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Announcement No.(1129)
D.G. of Foreign Exchange Control
The 1129 daily currency auction was held in the Central Bank of Iraq day Wednesday 2008/3/19 so the results were as follows :
Details Notes
Number of banks 14 -----
Auction price selling dinar / US $ 1208 -----
Auction price buying dinar / US $ ----- -----
Amount sold at auction price (US $) 130.705.000 -----
Amount purchased at Auction price (US $) -----
Total offers for buying (US $) 130.705.000 -----
Total offers for selling (US $) ----- -----
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Analysis: Petraeus makes Iraq energy calls
Published: March 18, 2008 at 5:53 PM
Print story Email to a friend Font size:By BEN LANDO
UPI Energy Editor
WASHINGTON, March 18 (UPI) -- Gen. David Petraeus is calling on "large Western corporations" to invest in Iraq's energy sector as Iraq looks outside to boost oil, gas and power production.
Petraeus, who as commander of Multi-National Force-Iraq overseas all coalition troops there, said Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki asked him to convey the message to companies.
"The prime minister is very keen on getting large Western corporations re-engaged in the oil and electricity sectors," Petraeus said Monday at a news conference in Iraq with Vice President Dick Cheney and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker.
Petraeus' spokesman would not tell United Press International which companies the general had called.
"We have made some initial inquiries on (Iraq's) behalf," said U.S. Army Col. Steven Boylan. "Rest assured it would be companies that have the capability and reach to take on projects of the size and scope that Iraq needs to continue to progress forward."
Iraq is producing and exporting oil at post-2003 heights, an extra boon when you figure in today's oil price. But most natural gas produced is burned as waste instead of consumed or exported, Iraq's power plants lack the fuel to give Iraqis even a quarter of demand, and there is still a massive fuel shortage. The oil, gas, refining and electricity sectors need billions of investment dollars to repair and modernize after decades of Saddam Hussein's mismanagement, U.N. sanctions and wars.
Exactly how that investment will funnel to the respective sectors isn't clear. U.S. and international post-war demands are Iraq should privatize its economy. While in many aspects the government is making that transition, most Iraqis support a nationalized energy sector, especially oil and gas production.
The prospect that international oil companies will be allowed into Iraq's world-leading reserves is one reason a draft oil law is stalled in Parliament. The tens of thousands of workers that make up Iraq's oil and electricity unions -- who support limited foreign participation -- have criticized Baghdad for not investing more of its own funds instead of waiting for international companies to put in.
Those companies say the legal status of investment is still too shaky. The Oil Ministry, for example, is relying on Saddam-era directives to negotiate limited two-year deals with Big Oil firms and an upcoming bidding round. Sources tell UPI those talks keep running into hitches. Iraqi oil and gas is a hot ticket still, further evidenced by the more than 100 companies that have pre-registered for the bidding round.
And if deals were to be signed there's no guarantee the companies will send money, let alone people, to Iraq until the security situation improves.
"Sometimes to get the ball rolling it takes a senior leader to engage other senior leaders in the corporate world to have a discussion" on the realities of security in Iraq, Boylan said. Boylan added it's part of the U.S. effort to help Iraq's government build its capacity. He said the level of security for these companies depends on the area of the country.
A spokesman for Shell, which recently authored a master plan for Iraq's gas sector, wouldn't confirm whether Petraeus had contacted the company.
"Shell executives hold meetings with a range of Iraqi government and interested third parties," the spokesman said, "the details of which are commercially confidential."
UPI's calls to a number of "large Western corporations" were not returned.
At least Shell, BP, ExxonMobil, Chevron and Total are negotiating Technical Support Agreements with the ministry. Iraq would pay transfer technology, training and equipment transfer to increase production in at least five of the largest oil fields. The ministry said the deals would increase production by about 100,000 barrels per day in each field.
Iraq is producing 2.4 million barrels per day now and is exporting about 1.9 million bpd. Iraq has set aside $2.5 billion over two years for the TSAs, according to U.S. State Department Minister for Economic Affairs and Coordinator for Economic Transition in Iraq Charles Ries, and dedicated more than $3 billion of its $13 billion capital investment budget in fiscal year 2008 to the Oil Ministry. Iraq has been able to annually spend only a fraction of the capital budget, however, as it's plagued by real and perceived corruption and a lack of institutional capacity.
Iraq's Electricity Ministry has complained that it has billions of dollars to spend on contracts, but so far there have been no American and European takers. China and Iran have signed the only large electricity deals.
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Kirkuk dispute close to boiling point :
Analysts say political agreement must be reached to defuse escalating tensions over contested city’s status.
By Caroline Tosh in London and Zaineb Ahmed in Iraq (ICR No. 250, 18-Mar-08)
Last month, a United Nations envoy likened the struggle between Kurds and Arabs for control of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq to a “ticking time bomb''.
Staffan de Mistura, who is helping broker a settlement between Baghdad and Erbil on future arrangements for Kirkuk, said in an interview for the Bloomberg news agency that he had just a few months left to solve what he termed “the mother of all crises'' in Iraq.
“If that takes place, we will have contributed substantially to avoiding a new conflict at the worst possible time,'' said the Swedish diplomat in the report.
The autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government, KRG, would like to see the return of Kurds who were expelled from Kirkuk as part of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s “Arabisation” policy, under which the Kurds – whom he viewed as politically suspect – were driven out of oil-rich areas of the north and replaced by a smaller number of Arabs.
The Kurds say they have a historical claim to Kirkuk city, and that they lost a great deal of property and land there under Saddam.
The KRG is calling for a referendum to decide the future of the city and its surrounding oil fields, which lie outside Kurdistan’s three provinces of Erbil, Sulaimaniyah and Dohuk.
Article 140 of the 2005 Iraqi constitution contains a provision for just such a referendum to decide the fate of the city and its environs.
Under this article, the authorities must first achieve "normalisation" – taken to mean the reversal or mitigation of “Arabisation” policy – and hold a census in Kirkuk. The government must complete a series of steps set out in the Transitional Administrative Law – an interim constitution dating from 2004. These include restitution for people who were forced out; resettling or otherwise accommodating people who were moved into the area by Saddam; and remedying unjust boundary changes carried out by his regime.
While no up-to-date statistics exist on the ethnic and religious make-up of the province of Kirkuk (also known as Tamim), Kurds are thought to be the largest ethnic group, and they hold the most seats on the provincial council.
But the idea that the city could be incorporated into an expanded Kurdish region is bitterly opposed by Iraqi Arabs, who do not want to cede control of the city and its oil to an autonomous Kurdish entity. The area is thought to hold some 12 per cent of Iraq's confirmed oil reserves.
Kirkuk’s significant Turkoman population, which has its own historical claims on the city, is also against absorption into the KRG and would rather see the city granted some kind of special status.
A decision was made in December to delay the referendum until June this year, partly because of growing violence in Kirkuk.
As the Kirkuk crisis simmers, relations between the KRG capital Erbil and Baghdad have been further strained by disagreements over the funding of the Peshmerga or Kurdish military, and over oil deals signed by the Kurds without reference to Baghdad. The Iraqi oil ministry claims these arrangements are unconstitutional and is reportedly threatening to blacklist the foreign companies involved, preventing them pursuing oil contracts with Baghdad.
The UN has now been drafted in to help settle disagreements over Kirkuk and other matters ahead of a plebiscite designed to “determine the will of… citizens” with regard to the city and other disputed territories.
Meanwhile, Iraq’s neighbours look on with keen interest. If the KRG were to absorb Kirkuk, the consolidation this would mean for the entity could have implications for Kurdish minorities in Turkey, Syria and Iran.
Ankara is fiercely protective of Kirkuk’s Turkomans, and also fearful that Kurdistan could use the added oil wealth to make a future bid for independence – something it would oppose given the implications for its home-grown Kurdish separatist movement.
Were there to be an actual conflict over Kirkuk, it now seems less and less certain whether Kurdistan could count on the backing of Washington, formerly a close ally. The United States was notably slow to react when Turkey breached Iraqi sovereignty by launching incursions into the north of the country last month, in pursuit of rebels of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party or PKK.
KURDS ACCUSED OF “OVERREACHING”
While there is some sympathy for the Kurds’ ambition to secure greater control of resources so as to help prevent a repeat of their past suffering, a recent wave of articles abroad has accused Kurdistan of overplaying its hand.
US analyst Michael O’Hanlon suggested in a piece for the Washington Post last month that by laying claim to Kirkuk and independently developing oil fields, Kurds were “making a major mistake”.
“They should rethink their approach both out of fairness to the United States, which has given them a chance to help build a post-Hussein Iraq, and in the interests of [both] the Kurds and their neighbours,” he said.
Other analysts suggested that US support for Kurdistan has been ebbing in recent months.
“I think there’s a feeling that in Washington the Kurds have got a good deal in Iraq and that they need to focus on that and not be reaching for more,” observed Daniel Serwer of the United States Institute of Peace, USIP.
Joost Hiltermann of the Brussels-based think tank the International Crisis Group, ICG, thought that while the Kurds had a historic opportunity to press forward, that window was now starting to close as US support waned.
As the US attempts to rebuild Iraq, it needs to persuade the political winners of recent years to cede some of their power so that excluded groups can be drawn in, he said. That suggests that the Kurds as well as the powerful Shia parties would have to give some ground.
But that may be easier said than done. Kurdish politics have their own internal dynamics, and the intense competition between the two big players — the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, PUK, and the Kurdistan Democratic Party, KDP — may be spurring them on to make greater demands.
"Kurdish leaders sometimes play to the gallery of their own regional politics," said BBC journalist Quil Lawrence, author of “Invisible Nation: How the Kurds’ Quest for Statehood is Shaping Iraq and the Middle East”.
"When they go to Baghdad they need to play tough and say, ‘Kirkuk is our beating heart’, because the opposing Kurdish party just came to Baghdad and said, ‘Kirkuk is our Jerusalem’," he explained.
Kurdish journalist and Middle East expert Dr Rebwar Fatah doubts the Kurds will give up on their claim to the city, unless Kirkuk’s population itself chooses to reject annexation. “It would be very difficult if Kirkuk accepted not being part of the Kurdish region,” he admitted.
Fatah dismissed the notion that Kurds are demanding too much, saying they merely wanted security and control over their own resources.
If the city did not become part of the Kurdish region, he said, “Kurds would eventually be pushed out of Kirkuk.”
He drew a clear analogy with another mixed-population northern city claimed by the Kurds, noting, “Historically, Mosul was a Kurdish area, but now the east part is Kurdish and the west part Arab.”
Some argue that Kurdistan is being unfairly penalised for securing favourable terms when the constitution was being drafted.
“[Some Shia] think Kurdistan did too well in the negotiations over the constitution of 2005 and have been trying to rein them in,” said Professor Brendan O'Leary of the University of Pennsylvania, who acted as advisor to the KRG on the constitution.
O’Leary denied that Kurdish aspirations were driven by a desire to get rich from Kirkuk’s oil, a view promulgated by certain politicians and media reports.
“It’s false to allege that the dispute in Kirkuk is about oil, and it’s also equally false to allege that the Kurds are planning to seize the oil fields and then declare independence,” he said.
“Irrespective of the outcome of the referendum, there is an agreement that the revenues of Kirkuk will be distributed across Iraq as a whole.”
Indeed, Kurds often stress that the Kirkuk question is about people, not oil, pointing out that they currently receive 17 per cent of the country’s oil revenue and would receive just 12 per cent from Kirkuk.
REFERENDUM LOOKS SET FOR FURTHER DELAY
Observers say that the longer the status of Kirkuk hangs in the balance, the more the tensions will grow.
Narmeen Osman, the Iraqi environment minister and a member of the Iraqi Committee for the Implementation of Article 140, said the federal government had been slow to implement the terms of the article "because of political pressures" from inside and outside Iraq.
There are widespread fears that come June, the referendum will be delayed once again. Political elements in government with close ties with Iran are likely to be obstructive, while Kurdistan’s fear of alienating Turkey could also cause a delay.
Turkey’s importance to Iraq was seen earlier this month when Iraqi president and PUK leader Jalal Talabani led an official delegation on a visit to Ankara.
During the visit, which was held in part to restore normal relations between Ankara and Erbil after the Turkish military incursion to hunt down PKK guerrillas last month, Talabani urged Turkish businesses to invest in the country.
A source who accompanied the Iraqi delegation to Ankara this month told IWPR that Turkish friendship was vital to Iraqi Kurdistan’s future.
“Without a relationship with Turkey, Kurdistan can get nowhere,” said the source. “Turkey is its gate to Europe and Washington; its only breathing space.”
From a practical point of view, it seems very little progress on implementing those elements of Article 140 which should precede a referendum.
“I don't think that there will be any referendum. There has not been much progress on the three stages of normalisation. [First] there has to be compensation and moving of people who have been settled for up to 35 years,” said Fatah.
He argued that delaying the referendum had created a vacuum in Kirkuk, and had also served to isolate the KRG further from the population, who see it as self-serving and unwilling to tackle the problem head-on.
“[The Kurdish authorities] have tried to manage the problem, not to do anything about it,” he said.
Like other observers, Fatah predicts continuing resistance to Article 140 from Arabs both inside Iraq and from other regional states.
Hiltermann thinks obstruction from the Baghdad government could prevent the referendum being held, and agrees that very little progress had been made with the normalisation process.
