Thread: Iraq/Dinar News. 09/05 to 01/14/07

Originally Posted by kiko

Can't get enought of that!

You know it....music to my ears.....put that statement in your siggy....then we can see it every time you post....It certainly is a keeper!

Originally Posted by kiko

Finance Minister emphasized the need to adopt transparency in the implementation of budget 2007
(With the addition of the word, Minister of Finance)
Baghdad - (Voices of Iraq)

The Iraqi Finance Minister Baqir Jabr strike before the Iraqi parliament today, Tuesday, on the need to adopt transparency in the implementation of the budget for Iraq in 2007.

And the House of Representatives today resumed its regular legislative session in the second round after a quorum and the presence of the President of the Council, Dr. Mahmoud Almshahadani and a number of ministers. The meeting was devoted to the first reading of the draft law on the federal budget for 2007.


His counterpart in a speech that "there is a paragraph investment within this year's budget provides for the adoption of the Iraqi dinar basis in the 2007 budget."

The Iraq in the 2007 budget submitted by the government to parliament last month 41 billion dollars, an increase of $ 11 billion in the previous year's budget.

He added that the fee counterpart exchange policy is the responsibility of the Central Bank for the first time dependent (Central) economic policy and the clear need for investment in Iraq.

He did not mention the Finance Minister that the political features.
The meetings of the Council had been postponed more than once in the past month because of the lack of quorum is half the number of members of the 275-member-plus-one, forcing the Council to hold consultative meetings.

As the meetings had stopped in the past few days because of holiday Eid Al-Adha holiday and travel many members to perform the Hajj.

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Great find Kiko!

New article posted at the same place:

Parliament-Budget :: Aswat al Iraq :: Aswat al Iraq

Voices of Iraq: Parliament-Budget
Posted by: nakr2004 on Tuesday, January 09, 2007 - 02:54 PM

Parliament-Budget
Minister urges transparency in 2007 budget
Baghdad, Jan 9, (VOI) – The Iraqi Finance Minister Baqer Jabr Sulagh urged parliament on Tuesday to stick to transparency in carrying out the budget plan for 2007.

"There is a paragraph about investment in this year's budget which provides for having the Iraqi dinar as the main currency in the 2007 budget," Sulagh said.
Iraq's budget this year hits 41 billion dollars, with an increase of 11 billion dollars compared to last year's budget.

Sulagh indicated that drawing up the monetary policies is the responsibility of the Iraqi Central Bank, adding it was the first time the central bank opts for a clear economic policy for investment in the country.

The Iraqi parliament resumed its ordinary sessions in its second legislative session after the quorum was observed. The session was dedicated to the first reading of a draft law on the 2007 budget.

The parliament's session were postponed more than once last month due to the incomplete quorum, half the number of members – totaling 275 – plus one. The postponement was also due to the Eid al-Adha holiday and many members' traveling to Saudi Arabia to perform the hajj.

Originally Posted by adm

Posted by: nakr2004 on Tuesday, January 09, 2007 - 02:54 PM

Parliament-Budget
Minister urges transparency in 2007 budget
Baghdad, Jan 9, (VOI) – The Iraqi Finance Minister Baqer Jabr Sulagh urged parliament on Tuesday to stick to transparency in carrying out the budget plan for 2007.
"There is a paragraph about investment in this year's budget which provides for having the Iraqi dinar as the main currency in the 2007 budget," Sulagh said.
Iraq's budget this year hits 41 billion dollars, with an increase of 11 billion dollars compared to last year's budget.
Sulagh indicated that drawing up the monetary policies is the responsibility of the Iraqi Central Bank, adding it was the first time the central bank opts for a clear economic policy for investment in the country.
The Iraqi parliament resumed its ordinary sessions in its second legislative session after the quorum was observed. The session was dedicated to the first reading of a draft law on the 2007 budget.
The parliament's session were postponed more than once last month due to the incomplete quorum, half the number of members – totaling 275 – plus one. The postponement was also due to the Eid al-Adha holiday and many members' traveling to Saudi Arabia to perform the hajj.
AE

AWESOME NEWS.......WOOOOOOOOOOOOT!

