Thread: Archive News - Iraqi Dinar Think Tank - 06/10/2010 - 24/01/2011

Iraqi communications: We have reached an advanced stage with the Telecommunications Authority on the launch of the fourth license to run the phone Altqal

The Federal Communications Minister, said on Saturday that his ministry has reached advanced stages and new understandings with the Communications and Media Authority on the Iraqi government launch license from the fourth mobile phone operating licenses in the country.

Said Communications Minister Mohammed Allawi told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) that "the talks between the Ministry and the Communications and Government Information on the release of license-fourth of the operating licenses mobile phone and reached an advanced stage and new understandings according to what passed in the Cabinet."

Allawi said that "understandings of new focused on three items the President summed up not to exploit the company's winning of the technical infrastructure of the Ministry, and the payment of the cost of the license granted is also in place with the rest of the companies operating in this area, as well as the use of the gates of power (AC power supplies) of their own."

Between Allawi and that "the law did not enter the fourth license in the details, and remained in the general framework to ensure justice and equality in dealing with all telephone companies without exception or discrimination."

Confirmed the Communications and Media Authority last week that the granting of the license-fourth of the mobile phone to the Ministry of Communications is not the validity of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, as is illegal because it comes out the ministry of fair competition with mobile phone companies.

Allawi said that "This effort is part of the endeavors made by the Ministry to provide a competitive investment climate in this area."

Iraq's government announced on May 23 last, that the Council of Ministers approved the recommendations of the committee formed under the Council of Ministers Resolution No. (243) for the year 2009 on the draft license-fourth of the mobile phone. While noting the Iraqi Ministry of Communications to the existence of real problems with the Communications and Media Authority on the approval of the granting of frequencies for the fourth license for the operation of the mobile phone.

And raised between the Ministry of Communications and Communications and Media Authority from time to time differences, because of some legal effects between them.

http://www.aknews.com/ar/aknews/2/212531/

Anbar signs MoU with U.S. firms

A delegation from al-Anbar province on Saturday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with U.S. companies in the Lebanese capital Beirut to set up service and industrial projects in al-Anbar cities, according to the provincial council’s investment committee chief.

“We signed the MoU during a meeting held in Beirut. The Anbar investment delegation selected several U.S. companies to establish industrial projects by making good use of the province’s mineral wealth,” Mozher Hassan told Aswat al-Iraq news agency over the phone from Beirut.

http://en.aswataliraq.info/Default1....&id=140648&l=1

Iraqi government to purchase armored limousines worth $75 million for members of parliament

The Iraqi government has decided to spend nearly $75 million from the country’s oil revenues to purchase armored limousines, one for each of the 325 members of parliament.

The government says the vehicles are needed because the parliamentarians are targets of attack by insurgents and ‘terrorists.’

The high salaries and perks senior Iraqi officials get are fueling anger in Iraq and there has been a storm of protest from local media.

The benefits have turned them into a special class with body guards, armored vehicles and specially imported power generators to light, heat and cool their homes.

The roads leading to their houses are normally blocked and when driving in Baghdad their armored vehicles are part of a large convoy of cars carrying their contingents of bodyguards.

Lack of transparency is leading to wild guesses about the monthly salaries and other benefits senior officials get in the country.

The government which claims to be democratically elected has no transparency system in place where ordinary Iraqis can have access to the perks, salaries and benefits of senior officials.

http://www.azzaman.com/english/index...01-21\kurd.htm

Saudi Arabia will participate in the Baghdad summit at the highest levels

Neighborhood: told the Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani that Riyadh will participate at the highest levels in the Arab Summit in Baghdad at the end of next March.

According to a statement issued by the Office of the President of Iraq, yesterday, said that Prince Al-Faisal met with Talabani on the sidelines of the Arab Economic Summit held in Sharm el-Sheikh last Wednesday. He pointed out that they «reviewed the current Arab situation and the relations between the two brotherly countries and the progress of preparations for the Arab summit in Baghdad».

