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التقى الاستاذ جواد العطار الناطق الرسمي لمنظمة العمل الاسلامي بالسيد كريم اليعقوبي عضو المكتب السياسي و السيد باسم الحسيني النائب عن حزب الفضيلة في المجلس النواب العراقي.He met Professor Jawad Al-Attar, spokesman for the Islamic Action Organization Kerim have deployed member of the Political Bureau, on behalf of Mr. Husseini, the Virtue Party MP in the Iraqi parliament.
وقد تباحثى عن الوضع الامني والسياسي وضرورة التعاون من اجل امن واستقرار العراق وذلك بالابتعاد عن التطرف و المفاهيم الخاطئة...The Tbahthi on the security and political situation and the need for cooperation in order to the security and stability of Iraq and to stay away from extremism and misconceptions ...

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Important decisions of the Arab Summit in Riyadh

13 Decisions On Issue Of Iraq

The regular Arab summit resolutions
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The regular Arab summit resolutions

Riyadh - WAI-summit press center-tired of Salman Al-Otaibi

Leaked items decisions on the Arab summit in Riyadh Zvima follows a number of items Summit leaked by sources inside the summit ...
Adherence to the Arab peace initiative as all approved by the Beirut summit of 2002>. The statement <the government of Israel and all Israelis to accept the initiative and seize the opportunity for the resumption of direct negotiations and seriousness on all tracks>.

The statement declares <entrust the Arab ministerial committee of the Arab peace initiative to continue its efforts, and the formation of task forces to carry out the necessary contacts with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Member States in the Security Council, the Quartet, and the parties concerned with the peace process, to resume and drum up support for this initiative, and the start of serious negotiations on the basis of reference agreed upon>.

In a special resolution entitled <solidarity with Lebanon and its support>, directed Summit <tribute to the steadfastness of Lebanon and its valiant resistance to the brutal Israeli aggression. And considering the cohesion Lebanese people in the face of aggression and unity to ensure the future of Lebanon and its security and stability>. The resolution <full Arab solidarity with Lebanon, and to provide political and economic support to the Lebanese government, so that the Lebanese national unity, security and stability of Lebanon and its sovereignty over the whole of its territory>.

The resolution pays tribute <national role played by the Lebanese army in the south and in all regions of Lebanon at the government's decision>, also supports <task of the army, as decided by the Lebanese Council of Ministers, in terms of the extension of the state's sovereignty over its entire territory>. My seven-point plan put forward by the Lebanese government. It calls on the United Nations and the Security Council to <taking the Lebanese proposal on the Shebaa Farms area contained in this plan in mind, the Secretary-General of the United Nations proposals on this subject>.

The resolution of Israel <full responsibility for the aggression suffered by Lebanon and the results of the deliberate targeting of civilians and infrastructure, and the liability of the Lebanese Republic and the Lebanese citizens on the tragic loss of direct and indirect damage to the Lebanese economy due to the aggression>. It called for the prosecution of those responsible for the <war crimes> committed by Israel during the aggression>.

The <right of the Palestinian refugees to return to their homes>, warning that <lack of a solution in the case of those residing in Lebanon on the basis of their return to their homes in accordance with the resolutions of international legitimacy and the principles of international law, or attempt to resettle, destabilize security and stability in the region and hamper the achievement of a just peace>.

He urged the parties to the Lebanese <national dialogue on the basis of the mosques themselves, as well as on the basis of what had been achieved at the level of national consensus, with a view to reaching solutions miss the opportunity to all those who want to meddle with the security and stability of Lebanon>.

In the third decision of the Iraqi situation, the University Council stresses that the political and security solutions for the challenges facing Iraq based on several elements, including <respect for the unity, sovereignty and independence of Iraq and its Arab and Islamic identity, and the rejection of any claims of division, with an emphasis on non-interference in its internal affairs>. The <respect for the will of the Iraqi people make up all to determine their own political future and to achieve security and stability lies with the government of national unity and constitutional institutions and the political leaders of Iraq, and to supporting the Arab countries and neighboring countries all efforts to achieve reconciliation>.

He asked the Iraqi government to aquatic work to expand the political process so as to achieve greater participation of the various components of the Iraqi people, and the face of communal strife and work to eliminate, and the renunciation of groups seeking to foment sedition and address, and the convening of the Iraqi Accord destruction as soon as possible and appropriate>, in addition to the <a speedy constitutional review the contentious articles in the Constitution, so as to achieve harmony>. He also called for <review of the law abolishing the Baath Party to promote reconciliation efforts .It stresses the importance of the distribution of Iraq's wealth fairly for the various regions and groups>.

