Thread: Archive News - Iraqi Dinar Think Tank - 22/06/2010 - 04/10/2010

Baerakip leadership : We will not ignore the rights of the Kurds and the coming days will witness a surprise for all Iraqis

The secretary-general of the Movement of the sons of Mesopotamia and the leader of the Iraqi List led by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, today, Sunday, that the coming days will witness a surprise for all Iraqis through a national project Sizaraly the political arena with a view to unite all parties and to accelerate the formation of the Iraqi government. He stressed that the list will not ignore the constitutional rights of reply.

Salam al- Zobaie told Kurdistan News The "national project Sizaraly Iraqi arena in the next few days with a view to unite and renounce their differences and to accelerate the formation of the Government of national partnership."

The Zobaie that "the list place the rights of the Kurds as a top priority despite the absence of a clear position for the rest of blocks in this regard, it can not ignore the Kurdish rights guaranteed to them by the Constitution, and to building state institutions, the federal diversity where no distinction is made between this component or that".

The Zobaie that "the attitude of the Iraqi National List is clear from the inauguration of President Jalal Talabani for a second term and we support him with all our strength to fill that position."

He Zobaie that "if it continued blocs vying for power position convulsive, the House will not sit idly by and there will be a situation that might surprising everyone in the next few days, and perhaps shocked many people," stressing that "the Iraqi people can not be waiting for the tide among the lists I therefore appeal to the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, headed by President Talabani to put an end to that, because of the ongoing farce will not be counted is freely chosen by the Iraqi people or aspire to."

The Zobaie predicted that "the coming days will see a joint effort to strengthen the authority of the Iraqi people, which is the largest and most noble than personal interests, and factional and partisan gains."

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Qadasiyah Council endorses the launch of the e-government

Qadisiyah Council approved Qadissiya province on Saturday to launch e-government project, which will help to manage the administrative and financial transactions and investment daily faster and easier through the red tape and reduce administrative corruption in government departments.

The Chairman of Committees of accountability, justice and security forces in the province, retaining within Sehud Qadisiya Kanani told Kurdistan News, "The Council decided during its meeting on Saturday approved the draft e-government to start implementation soon."

The Iraqi government has embarked on since the beginning of last year's launch of e-government procedures of Iraq, launched in a number of Iraqi provinces constructing e- government within the scope of administrative powers.

Kanani said that the meeting of the Council also decided upon the construction of residential buildings Bklv suitable for low-income and poor. "indicating that" the project would be financed either by the resources of administrative fees imposed within the geographical boundaries of the province or from the funds of the supplementary budget.

He announced the Council's determination "to make an official gazette speaking Bolosmh includes all the decisions and events, or issued by the Council."

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Source : cutting ties with Kuwait does not affect Iraq's economic

A member of the Iraqi National Alliance, said Saturday that Iraq will not be affected economically if it broke ties with Kuwait in the final, because he has economic relations with a large number of major countries in the world.

"Said Wael Abdul Latif, told the Kurdistan News that "Iraq will not be affected at all in the event of sever its ties with the State of Kuwait, which began stalling in its position toward Iraq and overtly".. He pointed out that "the reason behind these policies is due to the Kuwaiti fear of the success of the democratic experience in Iraq, which negatively affects their political system."

He explained that "Iraq has ties to the commercial and economic long-term relationship with the United States and Japan, Germany, China, Turkey, Britain and other major countries economically."

It was Iraq's ambassador to the Arab League, said Qais al-Amiri to some of the media need to demarcate the border between Iraq and Kuwait in the coming period, but denied it later.

A police intelligence source confirmed for SoC the existence of "override" Kuwait into Iraqi territory in search and prospecting for oil in more than four months.

He said the "demarcation problem that may arise at any time, the fact that Iraq is believed to be in error and may require the re-demarcation of the border at a later date."

The Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry summoned on Wednesday the Iraqi ambassador to Kuwait, Mohammad Bahr al-Ulum, and handed over a formal protest note to the statements made by Qays al-Azzawi on the demarcation of the border, the ministry stressed in its submission strongly denounced the remarks, stating that the border issue was finally settled by International legitimacy and through the two governments, also demanded a formal explanation about the comments.

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Iraq expects 60,000 bpd output from al-Ahdab in 2011

Iraq expects the CNPC-operated al-Ahdab oilfield to have an initial production rate of 60,000 barrels per day from July 2011, Deputy Oil Minister Abdul Kareem Luaibi said on Sunday.

Al-Ahdab was the first major oilfield development contract awarded by the Iraqi government after the 2003 US-led invasion when it agreed to revive a Saddam Hussein-era deal with the Chinese oil company.

It has since struck 11 other deals with global oil majors to help it quadruple its output capacity to Saudi levels of 12 million bpd within seven years. (Reuters)

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Korek selects Aastra to upgrade its contact centers in Iraq
Korek Telecom, one of Iraq's three national telecom operators, has recently chosen Aastra, a leading company at the forefront of the enterprise communication market, for the expansion of its contact center of its headquarters in Irbil, in addition to establishing two new contact centers in Baghdad and Sulaimaniyeh. This major step comes as a necessary procedure to cope with the growing number of Korek's subscribers all over Iraq.

Sefintel will be in charge of delivering and integrating the solution with the help of Tawasol, Aastra's business partner and regional distributor. The scope of the project involves the expansion and upgrading of Korek headquarters' contact center system to 45 agents in order to achieve more timely responsiveness due to increased customer care traffic. The second part of the project involves establishing new dynamic contact centers in Baghdad and Sulaimaneyeh for another 66 agents in order to expand Korek's reach to its subscribers.