Originally Posted by adm

Posted by: nakr2004 on Tuesday, January 09, 2007 - 02:54 PM

Parliament-Budget
Minister urges transparency in 2007 budget
Baghdad, Jan 9, (VOI) – The Iraqi Finance Minister Baqer Jabr Sulagh urged parliament on Tuesday to stick to transparency in carrying out the budget plan for 2007.
"There is a paragraph about investment in this year's budget which provides for having the Iraqi dinar as the main currency in the 2007 budget," Sulagh said.
Iraq's budget this year hits 41 billion dollars, with an increase of 11 billion dollars compared to last year's budget.
Sulagh indicated that drawing up the monetary policies is the responsibility of the Iraqi Central Bank, adding it was the first time the central bank opts for a clear economic policy for investment in the country.
The Iraqi parliament resumed its ordinary sessions in its second legislative session after the quorum was observed. The session was dedicated to the first reading of a draft law on the 2007 budget.
The parliament's session were postponed more than once last month due to the incomplete quorum, half the number of members – totaling 275 – plus one. The postponement was also due to the Eid al-Adha holiday and many members' traveling to Saudi Arabia to perform the hajj.
AE

i love this sorta stuff!!

Sotaliraq.com

Bush revealed Wednesday its new strategy on Iraq

(Voice of Iraq) - 09-01-2007
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - The White House announced Monday that President Bush would disclose Wednesday at 21,00 pm local time (2,00 GMT Thursday), the details of its new strategy on Iraq, which may include the strengthening of the forces contrary to the view of the democratic opposition.

He said White House spokesman Tony Snow, "The President will address the nation on the strategy for moving forward in Iraq and the global war against terrorism."

The United States is trying for months to find ways to get out of the Iraqi quagmire, which killed more than three thousand American military since the invasion of that country in March 2003. There are currently 132 thousand American military in Iraq.

The Snow that the White House request for the allocation of time for this discourse on the most prominent American television stations. He added, "It did not oppose this request and recorded."

According to mass media and American officials, the new strategy set by Bush for Iraq could include a series of objectives set by the Iraqi government and economic aid of one billion dollars and strengthen American forces.

The Four years ago, the United States has spent more than $ 350 billion on the Iraq war, according to calculations by the France Presse on the basis of official estimates subsidiary of the American Congress.

Snow refused to confirm the possibility of imposing targets on the political, economic and security on the Iraqi government as the "New York Times" on Monday.

She said "New York Times" on its web site that the new Iraqi policy to the American President George Bush to the Iraqi government will determine the series of targets to be achieved in order to ensure the political and economic stability of the country.
The paper quoted senior officials in the American administration that "these objectives," including greater involvement of the Year in the political process and the distribution of the proceeds of Iraqi oil, which delayed the softening of the government's policy toward former members of the Baath Party.

American officials did not reveal the actions that may be taken by Washington in the event of failure to achieve these goals, but stressed the need for Iraqis to the realistic timetable for implementation.

Other options to the President posed by the American media to send 20 thousand additional troops to Iraq to help stabilize the situation, particularly in Baghdad, where acts of violence claiming many victims a day.

But the Democrats who control the Congress since January last oppose strengthening the forces and see the losing strategy in advance.

The President of the American House Democratic Nancy Bilosi Sunday that President George tried to persuade Congress to send reinforcements to the country. Her response to the channel, "CBS" American "of the President to justify his request (sending) reinforcements" to Iraq. It added that "our soldiers (in Iraq) have done an excellent job. We not only provide an opportunity to pay tribute to what they did but as long as no solution is political and diplomatic support to their beds will be hands. "

Tony Snow acknowledged Monday that "the important support of the Congress" for the implementation of the new American strategy, he said, "will be discussion on some aspects and we welcome that." According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Minister Condoleezza Rice will be Bush's speech long public relations campaign to explain its views during the first hearing in Congress and then through several interventions.

