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Sadr calls on followers to participate in the election and refuses to bring down Maliki's government

Spokesman leader Salah al-Obeidi, Sadr's movement, that the tide has urged his followers to participate in the forthcoming provincial elections in order to prevent the control of individual parties to the provincial assemblies, saying the opposition movement to topple Maliki's government under the current situation in the country.

Obeidi said in an interview with "Uzmatik", on Thursday, that "the performance of the current election is to be the cornerstone to balance individual parties do not control the decisions of the provincial assemblies here or there," as he put it.

The Spokesman added that the Sadrist movement called on fans to participate strongly in the forthcoming elections, with a view to the election of the eligible national public, non-politicization of the provincial assemblies of foreign agendas, "pointing out that those conditions include" to ensure that the resources of Iraq and the unity, independence and seeking to provide services and the rebuilding of the provinces."

A source in the Sadr's political informed "Uzmatik", two weeks ago that the Authority "supports my Ahrar independent, impartial and constructive."

In another context, the opposition-Obeidi new trend to bring down Maliki's government under the current situation in the country, pointing out that the trend had "many reservations on the performance of the Maliki government, the lack of equity of the oppressed people of society, including the Sadrists."

The spokesman for Sadr's movement, the Maliki government to "make use of the security file in the interest of political parties, the ruling," and added, "but that the shooting down of the Maliki government in Iraq will sign a major crisis, because the basic components are all complaining about the imbalance in the relations and balances, and bring down the government in light of this situation will lead to big problems, "he said.

And Sheikh Salah al-Obeidi, "The alternative to the owners if the product and agreed upon and are able to lift the injustice of people and reducing the exploitation of the parties by the authority, of public funds for its own interest, then we will be another point of view on the subject."

Obaidi, criticized what he called "the manner brainwashing by some parties," he said, adding that "the current respect for each party in its work, however, that the method of brainwashing is not true," calling for "the sons of community awareness and raise the efficiency of the free choice is not the confiscation of their minds," he said.

The Sadrists had decided to transform its military wing, the Mahdi Army, to organize a cultural - social, carries the name "Almmahdon," and declared his innocence of any element of targeting Iraqi citizens and after armed confrontations between him and the government troops broke out in a number of provinces in the past few years .

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Kurdish: No intention of the Kurdistan Alliance to withdraw confidence from the Maliki

MP denied the Kurdistan Alliance bloc, Abdul Bari Zebari there was no intention to withdraw confidence from the coalition of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.

Zebari said, "There is no such raised within the corridors of the Kurdistan Alliance."

Zebari said in a press release on Thursday, "We do not have any intention to withdraw the confidence that the alliance is a participating member in the government and therefore will continue to be supporters of the government, with our objections known to speak here and there and look at it is misleading and create problems."

Zebari said that "the Kurdistan Alliance was always forthright and clear in Trohath, did not hesitate to bring up any subject it to the rest of the political forces or the general Iraqi people."

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Maliki: severely punished any element involved in election fraud

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, on Thursday, the most important issue facing Iraq today is a reconstruction.

Maliki said in a speech at the founding conference of the tribe of Bani Asad in Baghdad, Iraq can not be built only if we shed the self-sectarian and partisan.

He stressed that no return "to the rule of ignorant people", he said, "We have to forget the many significant problems experienced by the country, and we will not forget, however, created the work, if the alternative."

The alternative is to work hard to Trchin the state of law and institutions, Maliki said that the government is keen to ensure maximum fairness and transparency of the elections.

He had been brought to the security agencies to protect the right of voters to vote freely, stressing that the government will punish severely any element of security operations involving fraud or coercion.

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Talabani participate in the Arab economic summit in Kuwait

Is scheduled to arrive President Jalal Talabani on Thursday to Kuwait to attend the Summit of Economic and Social Development and the Arab world.

The delegation, headed by Talabani, including the ministers of finance, trade and the Governor of the Central Bank of Iraq and the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee in the House of Representatives and Humam Hammoudi, chairman of the Economics Committee of the House of Representatives Haider Abadi.