Anwar A. Muhammad, Managing Director of Korek said commenting on the deal: "We are highly committed to serving our customers in the most efficient and time saving manner, and this project was planned for this purpose. Amongst aggressive competition, we have chosen Aastra's award-winning Solidus eCare contact center application for its flexibility, its support for new multimedia contacts such as SMS, Email, Fax and Internet, and the capability to integrate with other applications and databases such as our pre-paid mobile billing system."

Aastra's efforts in the contact centre market were recently recognized by a Frost & Sullivan award (2009 EMEA Inbound Contact Routing Systems Market Growth Strategy Leadership).

"Korek customers will be guaranteed better access to the most appropriate and competent agents each time they contact us. In addition, Korek will be able to serve larger segments of its subscribers whether speaking Arabic, English or Kurdi language through its contact centers in Baghdad and Sulaimaneieh", says Feryad A. Jaff from Korek.

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20 years after the peremptory plane to Saudi Arabia and Qatar to improve neighborly relations with Iraq

Said Associate Director of the Iraqi Airways Nasser Hussain said the flights between Iraq and Saudi Arabia will start to open the other airline.

He said Hussein, some Iraqi airports began to receive aircraft airlines are different, most recently a Saudi plane which landed at Basra airport on Thursday, and had thus broken break air lasted about 20 years between Iraq and Saudi Arabia, the impact of the Iraqi forces into Kuwait in 1990, which led to the Strained relations between the two countries.

Hussein revealed that next week will witness the opening of a new air line between Iraq and Qatar, as well as flights to Egypt and India by signing an agreement with those countries.

He added that flights between Iraq and Saudi Arabia will not be limited to airports in the capitals of the two countries, but include several airports in both countries.

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Nuri al-Maliki : the political crisis to be solved and the contract will be gone unresolved

Prime Minister Nuri al -Maliki said the political crisis in Iraq and the issue of forming a government on its way to a solution soon.

He said al-Maliki during a meeting with President Jalal Talabani that the situation in the process of detente and the solution difficult and that the contract will be lost and narrowing their differences, indicating that the Department of understanding and agreement expanded to form the next government.

For his part, Talabani called the meeting to the need to take practical steps to find a suitable ground to a real agreement to speed up the formation of a government based on national partnership and include all components and spectra without discrimination.

Talabani stressed the need to adopt national initiatives in order to provide the appropriate political climate leading to what he described as a comprehensive national agreement to end the current crisis and move towards a new stage through to speed up the formation of the government

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Jeffrey Feltman : I do not fear of a security vacuum in Iraq

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffrey Feltman was no fear of any security vacuum in Iraq, despite a crisis to form the Iraqi government.

Feltman added that Washington does not give the names of the prime minister and does not have a veto against any candidate has, indicating that the Iraqis are responsible for their own country, and Washington is not a substitute will not be a substitute for the Iraqi constitution and the political dialogue between the blocks for the formation of the Iraqi government.

This comes in light of the U.S. preparations for a withdrawal from Iraq by end of next month under the security agreement.

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Parliamentary blocs examine tomorrow a political project to form a new government consists of 15 items

Starts with the leaders of parliamentary blocs on Monday study a new political project consists of 15 items to find solutions to get out of the political crisis to form the next government.

The leader of the Kurdistan Alliance Mahmoud Othman said the parliamentary blocs will be held tomorrow, a meeting chaired by Fuad Masum, chairman of the interim parliament to put answers, opinions and proposals on the subject of clusters and the three presidencies, which blocks may be exchanged at a meeting last week, including that of the government program.

The project, according to press sources , abide by the constitution and the development of constitutional controls in the management of the State and taking into account the elections and balance and prevent the use of armed forces for political purposes and to form a government on the basis of partnership.

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Iraq tries to ease visa problems for oil firms

Iraq, trying to address complaints by oil majors about bureaucracy and infrastructure woes hampering efforts to bring staff and equipment into the country, will start issuing visas at airports, the oil minister said on Sunday. Getting visas for oil industry professionals entering Iraq to work on a series of oilfield development contracts awarded last year ranks as a major hassle facing oil companies as they start work.

"This obstacle has been overcome with the cooperation of the Ministry of Interior, which thankfully has agreed to issue visas at the Iraqi airports to employees working on the contracts to develop the fields," Minister Hussain al-Shahristani said.

Shahristani said other problems, such as inadequate ports, decrepit roads and crumbling bridges, would not be overcome rapidly and oil majors would have to find a way to manage.

"It is expected there will be problems, especially as we know that Iraqi infrastructure like roads, bridges, ports, railways, airports and other things are not as they need to be at the current time," he said in a news conference during a meeting in Baghdad between oil executives and the Oil Ministry.

Iraq awarded a series of massive oilfield development contracts last year to majors such as Royal Dutch Shell and BP that could quadruple its output capacity to 12 million barrels per day within seven years. Those output levels would rival top producer Saudi and give Iraq the billions it needs to rebuild after decades of war, sanctions and neglect.

Sabotage and a lack of investment since the 2003 U.S.- led invasion has further degraded the infrastructure and hundreds of billions of dollars are needed for housing, the power grid, water and sewage plants and other sectors. As the projects get off the ground, inadequate dock space at Umm Qasr, the country's main port, bureaucratic impediments to securing visas, customs clearance, and corruption have become tops complaints of oil executives. Shahristani said the problem of the ports would be addressed by opening up new land border crossings.

"We have started discussing the opening of new border posts specifically for oil equipment in order not to affect the functioning of the Iraqi ports and not to delay our projects due to the capabilities of Iraqi ports," Shahristani said.

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