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Ban Ki-moon calls on Arab leaders to renew backing for Middle East peace plan

Ban Ki-moon with Sudanese President Al-Bashir
28 March 2007 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged leaders meeting at the Summit of the League of Arab States to re-affirm their commitment to the Arab Peace Initiative, which he called one of the pillars of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, while stressing that the world must build on the “new stirrings of potential” to resolve the long-running conflict in the Middle East.

Mr. Ban used his address to the opening of the summit, taking place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to underline the need for renewed efforts by Arab nations to resolve the region’s other crises, from Somalia and Sudan’s Darfur region to Lebanon and Iraq.

In his speech, the Secretary-General said he saw positive signs in the formation of a Palestinian National Unity Government and the prospect of an Israeli-Palestinian dialogue.

He added that the Arab Peace Initiative, a plan adopted during the Beirut Arab Summit in March 2002, “suggests a new way forward for the region” after decades of division over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The initiative, based on the principle of land for peace, calls for Israel to withdraw from all Arab lands occupied since 1967, recognize an independent Palestinian State and provide a just solution to the issue of Palestinian refugees. In return Arab countries would recognize Israel, end their conflict and normalize relations.

Although peace between Israelis and Palestinians would not be “a regional panacea,” Mr. Ban said, “it would go a long way toward promoting political moderation and pluralism. Solving this conflict is a moral and strategic necessity.”

While in Riyadh, Mr. Ban attended a mini-summit on the humanitarian and political situation in strife-torn Somalia, which was chaired by Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Saud and included senior officials from the UN, the League of Arab States, the African Union (AU), the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the European Union (EU) and the Kenyan Government.

He stressed in his speech to the League of Arab States that there can be no military solution to the fighting in the impoverished Horn of Africa nation, adding that “an inclusive political process” offers the only path to lasting stability.

Mr. Ban called on Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government to reach out to the country’s main political and social forces as part of that inclusive process.

The Secretary-General has also conducted a series of bilateral meetings in Riyadh, including a meeting with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to discuss the situation in Darfur, where the UN and the AU want to deploy a hybrid peacekeeping force to stop the fighting that has killed more than 200,000 people since 2003.

“The people of Darfur have waited too long, and suffered so much,” Mr. Ban said in his speech to the League of Arab States, saying grave human rights abuses and violations of international humanitarian law continue to be committed by all sides.

Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah is scheduled to chair a mini-summit meeting tonight on Darfur that will also include Mr. Ban and Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa.

Last night Mr. Ban spoke with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and they discussed Iraq, the deteriorating situation in Lebanon, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Darfur.

Noting that he will travel to Lebanon after his visit to Riyadh, Mr. Ban said he was concerned that although the cessation of hostilities has been holding, the country continues to experience “internal political turmoil.”

The Secretary-General also held bilateral meetings with Lebanese President Emile Lahoud, Mauritania’s President Col. Ely Ould Mohamed Vall and Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi, as well as Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al Nahyan, the President of the United Arab Emirates, and AU Chairman Alpha Oumar Konaré.

General Assembly President Sheikha Haya Rashed Al Khalifa also addressed the summit in Riyadh today, calling for the international community to support the Arab Peace Initiative, which “provides the necessary basis for a just, comprehensive and permanent solution that is consistent with international resolutions.”

Sheikha Haya, who became the first Arab Muslim woman to address a Summit of the League of Arab States, then held bilateral meetings with numerous leaders, including Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, and Lebanese President Emile Lahoud and Prime Minister Fuad Siniora.

Ban Ki-moon calls on Arab leaders to renew backing for Middle East peace plan

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on the Arab Summit..."integrated vision for the establishment of security, harmony and stability in Iraq with Arabs"...." endorsed the security plan".."Support for the draft reconciliation"..."Support and impetus to the Implementation of commitments to security and reconciliation"...

Economic : the participation of Iraqi .. Oman attracts meeting of the Financial Action Task Force for the Middle East

Amman-Azzawi Abdaljbar
There will be a Financial Action Task Force for the Middle East and North Africa held its fifth meeting in Amman early next April under the chairmanship of the Governor of the Central Bank of Jordan, Dr. Touqan illiteracy.