The formal announcement of the new American strategy for Iraq after the process of amending the diplomatic and military range in Iraq, where it was decided to replace the current American Ambassador in Pakistan Ryan Crocker replace the American ambassador in Baghdad, Zalmay Khalilzad, who became the United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations.

Originally Posted by CharmedPiper

Sotaliraq.com

A grant of 100 thousand dinars for each family of a forced

(Voice of Iraq) - 09-01-2007
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The Republic of Iraq
Council of Ministers-the governmental communications
Media Relations
Press Release Press release /
Tuesday, 1-9-2007

The Council of Ministers may decide to grant rate of 100 thousand dinars.
Each family forcibly stage

The Cabinet decided at its first session held on the 28th of last month, the Secretariat of the Council of Ministers regardless grant of (100,000) hundred thousand dinars for each family of a forced from the area home of the remaining funds in the budget of the secretariat in 2006.

Hmm..... not sure that a 100,000 dinar grant is all that much even at today's blistering rate of 1318. What is that in dollars ? is it not like about 80 ?
And this Grant is to do what, rebuild something ? a Home ??
Maybe its just a ---we are sorry about your troubles and please take your family to dinner

Oh well just a duck here, have to say i dont get it

Originally Posted by H2O_Lover

Hmm..... not sure that a 100,000 dinar grant is all that much even at today's blistering rate of 1318. What is that in dollars ? is it not like about 80 ?
And this Grant is to do what, rebuild something ? a Home ??
Maybe its just a ---we are sorry about your troubles and please take your family to dinner

Oh well just a duck here, have to say i dont get it

It's an insult to the Iraqi people!

About $80 per familiy, my god!

Mr. K. from Warka said it right, that this won't be accepted by the majority because they know they are sitting on the 2nd largest reserves in the world.

It's good news that they are now starting with the aid and grants, but there must be a big jump in the value of the dinar first before this has a function!

The general budget for 2007 is met the basic needs of the country?
Baghdad Haider spring

It is expected that the top of the Parliament today, Tuesday, the discussion of the general budget for 2007, in the meantime, views vary specialists in the economic aspect regarding investment expenditure for this year's budget of 2007 and 41 billion dollars.

Will this budget will meet the basic needs of the country? Some regarded it as explosive and will meet all the requirements necessary for the advancement of economic and urban in various fields, while others considered that the budget did not meet in the implementation of the overall ambitious plans to be implemented on the ground.

He was Minister of Planning and Development Cooperation on Ghalib Baban in a press statement that the proportion of the deficit in the new budget amounted to (10) trillion dinars, stressing that the deficit is more theoretical than realistic because the state some cash reserves in the Development Fund for Iraq.

And expressed Papan his dissatisfaction for the on the budget, which he (that it is not the level of ambitious the ministry at the level of development), pointing to the allocation of three trillion dinars for projects the Ministry of Oil or the rate of 69.23% of the total specialties was, and is addressed to the rehabilitation of the oil sector and enable it to increase its ability to production and export, whereas the projects the Ministry of Electricity approximately trillion and 750 billion dinars was that these funds were allocated for projects of the modernization and improvement of the generation and transfer of electrical energy in addition to an allocation of (425) billion pounds to the Ministry of municipalities and Works, and (430) one billion dinars to the Ministry of Health, and (422) billion pounds for Ministry of Reconstruction and Housing and (336) billion pounds to the Ministry of Education, and emphasized to allocate (259) one billion dinars for the rehabilitation of existing schools and building of new schools in addition to the that the draft the Territories received considerable support amounted to trillion and 602 one billion dinars.

And between the two doors of a number of considerations that have imposed themselves in the budget and the most important high expenditure allocated to security and defense estimated at (10) trillion dinars, and the high costs posed by the ration card insurance, estimated at about three trillion dinars.

