Kobler arrives to Kirkuk
Tuesday, 23 April 2013 14:55 | | |
Kirkuk (AIN) -The UN envoy for Iraq, Martin Kobler arrived to Kirkuk on Tuesday to follow up Hawija events.
AIN reporter said "Kobler arrived this afternoon in Kirkuk where he met with the provincial council's officials there and discussed with them Hawija events."
BAGHDAD / NINA / The Council of Ministers has set the 4, next July is the date for elections in Anbar and Nineveh provinces.
An informed source told the National Iraqi News Agency / NINA /: "The Council of Ministers decided, in its meeting today, that the elections in Anbar and Nineveh provinces will be on 4.
It is mentioned that provincial council elections of 12 provinces took place on Saturday 20, April.
Sheikh Aabdulmalik al-Saadi, holds the government responsibility for the blood of protesters in Haweeja.
23/04/2013 14:18:00
Baghdad / Nina / Dan Sheikh Abdul Malik al-Saadi heavily armed attack on demonstrators in Hawija today, blaming the government for the shedding of their blood.
He called in a statement today, on the government and the armed forces to "stop shedding the blood of Iraqis and appealed the international, Islamic, organizations as well as Arab and Islamic countries , saying:" Enough keeping silent in front what is happening now in Iraq and Syria, and I ask you to hasten to save the civilian and innocent people by stopping the bloodshed and armed confrontations.
It is noteworthy to mention in this context that army troops stormed the sit-in yard in Hawija district of Kirkuk province dawn today.
A security source said to NINA : "The storm of the sit-in yard in Hawija resulted 32 dead and 80 wounded of demonstrators."
Maliki lose its superiority in the Middle Euphrates and the south
23-04-2013 | (Voice of Iraq)
Baghdad (Iraq) / Baghdadi future: Yousef Salman
With zero hour approaching to announce the preliminary results of the local elections of Iraq within the next 72 hours, conflicting news about the disparity ratios results in the provinces where voting took place the year.
Central raced political blocs and coalitions to promote the superiority of their candidates in the various provinces of the twelve, but the election commission refused to comment on the validity of initial estimates or lack thereof.
Observers believe that the superiority relative to the State of Law coalition led by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in some provinces of the Middle Euphrates and the south does not cancel the fact unpopularity Maliki's coalition, which lost a lot of seats in local governments for the benefit of its partners and other entities, especially in Maysan, Karbala, Babil, Basra, Dhi Qar, Najaf.
Observers combines a coalition of al-Hakim and al-Sadr are more beneficiaries of the star fell coalition Maliki Basthawwazhma on the seats of local governments in most of the provinces that were implicitly under the authority of the coalition of the prime minister. Which has forced him Maliki coalition with other blocs to save face before the allied against rivals in those provinces.
Observers goes that outweigh the Liberal bloc in Maysan after the outstanding performance of the current governor Ali Douai was the first to be withdrawn rug Sadrists from under the feet of al-Maliki and his coalition. In the province of Salah al-Din initial estimates confirm that the united coalition won an absolute majority of the votes of the electorate mathematically what it takes to win the post of the governor and the provincial council's new president.
According to deputies, told the 'future', the list meet Chandeliers led Adnan Zurfi excelled in harvesting votes Najaf voters ahead of the coalition, al-Hakim and Maliki's coalition.
In the holy city of Karbala, which is a stronghold of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and his hometown, the coalition of al-Hakim and al-Sadr income line compete strongly and Akedzha voices of voters who went to the non-what craves Maliki and his coalition.
The province of Diyala, it is still a struggle station exchanged heated Diyala Iraqi Alliance, led by the current conservative and Diyala National Alliance, which is supported by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki with a relative superiority of the Kurdistan Alliance List and the United Iraqi National Alliance led by Iyad Allawi.
According to preliminary estimates obtained by the 'future' of the parliamentary sources, the citizen coalition led by the head of the Supreme Council Ammar al-Hakim compete strongly in the province of Babylon, with Maliki's coalition to vote.
Basra province does not seem much different, as the coalition of al-Hakim and al-Sadr approached many of Maliki's coalition who almost loses control of the former local government amid intense competition from some coalitions and other blocs in the southern province.
Urgent….Heated debate between Alawi & Mutleg
Tuesday, 23 April 2013 15:25 | | |
Baghdad (AIN) -Heated debate aroused between head of the Iraqiya Slate, Aiyad Alawi and the leading figure within the Slate, Salih al-Mutleg during the meeting of the IS that was held on Tuesday over Hawija events.