The group is meant "an independent group of a voluntary nature and cooperative," was established in 2004 and based in Bahrain to adopt and implement international standards and recommendations on combating money-laundering and the financing of terrorism and the application of treaties and conventions of the United Nations resolutions.
It also means adopting and implementing Security Council resolutions on combating money laundering and financing of terrorism through the establishment of an effective system implemented by the States in line with the cultural values and their constitutional and legal systems.
It should be pointed out that the group does not emerge from the international treaty to confirm the seriousness of the countries of the region in addressing the risks posed by money laundering and the financing of terrorism.
Participating in the meeting in addition to Iraq, the UAE, Bahrain, Tunisia, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Palestine, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco, Mauritania, Yemen, France, Britain and the United States of America and Spain.
Will also participate in the meeting by representatives of the IMF and the World Bank and the International Financial Action Group "expected" and the United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime and the Cooperation Council for the Arab Gulf states.
Iraq's participation in such a group aware of the risks posed by money laundering and the financing of terrorism in the Middle East and North Africa and the belief that these risks could be addressed effectively through cooperation among the countries of the region.

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Economic : the oil and gas has the wheel? No delay?

د.D. Ahmed Al-Wazzan
If we look all the visions provided by the Iraqi elites about the project, we will find that there are two visions in the local foreign without vision, namely : First, political vision : the "axis of disagreement."

Second : economic vision "axis of difference."
The politicians seem that the dispute is a characteristic that distinguishes their attitudes always about any theme, "This is a negative." The economists-the difference is a characteristic that has always characterized their visions about any theme, "This is positive." While the dispute between the owners of the first vision curse for the people, the difference between the two owners of vision blessing of the people. While we appreciate the circumstances of the political elites who are at the top of government and outside pressure to bear on them by the provisions of the transition in Iraq politically, economically and socially, we just pray to them that gracious God remembers them wisdom and statesmanship policies for the sake of Iraq only. and let us hope after this time (and this time only) that we make a contribution to the subject of specialization, so that we can provide counseling to them, and there will be the decision maker for the political upper hand in the sentencing of this bill. We wish The project contributes to the strengthening of political reconciliation is not in fragmenting "the policy matter before and after" and right after we shook many of the attitudes towards the project, we are convinced that this project from an economic and technical sobriety is high, and our guide in that we did not stand on any point of view able diagnosis of negative fundamental contents of the deleterious materials of this project, but on the contrary to the tenuous nature of the criticisms of the draft law has strengthened our conviction that, in order to provide evidence, we Nesher following stands with a constructive criticism whenever necessary, and erasures follows :
1.1. There are some who make reservations at the fate of the contracts signed by the government of Iraq Cordstan before the entry into force of the law. In fact, paragraph (a) of Article (40) --existing contracts had addressed this matter in accordance with the following text "is the competent body in the territory Cordstan review all contracts for exploration and production agreements with any party before the entry into force of the law to achieve the highest economic benefit of the Iraqi people .. الخ.Etc..
2.2. The consistency of the contents of paragraph reasons with the contents of the constitutional articles on the fact that the oil and gas belong to all the Iraqi people and the definition of the responsibilities and powers of the federal authorities and provincial and district authorities, and here we have to assess the position of the government Cordstan characterized Balmorneh, where it feels that many of the powers of regions, which had been approved in the Constitution and here unlike prior linked to the issue of substance between politicians about the constitutional paragraph relating to the conduct of the constitutional amendments "of the unprecedented" Here comes the problem of the following important question about the draft bill of oil and gas, which was : Why all the rush? no delay? The effect of the federal Adoption wheel are a done deal, while supporters say the delay resolving constitutional disputes before Adoption of the law "and this is political."
3.3. The case raises some quick adoption of the law as it was announced in the Federal government with the government Cordstan in the February 24, 2007 of a law was approved two days later, in February 26, 2007.
The truth is that the state of the economy and the conditions of the Iraqi people and the determination of security, political, and dignity do not require an acceleration of the delay.
4.4. I must commend the efforts of three experts who have contributed to the drafting of the terms of the project "who have known the public yet."
5.5. As long as the project to ensure equitable distribution of resources, it must be a unifying force for the people, and the health of the people of the health of the economy, and we formulate a special issue of the distribution of oil revenues to the law and the distribution of financial resources should be under the jurisdiction of the federal government exclusively, article (11) Paragraphs (a, b).
The need for legislation linked to the question of resources, article (11) paragraph (v) of the Fund of the future must ensure that the investment of this resource to be kept static eroded real value over time instead of going down and have a role in the consolidation of the efforts of growth and development instead of keeping them dormant without taking any action here, we propose that it be done through international mechanisms in place and the proposals contained within the World Trade Organization, which states that : provide Smahat sense of the right to continue providing support to the sectors of the agricultural and industrial activities in order to improve their competitiveness in the context of the time periods ranging from (5 - 3) years.
This allows for some developing countries invest in improving surpluses rentier sectors real "manufacturing and agricultural." As far as this article) (paragraph (). The bill allows oil and gas potential of this fund to invest resources in those areas and activities instead of freezing and then had hit erosion in the real value note that Iraq is on the verge of recognizing its membership in the World Trade Organization. As we stand a distance of one of the points of view of all politicians, "assuming the availability of patriotic sense," we believe that the necessity and importance of such a law, in economic terms are settled at the suffering of the Iraqi economy from a state of weakness because it is economical disabled economy does not yield productive and people suffering from a state of clinics and this is affecting the conscience and dignity of the Iraqi people at heart and we recommend it to our leaders and opposition politicians to expedite the resolution of the issue of the constitutional amendment in order to disable the logical major problem facing the Adoption of the project and questioned the aforementioned "no haste not delay" here and hope that the politicians not Tmerera timing of a political issue across the economic and technical.

