Thread: Iraq/Dinar News up until April 10th 11pm ctz

Originally Posted by shotgunsusie

WoOt!!!!

Susie I just read on another forum that art140 had been ratified by the
Iraqi goverment.

Originally Posted by rkpdwp

Susie I just read on another forum that art140 had been ratified by the
Iraqi goverment.

That is excellent news............I think they just cleared a huge hurdle.....all the pieces are coming together just hang in there folks

GOI Has Recently Ratified Article 140 A new crisis between Iraqi Kurdistan and Turkey ..
ودعوة لتوسط أميركا
The invitation to mediate America

لندن: «الشرق الاوسط»
London :> Middle East>
وصف مسؤول كردي بارز تصريحات رئيس الوزراء التركي التي وجه فيها تحذيرات لرئيس اقليم كردستان العراق بـ«المتشنجة وعصبية».
A prominent Kurdish official described statements by the Turkish Prime Minister in which he warned of the President of Iraq's Kurdistan region b <convulsive and neurological>.
وقال بان كردستان العراق ستدافع عن نفسها في حال تعرضها لاي هجوم من قبل تركيا.
He said that Iraqi Kurdistan would defend themselves in case of any attack by Turkey.
الا انه دعا في الوقت ذاته الى اجراء حوار ثلاثي كردي ـ تركي ـ اميركي لحل الازمات العالقة بين كردستان العراق وتركيا.
However, at the same time called for a tripartite dialogue Turkish Kurd American resolve crisis pending between Iraqi Kurdistan and Turkey.
وقال النائب محمود عثمان عن كتلة التحالف الكردستاني ان تركيا تريد ان تتدخل بشؤون مدينة كركوك والتركمان.
The deputy said Mahmoud Othman from the Kurdistan Alliance bloc that Turkey wants to intervene affairs of the city of Kirkuk and the Turkmen.
واضاف في حوار هاتفي مع «الشرق الاوسط» من كردستان العراق «اذا اعطى الاتراك الحق لانفسهم بالتدخل في شأن كركوك والتركمان فلنا الحق بالتدخل بشؤون شعب كردستان في تركيا».
He added in a telephone conversation with <Middle East> of the Iraqi Kurdistan> If the Turks give themselves the right to intervene in Kirkuk and the Turkmen We have the right to intervene in the affairs of the people of Kurdistan in Turkey>.

وكان رئيس الوزراء التركي رجب طيب اردوغان قد وجه تحذيرا شديد اللهجة الى رئيس اقليم كردستان مسعود البارزاني قال فيه «يجب أن يكونوا (الاكراد العراقيون) حريصين للغاية في انتقاء الكلمات..
The Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has in a strongly-worded warning to the President of the Kurdistan region Masoud Barzani said <must be (Iraqi Kurds) very careful in the selection of words ..
والا ستسحقهم هذه الكلمات...
Otherwise Stzhakhm these words ...
بارزاني تجاوز حدوده ثانية».
Barzani exceeded its second>.
وكان بارزاني قد قال في مقابلة تلفزيونية في مطلع الاسبوع انه اذا تدخلت تركيا في شمال العراق الذي تقطنه أغلبية كردية كما هددت كثيرا بأن تفعل فان الاكراد العراقيين سيدخلون في مدن في جنوب شرقي تركيا الذي تقطنه أغلبية كردية، بحسب وكالة رويترز.
It was Barzani has said in a television interview at the beginning of the week that if Turkey intervened in northern Iraq, the predominantly Kurdish and often threatened to do the Iraqi Kurds, who enter the cities in the south-east of Turkey, which has a Kurdish majority, according to Reuters.