From his part, Kamal al-Basri, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Finance budget of the year 2007, as well, and meet most needs of the country, whether the service or health or education, said Basri : will not say (explosive), but offsets are trying to satisfy a lot of needs, including responding to the lifting of living individuals, as well as the budget, it is hoped that it will provide job opportunities for many of the unemployed as it gave priority to all areas of investment, including oil, electricity, education and higher education, and many other investment projects in the field of development of the Territories.

For his part, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Safa net debt to the budget and encouraging large compared Balmwaznat years, as it more than last year's budget b (11) billion dollars. A net for the formation of committees central to the activation of application projects or withdrawal of funds from some ministries in the event of failure in the implementation of projects and transferred to other ministries succeeded in implementing projects assigned Aiha.

And in relation An official source at the Central Bank of Iraq in a deficit budget this year because of pumping dollars into the local market to preserve the stability of the dinar exchange rate.

His appearance Mohamed Saleh, Head of the Department of Statistics and Research in the Central Bank, said that the new budget will exchange allocations to the dollar, pointing out that the rise in the value of the dinar positively impacted by limiting expenditures to alleviate inflationary pressures in the Iraqi economy and reduce costs on prices.

Saleh pointed out that the (95)% of the income of public budget depends on oil revenues, as a basic resource for the country.

He pointed out that the future will be encouraging the conditions for lifting the value of the dinar against the dollar, but could not determine the rate of exchange to proceed only after the real budget.

Translated version of http://www.alsabaah.com/paper.php?source=akbar&mlf=interpage&sid=35318


For everyone that missed it today, found by SGS!!

What a news today, bring it on Shabibi!!!

Skinner attributed the reasons for the postponement of the execution of Barazan and Albandar for technical reasons
By Hossam Shahamani
Baghdad - (Voices of Iraq)

Attributed spokesman for the Iraqi government today, Tuesday, to postpone the implementation of the death penalty in the half-brother, Barazan Al-brother of Saddam Hussein and Awwad Albandar former head of the Revolutionary Court for the reasons described as "technical" and said that implementation will be within days.

He said to Skinner in a press conference today, Tuesday, that "the postponement of the execution of others brother Barazan Al brother of Saddam Hussein and Awwad Albandar former head of the Revolutionary Court was postponed technicians and will be implemented within days."

It was the execution of the former President Saddam Hussein before last Saturday and postponed execution of the sentence for Barazan Albandar and to a later date.

The Skinner again rejected the Iraqi government's slogans that were repeated during the execution of the former President Saddam Hussein.

He said that "people have been arrested and referred to the judiciary to be issued wisdom without government interference."
He added that "what he did this person is insulting and unilateral action, and to portray the penalty created furore in the Iraqi street."
It had leaked out some pictures and movies filmed camera cellphone It shows Saddam Hussein before and after the execution, and I heard some chants, which started during the implementation process, which has frustrated many of the human rights organizations.

The Iraqi government said that it arrested the person who has done the photography.

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Iraq allocated eight billion dollars for housing projects
Baghdad-Adel Mahdi life-08 / 01 / 07 / /

The Iraqi government allocated amount of eight billion dollars for the Land Bank «» to support the draft citizens the benefits of soft loans to build on the land granted by the government to them (100 thousand residential plot), within the current year's budget, and the housing project which was announced earlier ...

The Minister of Construction and Housing Iraqi statement Ismail Dizah Yi, the government's determination to implement the housing project quickly, in an effort to solve the crisis of the local housing crisis, pointing out that her ministry had drafted into effect.

The Dizah Yi, during their participation in the meeting of the Council of Arab Ministers of Housing recent conference in Cairo, the government has solved the problems of citizens at the top of their priorities, including the problem of housing, which sought to solve, according to the investment in the construction of housing units for citizens with limited income, thus no easy conditions oppressive.

The minister said the Iraqi government called on Arab countries to participate in the reconstruction of Iraq, explaining that it «had yet to receive any response to this call, whether from the Governments of the Arab states or private companies - related ministries, while the global number of countries responded with the government of Iraq, and made offers to contribute to the process of reconstruction».

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