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Together we build Iraq »festive scene on Baghdad
(Voice of Iraq) - 22-05-2007


«Together build Iraq» festive scene on Baghdad .. Without advance notice

Calls for national reconciliation and the renunciation of sectarian violence coincided with the anniversary of the announcement by the government of Maliki

A Baghdad. Q. B : The artists Iraqis yesterday before a modest audience in the heart of Baghdad, festive entitled «support national reconciliation plan and impose law»; Called upon which to reject violence and rebuild Iraq at this stage. Celebrations were held, which coincided with the passage of a full year of the Declaration of the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, under the slogan «Iraq build together», played on the «National Theater» downtown Baghdad. Get out and festivities Ghanim Hamid and writer Ali Hussein phreatic theater performance and poems calling for national cohesion. No witness theater, which seats around the strict security measures, widely attended despite the presence of a representative of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, spokesman plan «impose law» security Brigadier Qasim Atta, the majority of viewers in the theater workers, their families and staff in the building.
He said Saad Said one staff «always surprises us in the days always there or theatrical work of art without prior declaration». The artist Haider Mun'athir «Art must take real and effective role at this stage in order to wage the political arena who thinks that, unfortunately, he is the only person responsible for the corrected». He added «politicians should take note of the role of art», continued «must benefit from the experiences of others and see how politicians benefited from the visions of artists and objects to the sign, but used on literature, art and culture of Isheeah». The Mun'athir his foot on Iraq and his refusal to leave the country; Like many Iraqi artists, saying «require life need to stay within my Valmaatark is the real homeland, and to remain a challenge and determination, which is almost the artist from his family and the Division».

Meanwhile, the singer Abdel orbit regretted that the «artist currently marginalized and does not have the opportunity to influence the building society, as do politicians». Raqia Iraqi Salman emotions that «this work of the festivities, the son of circumstance undergone by our homeland, and purpose of conveying the message of where we say : love and loyalty to build Iraq and Nkhit tearing of the fabric». Her «should be based on the artist's work worthy of this stage of the works up to the level variables in the arena, and the State must be concerned with the artist and writer, because the fore, and we hope that puts our soon dress wellness». Prince Hassan said an onlooker at the end of the supply «enjoyed Balahtphalih We hope to be called for each of exhorted unity and reconciliation».

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PARLIAMENTARIAN : figures on oil production unrealistic
(Voice of Iraq) - 22-05-2007

The pressure for the drafting of the oil law

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An official of the oil of the Iraqi parliament that the figures stated on the production and export of crude oil «far from reality», confirming the existence of «mislead this regard» by the views he did not identify. He also said the government forces exposed to pressure «local and foreign» for the formulation of the law of Iraqi oil, which is still under discussion between the political forces and the government of Kurdistan region and the central government in Baghdad.
The MP said Jaber Al Khalifa «Middle East» : «that all the announced figures on crude oil production and export figures are far removed from reality .. We are fully convinced of the existence of a massive disinformation in this regard », and stressed that the matter does not only includes the production of oil and even on importing oil derivatives, and oil export and distribution in black markets« imported large quantities but the Iraqi street live in the shadow of successive crises and scarcity unjustified », He added that «supposed to be subject to existing oil installations rehabilitation operations but what we see is that it affected a continuous and energies in the retreat also». Khalifa said that the meter is still inherent in the production and export operations and across all outlets and the Ministry of Oil is still used method of calculating the metric of extracted oil and the source, He added, «This means that all the figures are inaccurate oil extracted from the well until the arrival of foreign or domestic consumer» and said «This is totally unacceptable and must come to an end through the oil». He said Khalifa «must develop rigorous regulatory regime».