ويطالب الاكراد بضم مدينة كركوك الغنية بالنفط الى اقليم كردستان الامر الذي يشكل قلقا لتركيا بدعوى ان المدينة تقطنها غالبية تركمانية.
It demands that the Kurds incorporate the oil-rich city of Kirkuk to the Kurdistan region, which is of concern to Turkey, claiming that the city inhabited by the majority of Turkoman.
وكانت الحكومة العراقية قد صادقت مؤخرا على المادة 140 في الدستور العراقي تنص على تطبيع الاوضاع في مدينة كركوك واجراء استفتاء واحصاء سكاني وترحيل العرب الوافدين اليها قبل نهاية العام الحالي.
The Iraqi government has recently ratified Article 140 in the Iraqi constitution stipulates the normalization of the situation in Kirkuk and the holding of a referendum and the population census and the deportation of Arabs arrivals by the end of the current year.
وقال محمود عثمان ان البارزاني لديه استعداد لاجراء محادثات ثلاثية (كردية ـ تركية ـ اميركية) من اجل حل المشاكل العالقة كافة، واضاف «نطالب بحل مشكلة كردستان تركيا..
Said Mahmoud Othman said that Barzani is willing to hold tripartite talks (Kurdish Turkish American) for the solution of all outstanding problems, and added <call for Turkey to solve the problem of Kurdistan ..
ومساعدة تركيا لحل مشاكلها مع حزب العمال الكردستاني بالحوار».
And helping Turkey to resolve its problems with the PKK dialogue>.
الا انه اردف قائلا بان «الاتراك يرفضون اجراء أي حوار معنا»، واضاف «نحن نتمسك بوضعنا ومنطقتنا ولا نتجاوز على احد لكن ان كان هناك هجوم من قبل تركيا فسندافع عن انفسنا..لكن نحن لن نبادر لاي تصعيد».
But he had that <Turkish refuse any dialogue with us>, and added <We adhere to our region and does not go beyond one but that there was an attack by Turkey defend ourselves .. But we will not be the first for any escalation>.

وقال ان القيادة الكردية في الاقليم ستجتمع قريبا ورجح بان يصدر بيان ردا على تصريحات رئيس الوزراء التركي.
He said that the Kurdish leadership in the region will meet soon and likely to issue a statement in response to statements made by Turkish Prime Minister.
من جهة اخرى، أفادت صحيفة «ديلي نيوز» التركية امس بأن وزير الخارجية التركي عبد الله غول اجرى اتصالا هاتفيا اول من امس بوزيرة الخارجية الاميركية كوندوليزا رايس قائلا انه انزعج للغاية بسبب تصريحات بارزاني.
On the other hand, the newspaper reported <Daily News> yesterday that the Turkish and Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul held a telephone conversation the day before yesterday, the Minister of State Condoleezza Rice was very annoyed because of the statements of Barzani.
ونقلت وكالة الانباء الالمانية عن التقرير أن غول طلب من رايس ان تضمن ان بارزاني لن يصرح بمثل هذه الامور مجددا والتي وصفها الوزير بأنها تهديد لوحدة تركيا الترابية.
The news agency quoted a German report that Gul asked Rice to ensure that Barzani would not say such things again, which has been described by the minister as a threat to the territorial integrity of Turkey.
وتشعر تركيا بالقلق منذ فترة طويلة إزاء جهود اكراد العراق لضم كركوك الى الإقليم الكردستاني ذي الحكم الذاتي.
Turkey is concerned for a long time about the efforts of Iraqi Kurds to include Kirkuk to the region of Kurdistan autonomy.
ودعت تركيا إلى تأجيل الاستفتاء المتعلق بوضع المدينة قائلة إن الاف الاكراد انتقلوا الى المنطقة وبهذا فإنهم قد أضعفوا الاقلية التركمانية المقيمة هناك.
Turkey called for a postponement of the referendum on the status of the city, saying that thousands of Kurds have moved to this area and they had weakened the Turkmen minority living there.

وتتخوف تركيا من انه اذا اصبحت كركوك جزءا من إقليم كردستان فإن هذا سيجعل الاكراد يعلنون استقلالهم في نهاية الامر وبهذا يغذون النزعة الانفصالية لدى الاقلية الكردية في تركيا.
Turkey is worried that if Kirkuk become part of the territory of Kurdistan, this will make the Kurds declare independence at the end of this matter and feed separatism among the Kurdish minority in Turkey.