The statement added, «Prince talked about Saudi Arabia's desire to actively participate in the summit of Baghdad and at the highest levels, thereby contributing to the success of the summit and push the joint Arab action».

http://www.aljewar.org/news-30498.aspx

Iraqi government and Kurds solve differences over oil exports

The Ministry of Oil has reached an agreement with the Kurdish regional government which, if implemented, is bound to solve differences over the export of oil from fields in Kurdish areas, according to the ministry’s spokesman.

The spokesman, Isam Jihad, said the ministry has agreed to pay for the costs international firms have incurred in their exploration and development of oil fields in the Kurdish region.

“SOMO, Iraq’s oil export arm, will be in charge of paying (the companies) through the Kurdish ministry of natural resources,” Jihad said.

The agreement follows negotiations between the sides in which Kurdish regional prime minister Burham Saleh took part.

Saleh, one of the most prominent Kurdish politicians, is known for his desire to work closely with the central government in Baghdad and solve outstanding issues particularly those related to the sharing of natural resources.

A statement by his office, faxed to the newspaper, said the meetings Saleh had in Baghdad resulted in central government’s agreement to resume oil exports from the Kurdish region.

The exports have been halted due to differences over collecting the royalties and paying of expenses incurred by foreign firms.

The Kurds have signed several deals with foreign companies to develop oil fields in their areas. They say they have the capacity to export about 100,000 barrels a day with the possibility of raising the volume to 250,000 barrels daily in two years.

http://www.azzaman.com/english/index...01-22\kurd.htm

Barham Salih discusses with Rafie al-Issawi in Arbil, the outstanding financial issues between the province and the federal government

Search Barham Saleh, President of the Kurdistan Regional Government, with Rafie al-Issawi and Minister of Finance, the outstanding financial issues between the KRG and the federal government.

A statement from the presidency of the province that Saleh met with al-Issawi in Erbil and during the meeting which was attended by both drastically and the Minister of Natural Resources and Baez, Talabani and Minister of Finance and Rashid Taher, Deputy Minister of Finance of the Kurdistan Regional Government Research financial issues pending between the KRG and the federal government.

He added: The two sides stressed their keenness to find appropriate solutions to end the financial issues outstanding and review of the budget law is the Iraqi public and abide by the constitution, as the two sides stressed the need to adhere to the minutes between the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Ministry of Oil in the federal government and begin to export oil province of Kurdistan.

The statement said: The two sides discussed the successful visit of the President of the Kurdistan Regional Government and the delegation accompanying him to Baghdad and his meeting with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and other officials in the federal government, as was done during the meeting emphasized the need for coordination and cooperation between banks in the province of Kurdistan and Baghdad.

The President of the Kurdistan Regional Government and Minister of Finance on the need to strengthen coordination and cooperation to resolve outstanding issues in the framework of the Iraqi Constitution.

http://www.ipairaq.com/index.php?nam...onomy&id=34804

Joe Biden apologizes for the decision to invade Iraq in two thousand and three

The Deputy President Joe Biden regrets the decision of former President George Bush's invasion of Iraq in two thousand and three, hoping to be a source of natural wealth of Iraq to achieve stability and economic security to the Iraqis.

Biden said in a speech before members of the Democratic Party, that the prospects for success or failure of the political process in Iraq will be equal after the withdrawal of American troops.

The vice president said that if he could re-wheel of history back, the results were better in Iraq if it did not take the initiative of former President Bush to overthrow Saddam Hussein.

http://radionawa.com/ar/NewsDetailN....290&LinkID=158

FINANCIAL EXPERT: Iranian banks in Iraq supports Iran's nuclear program is prohibited internationally

Detect financial expert goldsmith contrary that there are Iranian banks operating in Iraq supports Iran's nuclear program outlawed internationally.

And goldsmith in a statement to the Agency by news Sunday that the work of Iranian banks in Iraq is not an obstacle, but there are some of them in the black list, because it had the transactions related to Iran's nuclear program, and these banks if they have attempted to work inside Iraq is supposed not to deal with this issue, in order to avoid any problematic political class basis.