Khalifa denied the existence of domestic or foreign pressure to influence the drafting of the law or even accelerate the approval, and stressed that «such pressures do not feel their existence did not» However, it was «The political forces or government intervention in the political process is the most affected by these pressures, This makes all the forces away from the arena of government far removed from such pressures, and this would bring it closer to a national interest in mind ». Khalifa stressed that the new oil law is now the focus of study and consultation of various political forces, particularly between the government of the Kurdistan region and the central government has so far prevented the Iraqi Parliament for examination and approval. Barriers Act and the distribution of oil wealth between the Territory several controversial points, including the Kurdistan Regional government wants to allow foreign companies and investors to enter the Iraqi oil sector, the central government believes that the investment must be centralized and under certain conditions. The other point of contention is centered on addressing items distribution of oil wealth and allocate specific percentages of the territory where the oil wells and also change some clauses of the Iraqi oil company.

Jaber said that the new law had not yet reached the oil in Parliament for the purpose of study is still the subject of discussion between the government of the Kurdistan region and the central government to agree on formulas initially. He said that «member assigned to study law fully convinced that a file, the Iraqi Oil is now in dire need of foreign investment is the best and fastest way to overcome the problem of the deterioration of oil production facilities, modernization and the need for very large amounts of rehabilitation, it is now in a deplorable state and in all respects».

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pointed to the experience of Kurdistan, said that al-Maliki best deal with creditors opponents

POLITICIANS : National Agreement and the promotion of reconciliation optimal solution to the Iraq crisis

Baghdad-Sabah.

MPs unanimous on the need to support the government of national unity across national agreement between all political forces and parties and promote the national reconciliation.

He said Hassan Sunaid MP from the United Iraqi Alliance :

"The government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki politically coexist with regional states have issued death and destruction."


"He added of the National Iraqi News / yesterday : "These countries have had a negative impact on the security situation in Iraq," saying : "The government has been able to

To save the Iraqi people from a civil war
Grinding it will continue for several years and destroy the country.

He continued : "The Al-Maliki deal with his opponents best be dealt with in the States were no opponents dealt with in this way," He pointed out : "The file services needs greater effort and competencies led to the provision of these services for citizens and the government has drawn up a program of reconstruction to raise the level of these services and reconstruction in Iraq." For his part, member of the Kurdistan Alliance, Monday, that the political forces to adopt experience of the Kurdistan region in the national reconciliation, considering it a successful experiment. He added Nawzad rose Saleh told reporters that "what happened in the province was an initiative of my two main parties (National Union and democratic), which eternally flexibility in the positions and forward various concessions."

He continued : "In addition to sacrificing the interests of party, some of the conditions they insist on some things ... The success of the draft national reconciliation. "

It is hoped that the Iraqi government convene a special conference of the forces, political parties and currents within the project of national reconciliation through next June. Saleh pointed out that "reconciliation conference to be held next June is a good sign, but the same time we wish to be a useful and positive and not be doomed to the fate of previous conferences." He added, "We hope the various parties participating in the conference to determine the actual position of the subjects of Iraq and its people from the diamond and look

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Some provide what is best for all citizens. "

Acharali and that "the success of this conference requires everyone permissive attitudes and show flexibility towards reconciliation and forgetting the past and ridding the Iraqi people of all pending problems."
Saleh and called on all political forces to be aware of the interest of the country and works to sacrifice partisan and sectarian interests and thus the success of national reconciliation to overcome the obstacles and problems accumulated.

For his part, MP Mahmoud Othman from the Kurdistan Alliance : "There is interference by the political parties and actors in the decisions taken by the government." He added : "The program which was agreed upon before the parliamentary blocs to form the government, but there is a good control of the parties and some on the government's decisions would lead to some Alarbakat in the success of the government's functions."

Osman explained : "The selection of government ministers on the basis of competence and integrity and that is not based on quotas were selected as ministers in the past on the basis of partisan allegiance and orders the parties to which they belong," showing : "These things have led to the non-implementation of the government's program agreed addition to the government dealt with the situation in Iraq based on security and ways to deal with the political and economic development through the elimination of unemployment and the provision of services and others."

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Osman asked : "activation of national reconciliation and dialogue with everyone except terrorists and Saddam carries thought."