“Most Kurds who were expelled from Kirkuk in the previous era have not returned, mostly because there are no resources there for them… so they haven’t come back. Many of the Arabs who were brought there by the previous regimes are also still there and probably will stay there,” he said.
Serwer agreed that much still had to be done, saying, “There are a lot of complicated issues – technical issues that need to be resolved if the referendum is to go ahead in June, and I’m not seeing the kind of intensive preparations that would enable them to go ahead in June.”
However, O’Leary thought there was still plenty of time to prepare.
“I don’t think it’s all taken place at full speed, but there are funds available to assist in normalisation, and many families have taken advantage of those and some families are waiting,” he said.
WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN NEXT?
As the referendum deadline looms, politicians are divided on how to proceed.
One Iraqi government adviser who did not want to be named said he believed the pressure could be eased by embarking on the normalisation process, but putting the plebiscite on hold for the time being.
“Work on the normalisation process, and put the issue of the referendum to one side,” he said. “Even if five per cent of the process was done, it would serve as a confidence-building measure.”
Narmeen Osman, however, worried that a second postponement would merely inflame relations between Erbil and Baghdad.
"The solution for the problem is the implementation of the article — normalise, conduct censuses and then referendum,” she said.
O’Leary pointed out that while it would be better to engage all the parties concerned, it would be possible to go ahead without the support of the Baghdad government.
“I think, in principle, there is no reason why the referendum could not be held jointly by the Kirkuk governorate itself – at present the majority of Kurdistan-allied parties are on it – with the Kurdistan Regional Government,” he said.
However, there are fears that such a unilateral move could make an already difficult situation worse.
Izzat al-Shahbandar, a member of parliament from the Iraqi National List, believes further negotiations are needed between Kurdistan and the federal government to iron out any disagreements in advance.
"It is not enough to…normalise relations, and conduct a referendum that has supports and opponents. Otherwise, the day of June 6, 2008 is going to be a time bomb."
NEED FOR POLITICAL CONSENSUS
Observers say the reluctance of certain Iraqi political forces to comply with the constitutional requirement to hold a referendum demonstrates a failure to engage all sides in the process from the outset.
Lawrence pointed out that the current obstruction to implementing the constitution was in part because the Sunni Arabs had largely boycotted the drafting process, and therefore consider the end result "null and void".
"The basic problem right now is the constitution, which was written without genuine Sunni input," he said.
"The Sunnis have a legitimate gripe in that they didn't really sign off on the constitution, they were promised that there would be time after the constitution passed to amend it, and correct it from their opinion. But the parts they’d like to scrap are exactly what the Kurds say are ‘red-lines’ for them [and must] stay in."
Kurdish politician Mahmoud Othman says it is imperative to negotiate broad political backing for any solution in Kirkuk itself, regardless of the outcome of any referendum.
“Even if you get a majority in Kirkuk with the referendum, then clearly you have to make a deal with the Arabs and Turkomans so that they will be not against it, so that you could implement it,” he said.
Others continue to argue that territorial disputes should be decided through negotiations and political agreement, rather than by a referendum at this stage.
“It can be that any agreement that results from such negotiations could be ratified in a popular referendum,” said Hiltermann.
Establishing a broad consensus between Iraq’s main parties could also decrease the likelihood of eternal actors muscling in.
And as a growing engagement with the political process emerges in Iraq, there are signs that an agreement on Kirkuk may be a possibility.
“My sense is that among both Kurds and Arabs in Iraq, you have a much broader acceptance of the constitution than you had a year ago. People are much more willing to take their problems into parliament, into provincial councils, to the press, than they were once upon a time,” said Serwer.
FEARS OF CONFLICT DOWNPLAYED
Despite the rising trend of violence since 2003, analysts do not believe that Kirkuk is headed for an all-out local civil war.
O’Leary disputed the media’s characterisation of Kirkuk as “a tinderbox waiting to explode”.
“I don’t think that the Kurdistan government will provoke violence,” he said, adding that the KRG had shown a commitment to negotiating by constitutional and democratic means.
“It’s important to note that the Kirkuk governorate is already in effect under the security blanket of the Peshmerga and therefore I wouldn’t expect any change on the ground,” he said.
According to the analyst, if the dispute over Kirkuk were to intensify, the Baghdad government would be unlikely to deploy troops against the Peshmerga, who are better trained and more cohesive than Arab units of the Iraqi army.
Washington would be “foolish” to permit any Turkish intervention on behalf of the Turkomans of Kirkuk, he added.
The KRG and the government in Baghdad have also shown a commitment to come to an agreement through negotiations, rather than violence.
"There are meetings and negotiations between the central government and the Kurdish leadership and both sides agree that the issues should be solved in peaceful ways," said Osman.
And with the UN-assisted negotiating process just getting under way, it seems far too early to talk of civil war.
“If [the talks] fail, then you will get real trouble in these areas over oil and other issues, resources — oil and gas mostly – population growth, and that could lead to civil war, but we are far from that and we are certainly able to prevent that,” said Hiltermann.
While Serwer sees potential for violence over the issue of Kirkuk, he does not expect conflict on a large scale.
“Kirkukis are quite determined not to be the theatre for the broader conflict between Kurds and Arabs in Iraq,” he said.
Caroline Tosh is an IWPR editor in London. Zaineb Ahmed is an IWPR-trained journalist in Baghdad.
Published under partnership agreement with IWPR. Normal copyrights applied. Visit the IWPR website at:The Institute for War & Peace Reporting
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Bush Plays Cheerleader on Economy
By JENNIFER LOVEN – 4 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush traveled a fair distance from Friday to Monday, and not just to New York and back to the White House.
One day, he warned the economy could land "in a ditch" if the government engaged in big bailout-type help for people losing their homes because they gambled, unwisely or unknowingly, on the now-collapsed subprime mortgage market.
On the other, he endorsed the Federal Reserve's move to provide $30 billion in backing for the rescue of one of Wall Street's largest investment banks, needed because Bear Stearns risked too much in that very sector.
Meanwhile, throughout the economy's recent turbulent times — lost jobs, sky-high gasoline prices, plunging home values, a free-falling dollar, shaken consumer confidence, a growth slowdown and possibly even a recession — Bush has projected an air of unwavering optimism, even joviality.
He is the nation's biggest economic cheerleader at a time of deep uncertainty.
"The United States is on top of the situation," he declared Monday.
It all has some people shaking their heads. Is there a disconnect here? Does the president get how this might feel to the little guy? Is there a different standard for the big financial community and the strapped homeowner facing foreclosure?
This sort of question dominated presidential spokeswoman Dana Perino's briefings Monday.
Absolutely, the president gets it, she said.
Perino listed steps the administration has been taking to provide relief for homeowners in trouble, such as brokering deals with the mortgage industry for a five-year rate freeze and a 30-day foreclosure pause. She said "help is on the way" in the form of tax rebate checks in May that are part of a $168 billion stimulus package.
She also insisted that the Fed's decision, backed by Bush, to support the purchase of troubled Bear Stearns is a different matter. Bush has rejected bailouts because he says they encourage more people to make poor decisions. But Perino said the broader financial market could follow a company such as Bear Stearns into ruin, causing a ripple effect that demanded bold preventive action.
"A major market disruption would have very damaging consequences and be very painful for everybody, from the small-business owner to the homeowner," Perino said.
In any case, the Fed action on Bear Stearns' behalf doesn't amount to a bailout, she said, because the company's shareholders "are taking large and significant losses in this transaction."
Policy arguments aside, when it comes to presidents and crises, particularly economic ones, perceptions are key.
There was Bush's father, who lost re-election to the White House largely because he was seen as out of touch with the economic problems of regular people. Bill Clinton won with his "I-feel-your-pain" empathy.
And remember Herbert Hoover, infamous for presiding over the onset of the Great Depression? History has given him a laissez-faire legacy even though his administration acted aggressively to try to avert that economic meltdown.
Hoover's reputation was built in part on remarks viewed as too rosy. "The problem is not at all insurmountable in the long run," he said on Oct. 6, 1930, as unemployment, poverty and desperation climbed.
An aide to Hoover's successor, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, summed up the problem with his approach: "People don't eat in the long run; they eat every day."
Even so, here was Bush making brief remarks to reporters on Monday morning after meeting with his economic advisers: "In the long run, our economy is going to be fine."
He said the same thing Friday in New York, adding "I'm coming to you as an optimistic fellow."
Bush can't seem to help turning upbeat even when taking care to acknowledge the pocketbook pain being felt by many. "One thing is for certain — we're in challenging times. But another thing is for certain — that we've taken strong and decisive action," he said Monday.
Democrats are struggling for the right note, too. They assumed the somewhat awkward position of criticizing Bush for going too far and not far enough at the same time. They want more direct help for homeowners, such as changing the bankruptcy code to allow judges to adjust mortgage rates.
"Now that the president has shown his willingness to bail out Wall Street at taxpayer expense, I hope he will drop his opposition to proposals designed to help ordinary homeowners," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
Bush rejects the bankruptcy plan and other ideas like it. He wants legislation providing broad mortgage reform instead. "The challenge is not to do anything foolish," he says.
But that challenge applies to his demeanor as well.
Last month, he surprised some people by saying he was unaware that some analysts were predicting $4-a-gallon gasoline by summer.
On Friday, as stocks were tumbling on the developing crisis at Bear Stearns, Bush gave a hearty laugh and said he had shown up in New York "in an interesting moment." Talking about economic troubles, he was speaking to an audience of wealthy leaders from the corporate and financial industries who are largely immune to the worries of average Americans. And he went directly from the speech to a fundraising reception in an A-list apartment building on Manhattan's Upper West Side where he collected $20,000 apiece from about 70 GOP donors.
High spirits were on display Monday, too.
With a somber-looking Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke at his side, Bush joshed with reporters after an afternoon meeting of the President's Working Group on Financial Markets — his second publicized economy-related meeting of the day — but offered no substantive remarks.
It's part of the president's job, trying to feel Americans' pain and keep their spirits up at the same time. It's one reason why the word "recession" is unlikely to drop from Bush's lips unless absolutely unavoidable.
In truth, this balancing act is among the president's few powers to steer the country's economy in a different direction. And optimism is the only direction on his compass.
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Iraq's "Hidden" Conflict
Raed Jarrar | March 18, 2008
Editor: Erik Leaver
Foreign Policy In Focus www.fpif.org
While the majority of Iraqis know that the current Sunni-Shiites tension did not exist before 2003, no one can deny that after five years of U.S. occupation, sectarian tension is now a reality. Sectarianism is another disaster that was brought to Iraq by the war and occupation of Iraq.
The U.S.-led invasion did not only destroy the Baath political regime, it also annihilated the entire public sector including education, health care, food rations, social security, and the armed forces. The Iraqi public sector was a great example of how millions of Iraqis: Arabs and Kurds, Sunnis and Shiites, Muslims and Christians, religious and secular, all worked together in running the country. The myth that the former Iraqi government was a "Sunni-led dictatorship" was created by the U.S. government. Even the Iraqi political regime was not "Sunni-led," let alone the rest of the public sector. A good way to debunk this fairy tale is through a close look at the famous deck of cards of the 55 most wanted Iraqi leaders. The cards had the pictures of Saddam, his two sons, and the rest of the political leadership which most Iraqis would recognize as the heads of the political regime. What is noteworthy is that 36 of the 55 were Shiites. In fact, the two vice presidents were a Christian and a Shiites Kurd.
Sometimes I feel like Iraqis and Americans are analyzing two different wars happening in two different countries. In one narrative, there is a civil war based on ancient sectarian hatred where a U.S. withdrawal will cause the sky to fall. In the other, there is a country struggling under occupation to get its independence back where the occupation is not welcomed and it is causing political, not sectarian, splits and violence.
According to the Iraqi mainstream narrative, the foreign occupation is the major reason and cause for violence and destruction. Foreign intervention is not only destroying Iraq's infrastructure, but it is also splitting Iraq's formerly integrated society. In addition, Iraqis are fighting among each other over fundamental questions about the future of their country, but the central conflict is not between Sunnis and Shiites, it is between Iraqi separatists and nationalists. Unlike other countries in the region such as Lebanon, the Iraqi sectarian tension is still reversible, because it just started five years ago. More importantly, it isn't main driver fueling the Iraqi-Iraqi conflict. This "hidden" conflict is between separatists and nationalists.
The "Hidden" Conflict: Separatists vs. Nationalists
Loosely speaking, separatists favor a "soft partition" of Iraq into at least three zones with strong regional governments, similar to the semiautonomous Kurdish "state" in Northern Iraq; they are thriving on foreign intervention (Iranian, U.S. or other powers' influence); they favor privatizing Iraq's massive energy reserves and ceding substantial control of the country's oil sector to regional authorities. Nationalists reject any foreign interference in Iraq's affairs and they favor a strong technocratic central government in Baghdad that is not based on sectarian voting blocs. They favor centralized control over the development of Iraq's oil and gas reserves while keeping them nationalized.
This Iraqi-Iraqi conflict is in many ways similar to the U.S. civil war: Iraqis who are for keeping a central government are fighting against other Iraqis who want to secede. But the major difference is that the United States was not under a foreign occupation that was destroying nationalists and funding and training separatists. Numerous polls that were conducted over the past few years in Iraq show that a majority of Iraqis from all different backgrounds tend to be more nationalist than separatist. A majority of the population are for a complete U.S. withdrawal, for keeping a strong central government in Baghdad, and against privatizing and decentralizing Iraq's natural resources.