وكان مصدر امني قد صرح امس عن مقتل جندي تركي وثلاثة من الانفصاليين الاكراد التابعين لحزب العمال الكردستاني في اشتباكات وقعت في جنوب شرقي الاناضول، بحسب وكالة الصحافة الفرنسية.
A security source had said yesterday in the killing of a Turkish soldier and three Kurdish separatists from the Kurdistan Workers Party, in clashes in south-east Anatolia, according to Agence France-Presse.
واشار المصدر الى ان الجندي قتل مساء اول من امس في المنطقة الجبلية من محافظة بنغول حيث شن الجيش نهاية الاسبوع حملة عسكرية واسعة ضد حزب العمال الكردستاني.
The source pointed out that the soldier was killed yesterday evening in the mountainous area of Bingol province, where the army launched late last week launched a large-scale military against the PKK.
واضاف ان الانفصاليين الثلاثة قتلوا في عملية عسكرية اخرى في محافظة تونجلي.
He added that the three separatists were killed in a military operation in the province of Tunceli.

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Originally Posted by Adster

From elsewhere...........


Exchange rate for Dinar up in Baghdad!

I just received this e-mail from one of my customers. Mark is a Brit who is presently over in Baghdad. Thought you guys would be interested in seeing this. He would be referrring to April 9th in the e-mail.

Hi ***,

Just to give you very quick update on the current exchange rate. Have changed some more Dinar today, works out at 123000k to $100, so another positive jump. However to counter that, local shops are raising all the prices of their goods to counter.




And how are these poor people meant to buy anything if prices are going up?

A decline in prices of commodities in the market


Dr. Majid Al-Soori, expert at the Iraqi Central Bank, expected the decrease in prices as a result to the procedure taken by the Central Bank in raising the value of the Iraqi dinar against the dollar, and the matter requires a period of time estimated at the end of the current year. Al-Soori drew attention that the insistence of traders on current prices is quite normal because the merchant looks back to the first exchange rate which makes him adheres to the current prices but reality will tempt them to lower their prices after the new supply of goods arrive.

He said: citizen can contribute in this equation through consumer awareness and waiting for the decline of prices and postpone part of his requirements and needs that are not urgent.

Prices at Baghdad markets are relatively stable for all goods and materials except transport fees despite the recent rise in price of fuel.

A number of shops owners in Baghdad said that the security plan has contributed greatly to the ease in the arrival of goods to the warehouses from the neighboring countries, despite the high amounts of transport fees, but traders mentioned that it is important for the Secretariat of Baghdad and the concerned authorities to work on the organization of the movement in the main markets in Baghdad, and seek to overcome the obstacles facing them represented in the works of cleaning and lift some barriers that hinder the vehicles transporting materials and goods, in addition to calling for the creation of alternative markets for those in the hot spots and provide security in other markets where terrorist operations continue.

Hashim Al Saeedy, trader at Alshorjah market, said that there is a good purchase movement these days because of the security plan which facilitated the arrival of people to the market as prices stayed as they are, despite the rise in fuel prices.

He added: we expect a growing turnout of citizens to purchase household electrical goods after the application of the new salary grading, which is hoped to raise the rates of governmental employees’ salaries.

On his part, Wisam Alzeidi, foodstuffs trader, at Jameelah market said that there is a growing buying and selling movement since the beginning of Baghdad security plan, which has greatly facilitated the arrival of traders from Iraq's various governorates to buy from Jameelah market, which is a center for the sale of bulk food.

Alzeidi added: prices are fixed, and there is no increase; and the news which refers to a rise in prices due to high fuel prices is nothing but rumors far away from the truth. In fact, some of the articles witnessed a decrease in their prices for because of the ease of shipment from the border to stores in the markets of Baghdad.

AlZeidi pointed out to the large movement of sale of materials and foodstuffs entering from Iran, Jordan and Syria, and that the prices of all materials are fixed and stable due to the stability of the dollar, which insures the merchant that there won’t be any coups at the dollar as it was before...