It attributed the official spokesman of the Accord Front Dr. Salim Abdullah al-Jabouri some weak joints government to the absence of team spirit among the partners in the political process. He told the Iraqi National News : "The focus should be on the ministerial political blocs agreed to raise the performance of the government," stating that "the origin to be a national program agreed to by the political blocs and the implementation of this program at multiple stages to bring the concept of partnership in the political process." And Abdullah pointed out : "The need to coincide with this program - building projects contribute to the building of the state and focus on ”Component citizenship among the Iraqi people. "

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Banks and companies enhance their activity and stock exchange indices still low
18/05/2007

Baghdad-file Press
Despite the difficult security conditions and political unstable, it has continued to banks and corporate treasurers and strengthened its work to keep pace with economic developments potential future after the implementation of the new investment law and the formation of the National Authority for Investment terms of the Middle East Bank issued a statement on its financial position and results of its performance in the first quarter of 2007 as profits reached about 4.811 billion dinars before calculating tax deductions and reserves and allocations, noted that the paid-up capital of the bank is 27 billion dinars.
He also called on the Bank Alorka its shareholders to attend the annual meeting on May 31, 2007 to discuss the agenda prepared, with the Bank of Babel its shareholders to attend the annual meeting also the same date.
On the other called Palestine Hotel (Méridien) its shareholders to attend the extraordinary meeting on May 24, 2007 to elect members of the Governing Council in its new session.
In terms of Iraq's market for securities, the key indicators are still UNSTEADY tend to decline, which witnessed Monday's meeting held May 14, 2007 262 deals worth circulation volume of 600 million dinars and the number of shares in circulation amounted to 367 million shares, while the index index 25.344.


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المصار� والشركات تعزز نشاطها ومؤشرات البورصة مازالت متدنية

The paper identified the priorities for reconstruction, development and economic reforms in Iraq
20/05/2007

Baghdad-file Press
The Federation of Iraqi businessmen summary of a paper to the International Conference recently held in Sharm el-Sheikh under the heading "issues of reconstruction and development and economic reforms in Iraq." reviewed by which the nature of the circumstances that confronted Iraq over four decades of the rule of totalitarian regimes and of the negative consequences that faced the Iraqi economy, a result of wars and the siege and misguided economic policies and the growing dominance of segments and categories parasitic and marginal economic life and looting the country's wealth and resources,

She also discussed the post-war conditions and the recent change overhead and the events that followed, including suffered from the ravages and destruction of infrastructure and economic projects, productivity and service, , as well as measures and actions inept and rash adopted by the interim civil administration of the occupation and its contribution to the deterioration of the economic and social deterioration, and the unstable political environment and security in the country so it is imperative establishment of a new democratic and pluralistic society based on the gradual shift towards the economy the market in the part of a national strategy for development and economic reforms, the central, and take the course of an executive not centrally and very flexible, and are strongly dependent binding and institutional formula and the overall mobilization of the potential and human resources, material and technical, and the extensive participation of governmental and private sectors, experts and spe******ts.

And research paper identified a set of fundamental principles that should be made in the Account, including weighted to give priority to development issues and economic reforms without which they can not provide the political environment and stable security, as well as the revision of laws and regulations and instructions inherited from the former regime. , as well as the legal legacy of the interim civil administration of the occupation in order to create a legal environment compatible with the requirements of integrated development, and, through the formation of a supreme council to address this task, and the trend towards determining the nature of the economic system adopted by the country, a clear and very accurate view overcome jurisprudence and ensure harmony and coherence of all efforts, activities and events and the measures and procedures in one direction, and work to overcome all the laws, regulations and administrative instructions and behaviors mouthpiece of the marginalized and ignored, and the exclusion of the private sector, in addition to indexing sound policies about the major issues in the economic, social, , including finance, investment and banking system, and privatization of industry, agriculture, tourism and construction, reconstruction, and poverty and unemployment, as well as the problems and crises of housing and services, and ways of activating economic sectors, productivity and service.

