Most recent occurences---STILL ON TRACK !!!!!!!!!!!!
CBI site under maintenance
No auctions updated on their site since Thurs
Republic Day today, a public holiday
Cabinet reshuffle this week
Recess cut to 1 month
Marshall Plan 60 year anniversary this month
Election Law vote tomorrow
HCL supposedly to be passed before recess
Security improving, Al Qaeda rumoured to moving to other countries and being driven out of the North of Iraq
Negotiations between the US and Iraq are reaching a conclusion for a shorter term agreement that suits all parties
Maliki handing out money in the streets
Jabr stating 'We have a lot of money
outside the budget ... We have more money, but it is a secret," said
Solagh, adding that the 2009 budget was expected to range between 80
and 90 billion dollars.
"We have a strategic plan for the next three years. Iraq has a vision"
for its future, he stressed. "The ministry of planning has focused on
investments and we are focusing on executing the budget."
Shabibi stating 3 months ago: Dr.
Sinan Alshabibi Governor of the Central Bank exchange rate stability of
the Iraqi dinar against the dollar, and that the bank encourages
citizens to buy dinar and handling and keeping it
Where currencies began his confidence day by day and became keen on the
conduct of the dollar and the dinar rather buy it as it saw Amian
revealed dinar return to power, which led to the elimination of
inflation, which we suffer from in the past.
He said Alshabibi told the (morning) during his participation in the
Arab banking conference in 2008, held in Cairo under the slogan (the
role of banks in financing investment projects in Arabic) sponsored by
the Arab League, we
aspire in the near future to the return of Iraqi dinar to what it was
in the seventies and the beginning eighties against the dollar and
other foreign currencies and we are endeavouring and serious in this
regard, but added that this process is not easy and simple and depends
on the supply and demand of Iraqi dinars.
UAE forgiving debt of $7 billion