Abdul-Hasan Thamir, an economic researcher, said that the prices of materials and goods cannot stand any rise due to the stability of the salaries of governmental employees and the dollar’s exchange rates in Baghdad, through the "good" policy of the Central Bank to reduce the impact of inflation .. Therefore, prices remained stable.

Thamir added: the non-interference by government bodies in the work of merchants and the selling and buying operation increased the selling and buying movement without pressure.



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Invitations to strengthen the Oil Federal Council
Invitations to strengthen the Oil Federal Council
Translated by IRAQdirectory.com - [10/04/2007]


Experts specialized in the oil sector and academics confirmed, at a symposium held in the city of Amarah in southern Iraq, that the bill of oil and gas which is currently being discussed by the parliament for approval “needs a review and adjustments” that are considered “essential”. They pointed out that there is a need “to ensure that the controversial draft law, will include compensations to the governorates producing oil and gas, with Missan at the top, for the environmental damage caused by oil and gas exploration, and for agricultural land use in oil production”.

The symposium came out with other recommendations demanding not to work by the sharing-production contracts and stick to the risk and service contracts only on condition that any contract cannot be carried out only after gaining the consent of the oil and gas Federal Council. The seminar also proposed adding supplement 3 to supplement 2, and make it from the jurisdictions of the National Oil Company exclusively; also, the contracts with oil companies must ensure the implementation of oil investment projects and give priority to extraction and production from the border fields, especially the ones common with the neighboring countries, giving priority to contracts that ensure marketing.

Oil expert, Jassim Raheem Al-Ithari, said that “the law should be presented for broad discussion before it is approved”, noting that “articles 111 and 112 of the Constitution did not refer to the other national wealth other than oil and gas. Also the constitutional articles especially article 112, did not refer to the exploited fields that require resolving the controversy about them”.

The Symposium recommended the adoption of Amman symposium recommendations held recently on the law; the legal expert in the Iraqi Oil Ministry, Jabbar Alsaidi, pointed out to “the importance of enhancing anIraqi oil law, re-establishing the National Oil Company and amend articles 111 and 112 of the Constitution, to pave the way for some of the parties to sign contracts without referring to Baghdad”.

He explained that the Cabinet “authorized” some bodies described by “regional” to negotiate and sign contracts just like the Ministry of Oil and the National Oil Company.

The Symposium stressed “the need for the parliament to ratify all contracts and the nomination of a supreme body to resolve the arising disputes“, suggesting “their settlement through the Federal Court”.
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Former Iraqi official calls for the formation of an international board, headed American to consider the future of Iraq

الشؤون السياسية 10/04/2007 10:00:00 مPolitical Affairs 10 / 04 / 2007 10:00:00 m



.Former Iraqi official calls for the formation of an international board, headed American to consider the future of Iraq and the Washington - Allawi said that to achieve this requires the creation of an international entity sponsored by the United States control of the transition process in Iraq but not abandon the Iraqi constitution or the political fruit of the recent Iraqi elections.
".He said that "the current occupation of Iraq is not a traditional occupation, which is the denial of state sovereignty with the presence of an external force to exercise direct authority but by a different kind of limited sovereignty, which is unable Iraqi central government from exercising power and control of the country."
وانتقد ..He criticized Allawi, who is here to promote his latest book, which is titled "the occupation of Iraq ..
.Winning the war and the loss of peace "American policy in Iraq following the 2003 occupation, saying that the policy lacked a structured and detailed plan.
عام".He added that the United States has not granted Iraqi ministers authorities during the period of interim authority, saying that "the presence of weak governments in Iraq and the lack of knowledge of the real reservoir of force in the country and the absence of the will to accept the idea that the overthrow of the regime forces launched a new all caused great repercussions not only on the inside Iraq, but in the region in general. "
وقال .He said that the fall of Saddam Hussein has achieved a positive result and one is the replacement of a totalitarian regime in institutional and constitutional across local elections but that it has resulted in a passive things are a vast increase in their demographic with a sudden represented at the Shiites and limit the influence of others represented by the Sunni Arabs.
وشدد.He stressed the need to end the civil conflict in Iraq and to reach some sort of solution to the status quo, which would lead to the existence of a central unable to exercise its authority in the area between 60 and 70% of the country.