More surprisingly to U.S. audiences, this nationalist-separatist conflict is apparent inside the Iraqi government itself. The Iraqi executive branch (the cabinet and the presidency) are completely controlled by separatists (including Shiitess, Sunnis, Kurds, seculars and others). But the legislative branch (the parliament) is controlled by nationalists (including Sunnis, Shiitess, seculars, Christians, Yazidis, etc.) who enjoy a small but crucially important majority.
The last couple of years witnessed numerous examples of how the Bush administration systematically took the side of separatists in the Iraqi executive branch against nationalists in the elected legislative branch, repeatedly bypassing the Iraqi parliament. In each of these cases, there was the potential for reaching compromises that would have satisfied both nationalists and separatists. However, the aggressive support of the U.S. government for the separatist executive branch against the parliament has made it impossible for Iraqis to settle their differences.
Understanding these nuances of the Iraqi-Iraqi conflict reveals how the war is a political struggle that will end as soon as the U.S. withdraws, not a religious war that will intensify after Iraqis take their country back. The United States is not playing the role of a peace-keeping force, or a convener of reconciliation. It is seen by a majority of Iraqis as one side of the conflict and will never be a part of the solution.
How to Help
On this side of the ocean, the U.S. government has managed to convince large portions of the "right" that the war and occupation of Iraq is "good for our safety" because it's better to "fight the terrorists overseas so we do not have to face them here at home." Simultaneously, the government managed to manipulate many people on the "left" into believing that a U.S. withdrawal would cause unprecedented bloodshed. "The invasion was not a good idea" some would say, "but now that we are there, let's fix it before we leave."
From an Iraqi perspective, both groups promote interventionist foreign policies that have no respect for sovereignty, independence, or international law. On the one hand, the best way to guarantee that no al-Qaeda or other extremist organizations will exist in Iraq is to let Iraqis rule the country by themselves. They have been living in Iraq and ruling it for the last thousands of years, and unlike the occupation authorities, they have been successful in protecting Iraq from the intervention of foreign countries and organizations.
While many Iraqis appreciate the sense of responsibility to fix what the U.S. invasion has broken in Iraq, and it has broken a lot, prolonging the occupation is only making the situation worse. There are other appropriate venues to support Iraqis after the last U.S. soldier and the last mercenary leave Iraq. This might include paying compensation, the same way Iraq has been compensating Kuwait and its people for the last 17 years through the United Nations Compensation Committee.
The best way to help Iraqis is to end the occupation of their country and to believe in their right and capacity for self-rule and self-determination. Setting a timetable for a complete withdrawal is the first step to help Iraqis begin the long process of reconciliation and reconstruction.
The 21st Invader
Unfortunately, the two ruling parties in D.C. are not planning to leave Iraq any time soon. The Republicans are openly speaking about leaving troops indefinitely, while the Democrats want to start withdrawing "combat" troops soon but they have three exceptions that could maintain up to 75,000 troops indefinitely in Iraq. These three exceptions are: training the Iraqi military forces, counter-terrorism operations, and protecting the U.S. embassy in Baghdad.
Turning the current occupation into half or one-quarter of an occupation will not change anything on the ground in Iraq. Pulling out some of the troops and leaving some exceptions indefinitely is not a new strategy, it is a continuation of decades old military interventionism that will likely reduce some of the violence but it will keep the Iraqi people from starting the political, social, and economic reconciliation that is sorely needed.
Last November marked the 1245th anniversary of the construction of modern Baghdad by the Abbasid caliph Al-Mansur. During the last 13 centuries, Baghdad had been attacked and occupied 20 times before the U.S. army became its 21st foreign invader. Robert Fisk noted in one of his articles that in 1920 David Lloyd George, the prime minister of Britain, was facing similar calls for a military withdrawal. "Is it not for the benefit of the people of that country that it should be governed so as to enable them to develop this land which has been withered and shriveled up by oppression? What would happen if we withdrew?" Lloyd George would not abandon Iraq to "anarchy and confusion". The time is different now, but the politics of the invaders still sound the same.
Kut Chamber of Commerce prepares for economic conf.
Wassit - Voices of Iraq
Wednesday , 19 /03 /2008 Time 12:12:31
Kut, Mar 18, (VOI)- Kut Chamber of Commerce is preparing to hold an expanded economic conference to encourage the private sector to take part in mapping out and implementing economic programs, the head of the chamber said on Tuesday.
"The chamber prepares to hold the biggest economic conference in Wassit with the participation of experts, university professors from the faculty of Administration and Economy in Wassit University, as well as a number of traders and heads of commercial companies," Jassem al-Aati told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI).
"The conference aims at encouraging the private sector to participate in putting and implementing economic programs in the province in cooperation with the local government and contributing in implementing the investment projects," he explained.
He did not specify when the conference will be held.
The Kut Chamber of Commerce has 5,326 members representing all commercial fields.
Kut, the capital of Wassit, is 180 km southeast of Baghdad.
350 out of 700 invited figures attend reconciliation conference
Baghdad - Voices of Iraq
Wednesday , 19 /03 /2008 Time 12:17:19
Baghdad, Mar 18, (VOI) – Tahseen Al-Shaikhlee, responsible for the second National Reconciliation Conference, said that the preparatory committee addressed invitations for the conference to 700 figures, in addition to heads of parliamentary entities, but only 350 figures attended
The conference started on Tuesday at the Convention Center in Baghdad, and will last for two days. It aims at activating the role of different forces in the political process for a positive participation in the national reconciliation, to build Iraq, and to support the governmental efforts in the security field.
"The conference's objectives are: the former regime should not be restored, avoiding violence, believing in the unity of Iraq, respecting the national constitutional constants, respecting human rights, and timetabling the withdrawal of Multi-National Forces (MNF) from Iraq," Al-Shaikhlee explained.
He added "the conference held four workshops today in this regard."
From his side, Iraqi minister of national dialogue stressed "there should be a timetable for the MNF to withdraw from Iraq, but there should also be a link between training and arming Iraqi forces, and this withdrawal."
Concerning Sahwa (Awakening) Councils' participation in the conference, Akram Al-Hakim said the "Anbar Rescue Council attended the conference."
U.S. counts on Kurdish president to endorse several laws - Cheney
Baghdad - Voices of Iraq
Wednesday , 19 /03 /2008 Time 12:17:19
Baghdad, Mar 18, (VOI) - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney said on Tuesday that the United States depends on Kurdish President Massoud Barazani to reach an agreement between the Iraqi and U.S. governments and endorse the important laws, necessary to support national reconciliation.
"The United States counts on al-Barazani to help us to reach an agreement with the Iraqi government," Cheney said in statements after his meeting with Barazani in the city of Arbil.
He invited President Barazani to visit the U.S.
Cheney arrived in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan region, on Tuesday morning to discuss recent political developments with Kurdish officials.
The U.S. vice president arrived in Baghdad on Monday on an unannounced visit during which he met with U.S. military commanders, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, and other Iraqi officials.
The visit coincides with the 5th anniversary of the U.S. forces' invasion of Iraq and falls within a regional Middle East tour by Cheney he began with the Sultanate of Oman. He is also scheduled to visit Saudi Arabia, Israel, the West Bank, and Turkey.
Cheney's last visit to Iraq was in May 2007.
U.S. President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki issued a joint letter in November. The "Declaration of Principles" appears as a mutual "expression of friendship."
According to this declaration, the United States will assist Iraq into being granted membership in the World Trade Organization. The two countries will engage in scientific and cultural exchanges.
It also includes a provision that promises to maintain security assurances and commitments to Iraq to deter foreign aggression against the country that violates its sovereignty and integrity of its territories, waters, or airspace.
Last January Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zibari said that Iraqi will ink a long term security, political, and economic agreement with the U.S. in mid-July 2008.
Compatibility and Alsdrion boycotting the political forces and al-Maliki calls to renounce differences
المالكي يتحدث في المؤتمر الثلاثاء Maliki speaking at the conference Tuesday
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ناشد رئيس الوزراء نوري المالكي قادة الكتل السياسية نبذ خلافاتهم وتوحيد الصف الوطني في كلمة ألقاها في افتتاح مؤتمر للقوى السياسية الثلاثاء بهدف تسريع المصالحة الوطنية. Appealed to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki leaders of the political blocs abandon their differences and unite the national front in a speech delivered at the opening of a conference of political forces Tuesday to speed up national reconciliation.
وقد قاطعت كل من جبهة التوافق العراقية والكتلة الصدرية أعمال المؤتمر، فيما نوّه رئيس الوزراء بالجهود التي تبذلها حكومته لتحقيق المصالحة الوطنية: Having boycotted by the Iraqi Accord Front and mass chest of the Conference, with the Prime Minister noted the efforts made by his government to achieve national reconciliation:
بدوره، قال المتحدث باسم جبهة التوافق العراقية سليم عبد الله الجبوري إن الجبهة قاطعت مؤتمر المصالحة الوطنية "لأن حكومة المالكي أرادت أن تجير هذا الحدث لصالحها". In turn, said spokesman for the Iraqi Accord Front Salim Abdullah Nation that the front boycotted the national reconciliation conference "because the Government wanted to Maliki Tagir this event to their advantage." وأضاف الجبوري لـ"راديو سوا": He told Nation "Radio Sawa":
وأوضح الجبوري أن الحكومة لم تلتزم بما اتفق عليه في المؤتمرات السابقة، على حد قوله: The Nation that the government did not honor what has been agreed upon in previous conferences, as he put it:
وأشار الجبوري إلى مقاطعة عدد آخر من الكتل النيابية للمؤتمر: The Nation to boycott a number of other parliamentary blocs of the Conference:
من جانبه، قال رئيس مجلس النواب محمود المشهداني إنه يدعم جميع الجهود الرامية لإنجاح المصالحة الوطنية. For his part, House Speaker Mahmoud Mashhadani that he supports all efforts for the success of national reconciliation.
وأضاف لـ"راديو سوا" قائلا: He told "Radio Sawa", saying:
Cheney up to the Sultanate of Oman from Iraq within the framework of his tour in the Middle East
وصل نائب الرئيس الأميركي دك تشيني الثلاثاء إلى سلطنة عُمان في إطار جولته في الشرق الأوسط وهبطت طائرة تشيني في مدرج خاص في مسقط وسط حراسة مشددة قادمة من العراق حيث أكد على ضرورة تكثيف الجهود لتحقيق المصالحة الوطنية وإنهاء العنف الطائفي. Arrived American Vice President Dick Cheney Tuesday to the Sultanate of Oman on a tour of the Middle East and the plane landed Cheney in particular included in Muscat amid heavy guard coming from Iraq stressed the need to intensify efforts to achieve national reconciliation and end sectarian violence.
Cheney's there with his shotgun. There WILL be an oil law.
good post from AUdad.....I second it lol
Posted by: AUdad
Date:3/18/2008 5:30:15 PM
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They know what their doing IMO. Muslim countries have figured out you cant defeat America with terrorism, so as long as the politicians cant come to any kind of agreement they know we will continue to foot the bill for the rebuilding of their country and the war on terror while their oil revenues stay in the bank and then before you know it the US is broke, the market will collapse and they can come here and buy this country for pennies on the dollar. I have always supported Mr Bush as our Commander in Chief but I wish before he leaves office he would give Iraq an ultimatum saying get it together by x date or goodbye! We as a country cannot continue down this road and foot the bill while a bunch of people that hate us anyway and hate each other for that matter cant come to terms on what is in the best interest for their country. IMO Maliki is in cohoots with the President of Iran and Sadr and they all three should be taken out with some well place shots.. JMHO!
Analysis: Iraq oil law holdup political
Published: March 17, 2008 at 6:20 PM
Print story Email to a friend Font size:By BEN LANDO
UPI Energy Editor
WASHINGTON, March 17 (UPI) -- Iraq's oil law debate is political, not technical, a top U.S. official said, adding Iraq has tagged billions of dollars to boost oil production regardless.
Charles Ries, U.S. State Department minister for economic affairs and coordinator for economic transition in Iraq, said the proposed law isn't necessary for Iraq to produce oil "but it would clearly be much, much better and incentivize private investment to help Iraq produce more if a bill would pass."
U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney is in Iraq Monday and said he's pressing Iraqi leaders to move the controversial legislation forward.
Ries said Iraq has set aside $2.5 billion for Technical Support Agreements over the next two years. TSAs, being negotiated with BP, Shell, ExxonMobil, Chevron and Total, would see a transfer of technology, expertise and training to Iraq's oil sector.
Further down the road, Ries said Iraq will sign production-sharing agreements to develop areas not currently producing.
"That is the likely course for the upstream industry in Iraq," Ries said, pointing to Syria and Indonesia as examples of countries that utilize PSAs to garner investment. He said "all parties, with a few exceptions of parties that are not in government," back PSAs.
Iraq's oil workers and civil society groups, as well as members of Parliament, have come out against PSAs, fearing Iraqis won't get their fair share. Some MPs have said they'd be OK with PSAs in certain situations, but not all, and only if the percentage for companies is low enough.