Informed source told All Iraq News Agency "The IS meeting held on Tuesday to discuss Hawija events witnessed heated debate between Alawi and Mutleg."
The IS has announced its boycott for the parliament session scheduled to be held on Tuesday on Background of storming the protest square in Hawija district associated to Kirkuk province.
Iraq’s Tariq Aziz Was Sorry When Saddam Hanged, Calls Kurdish Leaders ‘Friends’
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Former Iraqi Foreign Minister and deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz, Baghdad 2010. Photo: AP
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Tariq Aziz, one of Saddam Hussein’s right-hand men, says he was sorry when his old boss was hanged in 2006, that the current Shiite premier has weakened Iraq and that he still regards two of the country’s most influential Kurdish leaders as “friends.”
In an interview with the Dubai based Al Arabiya television Aziz, the international face of Saddam’s regime as foreign minister for eight years, and prime minister when Saddam was ousted in the 2003 US-led invasion, kept repeating, “I wish things were better.”
Aziz, an articulate Christian fluent in English, who was among Saddam’s top men until the end, is himself awaiting execution in prison since being sentenced to death in 2010.
Asked about Saddam’s mistakes, which included the devastating 1980-88 war with Iran, his daft 1990 invasion of Kuwait that began his downfall and the brutal crackdowns on Iraq’s large minority Kurds that is increasingly being recognized internationally as “genocide,” Aziz said that Saddam alone was not to blame for mistakes.
Commenting on Iraq’s current leaders, Aziz said, “Some of them I do not even know.” Asked about the Shiite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who has managed to alienate both the country’s large minority Kurds and Sunnis, as well as some Shiite groups, Aziz replied, “Iraq is weak now.”
But he said about Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, and President Massoud Barzani, who heads the autonomous Kurdistan Region in the north, “They are both my friends.”
Both Kurdish leaders fought a lifelong battle against Saddam’s many efforts to exterminate Iraq’s Kurds, who number an estimated five million, and have their own non-Arab ethnicity, language and culture.
Regarding Saddam’s execution, Aziz said that, “As a human being, who lived with him, I was saddened by his execution.”
Aziz believes the during Saddam’s trial, the tone of the proceeding changed, depending on the judges. He said, for expample, Kurdish judge Rizgar Hamadameen was softer on Saddam, but another Kurdish judge, Rauf Rasheed, hated Saddam and was after “revenge.”
He added that, Barzani was a patriot, and that Aziz did not like the regional president’s stance on Kurdish autonomy. The Kurdistan Region has its own president, parliament, laws and military, and Baghdad fears that the oil-rich enclave would one day opt for independence.
“I do not like Barzani’s decision about self-determination,” Aziz told the interviewer.
After Al-Maliki's allies in provincial elections, faces collapse within the State of law Coalition!!
Date: Tuesday, 23-04-13 03: 04 pm
Sources close to the political authority of the State of law coalition that allied with the Dawa party captured the majority of seats won by the coalition in the provincial elections likely variations between the components of the Coalition,
The source said on condition of anonymity by telephone with gakog site reporter Tuesday that Dawa party did not reap only simple seats in the provinces of Najaf, Basra and Baghdad, pointing out that the majority of candidates cropped and virtue parties Bader,
Al-Maliki was very upset that the news of his party's candidates did not get seats entitling them to stay in their posts as governors, noting that the associated parties within the Coalition's claim to leadership positions in provincial councils may precipitate splits within the Coalition,
Observers say that the relative superiority of the State of law coalition led by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in some provinces of the Middle Euphrates and South does not eliminate the fact that Maliki's coalition unpopularity that lost a lot of seats in local governments for the benefit of its partners and other entities particularly in Basra, Karbala and Babil, Basra, Dhi Qar and Najaf.
Observers said a coalition al-Hakim and Sadr are the most beneficiaries of falling star Maliki Coalition seats their obsession of local governments in most provinces that were implicitly under the authority of the coalition Government. Which might have with Al-Maliki's Alliance with other blocks to save face before Allied rivals against him in those provinces.
Observers argue that the superiority of the Liberal bloc in Maysan after the excellent performance of the current conservative dawi was first withdrawn rug Sadrists from under the feet of Al-Maliki and his coalition. And in Salahuddin province confirmed preliminary estimates that "United" Alliance won an absolute majority of the votes as it takes mathematically to find Governor and head of the provincial Council.