به".Allawi said that "the Kurds in Iraq became more isolated at the present time, but that will not lead to the disintegration of Iraq, not because of the components of the Kurds do not wish to do so but because the international system will not allow it."
وقال ".He said that the withdrawal of American forces from Iraq should be based on "access to a situation where the existence of the Iraqi state, and significantly more than the mere existence of a viable government and defend itself because the presence of such a government would not be achieved if the region rejected the government."
.He added that the majority of the Iraqi parliamentary currently belong to groups condemn its influence to the Shi'ite Islamic parties had the support of the Shiite religious leadership in Najaf.
.He said it was difficult in the current Iraqi political spectrum separation between good parties in the "resistance" and the poor and between the parties Qaeda and terrorists.
.He continued that the first category seeks to power it wants without the use of terrorism and, therefore, it is necessary to deal with each of these category to talk about the interests of each of them and reduce the ceiling of their demands for access to a stable government in Iraq.
وردا .In response to a question by Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) on the refusal of the government-Maliki put the American administration any timetables for forcing it to the enactment of the oil and amendment of the law abolishing the Baath Allawi said that the situation in Iraq makes the implementation of things is somewhat different, since the law of oil, for example, beyond it should pass a law but it is a case of full determine how to distribute the proceeds of Iraq and its possession of such proceeds, which is directly related to the issue of local authorities in the face of the central authority.
.He added that in regard to the law of abolishing the Baath, that law was a clear indication of outlets power and influence in certain areas the country, but it was ignored because of the refusal of Ayatollah Sistani, it will be pass without his consent, pointing out that the Iraqi government wants to discuss these matters as they deem is It is not believed, according to the United States.
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OK THAT LAST ARTICLE I PASTED......VERY ODD, THE TITLE ON NAHRAIN MENTIONS THE FINANCE MINISTER IN THE HEADER, YET THE ARTICLE DOESN'T MENTION IT WHEN YOU OPEN, TO MAKE IT EVER WEIRDER, THE SAME HEADLINE IS LISTE 5 TIMES ON NAHRAIN IN A ROW, AND EACH ONE I TRIED TO OPEN STILL DOESN'T SHOW THE FINANCE MINISTER IN THE ARTICLE???

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Originally Posted by michael16

I've been in this a long time too so go stroke your duck. Maybe you should drink a little more of your H20. I think your brain is already sloshing around.

Iraq: Third and Fourth Reviews Under the Stand-By Arrangement, Financing Assurances Review, and Requests for Extension of the Arrangement and for Waiver of Nonobservance of a Performance Criterion - Staff Report; Staff Supplement; Press Release on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Iraq
pdf link: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/...07/cr07115.pdf

Iraq: Third and Fourth Reviews Under the Stand-By Arrangement, Financing Assurances Review, and Requests for Extension of the Arrangement and for Waiver of Nonobservance of a Performance Criterion - Staff Report; Staff Supplement; Press Release on th

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

President of the Parliament of Kurdistan consider holding a joint conference with Iraqi Parliament

أArbil - (Voices of Iraq)
An official source that the President of the Kurdistan Parliament Adnan Mufti discussed in Erbil today, Tuesday, with the Iraqi deputy and former cabinet minister in the Iraqi government preparations for the holding of a joint conference between the two parliaments to Iraqi Kurdistan.

He said Tariq essence, Media Advisor to the President of the Parliament of Kurdistan, the News Agency (Voices of Iraq) Independent that the Mufti had "met today with Ms. Safiya Suhail member of the House of Representatives
Iraqi and Mr. Bakhtiyar Amin, the former minister of human rights in the Iraqi government. "
He explained that the President of the Parliament of the province and discussed with the Secretary-Suhail. "Preparations for the holding of a joint conference between the Parliament of Kurdistan and the Iraqi parliament, with the aim of bringing the two parliaments ... The specific mechanisms for joint action between them. " Jawher added "support Mr. Adnan Mufti steps for the convening of such a conference in common soon."

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