The PSA is a favorite of international oil companies, reimbursing it for expenses and guaranteeing it a percentage cut of oil for usually decades-long deals. It's compensation for the risk of exploring and coming up empty, say the companies, which can add the reserves when Wall Street looks at its books. But Iraq is not like Syria or Indonesia. It holds the world's third-largest reserves despite being vastly underexplored. Those in search have higher percentage of finds than in other countries, and what they get is usually highest quality, thus less expensive to produce, transport and refine.
The contract model itself, which will determine the extent of foreign involvement in the currently nationalized oil sector, is one sticking point in approving the law. The other is a power struggle between the majority in the central government and Iraq's Kurds and others.
"The oil and gas law from a technical standpoint is largely done," Ries said. "The problem relates to the distribution of power and autonomy in the federal structure." He refused to offer a prediction for its passage.
The Kurdistan Regional Government insists on a decentralized governing structure over the oil and gas instead of the national government. The law is stuck in Parliament's Energy Committee.
An official told reporters en route to Iraq Cheney will press government officials to approve the oil law in order to facilitate foreign oil companies' entry to Iraq. He said the constitution, which is accused of being too vague and thus creating the oil law dispute, does not need to be amended first.
Iraq is producing about 2.4 million barrels per day and exporting about 1.9 million bpd. Sales brought in $41 billion last year. With increased output and higher oil prices oil exports have fetched $11.6 billion through the first 10 weeks of 2008, according to the State Department's Iraq Weekly Status Report.
Iraq's oil reserves could handle producing much more -- the Oil Ministry has a 6 million bpd goal for 2012 and some say 10 million bpd is feasible, even without bringing online oil fields not yet found. The producing fields need to be fixed and modernized and workers retrained after decades of Saddam Hussein's mismanagement, U.N. sanctions and war. This will take tens of billions of dollars.
Iraq has been trashed by members of Congress here in Washington for not investing enough of its own funds -- a mostly misguided attack. Sens. Carl Levin, D-Mich., and John Warner, R-Va., have asked the Government Accountability Office to look into what banks Iraq stores its revenue in (Answer: the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, per U.N. mandate), how much is going to reconstruction and what is America's contribution to the rebuilding effort. Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., on the campaign trail Monday, reiterated such concerns.
They could have just asked Ries. Of the $49 billion FY 2008 budget, $13 billion is pegged for capital investment and more than $3 billion is heading to the Oil Ministry, he said. Iraq still lacks the capacity to actually spend the funds, according to previous years. Ries said 2007 will see 60 percent of capital budgets spent when the final numbers are in, though a GAO report in January questioned the figures provided by the U.S. State and Treasury departments and the Iraqi Finance Ministry. Regardless, it has increased the allocation.
"They are paying several orders of magnitude more of the cost of reconstruction than we are now," Ries said. "Iraq's oil revenues are all being spent on the Iraqi government, both operating expenditures and reconstruction," he said. There's about $27 billion at the U.S. Federal Reserve to stabilize its currency.
"We spent somewhere between $4 and $5 billion in the oil sector in five years. And they're spending $3 and a half (billion)," he said, adding there's no new U.S. spending in the oil sector.
He said the State Department is focusing its effort away from "bricks and mortar" to capacity building.
thx alot AUdad...stop by when you can...
I agree..that is why it is so hard to believe that they would just push it off like that.."untill summer"...weird and toooo casual for me to believe it...jmho
Yeah I heard that too but I don't know if it was followed through...Never heard anything after that date
lmao....BS meter...you guys kill me...I do agree that the timing is piss poor though..
repost from this morning...No agreements with major oil companies until summer
No agreements with major oil companies until summer
Translated by IRAQdirectory.com - [3/18/2008]
Officials at oil companies said on Thursday it is unlikely that Iraq would sign technical support contracts with major oil companies to work in some main fields until summer, a few months late from the date that Baghdad targeted. The agreements aim to increase Iraqi oil production to 500 thousand barrels a day within a year to add more than %20 to the current production of 2.27 million barrels per day. Iraqi Oil Minister, Hussein Al-Shahrastani, expressed his hope last month to sign such contracts in March.
However, executives of oil companies said that negotiators did not discuss details until now or the scope of the work, the financial amounts and relationship with the work of long-term development of fields which major oil companies aspire to work on. Iraqi officials and representatives of major oil companies like B.B, Chevron, Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell and Total will begin a new round of negotiations on contracts of up to two years in Amman on Friday.
The important oil law which defines the framework of foreign companies is still delayed in Parliament for more than a year, and the improved technical service contracts are only temporary measures aimed at enhancing production until the passing of the law. Despite that big companies want to link service contracts with future participation in the exploitation of the fields before moving forward. Major companies fear that after two years of technical field service they would be overcome by other companies in competitive bidding on long-term contracts. Another concern is whether the coming Iraqi government would respect any relationship established at this time.
A source said that Amman talks on some agreements are closer to completion, but talks with B.B and Exxon Mobil are less advanced. The officials said that B.B is holding talks on the southern Rumaila oil field while Chevron and Total both are looking into the West Qurna oil field and Exxon Mobil is examining Al-Zubayr field; Shell is looking forward to work in the northern Kirkuk field and to participate with B.H.B Billiton in the field of southern Maysan.
It is expected that each of those five agreements would enhances Iraqi oil production by 100 thousand barrels a day.
Another factor will hinder reaching agreements and that is how will companies work and be able to send their staff where there is no security, which will compel them to work through issuing recommendations for Iraqi governmental companies.
The contracts will give the companies a larger role than ever before in managing the maintenance and development projects of the fields. Those companies have provided field studies, technical and training support for those fields for years in an attempt to gain the satisfaction of Baghdad.
Did they ever recover all the old coins? never had confirmation on that..
Feds cut rates again .75 wow
naaa, stole the post from someplace..no link sorry
Economic Event: Acquired currency and price rises and inflation
Hadi taste
ÇCurrency tool circulation of cash in public life, not only in the market transactions of sale and purchase .. and the monetary policy influence in the strength or weakness of the currency in circulation and to reduce the inflation rate and reduce the feeling the brunt of price rises and its unity, and avoid a lot of resentment from both sides of price rises and inflation.
For progressive currencies in units partial multiple small impact on the main unit in place and have impact in the reduction of price rises and reduce the inflation rate, in contrast to large groups must out large unit adopted, it lead to a weakening of the strength of the latter, especially in the absence of policy price, and left jugular dealings in the market sunset,
Where have all the bear is exploiting the opportunity to sell at price that pleases fans, and no one course presents the goods at a price below the level of ambition or aspiration rather for the highest percentage of the profits, especially the case of loss of competition, which leads to inflammation prices, in a series seminars and related impacts, and consumers are feeling more millions (consumption) quick money in exchange for goods or merchandise few .. As a result of price rises, emergency incident motivated exploitation of the market and loose precious opportunity and handling large parts of the units to achieve greater monetary gain urgent various ways as we see and feel in our markets, the currency is no longer President dinar equivalent of A fils, but melted worth purchasing ability, and I said, it became dinar fils or less in some cases including the decline in the shares of some companies in the stock market and other .. Then the currency in circulation now is the Chairperson category thousand dinars developed emphysema in size and diminished purchasing power, and surprised some interested in this matter to be smaller category of cash for this currency is the dinar (250), and not least, a large unit compared to the force and what needs The works by the fragmentation of this unit cash accredited to the smaller groups, as was once the existence of the category percent, and General session, before exiting yards deal with Chrysalis Passy damage of oblivion, then no longer for injecting sales and purchases not yielding to deal Pal (250) dinars, as a basis for price and any increases soo smaller unit, but the unit is smaller conducted on the basis of any increased needs, the food and drink daily Bojbadtha at least three, including required by these meals from Allguetsar on one type of S., given the impossible. That meant all the monetary value in the calculation of the basic unit of the coin, a category thousand dinars, decline and erosion implicitly and really push one quarter forced to deal valued .. The smallest increase, or changes imposed by the seller and his mood and driving, beginning PAY devaluation President, a significant increase Of course, without a doubt, particularly as it did not exist for his efficient percent, the smallest category session, which reinforced the value of the many places consumption is the widening of the scope underestimated currency Chairperson, accumulating over the months, including overwhelmed by the power of large millions of citizens and energy as well as currency, which devalues their purchasing power by the monetary value .. This not lose sight of that increases in the price causes, and not the result of pressure .. nevertheless is right and genuine increases imposed arbitrary and imposed no desire biggest loss in the shortest period of time, but also by the loss of small groups including currency holdings advantage of the power, though small advantage relay ..
Fragmentation of the category (250) dinars to the smallest categories produces a multi-unit increase bargaining between buyers and sellers before being traded small category now is the currency, which will start in the increase .. increase the minimum needs, let alone the needs and increases the amounts added to what it was and users in the market and in services such as transport for example, are less than the (250) dinars to add any increase (not paid or taking).
The loss currencies micro adverse effects emerged in several countries and peoples, declared from the historical experience of time, swept the French people after the revolution in 1789 and between historical experiences, I have these currencies led to a rise in prices consequent hardships has killed thousands of hunger and hunger Maspbh tragedies and tragedies affected millions depths of humanity, Iraqna now happening in the lobster to be seen as witnessed in France and the other in this area, this clearly tells us not on the acquired price rises and inflation,
but also to the loss of small currencies me reason but lead to arbitrary cost Added the real price rises, and to the artificial inflation of Esthan prejudicial degree conferment of monetary policy (currency). To Anzid, it is small by Mattold substantial damage seemed either or both hidden from sight and intangible. Base currency, which produces inflate operative paragraph .. and pressure size and capacity to less than that, which means the consumption of the base currency by large increases and the steady erosion of Mataatbah.
Four cases of the increase occurring on a single commodity or four thousand dinars vanished from the pocket of this consumer and handheld! .. This assumption for the increases seen in the fact that since the daily in 2000 and suffering of millions of citizens, but taken on the basis of lower levels of increase for each of the many needed by the kitchen each house .. which of course is not the greatest increases, which included other goods and commodities, which encouraged users to underestimate the amount of the increase Those smaller, and therefore underestimated the basic monetary unit, which doubled the amount of the increases to other needs daily and non-daily numerical sequence since losing both Alsgirien currency. Eight of those increases spread from hand to the other fields of public services, such as transport for example has ridden the waves of the increase cat and four times more "than a benefit owners of the vehicles themselves, which is recognized by many of them. Worse, it is plunged medicine and medicine "poor impulse of a cheap", as well as pay hospitals and surgical operations, etc. .. It is enough to point to in the Ktherth significance than other readers know .. and suffer from expensive for burning of oil prices started ..
Abstract these few examples, but important indications of the price rises, hunger and low square value of the currency and purchasing power consumption many places, is the widespread disregard major accumulation over the months, including overwhelmed by the power of large millions of citizens, and energy as well as currency, which devalues their purchasing power by monetary value.
This not lose sight of that increases in the price causes, and not the result of pressure .. nevertheless is right and genuine increases imposed arbitrary and imposed no desire biggest loss in the shortest period of time, but also before that:
the loss of small groups of the currency, including most of the advantage of the force, though small, the advantage of the relay. Fragmentation of the category (250) dinars, the smaller classes allow room for multi-unit increase and bargaining between sellers and buyers Qublb be smaller category now circulating currency, which will start by the increase .. Increase minimum needs, let alone the needs and the amounts added to the increases in Valmtaton intact in the market and in services, such as transport for example, are less than the (250) dinars to add any increase, (the board does not pay, which takes).
ÇThe loss currencies micro adverse effects emerged in several countries and peoples, declared their historical experience once swept people after the French Revolution of 1789, among other historical experiences have led these currencies to rise in prices consequent hardships, the victims of starvation and thousands Maspbh hunger tragedies and tragedies long deep humanitarian millions, and in Iraqna happening now tested to be seen as witnessed in France and others in this regard. This clearly tells us not on the acquired price rises and inflation, but also that the currency loss was small for any reason but lead to arbitrary cost added to the real price rises, and to the artificial inflation of Esthan prejudicial degree conferment of monetary policy (currency). To Anzid .. it is small Mattold him substantial damage seemed either or both hidden from sight and intangible.
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Finally--currency related...Economic Event: Acquired currency and price rises and inflation
Hadi taste
ÇCurrency tool circulation of cash in public life, not only in the market transactions of sale and purchase .. and the monetary policy influence in the strength or weakness of the currency in circulation and to reduce the inflation rate and reduce the feeling the brunt of price rises and its unity, and avoid a lot of resentment from both sides of price rises and inflation.