The paper identified the research highlighted the tendency to try to achieve these goals presented in future.

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Discuss ways to support banks and the prospects for the private sector
18/05/2007

Maysan-file Press
Within Alerbenamej cultural Economic Federation of Iraqi businessmen branch architecture to 2007, held a panel to discuss the role of banks in supporting the private sector, and participation of representatives of Chamber of Commerce Chairman Al Amarah entire Globe and its board members, as well as Vice-Chairman of the Federation of Iraqi contractors Branch Amarah Qasim Globe, in addition to the managers of bank branches in the province and a large number of businessmen, members of the Union.

The seminar was opened by Chief Abdel Jabr Al-Zubaydi word referring to the role that banks contribute in supporting the private sector, particularly in the area of investment, explaining the nature of the contradiction between the tightening of monetary policy by the Central Bank and increase interest rates to more than 23% and a negative impact on the work of banks in supporting investment projects adopted by the Union of businessmen in the province.

Special construction of a power station capacity of 100 MW could be increased 400 MW and other projects in the manufacturing of oil, in addition to housing projects task, where was the discussion of the importance of these projects and can be implemented by the private sector in the case of providing support and backing from banks based on the positive economic returns and social security and to reduce unemployment and tackle the phenomenon of terrorism.

He accepted the director general of the Rafidain Bank are invited to participate in the seminar and delivered a speech graciously reviewed the importance of the role of banks and their vital contribution to the rehabilitation and development of the country's economy, and praised the project led by Branch IFRC, pointing out that the banks should contribute to support these projects and the benefits of banking competition match those offered by international banks, stressing that the Rafidain Bank supports and supports such projects in Missan governorate and the rest, , praised the qualities and capabilities enjoyed by the directors and officers who Ibenbegue banks to contribute their part in providing credit facilities and loans to merchants and contractors, and the need to retain links and the use of the powers in a flexible manner to support businessmen, contractors and investors in the areas of reconstruction, reconstruction and development, especially grants secured by letters of guarantee business reputations and financial efficiency and work.

The general director of Rafidain Bank to form a joint committee comprising a number of bank managers and representatives of the Federation of Iraqi businessmen and other professional economic organizations in the province to support the coordination and cooperation between the two sides.

And by following another engineer Zubair Ziban guest Bureau chief scientific consultant in the European branch called for the development of investment bank is a supporter and participant of investment in the province alluding to the possibility of entering into the area of Islamic banking and dependence in the area of finance and other facilities.

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مناقشة سبل وا�اق دعم المصار� للقطاع الخاص

Statements of Executive Directors and President Wolfowitz

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STATEMENTS of EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS and PRESIDENT WOLFOWITZ

Washington, May 17, 2007 STATEMENT OF EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS

Over the last three days we have considered carefully the report of the ad hoc group, the associated documents, and the submissions and presentations of Mr. Wolfowitz. Our deliberations were greatly assisted by our discussion with Mr Wolfowitz. He assured us that he acted ethically and in good faith in what he believed were the best interests of the institution, and we accept that. We also accept that others involved acted ethically and in good faith. At the same time, it is clear from this material that a number of mistakes were made by a number of individuals in handling the matter under consideration, and that the Bank’s systems did not prove robust to the strain under which they were placed. One conclusion we draw from this is the need to review the governance framework of the World Bank Group, including the role as well as procedural and other aspects of the Ethics Committee. The Executive Directors accept Mr. Wolfowitz’s decision to resign as President of the World Bank Group, effective end of the fiscal year (June 30, 2007). The Board will start the nomination process for a new President immediately.

We are grateful to Mr. Wolfowitz for his service at the Bank. Much has been achieved in the last two years, including the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative, the Clean Energy Investment Framework, the Africa Action Plan, and the Avian Flu Initiative. 2006 was a record year for IDA lending, especially in Africa. The Bank has launched emergency action programmes in Liberia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic, and played a key role in the Lebanon and Afghanistan donors conference. In March, after an unprecedented global consultation process, we adopted a new strategy for the Bank’s work on Governance and Anti-Corruption. And we have new strategies for Rapid Response in Fragile States, for the Health Sector and for the Financial Sector. We thank Mr Wolfowitz for his leadership and for championing the Bank’s work across so many areas.

