" The Dinar Daily ", Wednesday, 20 November 2013
The Washington Times: Iraq's oil revenues to pay for donor countries to reconsider Bmsaaadatha
20-11-2013 | (Voice of Iraq)
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U.S. newspaper saw that Iraq was now a middle-income country and large oil revenues, but it still depends on the U.S. charity in reconstruction.
She told The Washington Times, in its report, said that after about two years of ending the military commitment to the Iraq war, is still the United States and its allies are paying millions of dollars in reconstruction, even though that Baghdad reap revenue from its oil industry while increasing instability and the approach of the government from Iran.
It is through an international trust fund was established in 2004, brought together the United States and 16 other donor countries, nearly two billion dollars for reconstruction projects in Iraq. After that it was scheduled for the end of the Fund on 31 December last year, the Trust Fund was renewed for another year on the basis of a request from Baghdad.
The paper considers that it is now difficult to justify these grants to Iraq, given the large Iraqi oil revenues.
The United Nations said in its latest report on Iraq Trust Fund, said, "These high levels of production, accompanied by global oil prices supported by geopolitical concerns, Treasury came to Iraq, including nearly $ 100 billion for this year." The report added that "the situation in Iraq as a middle-income countries has led to declining donor interest and reduce global finance him."
The Washington Times that "donor countries are now withdrawal from the trust fund will be returned unspent granted to them in the next year, according to an official at the World Bank," adding that "the United States is not among those countries."
The newspaper pointed out that "the biggest donors to the trust fund are the European Union, Japan and Spain. Despite the fact that the United States contributed ten million dollars, but it has spent about $ 60 billion in reconstruction during the war."
Most of the grants went to more than 200 development project, half of which was not completed until the end of the year 2012, when he did not use $ 54 million at least from the Fund.
The United States supports Iraq in other ways. In the current year, given Washington to Baghdad, U.S. $ 470 million in foreign aid format, and submitted a request to give Iraq another $ 500 million in form of assistance for the year 2014. As well as this, the United States plans to lend Iraq $ 573 million to buy U.S. military equipment, and this is a common practice known as foreign military financing.
He defended an official at the U.S. State Department for assistance to Iraq despite increasing Iraq's oil revenues, saying that the aid aims to sustain the company's strategy with Iraq, a leading purpose.
For example, Iraq agreed to increase oil production in the part of the bridge the gaps left by the international sanctions imposed on Iran and its oil industry, said the official, who requested anonymity.
Said the official, asking, "Is Iraq was doing it? Of course not." He added that "it is clear that Iran's influence in Iraq, but we also have the effect of it. Iraqis have stated publicly that we are their partners those" favor.
Since the United States left Iraq in December 2011, claimed the violence escalate to levels not seen since 2008.
In the last month, 743 Iraqis were killed and a thousand injured and 625 were wounded in bombings and clashes in parts of the country. In October 2012, 136 Iraqis were killed and 376 wounded with a variety of attacks, according to statistics compiled by AFP.
The tensions worsened between the country's Shiite majority, which leads the government, and Sunni Okulaith, which ruled Iraq under Saddam Hussein's strong man and now it feels persecuted.
And cause a government attack on the camp of protesters last year in April, killing at least 23 Iraqis were stirring cycle of Sunni-Shiite attacks and counter-attacks in areas of the country.
Analysts say that the Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who took office in 2006, he could restrain tensions, but he instead continued marginalization of the year, prompting some of their collections to the armed resistance.
Jacob says Stokes, an analyst Center for a New American Security, said he was al-Maliki said could "negotiate a cease-fire with the local Sunni community or personal appointment of a Sunni high level of his government and give him some power."
He added that "there are things he could do and produces reduce sectarian element to low levels, but this approach is not in place yet."
Since the departure of the troops, claimed Iraq is growing closer to Iran, which is predominantly Shi'ite and allowed to Iran, despite Washington protest, the transfer of air weapons to the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad over Iraqi airspace.
It seeks Qaeda fighters, most of them years old, to take control of Iraq and Syria for the purpose of linking the two Islamic state. The rule is now at its strongest level in Iraq since 2006, according to the director of the Center said counter-terrorism, Matthew Olsen, the Committee in the Senate last Thursday.
Analysts noted something of irony a Maliki recent visit to the United States, during which demand more military equipment.
Stokes said, "If you come to the United States for further assistance, it is not you can also help Iran to transfer weapons to Syria." "I think that Congress would give further assistance if were not for arms transfers."
The official said the U.S. State Department that there is a diminished number of trips Iran to Syria through Iraqi airspace, but there is "room for further improvement" in preventing Iran flights to Syria.
In the meantime, Iraq's oil sector thrives. As the issue of the country far more than 3 million barrels of oil per day, and oil, such as approximately 9.38 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2012.
And is expected to grow oil revenues. فوكالة Global Energy expects Iraq to be responsible for half of the increase in global oil production during the year 2035.
Although there are many needs to be accomplished on the political front in Baghdad, U.S. officials say they are seeing some progress in terms of the agreement with the country's minority Sunni and Kurdish.
The U.S. State Department official said that "there is paralysis in the political situation. It is difficult for them to deal with fewer issues when they can not agree on larger issues."
He added that the situation was "far from perfect, but Maliki now related to tribal elders in Anbar, the Sunni and the President of the Parliament. Meeting held units in the last month to establish rules of ethics and honor."
The official said, "they toil. It is hard work but we say we do not have the weight there, if you look at the last eight months in any situation they are and what the situation in which they are now, it did not happen a magic wand."
The official noted that U.S. assistance to Iraq declined sharply almost half the $ 850 million that were given in the year 2012, and that the foreign military financing declined to about 50 percent of what was given in the same year.
The official said that despite the oil revenues, Iraq finds itself in a huge need to development because of three decades of deprivation under Saddam and the war with Iran in the eighties.
There is a key focus point for cooperation on the rule that emerged again in Iraq and spread in Syria. The official said that "the biggest fears Iraq is if Sunni extremists seized on Syria," he said, adding that "such a situation that causes enormous complexity on their western borders."
The United States plans to send military equipment and to provide intelligence support for Iraq to be able to deal with this threat, which would give the United States greater influence in the country, analysts say. The paper concluded its report by saying Stokes "By the end of the day, we could not control the al-Maliki when we had tens of thousands of American soldiers on the ground," but he pointed out that "we can persuade al-Maliki that he does not want to see his country fall again into chaos. You do not want be the person who caused this mess. "
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