For progressive currencies in units partial multiple small impact on the main unit in place and have impact in the reduction of price rises and reduce the inflation rate, in contrast to large groups must out large unit adopted, it lead to a weakening of the strength of the latter, especially in the absence of policy price, and left jugular dealings in the market sunset,
Where have all the bear is exploiting the opportunity to sell at price that pleases fans, and no one course presents the goods at a price below the level of ambition or aspiration rather for the highest percentage of the profits, especially the case of loss of competition, which leads to inflammation prices, in a series seminars and related impacts, and consumers are feeling more millions (consumption) quick money in exchange for goods or merchandise few .. As a result of price rises, emergency incident motivated exploitation of the market and loose precious opportunity and handling large parts of the units to achieve greater monetary gain urgent various ways as we see and feel in our markets, the currency is no longer President dinar equivalent of A fils, but melted worth purchasing ability, and I said, it became dinar fils or less in some cases including the decline in the shares of some companies in the stock market and other .. Then the currency in circulation now is the Chairperson category thousand dinars developed emphysema in size and diminished purchasing power, and surprised some interested in this matter to be smaller category of cash for this currency is the dinar (250), and not least, a large unit compared to the force and what needs The works by the fragmentation of this unit cash accredited to the smaller groups, as was once the existence of the category percent, and General session, before exiting yards deal with Chrysalis Passy damage of oblivion, then no longer for injecting sales and purchases not yielding to deal Pal (250) dinars, as a basis for price and any increases soo smaller unit, but the unit is smaller conducted on the basis of any increased needs, the food and drink daily Bojbadtha at least three, including required by these meals from Allguetsar on one type of S., given the impossible. That meant all the monetary value in the calculation of the basic unit of the coin, a category thousand dinars, decline and erosion implicitly and really push one quarter forced to deal valued .. The smallest increase, or changes imposed by the seller and his mood and driving, beginning PAY devaluation President, a significant increase Of course, without a doubt, particularly as it did not exist for his efficient percent, the smallest category session, which reinforced the value of the many places consumption is the widening of the scope underestimated currency Chairperson, accumulating over the months, including overwhelmed by the power of large millions of citizens and energy as well as currency, which devalues their purchasing power by the monetary value .. This not lose sight of that increases in the price causes, and not the result of pressure .. nevertheless is right and genuine increases imposed arbitrary and imposed no desire biggest loss in the shortest period of time, but also by the loss of small groups including currency holdings advantage of the power, though small advantage relay ..
Fragmentation of the category (250) dinars to the smallest categories produces a multi-unit increase bargaining between buyers and sellers before being traded small category now is the currency, which will start in the increase .. increase the minimum needs, let alone the needs and increases the amounts added to what it was and users in the market and in services such as transport for example, are less than the (250) dinars to add any increase (not paid or taking).
The loss currencies micro adverse effects emerged in several countries and peoples, declared from the historical experience of time, swept the French people after the revolution in 1789 and between historical experiences, I have these currencies led to a rise in prices consequent hardships has killed thousands of hunger and hunger Maspbh tragedies and tragedies affected millions depths of humanity, Iraqna now happening in the lobster to be seen as witnessed in France and the other in this area, this clearly tells us not on the acquired price rises and inflation,
but also to the loss of small currencies me reason but lead to arbitrary cost Added the real price rises, and to the artificial inflation of Esthan prejudicial degree conferment of monetary policy (currency). To Anzid, it is small by Mattold substantial damage seemed either or both hidden from sight and intangible. Base currency, which produces inflate operative paragraph .. and pressure size and capacity to less than that, which means the consumption of the base currency by large increases and the steady erosion of Mataatbah.
Four cases of the increase occurring on a single commodity or four thousand dinars vanished from the pocket of this consumer and handheld! .. This assumption for the increases seen in the fact that since the daily in 2000 and suffering of millions of citizens, but taken on the basis of lower levels of increase for each of the many needed by the kitchen each house .. which of course is not the greatest increases, which included other goods and commodities, which encouraged users to underestimate the amount of the increase Those smaller, and therefore underestimated the basic monetary unit, which doubled the amount of the increases to other needs daily and non-daily numerical sequence since losing both Alsgirien currency. Eight of those increases spread from hand to the other fields of public services, such as transport for example has ridden the waves of the increase cat and four times more "than a benefit owners of the vehicles themselves, which is recognized by many of them. Worse, it is plunged medicine and medicine "poor impulse of a cheap", as well as pay hospitals and surgical operations, etc. .. It is enough to point to in the Ktherth significance than other readers know .. and suffer from expensive for burning of oil prices started ..
Abstract these few examples, but important indications of the price rises, hunger and low square value of the currency and purchasing power consumption many places, is the widespread disregard major accumulation over the months, including overwhelmed by the power of large millions of citizens, and energy as well as currency, which devalues their purchasing power by monetary value.
This not lose sight of that increases in the price causes, and not the result of pressure .. nevertheless is right and genuine increases imposed arbitrary and imposed no desire biggest loss in the shortest period of time, but also before that:
the loss of small groups of the currency, including most of the advantage of the force, though small, the advantage of the relay. Fragmentation of the category (250) dinars, the smaller classes allow room for multi-unit increase and bargaining between sellers and buyers Qublb be smaller category now circulating currency, which will start by the increase .. Increase minimum needs, let alone the needs and the amounts added to the increases in Valmtaton intact in the market and in services, such as transport for example, are less than the (250) dinars to add any increase, (the board does not pay, which takes).
ÇThe loss currencies micro adverse effects emerged in several countries and peoples, declared their historical experience once swept people after the French Revolution of 1789, among other historical experiences have led these currencies to rise in prices consequent hardships, the victims of starvation and thousands Maspbh hunger tragedies and tragedies long deep humanitarian millions, and in Iraqna happening now tested to be seen as witnessed in France and others in this regard. This clearly tells us not on the acquired price rises and inflation, but also that the currency loss was small for any reason but lead to arbitrary cost added to the real price rises, and to the artificial inflation of Esthan prejudicial degree conferment of monetary policy (currency). To Anzid .. it is small Mattold him substantial damage seemed either or both hidden from sight and intangible.
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U.S. counts on Kurdish president to endorse several laws - Cheney
Baghdad - Voices of Iraq
Tuesday , 18 /03 /2008 Time 10:01:28
Baghdad, Mar 18, (VOI) - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney said on Tuesday that the United States depends on Kurdish President Massoud Barazani to reach an agreement between the Iraqi and U.S. governments and endorse the important laws, necessary to support national reconciliation.
"The United States counts on al-Barazani to help us to reach an agreement with the Iraqi government," Cheney said in statements after his meeting with Barazani in the city of Arbil.
He invited President Barazani to visit the U.S.
Cheney arrived in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan region, on Tuesday morning to discuss recent political developments with Kurdish officials.
The U.S. vice president arrived in Baghdad on Monday on an unannounced visit during which he met with U.S. military commanders, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, and other Iraqi officials.
The visit coincides with the 5th anniversary of the U.S. forces' invasion of Iraq and falls within a regional Middle East tour by Cheney he began with the Sultanate of Oman. He is also scheduled to visit Saudi Arabia, Israel, the West Bank, and Turkey.
Cheney's last visit to Iraq was in May 2007.
U.S. President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki issued a joint letter in November. The "Declaration of Principles" appears as a mutual "expression of friendship."
According to this declaration, the United States will assist Iraq into being granted membership in the World Trade Organization. The two countries will engage in scientific and cultural exchanges.
It also includes a provision that promises to maintain security assurances and commitments to Iraq to deter foreign aggression against the country that violates its sovereignty and integrity of its territories, waters, or airspace.
Last January Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zibari said that Iraqi will ink a long term security, political, and economic agreement with the U.S. in mid-July 2008.
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Auction comments....arabonics? He added that the communication between the auction market and the Iraqi permanently give reassurance to the market and give a balance in the stabilization of exchange rates and trade official rates for the dollar after an absence of this price (????) and the flotation of the dinar exchange rate for many years.
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Finance: reform of the pension system through the advice of the World Bank
Luna / Tuesday March 18 / Baghdad / The Finance Minister Baqir Jabr Zubaidi during his meeting Danilla Christian Vice President of the World Bank and the accompanying delegation to the importance of reforming the pension system in Iraq through the provision of technical advice required for the calculation of pension descent through a sophisticated plan of action in accordance with the rules of pension world.
The minister added according to a statement today, Monday, that the IFS and private banks specialized () 4600 2008 and the Agricultural Bank shares in granting loans to small farmers have been supported worth 25 million dollars. In addition to the industrial bank, which had a distinctive role in the granting of loans to small industrialists and Iraqis who contributed to curtail unemployment rate.
He called on the minister to the importance of opening an office of the World Bank in Baghdad and the Ministry of Finance is ready to provide assistance to the opening of the office that will contribute to strengthening the ties of cooperation between Iraq and the World Bank, pointing to the importance of the regional presence of the World Bank in Iraq.
At the end of his minister praised the World Bank in cooperation with Iraq, pointing out that the Iraqi government has ratified the Convention on ensuring international investment (mica), which will open new horizons for cooperation between Iraq and international companies in the area of investment, reconstruction of this Convention has given a new dimension in the area of ensuring the rights of companies and investors in Iraq, which will support the reconstruction and development process effectively, which will be beneficial to the Iraqi people.
She Ms. Danilla Christian thanked the Minister of Finance and his substantial cooperation with the World Bank and the pursuit of the development of the banking system in Iraq, which will help Iraq to increase the efficiency of the new economy.
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Mr. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki fully in the political Metmralkoi second for national reconciliation
الثلاثاء 18/3/2008 Tuesday 18/3/2008
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Name of God the Merciful, the Compassionate
واعتصموا بحبل الله جميعاً ولاتفرقوا وَاذْكُرُوا نِعْمَةَ اللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ إِذْ كُنْتُمْ أَعْدَاءً فألفّ بَيْنَ قُلُوبِكُمْ فَأَصْبَحْتُمْ بِنِعْمَتِهِ إِخْوَانًا . I.e. this Atafrqgua God all the grace of God and remember you as you were enemies VALFF between now in. His grace brothers. صدق الله العلي العظيم Ratified God Almighty
أخواتي..أخوتي اعضاء المؤتمر الكرام. Sisters .. my brothers members of Congress honored.
السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته May peace and God's mercy and blessings be upon you
ان لقاءنا الذي يتجدد اليوم في ظل كسب المعركة وعودة الامور الى نصاباتها الصحيحة لهو ثمرة تصميمنا وتعاوننا على مواصلة مسيرة بناء العراق الجديد ، والتطلع بإتجاه الآفاق الرحبة للإستقرار والازدهار والتقدم. That our game, which is renewed today in the light of winning the battle and return to Nsabadtha ballots is the result of our determination to continue our cooperation and the process of building the new Iraq, and look at the vast prospects for stability, prosperity and progress.
ستبقى مبادرة المصالحة الوطنية التي اطلقناها إثر تسلمنا مهام رئاسة الوزراء علامة مضيئة في تاريخ شعبنا، وحداً فاصلاً بين أصدقائه وأعدائه، وقد أدرك أبناء شعبنا من شتى انتماءاتهم واتجاهاتهم هذه الحقيقة ،وميّزوا بين من يريد لهم الخير والأمان والازدهار ، وبين الذين يقدمون مصالحهم الفئوية والطائفية والعرقية على مصلحة العراق وشعبه. Will be national reconciliation initiative Atalegnaha impact of the functions of prime minister received a flare in the history of our people, and a line between friends and enemies, have realized our people from different backgrounds and attitudes of this fact, and distinguished between those who want them well, safety and prosperity, and those who provide their factional, sectarian and ethnic the interest of Iraq and its people.
وكنا قد أعلنا منذ اليوم الأول إن المصالحة الوطنية ليست شعاراً سياسياً، انما هي رؤية إستراتيجية متكاملة لإعادة بناء مؤسسات الدولة على أسس سليمة وتكريس لثقافة الحوار والتسامح ونبذ الخلافات الجانبية وطي صفحة الماضي المؤلمة . We had stated from the first day that national reconciliation is not a political slogan, but a vision of an integrated strategy for the rebuilding of state institutions on sound foundations and consecrate the culture of dialogue and tolerance and the rejection of differences Side painful past and turn the page.
سادتي الحضور : Attendance gentlemen:
ليست المصالحة الوطنية كما يفهمها البعض ربحاً لطرف وخسارة لآخر او تقاسم للمصالح والنفوذ على اسس المحاصصة والتخندقات الخاطئة ، بل هي ربح للوطن ،وقارب نجاة يأخذ العراق الى بر الامان . National reconciliation is not understood by some as a profit and loss for the party to another or sharing of interests and influence on the basis of sharing and Altakndqat wrong, it is a profit to a homeland, and boat Najat take Iraq to safety.
وإدراكاً منا لأهمية المصالحة الوطنية ،فقد وضعناهاعلى رأس أولويات عمل الحكومة ، وسخرنا لها كل الامكانيات والدعم المادي والمعنوي، وتحولت الى نهج سياسي ثابت، أثمرت عن نجاحات كبيرة، رغم عملية التشكيك والتأليب التي قادتها جهات وشخصيات سياسية بهدف إعاقة هذا المشروع الوطني النبيل,وربما انطلق بعض التشكيك من نيات مخلصة معتقدين ان المصالحة تنازل عن المبادئ ومصافحة للأيدي الملطخة بالدماء. Aware of the importance of national reconciliation, the Danahaali top priority of government action, and pressed them all the possibilities and material and moral support, and turned into a political firm, which resulted in the great success, in spite of the questioning and lobbying led by the actors and political figures aimed at impeding this national project noble, and perhaps launched Some questioned the intentions of the faithful believing that reconciliation waiver of the principles and shaking hands of the hands stained with blood.
