration and production.

The draft law grants the Iraqi National Oil Company, the company created by the competent ministry ownership of all the main pipelines, and the establishment The operation of this pipeline by its affiliated company, which will take the role of the carrier in order to transport oil or gas to points specific delivery of oil and gas, respectively.
He said the draft law "that the ministry and in cooperation with the Iraqi National Oil Company, in consultation with the operators concerned, we must ensure that the pipeline network has been the main design, operation and maintenance of optimum manner to serve the total requirements for the transfer of oil in the Republic of Iraq. i
The draft law also governs the gas investment that accompanies the oil prospecting operations where it is entitled to the Iraqi National Oil Company and holders of licenses exploration and production others to use the necessary quantities of gas attendant, without charge, in the oil operations. As the Iraqi National Oil Company and the holders of exploration and production licenses others to develop a plan within the field, to propose plans for the optimal use gas attendant or dispose of. That all the accompanying gas that is produced from the reservoir, which is used in oil operations, commercial or who is re-injected in the field, there will be a presentation delivered free of charge, to the Ministry of Oil are not allowed to burn gas except in cases of the inauguration, checking facilities, or safety precautions during the period of waiting for the completion of facilities provided to keep the gas transfer those amounts scorched the minimum and inform the ministry immediately.
We must maintain the burning gas attendant minimum, and do so after the first year maximum, which which must complete the necessary procedures for the exploitation of gas or supply to a government institution.

It will subject the development and production of gas or liquid components of it resulting from the discovery of non-associated gas to the approval of the ministry plans to develop the field subsidized Convention / agreements signed for the sale of gas from discovery to approval by the Council of Ministers.
In the event that oil will be produced only means, they must submit a plan to re-inject gas or any other schemes accepted People in the plan to develop the field. The Iraqi parliament on the ratification of the draft legislation this when he returns from a vacation. This is the first time since 2003, which is where all segments of Iraqi society, the main legislation on such an important.

The National Reconciliation Conference to be held Sunday, army officers

(Voice of Iraq) - 02-03-2007
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The National Reconciliation Conference of the army officers held next Sunday in Baghdad
- BAGHDAD / voices / of the al-Muhammad

The Chairperson of the Preparatory Committee for the national reconciliation conference for Iraqi army officers that the conference will be held next Sunday in Baghdad.

The Rashid Muslih Nasserite in a statement issued yesterday that "the conference is consistent with the draft national reconciliation launched by the sponsored by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki under the banner (of the officers of the army and the maintenance of national unity). "

The Nasserite hoped, according to the statement, that the conference will be "a real breakthrough and players in the success of the political process The plan to impose law of Iraqi officers from a prominent role in the community to contribute to the achievement of national reconciliation. " but the statement did not give details about the number of former officers who have been invited to them.

The Congress is the fourth in the series of conferences of national reconciliation, announced by al-Maliki last June.

Maliki allocated one million dinars for each family of returning migrant

(Voice of Iraq) - 02-03-2007
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Maliki allocated one million dinars for each migrant family back home

- BAGHDAD / voices /

Ahmed Chalabi head the National Congress Party and chairman of a committee supporting a plan to impose law that the Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki dedicated one million dinars for each family back home.

He called Chalabi, in a press statement today, Friday, the families returned to their areas of contact to receive commissions on the amounts allocated to them, in step aims which the Iraqi government to facilitate the return of displaced Iraqis to their homes and establish security and stability.

Jaafari commends Kuwait stances in support of Iraq

(Voice of Iraq) - 02-03-2007
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The former Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari that the efforts of the Kuwaiti and Iraqi Governments during the past period have helped to turn the page the past and build a solid foundation of relations based on mutual respect and brotherhood.
Jaafari praised during a ceremony attended Kuwaiti embassy in Brazil on the occasion of the National Day of Kuwait stances in support of achieving stability in Iraq .
He stressed that "Iraq did not forget the positions of Kuwait in support of the brothers also have not forgotten their efforts to build strong relations, close and strong bridges linking the two neighboring countries and the two brotherly solid social roots. "