It is regrettable that these achievements have been overshadowed by recent events. Mr Wolfowitz has stressed his deep support for and attachment to the World Bank and his responsibility, as its President, to act at all stages in the best interests of the institution. This sense of duty and responsibility has led him to his announcement today. We thank him for this and underscore our appreciation for his commitment to development and his continuing support for the World Bank and its mission.

STATEMENT OF PAUL WOLFOWITZ

I am pleased that after reviewing all the evidence the Executive Directors of the World Bank Group have accepted my assurance that I acted ethically and in good faith in what I believed were the best interests of the institution, including protecting the rights of a valued staff member.
The poorest people of the world, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa deserve the very best that we can deliver. Now it is necessary to find a way to move forward.
To do that, I have concluded that it is in the best interests of those whom this institution serves for that mission to be carried forward under new leadership. Therefore, I am announcing today that I will resign as President of the World Bank Group effective at the end of the fiscal year (June 30, 2007).
The World Bank Group is a critical institution with a noble mission, that of enabling the world’s poor – and particularly the more than a billion men, women and children who struggle to survive on less than a dollar a day – to escape the shackles of poverty. I have had the privilege of visiting World Bank Group staff and programs in some 25 developing countries in the last two years. I’ve had a chance to see with my own eyes and hear with my own ears how eager people are to work hard if they have a chance for a good job, how excited children are to have a chance for the first time to go to school, and how willing parents are to sacrifice so that their children can have a better future.
It has been truly inspirational to be able to help them achieve their goals and it is a privilege for all of us in the World Bank Group to have a chance, every day that we come to work, to make a difference in the lives of those who are less fortunate. I am grateful to have enjoyed that privilege for nearly two years and I am proud of what we have accomplished together as a team.
We provided record levels of support last year to the poorest countries of the world, $9.5 billion, through the International Development Association (IDA) and we are headed to a new record this year. Half of that support is going to Sub-Saharan African countries, also setting new records;

• <LI class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in">We are further increasing support to the poorest countries through the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative completed last year which canceled $38 billion of debt owed by the HIPC countries to IDA, along with specific commitments by the IDA donors to provide additional support to make up for the lost reflows to IDA on a dollar-for-dollar basis;
• And last year we transferred a record amount of Bank Group income, $950 million, to IDA, including the first‑ever transfer from the IFC to IDA;