مؤتمرات المصالحة الوطنية التي شاركت فيها جميع اطياف الشعب العراقي أصبحت تقليدا سياسيا عراقيا بامتياز، فالعراق في تأريخه الحديث الذي عانى من الحروب والدمار والماسي، لم يشهد مؤتمراً واحداً للمصالحة الوطنية ، انها المرة الأولى التي يجلس فيها ممثلون عن الحكومة العراقية المنتخبة ومعارضون للعملية السياسية ، يبحثون في قضايا وملفات مختلفة للتوصل الى حلول ومعالجات ورؤية مشتركة تخدم العراق وشعبه Conferences of national reconciliation involving all spectrums of the Iraqi people has become a political tradition Iraqi lien Iraq in recent history who have suffered from war and devastation and tragedy, there was one conference for national reconciliation, it is the first time that representatives sit on the elected Iraqi government and opposition to the political process, looking in the files of various issues and to find solutions, and a common vision processors serve Iraq and its people
واذا كان الانتقال من اجواء التهميش وسياسة الحزب الواحد يعتبر ضربا من الوهم , فقد نجحت مؤتمرات المصالحة الوطنية التي عقدت في داخل العراق وخارجه بدرجة كبيرة ، في تنظيم وترسيخ تقاليد وطنية تمكنت من ضبط اتجاهات الحوار مع القوى If the transition from the atmosphere and the policy of marginalization single party is illusory, has been successful national reconciliation conferences held inside and outside Iraq significantly, in the organization and consolidation of national traditions and managed to control the dialogue with the strong trends
الميدانية المؤثره على الساحة العراقية ، بما يخدم المصالح العليا للشعب العراقي ويؤسس لمرحلة جديدة تخدم حاضره ومستقبله واضحى ,الحوار بشكل سريع لم يكن متوقعا من ابرز ملامح المرحلة السياسية . Field influential in the Iraqi arena, in order to serve the higher interests of the Iraqi people, and establishes a new phase of serving its present and future become, the dialogue quickly unexpected one of the most prominent features of the political stage.
ولم تكن المصالحة الوطنية مجرد لقاءات وإجتماعات، كما يردد بعض المشككين الذين يريدون من المصالحة العودة بالبلاد الى عهد الدكتاتورية والتهميش والاقصاء ، هذه الرؤية السلبية دفعتهم لتحويل الاختلاف في وجهات النظر بين القوى الوطنية الى أزمة سياسية تضرب في الصميم ثوابتنا الوطنية والدستورية، وتفتح الأبواب امام التدخلات الاجنبية . Not just national reconciliation meetings and meetings, and some who doubt echoes of reconciliation who want to return the country to the era of dictatorship, marginalization and exclusion, that vision led them to turn negative divergence in views between national forces to the political crisis hit at the heart of our constants national and constitutional, and opens the door to interventions foreign.
لقد حققت المصالحة الوطنية الكثير من أهدافها ، على الرغم من إن الاعلان عنها تم في ظروف صعبة وسط تحديات الارهاب وأجواء التخندق الطائفي وان برنامج المصالحة قد حقق كامل اهدافه باعادة اجواء الاخوة والمحبة بين ابناء الشعب العراقي بكامل مكوناته وبين ابناء القوات المسلحة واجهزة الامن ووزارات الدولة ,وعبر الجميع عن مستوى عال من المسؤلية يصلح ان يكون منهاجا لكل القوى السياسية . We have achieved national reconciliation lot of goals, even though the announcement was in difficult circumstances amid the challenges of terrorism and sectarian atmosphere Trenching and reconciliation programme had achieved its objectives by the entire atmosphere of brotherhood and love among the sons of the Iraqi people and all its components among the armed forces and security agencies and ministries of state, Over all the high level of Use fit to be a platform for all political forces.
الاخوة الكرام .. Brothers ..
المصالحة الوطنية أثمرت عن تشكيل تسعة وعشرين مجلس إسناد وثلاثة عشر مجلسا قيد التشكيل في عدد من المحافظات والمدن التي كانت تعد من المناطق الساخنة ، وحظيت هذه المجالس بدعم من الحكومة مادياًومعنوياً، الى جانب الجهود الكبيرة التي بذلتها ومازالت مؤسسات الدولة المختلفة في تنفيذ المشاريع الخدمية المختلفة في مناطق مجالس الإسناد. National reconciliation resulted in the formation of the twenty-nine and thirteen attribution under council restructuring in a number of provinces and cities that were considered hot spots, and received these councils Madiaoumanuya support of the Government, together with the considerable efforts made by the state institutions are still in the implementation of various projects in diverse service the boards attribution.
وأدت جهود المصالحة الوطنية الى إستيعاب اكثر من خمسة وثلاثين الفا ممن كانوا أعضاءً في الجماعات المسلحة التي إنشق بعضها عن تنظيم القاعدة الارهابي ،وهم اليوم يشاركون في اطار مجالس الصحوات إلى جانب ابناء قواتنا المسلحة في تثبيت الأمن والاستقرار، وعملية استيعاب اعضاء الصحوات مستمرة وتحظى بعنايتنا المكثفة رغم ما يحيط العملية من تحديات يجب التعامل معها بدقة كي لاتقع في خندق الطائفية والتمرد والاختراق . The national reconciliation efforts to absorb more than thirty-five thousand who were members of armed groups that split from each terrorist group al-Qaeda, who today are under the boards Asahoat alongside our armed forces to consolidate security and stability, the process of absorption of members Asahoat continuous and receive intensive Benayatna Although the process takes challenges must be dealt with carefully in order to happen in the trench sectarian and insurgency and penetration.
وفي إطار دعمنا ورعايتنا ،تم شمول شهداء وجرحى مجالس الإسناد والصحوات بمنحة الشهيد والجريح فضلا عن الحقوق التقاعدية التي تمنح لمنتسبي الاجهزة الامنية . Within the framework of our support and care, the coverage of the martyrs and wounded boards attribution and Asahoat grant martyr and the wounded as well as pension rights granted to employees of the security services.
ومن خلال رؤية منفتحة تعالج شؤون منتسبي الجيش السابق والكيانات المنحلة ، فقد تم اعادة اكثر من ثمانية وتسعين الف من منتسبي الجيش السابق الى الخدمة ، وإحالة ما يزيد على واحد وعشرين الف منتسب وحسب رغبتهم على التقاعد ، Through the vision of open dealing with the employees of the former army and the dissolved entities, has been restored more than ninety-eight thousand employees of the former army service, sending more than twenty-one thousand associate According desire to retire,
وإصدار أمرديواني بمنح رواتب تقاعدية لأكثر من ثمانية واربعين الف من منتسبي الجيش السابق والكيانات المنحلة ، فضلا عن إنجاز ما يزيد على خمسة عشر الف معاملة تقاعدية ، كما أوعزنا الى وزارة المالية بتخصيص خمسة الاف درجة وظيفية لحملة الشهادات العليا من منتسبي التصنيع العسكري، للعمل في وزارات الدولة المختلفة ، ويجري حالياً انجاز معاملات اكثر من ثلاثة وعشرين الف معاملة تقاعد ، واحالة ما يزيد على ثلاثة واربعين الف معاملة إلى اللجان المختصة . And the issuance of Amurdeoani granting pensions to the salaries of more than forty-eight thousand employees of the former army and the dissolved entities, as well as the completion of more than fifteen thousand treatment of pensions, as whole to the Ministry of Finance to allocate five thousand degree of functional holding advanced degrees from employees of the Military Industrialization, to serve in the ministries various State, and is currently being completed transactions of more than twenty-three thousand treatment of retirement, sending more than forty-three thousand treatment to the competent committees.
ورغم ما تحقق هو انجاز لحقوق تمنح لمستحقيها الا ان التأخر في منحها ربما يصب لصالح الارهاب الذي يعتاش على المعاناة Despite what has been achieved is a complete human grant recipients, however, the delay in granting probably hurt for the benefit of terrorism, which earns the suffering
وياتي عطاء المصالحة الوطنية عندما وفرت الارضية المناسبة لإجراء تعديلات دستورية، من خلال تبني الحكومة لمشروعين مهمين أقرهما مجلس النواب ،وهما قانون المساءلة والعدالة والعفو العام ، ويفرق قانون المساءلة والعدالة بين من أرغموا على الإنتماء لحزب البعث المنحل ، واولئك الذين ارتكبوا جرائم بحق ابناء الشعب العراقي، وجاء قانون العفو العام تقديراً للظروف الخاصة التي مر بها العراق ،وهويمنح فرصة لإندماج من يطلق سراحهم في المجتمع ، بعد أن تحسنت الأوضاع الأمنية والإقتصادية في البلاد ، وقد إستفاد منه حتى الآن أكثر من ثلاثة الآف من المتهمين والمحكومين وإن اللجان القضائية مستمرة في تدقيق طلبات المشمولين. And national reconciliation bid comes when provided appropriate ground for constitutional amendments, through government ownership of two important endorsed by the House, two law of accountability, justice and amnesty, the law distinguishes between accountability and justice of forced allegiance to the Baath Party is dissolved, and those who committed crimes against the Iraqi people He came amnesty law recognition of the special circumstances experienced by Iraq, Hoemnh opportunity for the integration of released into society, after having improved the security and economic situations in the country, has so far benefited more than three thousand defendants and convicts and judiciary committees continued to check applications covered.
وكان لزاماً علينا ان ننصف أبناء شعبنا الذين تعرضوا للظلم والاضطهاد والتهجير ومصادرة أبسط الحقوق وتحملوا صنوف العذاب والحرمان في عهد النظام البائد الذي سلبهم حقهم في الحياة الحرة الكريمة ،الى جانب ماخلفه من مآس مروعة نتيجة قصف القرى الآمنة بالأسلحة الكيمياوية ،والمقابر الجماعية وتدمير البيئة والإنسان معا ،عبر سياساته وحروبه ومغامراته الطائشة ، وعملنا على إعادة الحقوق المادية والإعتبارية لضحايا القمع والإستبداد وتخفيف معاناتهم عبر تفعيل مؤسسة الشهداء والسجناء السياسيين وإصدار عدد من القوانين والقرارات التي تنهي مراحل الحرمان والحيف الذي لحق بهذه الشرائح . It was necessary for us to describe our people who have been subjected to injustice and persecution, deportation and confiscation of the most basic rights and bore the kinds of suffering and deprivation in the era of the former regime, which stripped them of their right to a dignified life free, along Makhalafh appalling tragedies result bombing villages safe chemical weapons, mass graves and the destruction of the environment and humans together , through its policies and senseless wars and adventures, and our work to restore the physical and legal rights of victims of oppression, tyranny and alleviate their suffering through activation of the martyrs and political prisoners and the issuance of a number of laws and decisions that end stages of deprivation and injustice suffered by these segments.
السيدات والسادة الحضور: Ladies and Gentlemen Attendance:
إن انفتاحنا المبكر على العشائر، يعكس إيماننا العميق بالدور الكبير الذي تلعبه في تعزيز الوحدة الوطنية ومواجهة مشاريع التفرقة والتمزيق ، لقد وقفنا الى جانب العشائر في أصعب الفترات التي مرت على العراق بعد إن اثبتت صدقيتها في حماية البلاد من الارهاب ، وسجلت مواقف مشرفة في التضحية والفداء ، وقدمت شهداء أعزاء من أمثال الشهيد الشيخ عبد الستار ابو ريشة رحمه الله، والمئات ممن صمدوا بوجه تحديات القاعدة والعصابات الخارجة عن القانون. The openness early clan, reflecting deep faith in the significant role they play in strengthening national unity and confront segregation and dismemberment projects, we have stood together in the most difficult periods clan, which has passed on Iraq after it proved its credibility in protecting the country from terrorism, and recorded honorable positions in sacrifice and redemption , and made martyrs darlings like martyr Sheikh Abdul Sattar Abu feather may God have mercy on him, and hundreds who stood in the challenges of Al Qaeda and lawless gangs.
لقد حافظ علماء الدين والقوى السياسية الوطنية المخلصة ومؤسسات المجتمع المدني والعشائر وعموم المواطنين من الرجال والنساء على وحدة العراق الذي كان يتعرض لهجمة ارهابية شرسة، كادت ان تودي به الى التمزق والتفتت ، فأصبحت بذلك نموذجاً يحتذى به ، وعلى خلاف ما يتوهمه البعض بإن هذه الشرائح تكرس حالة الانقسام والفوضى في البلاد، لقد تصدت عشائرنا الغيورة، بالتعاون مع أبناء قواتنا المسلحة لإحباط المخططات المشبوهة والشريرة . We have maintained clerics and national political forces sincere and civil society institutions and the tribes and all citizens of the men and women on the unity of Iraq, which was subjected to a terrorist attack fierce, almost take it to rupture and fragmentation, thus becoming a model, contrary to what some people imagine that these segments devoted the state of division and chaos in the country, I drove Asharna loud, in collaboration with members of our armed forces to thwart the evil schemes suspect.
ويبقى منع انزلاق البلاد الى هاوية الحرب الطائفية الإنجاز الأكبر الذي تحقق في ظل عملية التفعيل الدائمة للمصالحة الوطنية ، هذه الحرب التي كانت قاب قوسين أو ادنى بعد تفجير مرقد الامامين العسكريين (ع) . It remains prevent the country sliding into the abyss of sectarian war greatest accomplishment achieved under the permanent activation process of national reconciliation, the war which had come very close after blowing goat Political-(p).