According to Parliament, the list of meeting of Najaf Adnan zorfi's excelled in the voices of voters claimed the governorate of Najaf ahead of Al-Maliki's coalition and coalition. And in the province of Karbala, which is a stronghold of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his coalition that al-Hakim and Al-Sadr entered a competition and they swept the voters who went to the not-so-coveted Al-Maliki and his coalition.
But Diyala remains a hot conflict between Iraqi Diyala coalition led by current Governor of Diyala Alliance national supported by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki with the comparative advantage of the Kurdistan Alliance list and the Iraqi National Alliance led by Ayad Allawi, common.
According to preliminary estimates from congressional sources, the citizen's Coalition, led by the President of the Supreme Council Ammar Hakim compete strongly in Babil province with Maliki's coalition to voters. And don't look much different in Basra province, where coalition and Sadr approached many of Al-Maliki's coalition almost loses control of the local government amid intense competition from some of the coalitions and other blocks in the southern province.
Tamim: my resignation came in protest against the armed storming of sit-in square of Hawija.
23/04/2013 15:37:00
Baghdad/ NINA /-- Education Minister Mohammad Tamim confirmed in a statement to NINA , that his resignation from the Cabinet came in protest against the storming by army of the sit-in yard of Hawija and killing wounding dozens of demonstrator
Parliamentary: the government handed amend the Tariff Act to the House of Representatives .. The coming days will be discussed
23-04-2013 | (Voice of Iraq)
Baghdad (news)
Said a member of the Committee on the economy and investment MP for the coalition in Iraq Noura Bijari, the amendment of the Tariff Act by the federal government and sent to the Parliamentary Committee on the economy to be discussed and passed in the House of Representatives in the coming days.
She informed Bijari Agency (news): About to make amendments to certain paragraphs of the Tariff Act by the federal government, and handed him over to the House of Representatives that is discussed extensively by the competent committees after the holiday, parliamentary, to be submitted to the Presidency of the Council for the purpose of voting.
She added: The Congress of the economic and investment commission insist on the application of the tariff as soon as possible, because of its great importance to the protection of the national economy and the domestic product, well that will stimulate economic sectors Other Kalsnaaah and agriculture.
She pointed out: that there are government agencies trying to block implementation of the law, for reasons described by the personal interests of some officials who deal with dealers, suppliers and foreign companies that export to Iraq.
And former oil minister: Iraq will fill 50% of the global market need for oil over the next ten years
23-04-2013 | (Voice of Iraq)
Baghdad (news)
Favored the former oil minister Ibrahim Bahr al-Ulum, Iraq was able to fill a need the world's crude oil (50%) over the next ten years.
Uloum said at the conference the Third National Energy and attended by the Agency (news): that Iraq is going through transformations significant in the field of oil and energy, especially in the service contracts with agreements with international companies, where a turning track oil since (2009) from unilateral to double, which will enhance of the productive capacity of crude oil.
He explained: that one of these transformations in the promising field of Nasiriyah and the creation of Nasiriyah refinery capacity of 300 thousand barrels, is a great experience in the petroleum industry of the country, in addition to the existence of a new strategy to link the oil pipeline to the Jordanian port of Aqaba.
He continued: as well as the rehabilitation of the pipeline Iraqi-Turkish, which would make Iraq safe from the dangers that may prevent the export of oil from the Gulf region, especially when closing the Strait of Hormuz by Iran, pointing to other projects for the oil ministry related to the production of natural gas, associated with oil, especially after the direct Gas Company Basra work to extract the gas from the southern fields.
He added: These projects are all give futuristic indicators that Iraq would be one of the largest oil and gas producers in the world, especially during the next ten years, which is expected to fill (50%) of the need of the global market for crude oil.
He pointed out: that the efforts made by the Ministry of Oil and its subsidiaries, provided an opportunity for international companies to operate and invest in the field of oil and energy, with an estimated annual investment in the field of energy and oil (25) million.
For his part, Deputy Chairman of the Oil and Energy Committee National Alliance MP Ali Fayad, there is considerable constraints prevented the advancement in many installations and oil infrastructure in the energy sector and oil, adding that political problems have affected and are great on all sectors of the economy, particularly the oil sector.
He explained: that the differences between parliamentary blocs and political leaders blocked legislation that many of the laws and special task in the field of oil and energy.
He added: that many of the institutions of the state are directly related to the oil sector, but unfortunately does not have a relationship and inter-institutional cooperation for the development of this vital sector, making the possibilities and untapped energies.