We have not only increased the quantity of resources available to the poorest countries through IDA, we are also making those resources more effective, and we are providing greater assurance to donors that they are being used properly:
· By helping developing countries strengthen systems of governance and supporting their efforts to fight corruption and to recover stolen assets;
· By placing greater emphasis on measuring the results our support is producing, although much more work needs to be done in this area; and
· By strengthening cooperation among donors, and particularly among the Multilateral Development Banks in such areas as fighting corruption and averting unsustainable debt burdens;
We have also strengthened our work significantly in a number of important specific sectors, particularly:
· Infrastructure – which was a major concern of the Finance Ministers from Africa when I first met with them two years ago;
· Combating malaria, a preventable disease that is killing 3,000 people a day, most of them children and most of them in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the last 18 months we have approved over $360 million in assistance for anti-malaria programs compared to $50 million in the first five years of this decade.
· Here, too, we are emphasizing quality as well as quantity, pressing the development of a “malaria scorecard” to track results and effectively coordinate the work of the many donors so that gaps can be identified and filled.
Some of the work which has been most inspiring to me has been the Bank Group’s response to countries emerging from conflict, countries with new leadership which urgently need assistance to consolidate peace and jumpstart recovery:
· We have responded with unprecedented speed to help fragile states with new leadership, such as Liberia, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo;
· We have adopted a new Rapid Response and Fragile States policy to enable us to move faster in situations with new opportunity and to encourage more of our staff to work in fragile states.
· We have helped lead successful donor conferences for many post-conflict countries, including Afghanistan, Lebanon and Liberia.
Our work is important, however, to more than just the poorest countries. Indeed, the majority of the world’s poor live in the more successful developing countries, our partners in middle income countries, which borrow from the IBRD.
· These countries still seek help to deal with their large challenges to fight poverty and preserve their environment, but the World Bank Group needs to be increasingly innovative and flexible if we are to be useful to these countries which are already highly sophisticated and have access to many other sources of funds. To do that we developed a new “Middle Income Country Strategy” last year and we are working hard on implementing it.
Some of our most important work has been strengthening the development of the private sector, which is the most important source of the growth and jobs that people need to escape poverty:
· The International Finance Corporation, which works with the private sector, has been setting impressive records, including $8 billion in new commitments this year.
· What should inspire us even more than the numbers is the greatly increased emphasis the IFC is placing on the development impact of their work and on expansion into “frontier markets.” Indeed, Africa is the fastest growing region for IFC work – a five-fold increase in five years – and the IFC has greatly expanded its field staff in Africa.
· Perhaps most of all, I am proud of the innovative work the IFC is doing, through the “Doing Business” report, to help developing countries identify the obstacles to private sector growth and I have been delighted at how eager many governments have been to remove those obstacles once we help identify them.
This is not an exhaustive description of the work of the World Bank Group – or even just the part that I have been involved in – but I need to mention one more thing: the importance of the World Bank partnership with the developed countries to promote sustainable global development:
· The Bank helps rich countries carry out their obligation and their interest to help the world’s poor.
· We support the interest of the developed countries to mobilize global resources for common purposes, such as containing the spread of Avian flu – where the Bank has played a leadership role – or to preserving the planet’s environmental heritage, as we are doing in Brazil and the DRC, by supporting Amazon Basin and Congo River Basin initiatives.
· Most important of all has been the Bank’s development of the Clean Energy Investment Framework which we were first asked to do by the Gleneagles Summit of the G-8 in July 2005. As the world mobilizes resources to diversify energy sources, reduce carbon emissions, avoid deforestation and help countries deal with the effects of climate change, most of those resources have to come from the developed countries. The most productive place to invest them will often be in developing countries. The World Bank Group has been and continues to be in a unique position to facilitate those investment flows and the Global Environment Facility and the Clean Energy Investment Framework form the foundation on which the Bank Group can build.
All of that work – and much more – is only possible because of the dedicated efforts of very hard‑working staff. I am particularly impressed by our staff in country offices, including remarkable local staff members, many of whom face daily risks to their health and security in order to help the poor whom we strive to serve. They too have been treated unfairly by much of the press coverage of the past weeks and they deserve better. I hope that can happen now.
I have made many strong appointments both from inside and outside the Bank of which I am personally proud. My Senior Management Team is an exceptional group of talented managers and devoted international public servants who it has been an honor to have as friends and colleagues.
But, I am particularly proud to have appointed two African women as Vice-Presidents in key positions, each of them a former cabinet minister with real world experience in solving problems in democratically elected Sub-Saharan governments. Only when African voices with African experiences are fully empowered at the Bank, will the Bank be seen as a center for solutions in that part of the world. We need senior leaders who have real-world experience in tackling the toughest challenges in the poorest countries.
I am also grateful for the dedicated professionalism of the many staff throughout the World Bank Group who have stayed focused on their work during the recent controversy. In the month of April alone, they delivered nearly $1 billion of support for Africa, an innovative new strategy for Bank work in the health sector, and a strategy for Bank Group support for financial sector work in developing countries, and much more. I am particularly grateful to the entire staff of the President’s office who have given me such strong professional support throughout the last two years and particularly during the last month.
It is inspiring to work with people like those and I will miss them.
Finally, I want to say a special word of thanks to the many people inside and outside the Bank who have publicly or privately expressed their support for me and asked me to stay. One of the most moving was a phone call I received from the democratically elected President of a Sub-Saharan African country. It was a private call so I will not quote him by name. But he thanked me for doing so much, in his words, to make the World Bank an institution “that listens, that cares, that understands and that takes action.” If that is true, and if I have “touched the hearts of Africans,” as he told me, then the last two years have been worth it.
I hope I can continue working with him and with the many other Africans, official and non-official, who have been such an inspiration to me – although I will have to find other ways to do so. They are the ones who have convinced me that Africa has a real chance to turn a corner and join the progress that we have seen in many other parts of the developing world in recent decades. It is those Africans who are stepping up – often at great personal sacrifice and even risk, to bring peace, good governance and sound policies to their countries that are the reason for hope. They deserve all the support that the World Bank Group can give them and I hope they get it.
The next President will have my full support. Hopefully the difficulties of the last few weeks can actually strengthen the Bank by identifying some of the areas of governance and human resource management where reform is needed.
Change should not be feared, it is something to welcome. It is the key to keeping this important institution relevant and effective in the future and meeting the needs of the world’s poor, and of humanity as a whole.