إن الحرب الطائفية التي خطط لها ازلام النظام الدكتاتوري وحلفاؤهم من التكفيريين ،اصبحت اليوم خلف ظهورنا ، كما وضعنا حداً للتهجير القسري ، و بدأت العوائل المهجرة بالعودة التدريجية الى ديارها في مختلف المحافظات كما عاد الالاف من اللاجئين العراقيين الى ارض الوطن ، ومازلنا نبذل المزيد من الجهد لتحقيق عودة جميع المهجرين واللاجئين الى ديارهم ومناطقهم . The sectarian war planned henchmen dictatorial regime and their allies Politics, the day behind us, as we end to the forced displacement, and started the gradual return displaced families to their homes in various governorates and returned thousands of Iraqi refugees to the homeland, and continue to make more effort for the return of all displaced people and refugees to their homes and regions.
الأخوة الحضور الكرام : Brothers Audience:
إن التركة الثقيلة للنظام الدكتاتوري البائد ، وما خلفه الارهابيون والخارجون عن القانون من دمار وخراب وأزمات، تجعلنا اليوم ،أمام تحد خطير، يتطلب منا جميعاً أن نعمل يداً بيد ، من أجل الدفاع عن وحدة وسيادة العراق ، وتحقيق تطلعات ابناء شعبنا في توفير الأمن والازدهار ، وبناء دولة المؤسسات التي تكون فيها سلطة القانون فوق الجميع ،والقضاء على جميع اشكال التمييز والاقصاء والتهميش الطائفي والعرقي ، إن هذه الأهداف النبيلة التي نتطلع اليها ، لا يمكن تحقيقها ، إلا من خلال تعميق ثقافة الحوار والتعاون من موقع الاختلاف، بإعتباره البديل لثقافة The legacy of the deposed dictator, and his successor terrorists and outlaws from the law of the destruction and devastation and crises, make us today, in front of a serious challenge, requires all of us to work hand in hand in order to defend the unity and sovereignty of Iraq, and achieve the aspirations of our people to provide security and prosperity, and build a state of institutions where the rule of law is above all, the elimination of all forms of discrimination and exclusion and marginalization of sectarian, ethnic, these noble goals to which we aspire, can be achieved only through deepening of the culture of dialogue and cooperation of the difference, as the alternative to the culture
الدكتاتورية والاستبداد والاضطهاد التي جرت العراق الى حروب ومغامرات طائشة وأعادته عشرات السنين الى الوراء. Dictatorship and tyranny and oppression that took place on Iraq to wars and reckless adventures and return tens of years back.
ان زوال شبح الحرب الطائفية ، وتوجيه ضربات قاصمة للمنظمات الارهابية والخارجين عن القانون ، ونجاح مبادرة المصالحة الوطنية في تعزيز السلم الاهلي، جعلتننا اكثر قدرة واستعداداً لاستكمال مشوار الحركة الاصلاحية التي نعمل على تفعيلها في المجالات كافة . The spectre of the disappearance of sectarian war, and strikes blow to terrorist organizations and lawless, and the success of the initiative of national reconciliation in promoting civil peace, Djaltnna more capable and willing to complete the reform movement along try to work in all areas.
ان نجاح أية إصلاحات ، لابد أن يكون في إطار عملية تضامن كبرى، تشارك فيها القوى السياسية وعلماء الدين والعشائر والمثقفون والاعلاميون والفنانون ومنظمات المجتمع المدني ، في ظل الدستور واستحقاقات العملية السياسية ومبادئ الديمقراطية فالمهام التاريخية تتحقق مع الشعور العالي بالمسؤولية الوطنية والتمسك بالمشتركات الوطنية والمصالح العليا للبلاد . The success of any reforms should be in the process of great solidarity, the participation of political forces and clergymen, clans, intellectuals, journalists, artists, civil society organizations, under the Constitution and the benefits the political process and the principles of democracy achieved historic tasks with a sense of higher national responsibility and adherence to national and admitted the supreme interests of the country .
وترافق نجاحنا في خفض معدلات القتل الطائفي بدرجة كبيرة في البلاد والقضاء على حواضن الارهاب ومحاربة المليشيات مع تسلم المهام الأمنية في تسع محافظات استعداداً لتحقيق السيادة الكاملة ، كما ان عملية تجهيز وتأهيل قواتنا المسلحة ، واعادة بنائها على أسس وطنية ومهنية، قطعت شوطاً مهماً ، ومن حقنا ان نفخر بأن العراق اصبح له جيش متماسك مدرب ومسلح مع أجهزة للشرطة والأمن تزداد قوة ومهنية . Synchronized our success in reducing rates significantly sectarian killings in the country and the elimination of incubators of terrorism and the fight against militias with its security functions in nine provinces in preparation for full sovereignty, and the processing and rehabilitation of our armed forces, and reconstruction on a national basis and a professional, had covered whatever, and our right be proud that Iraq has become a cohesive army Coach armed with the organs of the police and security gain strength and professional.
ولاشك في إنكم شعرتم بالارتياح عندما تمكنت أجهزتنا الأمنية والعسكرية من التصدي للأعمال الارهابية التي قامت بها جهات مشبوهة في عدد من المحافظات وحسم المعركة ضدها خلال فترة زمنية قياسية ، انها القدرة الرائعة التي تؤهل قواتنا المسلحة للقيام بواجبها الوطني في كل شبر من أرض العراق العزيز ، ورغم النجاحات الامنية والسياسية والاقتصادية الا ان الدرب لايزال طويلا تكتفه صعاب ويتطلب جهودا لمواصلة النجاح وتثبيته وتوسيع آفاقه . There is no doubt that you feel comfortable when she our security and military response to terrorist acts carried out by suspected in a number of governorates and resolving the battle against it during the time standard, it is remarkable ability to qualify our armed forces to carry out their duty in the National every inch of the land of Iraq Aziz, and despite successes of the security, political and economic However, the path is still long Tktefh difficulties require efforts to further success and install and expand its horizons.
وبعد أن نجحت المصالحة الوطنية في تحسين الوضع الأمني ، عقدنا العزم على المباشرة بعملية اعادة البناء والاعمار وتوفير الخدمات ، وإعادة بناء مؤسسات الدولة والبنى التحتية التي عانت من عملية تدمير وإهمال متعمد على مدى خمسة وثلاثين عاما ، وقد خصصنا ميزانية استثمارية ضخمة من ضمن ميزانية السنة الحالية البالغة ثمانية واربعين مليار دولار، على أن تتواصل عملية البناء والإعمار في الاعوام المقبلة ،ملزمين الوزارات والمحافظات بتنفيذ كامل المشاريع وإنفاق التخصيصات الضخمة لإنعاش الخدمات وتحسين الاحوال المعيشية والصحية ومعالجة البطالة بتفعيل المشاريع الصناعية وتطوير المبادرة الزراعية . After the national reconciliation succeeded in improving the security situation, we are determined to direct the process of rebuilding and reconstruction and the provision of services, and rebuild state institutions and infrastructure, which has suffered from the destruction and wilful neglect over thirty five years, the budget has allocated huge investment in the current year's budget $ forty-eight billion dollars, to continue the process of building and reconstruction in the coming years, bound by ministries and governorates full implementation of the projects and spend huge PROFILE services for the rehabilitation and improvement of the living conditions, health and tackling unemployment activate industrial projects and agricultural development initiative.
أيها الحضور الكرام Dear Ladies and Gentlemen
ان العراق اليوم بأمس الحاجة لتقدم العملية السياسية بقوة وثبات ، وأن تكون جميع القوى السياسية التي يهمها نجاح التجربة الديمقراطية حاضرة وفاعلة في مواجهة التحديات ، وهذا يستلزم التخلص من نهج الصراع وإعتماد مبدأ التنافس والتسابق لخدمة اهداف شعبنا . Iraq today that the urgent need for the progress of the political process strongly and consistently, and that all political forces interested in the success of the democratic experiment present and active in the face of challenges, and this requires the disposal of a conflict and the adoption of the principle of competition and rivalry to serve the goals of our people.
لقد واجهنا من التصريحات والمواقف مايضرب المصلحة الوطنية في الصميم طيلة السنة الماضية ، وسادت نزعة التهديد والوعيد على مواقف بعض السياسيين دون حساب لتبعات هذه التصريحات والمواقف وانعكاساتها السلبية على أمن وسلامة الوطن والمواطن . We have faced from the statements and attitudes Maidharb national interest at heart over the past year, the tendency prevailed threats and intimidation to the positions of some politicians without the expense of the consequences of such statements, attitudes and negative repercussions on the security and safety of the nation and citizens.
ونشير بأسف شديد الى وقوف البعض متفرجين ، ومحاولات آخرين إفشال العملية السياسية وعرقلة عمل الحكومة بشتى الوسائل ، في وقت كان الواجب الوطني يقتضي مساندة الحكومة في أشد الظروف قسوة وحساسية ، حيث كان الشعب العراقي يواجه خطر نشوب حرب طائفية و يكابد مآسي العمليات الارهابية We note with deep regret the parking Some spectators, and other attempts to abort the political process and obstruct the work of government by all means, at a time to be required to support the national government in harsh conditions and sensitivity, where the Iraqi people face the danger of sectarian war and terrorist operations suffer tragedies
إن ترك الوزارات شاغرة لم يصب في خدمة الشعب ، بل الحق إضراراً فادحة بمصالحه، وكاد ان يعرقل مشاريع الدولة ومنها مشروع المصالحة الوطنية لولا همة وإخلاص أبناء العراق الغيارى الذين تصدوا للمسؤولية ، وأصروا على مواصلة العمل رغم الصعوبات والتحديات الكبيرة . Leaving the vacant ministries was not injured in the service of the people, but causing grave losses to its interests, and nearly that hinder state projects, including the draft national reconciliation not for the diligence and sincerity of the Iraqis who fought the fervent liability, and insisted on continuing to work despite the difficulties and great challenges.
وهنا أشيد بالوزراء الذين تحملوا مسؤولية مضاعفة في ادارة وزاراتهم والوزارات التي اريد لها ان تكون فارغة . Here, I commend the ministers who had a double responsibility in the management of their ministries and the ministries want it to be empty.
ان مراجعة المواقف وتعديلها والإعتراف بالأخطاء كفيل بوضع جميع القوى السياسية أمام مسؤولياتها الوطنية ، بإعتبار ان المرحلة الحالية تستدعي تعزيز الثقة بين القوى السياسية ، وتجاوز الحسابات و الفئوية الضيقة . The review and modification of attitudes and recognition of mistakes enough to place all political forces before national responsibilities, as the current phase calls for strengthening trust between the political forces, exceeding the accounts and factional interests.
السيدات والسادة الحضور: Ladies and Gentlemen Attendance:
نجدد الدعوة للقوى السياسية كافة لبذل المزيد من الجهود لدعم مشروع المصالحة الوطنية ، لأنه قارب النجاة الوحيد والوسيلة الأمثل لبناء عراق ديمقراطي تعددي إتحادي وان يكون خطابها السياسي والإعلامي خطاب مصالحة ووئام ومحبة وتسامح ، لاخطابات تهديد ووعيد وتحريض ، كما ندعوالقوى السياسية للإحتكام الى القانون وتجنب الإستقواء بالخارج ، والمساهمة بجد في تثبيت الأمن والإستقرار وعملية البناء والإعمار . Renew the call for all political forces to make further efforts to support the draft national reconciliation, it Lifeboat only optimal way to build a federal, democratic, pluralist Iraq, and that her political and media discourse reconciliation and harmony, love and tolerance, and the threat of Aktabat overhang and incitement, as Ndawalkoi political access to the law and to avoid power abroad , and to contribute actively to consolidate security and stability and the process of construction and reconstruction.
وندعو النخب الثقافية والاجتماعية الى التركيز على المشتركات الوطنية ، ونشر ثقافة التسامح والاخاء والوحدة . We call on the cultural and social elites to focus on the national participants, and spreading the culture of tolerance, brotherhood and unity. ونتطلع الى أن تواصل وسائل الاعلام أداء دورها الوطني المسؤول في دعم المصالحة الوطنية . We look forward to continuing the media to play its role in supporting the national official national reconciliation.
ومن منطلق حرصنا على إقامة افضل العلاقات مع دول الجوار ، ندعوها الى عدم التدخل في شؤوننا الداخلية ، وان تركز جهودها على مساعدة العراق ، وتقرن مواقفها بالافعال بما يعزز الوحدة الوطنية ويساهم في أمن العراق وإستقراره وسعادة شعبه، مع ضرورة أن تعرف دول الجوار أن لا أمن لدولة إلا بأمن جارتها وكلنا معا في مركب التحدي . Out of our keenness to establish better relations with the neighboring countries, we call on them not to interfere in our internal affairs, and to concentrate its efforts on helping Iraq, and combine their deeds so as to enhance national unity and contribute to the security and stability of Iraq and HE division, with the need to know the neighboring countries that no security However, the security of the State and its neighbor all together in the boat challenge.
أكرر شكري للحضور الكريم ، واتطلع وإياكم الى خروج مؤتمركم بمقررات وتوصيات تشكل نقلة نوعية لترسيخ وتعزيز المصالحة الوطنية ، على أسس وطنية تفتح الآفاق لمشاركة الجميع في تحقيق آمال وتطلعات الشعب في بناء عراق حر ديمقراطي تعددي إتحادي .. I reiterate my thanks to the presence of the holy, and you are looking for the exit of your decisions and recommendations constitute a qualitative leap to establish and promote national reconciliation, on a national basis would open new horizons for the participation of all in realizing the hopes and aspirations of the people of Iraq build a free, democratic, pluralist and federal .. والسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته May peace and God's mercy and blessings be upon you
نوري كامل المالكي Nouri Kamel al-Maliki
رئيس وزراء جمهورية العراق Prime Minister of the Republic of Iraq
Exactly right Opti, probably a verrrrry calculated risk. Why would Bush not tell him to stay away if there was risk of failure,right?