It is due to President Talabani, a working paper prepared by the ministries of finance and trade during the economic summit, also said he would raise the issue of Iraqi debt resolution mechanisms and, as well as a draft for the establishment of Iraqi-Kuwaiti economic partnership in the field of investment and projects.

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Jubouri: Saturday's meeting will be crucial and decisive for the election of the Speaker of the Parliament

Deputy and spokesman for the Iraqi Accordance Front, Salim al-Jubouri's meeting next Saturday will be crucial and decisive for the election of a new president of the Council of Representatives.

Jubouri said that some political leaders travel abroad during the last period has led to the postponement of the consultations in this regard, pointing out that most political leaders will be present on Saturday during the trading session for the selection of a new head of the Iraqi Council of Representatives.

Jubouri was expected to face fierce opposition from the front before the rest of the political entities that compete for the post.

Jubouri said that in case of failure of the members of the House of Representatives to choose a new president of the Council during the meeting on Saturday, the House Democratic Shiljwon means represented in the vote, he said.

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Higher demand for the dollar in CBI’s auction

Demand for the dollar went up in the Central Bank of Iraq’s (CBI) auction on Thursday, registering at $221.86 million, compared to $213.715 million in the previous session.

“The demand hit $25.36 million in cash, covered by the bank at an exchange rate of 1,177 Iraqi dinars, and $196.5 million in foreign transfers outside the country covered by the bank at an exchange rate of 1,174 Iraqi dinars per dollar, according to a CBI news bulletin received by Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

None of the 12 banks that participated in today’s session offered to sell dollars.

The Central Bank of Iraq runs a daily auction from Sunday to Thursday.

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2009 budget back to cabinet – MP

Lawmaker Sami al-Attroshi on Thursday said that the federal budget of 2009 was returned to the Iraqi cabinet, as the Parliament is not authorized to increase it.

“The Ministry of Finance demanded an increase to cover civil servants’ salaries,” Al-Attroshi, member of the parliament’s financial committee, told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

“The Presidential Board demanded to increase the social benefits by at least 50 percent,” he said.

“The council of ministers should consider those demands,” he added.

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Start of the preparatory work for the economic summit in Kuwait

Began in Kuwait on Wednesday, the preparatory meetings for the Arab summit, economic, social and development of a joint meeting of Arab ministers of finance and governors of central banks and monetary institutions of the Arab and Arab financial institutions.

He said the Kuwaiti Finance Minister Mustafa North, in his opening remarks to the work of the joint meeting of the Arab economic summit will be a springboard to promote the Arab partnership, and an interface to increase investment and attract capital to the Arab countries and to stabilize the oil market.

He pointed out that, despite the uneven impact of the global financial crisis between the Arab countries but they are not in isolation from the overall negative discharge in terms of lower economic growth rates and global demand for raw materials and slow the growth of international trade.

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Zubeidi calls for strengthening banking relations between Iraq and Russia

The Finance Minister Bayan Jabr to strengthen banking relations between Iraq and Russia because of its importance in promoting the entry of companies to invest in the country through the opening credits, credits and to overcome all the obstacles before them.

This came during a meeting with Adviser to the Prime Minister of Russia Yury Cfrank and the President of the oil and mining, the Russian first deputy chief of the Federal Council of Russia's parliament and the Ambassador of the Russian Federation in Baghdad, and a number of businessmen and company owners.

Zubeidi confirmed during the meeting the importance of improving economic relations, trade and banking between the two countries, and urged Russian companies and investors to contribute to the rehabilitation of infrastructure and strategic projects in Iraq.

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Parliament convened for its hosting of the Minister of Finance

"We know that in the House of Representatives will host the Council at its meeting, on Thursday, Iraqi Finance Minister Bayan Jabr to discuss the 2009 budget.

The source told Voices of Iraq (VOI) that "the hosting based on requests made by several members of the House of Representatives to discuss the financial budget for the current year."

The meeting of the House of Representatives headed by Sheikh Khalid al-Attiyah, First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, according to the agenda of the meeting, the second reading of the draft federal budget law for 2009 and the continuation of the rate for the second reading of a bill.

The meeting will also be continued during the second reading of a bill to the First Amendment on the Law of the "martyrs," No. 3 of 2006 and the second reading of a bill to the accession of the Republic of Iraq to the Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks.

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