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Create requirements success of Iraq negotiations with the World Trade Organization
21/05/2007

Baghdad-file Press
Chaired by the Minister of Trade, Dr. Abdel Hassan Sudanese farmer meeting of the Iraqi negotiating team with the World Trade Organization, and with a view to complete all requirements required by future negotiations with the organization, which will be held in Geneva late this May.

And the Minister had expressed his optimism on the trade negotiations after successfully completing all the mechanisms and the answers to questions addressed to him by the organization as well as to create a set of laws and legislation that have been referred to the State Consultative Council and the Council of Ministers to be studied in order to keep abreast of Iraq's participation in the organization.

And Minister affirmed that the Iraqi government issued during the last four years of several laws that serve the Iraqi economy and facilitate coordination with the global economy, especially the investment law, which constitutes a major turning point will be the future results promising and promising direction of a market economy and the development and the development of most of the country's provinces, which damaged as a result of exposure to negligence during the previous stages.

And Trade Minister stressed the importance of Iraq's presence in international organizations being shunned for many years, and it seems unacceptable to continue this isolation from what is happening in the world of enormous economic developments should work to benefit from widespread to serve the Iraqi economy.

تهيئة مستلزمات انجاØ* Ù…Ù�اوضات العراق مع منظمة التجارة العالمية

International Exhibition II : Gate export to Iraq
21/05/2007

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Beginning tomorrow, in the Turkish city of Izmir Ghazi second session of the International Exhibition : Gate export to Iraq, and this session will last until the seventh and 20th of this May, Tatte, where the Turkish government and private sector companies of exceptional importance to this exhibition, which decided last year that is held annually in the city periodically raided Ghazi industrial.

The exhibition is diverse in terms of the nature and size of the displays participate where electronic devices and computers, cellular telephones and systems security services and software, the auto industry and its branches in the area of transport, as well as medical devices and pharmaceuticals, detergents and cosmetics.

And participate in the expo official Iraqi delegation as well as a large number of businessmen, investors, representatives of economic organizations Iraqis professional.

It should be noted that the exhibition will be mounted in cooperation with the Iraqi authorities, and in particular the company's public exhibitions in the Ministry of Commerce, and participate in the exhibition of about 1500 companies from more than 30 countries, especially European countries. The Turkish and estimated that more than 3000 Iraqi businessmen will take part in the exhibition, along with high-level official delegations.

المعرض الدولي الثاني: بوابة التصدير الى العراق

Originally Posted by fredgwest1999

YEA!

No 25 May 2007 Meeting to sign a letter of intent....So, they really blew it now...They will never be given such a free ride ever again!

not quite. the issue is they dont have the iraq meeting listed on the calendar at all. in place of where it should be it says india but the link is dead. they have been known to hide stuff from us about iraq, always.