I agree, the other two buffoons are in the other direction so if good news comes this week you could be right...imo
Important visit for McCain
U.S. Republican presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain joined Vice President Dick Cheney on March 17 on an official visit to Iraq, where the two held separate meetings with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and other top Iraqi leaders. Though this is not McCain’s first run in Baghdad, the timing of this particular visit will give his foreign policy credentials a significant boost in the U.S. presidential campaign.
It is no coincidence that Cheney and McCain have popped up in Iraq side by side. The main audience for this visit is Iran, and the message being delivered is clear: the Iraq policy of U.S. President George W. Bush is here to stay if McCain becomes the next U.S. president. While the Democratic nominating contest is still in full swing, McCain appears (for now) to be the candidate to beat in the U.S. presidential race. The Iranians, having just come through their own parliamentary elections, are watching the race closely to decide their next steps on Iraq.
Iran is facing a crucial decision: strike a deal with the current U.S. administration on Iraq, or risk facing the unknown when a new president takes office. And time is running out. With the U.S. presidential election absorbing much of Washington’s attention this year, Tehran is looking at a tight window of opportunity in which to come to an understanding.
But McCain is taking a calculated risk in aligning himself so closely with the Bush administration: The decision could turn into a major liability for him if Iraq falls apart at the seams before November. The bulk of Iraq’s stability rests on a foundation of continuing progress toward a U.S.-Iranian deal — but with Israel signaling an offensive in Lebanon against Iran’s Hezbollah proxy, and with the Shiite-dominated government in Baghdad stalling on the crucial issue of Iraq’s Sunni former Baathists into the political and security apparatus, the security situation in Iraq has the potential to run into real turbulence in the coming weeks and months.
McCain therefore must see some underlying value in linking himself to Cheney on this trip. McCain has made clear in his campaign that, under his presidency, the United States would be in Iraq for the long haul — a policy designed to assure the Sunni Arab world that the United States will remain the primary blocker to Iranian expansionist desires in Iraq. But McCain could just as easily relay this message — and thus ground himself with the national security vote in the United States — while keeping his distance from the unpopularity of the Bush administration. In other words, McCain has no real need to show up in Baghdad alongside Cheney — who is perhaps the most unpopular government official in the United States — unless he sees the current administration heading for a foreign policy success on Iraq that he could use to ride his way to the presidency.
Regardless of his campaign strategy, McCain is signaling to the Iranians that his presidency would continue the Bush administration’s policies on Iraq, and that Tehran should not maintain any false hopes that U.S. troops will withdraw from Iraq and leave a massive power vacuum for the Iranians to fill. Whether the Iranians take that message to heart and decide to roll the dice on Iraq now, rather than later, remains to be seen.
United Nations convene a conference on combating corruption and the International Covenant with Iraq
2008. Baghdad March 17, 2008 - UNDP organized a conference on the fight against corruption under the title (good governance and the fight against corruption) in Baghdad on Monday 17 and Tuesday, March 18, 2008. وياتي المؤتمر ضمن اطارالعهد الدولي مع العراق و حول إتفاقية الأمم المتحدة لمكافحة الفساد." حيث عمل برنامج الأمم المتحدة الإنمائي على تنظيم هذا المؤتمر كجزء من مجموعة الأنشطة التي يضطلع بها لدعم الحكم الرشيد. وقامت المفوضية الأوروبية بتمويل هذا المؤتمر. The conference comes within the international Ataraalad with Iraq and the United Nations Convention against Corruption. "Where UNDP work on the organization of this conference as part of the range of activities undertaken in support of good governance. By the European Commission to finance such a conference.
وترأس المؤتمر، الذي يُعد الحدث الأول حول مكافحة الفساد في بغداد، الممثل الخاص للأمين العام للأمم المتحدة في العراق، ستافان ديميستورا. And chaired the conference, which is the first event on the fight against corruption in Baghdad, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Iraq, Staffan Mistura. هذا وقد خاطب نائب رئيس الوزراء العراقي، الدكتور برهم صالح، الحضور مستعرضاً بإيجاز التدابير التي تتخذها الحكومة في هذا المجال. This has addressed the Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister, Dr. Barham Salih, attendance briefly reviewing measures taken by the Government in this area.
والقى نائب الأمين العام للأمم المتحدة ومدير مكتب الأمم المتحدة المعني بالمخدرات والجريمة، السيد أنتونيو ماريا كوستا الكلمة الرئيسية ممثلا الأمم المتحدة . The Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations and Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Mr. Antonio Maria Costa keyword representatives of the United Nations.
هذا وقد ألقى الدكتور برهم صالح، والأربع مؤسسات العراقية التي أوكل لها لعب دور في مكافحة الفساد، بيانات افتتحاية ذات علاقة بموضوع المؤتمر والجهود التي تبذلها الحكومة العراقية في مكافحة الفساد. This was Dr. Barham Salih and four Iraqi institutions entrusted with the role played in the fight against corruption, data Avcthaih related subject Conference and the efforts of the Iraqi government in the fight against corruption. وهذه المؤسسات هي المجالس المشتركة لمكافحة الفساد والمجلس الأعلى للتدقيق ومفوضية النزاهة العامة والمفتش العام. These institutions are joint councils to combat corruption, the Supreme Council for scrutiny, the Office of Public Integrity and the Inspector General. كما قام كل من نائب رئيس البنك الدولي التي كانت في زيارة لبغداد، الدكتوردانييلا جريسيني، والمدير التنفيذي لمكتب الأمم المتحدة لخدمات المشاريع، السيد يان ماتسون، بتوجيه كلمات للمشاركين. As both the Vice President of the World Bank, which was on a visit to Baghdad, Acanutordaniela Jeriseni, and the Executive Director of the United Nations Office for Project Services, Mr. Jan Mattson, extended words of the participants. وكان الحضور يضم أعضاء ممثلين عن الحكومة العراقية و مجلس النواب العراقي اضافه الى ممثلين رفيعي المستوى عن الجهات المانحة الموجودة في بغداد. The audience included members representing the Iraqi government and the parliament of Iraq in addition to high-level representatives of the donor community in Baghdad.
هذا وقد تضمن المؤتمر، الذي استمرت أعماله ليومين، مناقشات حول تقارير فنية عن مواضيع مثل الوقاية وبناء القدرات والتنمية المؤسساتية والادانه وانفاذ القانون ودور الأطراف غير الحكومية والإعلام ومنظمات المجتمع المدني والتوعية العامة. This has included the conference, which continued its work for two days, discussions on the technical reports on topics such as prevention, capacity building and institutional development and conviction, law enforcement and the role of non-governmental organizations and media, civil society organizations and public awareness.
وتُثمّن منظومة الأمم المتحدة التزام العراق بالعهد الدولي مع العراق الذي يُشارك في ترأسه رئيس الوزراء العراقي، نوري المالكي، والأمين العام للأمم المتحدة، بان كي مون، بوصفه توجهاً بارزاً نحو نزاهة في الحكم ترافقها عمليات ديمقراطية ونمو قطاعي. And speaks highly of the United Nations Iraq's commitment to the International with Iraq, which is chaired by participating in the Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri Al-Maliki, and the Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, as a prominent trend towards integrity in governance and democratic processes are accompanied by growth sectors. ويتمثل الهدف الرئيسي لهذا المؤتمر بالدعم الذي تُقدمه منظومة الأمم المتحدة لتقوية المؤسسات العراقية التي تلعب دوراً هاماً في تأمين الشفافية والكفاءة لدى تنفيذ العهد الدولي مع العراق. The main objective of this conference support provided by the United Nations system to strengthen Iraqi institutions, which play an important role in ensuring transparency and efficiency in the implementation of the International Covenant with Iraq.
وقد خطت الحكومة العراقية خطواتها الأولى نحو المصادقة على إتفاقية الأمم المتحدة لمكافحة الفساد. The Iraqi government has taken the first steps towards ratification of the United Nations Convention against Corruption. كما ستتولى الحكومة العراقية، بوصفها إحدى الدول المتوقع مصادقتها على الإتفاقية في المستقبل، اتخاذ مبادرات تنسجم والمباديء والإلتزامات المنصوص عليها بموجب الإتفاقية وستكون قادرة على السعي للحصول على مساعدات الأمم المتحدة لبرامجها ونشاطاتها المعنية بمكافحة الفساد. Iraqi government will also, as one of the expected ratification of the Convention in future initiatives consistent with the principles and obligations under the Convention and will be able to seek United Nations assistance to the programmes and activities on combating corruption.
Just the fact that they can plan it with nobody walking out or blowing it up is a major accomplishment in itself...lmao
Yeah, prolly could change a few of them but not the most important ones...
Progress report on Iraq benchmarks COPIED POST
The US Congress required President George W Bush to submit an interim report by 15 July, assessing the progress of the Iraqi government against 18 benchmarks.
BENCHMARKS IN IRAQ
1. Constitutional review [satisfactory]
2. De-Ba'athification laws [unsatisfactory]
3. Distribution of oil revenues - HCL/RSL [unsatisfactory]
4. Independent electoral commission [unsatisfactory]
5. Disarming of militias [unsatisfactory]
6. Training of three key Iraqi army brigades [satisfactory]
7. Providing Iraqi commanders with authority to pursue US troop "surge" without political interference [satisfactory]
8. Even handed law enforcement by Iraqi forces [satisfactory]
9. Reduce sectarian violence [satisfactory]
10. Establish joint US-Iraqi security stations in Baghdad [satisfactory]
11. Increase number of Iraqi security forces capable of operating independently [unsatisfactory]
12. Protect rights of minority political parties [satisfactory]
13. Allocation of $10bn in Iraqi reconstruction [unsatisfactory]
14. Ensure political authorities are not undermining security forces [unsatisfactory]
15. Enacting and implementing legislation on procedures to form semi-autonomous regions [satisfactory]
16. Enacting and implementing legislation addressing amnesty [Mixed]
17. Ensure that the Baghdad security plan will not provide a safe haven for any outlaws, regardless of their political affiliation [satisfactory]
18. Establishing supporting political, media, economic and services committees in Baghdad in support of the security plan [satisfactory]
Source: White House interim report</I> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6294694.stm
Here's the more detailed review from July '07. It stands to reason that we'll get another one over the summer.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/iraq/2...markReport.pdf
Don't know but it sounds like a big event for the media
That would do it..lol They are sooo close but they are so stubborn when it comes to their divisions,,meanwhile they are from same area...like Hadfield vs. Mcoy....comical
Oil rebounds above $108, eyeing Fed move
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By Alex Lawler
LONDON (Reuters) - Oil rebounded on Tuesday after a slide from record peaks a day ago on expectations that a Federal Reserve interest rate cut will hit the U.S. dollar and spur investor demand for oil.
Other markets also rose, with European shares gaining and Wall Street stock futures pointing to a firmer opening. The Fed is expected to announce its decision around 2:15 p.m. EDT.
"The Fed meeting will be the focus of participants in many asset classes today," said Mike Wittner, oil analyst at Societe Generale.
"If the Fed move results in further dollar weakness, it should be very short-term bullish for oil."
U.S. crude rose $2.83 to $108.51 a barrel by 8:57 a.m. EDT, after sliding over 4 percent on Monday in the biggest one-day percentage drop in more than seven months. London Brent was $2.58 higher at $104.33.
World financial bourses plunged on Monday after JPMorgan Chase & Co stepped in to rescue investment bank Bear Stearns for a bargain buy of $2 a share.
But on Tuesday, better-than-expected quarterly results from Wall Street firms Goldman Sachs Group Inc and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc helped soothe investors' worries.
The Fed is widely expected to cut short-term rates, which now stand at 3 percent, by up to one percentage point to shield the U.S. economy from further damage stemming from the crisis in financial markets. Continued...
http://ca.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idCASYD3274320080318
Iraq reconciliation talks hit by walkouts
Tue Mar 18, 2008 7:55am EDT Print This Article | Single Page[-] Text [+]
1 of 1Full SizeAlmost all of Iraq's major political groups had said they would take part in the conference, many expressing hope progress would be made this time because of the security gains.
In opening remarks to the conference, Maliki criticized those who had stayed away.
"We seriously regret that others will only stand watching, and others try to bring down the political progress and hamper the work of the government at a time when their patriotic duty requires them to help the government," Maliki said.
Attacks across Iraq have fallen by 60 percent since last June, the U.S. military says, when a build-up of an extra 30,000 U.S. troops became fully deployed.
But there has been an upsurge in violence, mainly suicide bombings, since January.
Iraqi security officials said the death toll from a bombing in the holy Shi'ite city of Kerbala, south of Baghdad, on Monday had risen to at least 47, with another 75 wounded.
The U.S. military has blamed the attack on a suicide bomber wearing a vest packed with explosives, although police said it was likely a roadside bomb planted outside a cafe.
(Additional reporting by Aseel Kami, Aws Qusay and Ahmed Rasheed in Baghdad; Writing by Paul Tait; Editing by Richard Balmforth)