Satterfield: Iraq oil law will pass
UPI - [29/03/2007]

The Bush administration remains optimistic Iraq will approve a law governing its oil and natural gas despite growing opposition.

Ambassador David Satterfield, senior adviser to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the State Department's Iraq coordinator, said a deal reached last month on the framework for the draft hydrocarbons law meets two of three points necessary for the military "surge" to be successful.

The added troops "cannot by and of itself achieve lasting security for Baghdad or Iraq as a whole," Satterfield said Tuesday at a forum at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

He said it needs to be coupled with political reconciliation, economic development and diplomatic engagement.

Kurdish and federal government negotiators ended nearly a year of deadlock and agreed in part to the law, which will govern Iraq's oil and determine revenue sharing. Not all the details have been worked out, something necessary before Parliament takes up the measure.

The law won't affect current production, which is struggling amid war, sabotage and attacks, shortages of electricity and historic degradation after years of sanctions and misuse by Saddam Hussein.

It will set the framework for investments in Iraq's oil, which at 115 billion barrels of proven reserves is the third-most in the world.

The Iraqi Accordance Front and the Iraqi National Slate, led by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, have come out against the law.

So has the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions, which can shut down most of Iraq's 2 million barrels per day production if it wanted to.

This could spoil any progress the Bush administration has pointed to as one of the benchmarks for continuing the support for the current Iraqi government.

"I believe that this is a benchmark that will be met. It will be met at the timeframe which I think will be defined in terms of weeks and months and not longer period," Satterfield said.

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Pentagon Supply Needs Help Revitalize Iraqi Economy
FOX News - [29/03/2007]

In an Iraq jobs program, the Pentagon has helped reopen three factories shuttered after the 2003 invasion, seeding the ground by buying uniforms and armored vehicles from two of them.

Reopening state-owned factories that produced everything from cement to buses for Saddam Hussein's regime is among efforts President Bush hopes will boost the economy and help salvage a violent Iraq. His controversial strategy of increasing troops there to try to calm violence is meant to buy the Iraqi government time to move forward on political reconciliation and reconstruction.

In a program started nearly a year ago, the Defense Department has reopened a large textile factory in Najaf by buying uniforms for Iraqi soldiers and police that the U.S. has been training, and has reopened a vehicle factory south of Baghdad by buying armored vehicles, said Paul Brinkley. He is deputy undersecretary of defense in charge of Pentagon business modernization efforts and has been running the program.

Officials helped find other customers for the third restarted factory, in Ramadi, which makes ceramic products the U.S. has no need for in Iraq.

Brinkley has been taking representatives from private industry in the United States and elsewhere to Iraq to encourage them to do business in the country.

One company has agreed to buy 120 trucks from the transport company and another is expected to buy clothing from the textile factory that Brinkley said could be on American shelves by fall.

Brinkley declined to name the companies, saying they are still negotiating.

After the 2003 invasion of Iraq, occupation officials of the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority decided to do nothing with the government-owned factories, hoping they would quickly be taken over by the private sector. Privatization never happened as violence gripped the country and disrupted the economy.

Brinkley said the program will reopen private as well as government factories.

Military commanders have long seen employment as one of the keys to slowing the violence. The idea of restarting factories differs from some previous reconstruction efforts that have had limited success in that it's aimed at providing long-term employment for factory workers as opposed to short-term jobs that came with individual rebuilding projects.

Of some 200 large factories that made up Iraq's former industrial base, Brinkley said the Pentagon believes 140 are potentially viable and has identified ways to get 56 of them running again, hopefully this year.

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