He pointed out that foreign banks and its work in Iraq is running normally, because the Central Bank after 2003 allowed her to work in the Iraqi market under the umbrella of the private banks because the work of foreign banks with local banks in Iraq comes in the framework of strengthening relations and the introduction of modern methods and advanced technologies to banks and capabilities financial status of banks and give financial transactions according to methods developed by the regionally and locally.

http://radionawa.com/ar/NewsDetailN....349&LinkID=158

Dozen Arab Leaders ready to attend Baghdad Arab Summit, newspaper reports:

At least 12 Arab Leaders have agreed to attend the Arab Summit, scheduled to convene in Baghdad next March, an Iraqi newspaper reported on Saturday.

"Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has succeeded to convince a large number of Arab Leaders to attend the forthcoming Arab Summit, scheduled to be held in Baghdad at the end of next March," the semi-official al-Sabah newspaper quoted sources close to the Iraqi Presidency as saying, adding that "President Talabani's meetings during his attendance of the Arab Socio-Economic Summit, held in Egypt's Sharm al-Sheikh Termional last Wednesday, had achieved success to convince the majority of Arab Leaders to attend the Baghdad Arab Summit."

The newspaper reported that "12 Arab Leaders have agreed to attend the Baghdad Summit till now," pointing out that "response for the Iraqi invitations to attend the Summit is taking place gradually and might reach to more than 15 Arab Leaders," but it declined to give the names of the Arab Kings and Presidents, who agreed to attend the Summit.

The next Arab Summit is scheduled to be held in Baghdad next March, with Iraq announcing a broad plan to rehabilitate the streets, buildings and five 5-star hotels in the Iraqi capital.

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani had returned to Baghdad on Thursday, after attending Sharm al-Sheikh's Arab Socio-Economic Summit, where he conferred with Egyptian President, Mohammed Hosni Mubarak, Algerian President Abdel-Aziz Bouteflika, Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh and Qatar's Prince Hamad Bin-Khalifa al-Thani.

http://en.aswataliraq.info/Default1....&id=140645&l=1

The Iraqi government to restructure government 180 companies

An economic adviser to the prime minister said Sunday that the Iraqi government began the restructuring of the 180 companies to enter the general area of the world market through the road map will continue until the year 2015.

"Abdul Hussein Al-Anbuge of Kurdistan News Agency (Rn) announced today that" the Iraqi government began to re-Hecilp 180 companies including General Government 3000 employees over the next five years in coordination with the United Nations and international organizations. "

He Anbuge that the "road map designed to develop the work of public companies and ratified by the Council of Ministers and came into force to start the work to convert large state-owned companies to market companies and rub the concept of profit and loss."

He said, "the advisers in the prime minister is responsible for the completion of restructuring of these companies in coordination with the ministries and agents and directors of public companies to develop appropriate mechanisms for starting the project reformist," pointing out that "Iraq is looking forward to building the institutions of industrial and commercial subject to the market system the World Economic similar institutions operating in the economically advanced countries of the world and similar to the situation in Iraq. "

The Iraqi prime minister announced earlier that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ordered the formation of an executive committee to take it upon themselves to prepare a detailed study about the reality of state-owned factories and the development of an appropriate mechanism for their development.

Referred to the Finance Ministry warned earlier in the continuation of the "lost" Iraq to the domestic industry, after review the work of factories and laboratories Iraqi state-owned and mixed public and private sectors.

The reports indicate the non-governmental organizations concerned with the economic aspect that Iraq has lost since the last four years more than $ 180 billion because of its reliance on imported goods as a result of the decline in its domestic industry.

The results of the survey conducted recently by the Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation in collaboration with the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of Iraq, that the unemployment rate among the population aged 15 years and over of 28.1% for both sexes, the survey indicates that the unemployment rate for males stood at 30.2% versus 16% for women.

According to a report on the results of a survey of employment and unemployment rate of unemployment in urban areas, 30% versus 25.4% in rural areas.

http://www.aknews.com/ar/aknews/2/212702/