Turkey proposes acting as broker in Iraq oil revenue share
By Reuters
Saturday, 16 November 2013 12:13 PM
Turkey has proposed oil revenues from Iraqi Kurdistan be collected in an escrow account at a Turkish state bank and then distributed between the regional government and the central government in Baghdad, Turkey's energy minister said on Friday.
Baghdad and the semi-autonomous Kurdish region have been at loggerheads over the distribution of oil revenues and Turkey's persistent courtship of the Kurds has infuriated the central government, which claims the sole authority to manage Iraqi oil.
"We are trying to establish a method which we believe will counter the concerns of the central Iraqi government ... So far, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and central government have not been able to establish the system they wished," Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz told reporters.
"The distribution of the revenues would be carried out by Iraq, we would only hold these deposits at a Turkish state bank," he said.
Yildiz said he discussed the proposal with Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Hussain al-Shahristani during a visit to South Korea last month but added that nothing has been finalised.
Yildiz also said Turkey was in talks with the KRG about joint exploration on 13 oil and gas blocks.
The Turkish Energy Company (TEC), a state-backed vehicle established to operate in Iraqi Kurdistan, is aiming to partner with a third party in six of the blocks, Yildiz said, adding talks for the potential contracts have not been finalised.
Shahristani: next year will see the opening of a large number of power stations
16-11-2013 12:28 PM
Wasit (news) .. Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs Hussain al-Shahristani to counter terrorism, he would seek to target the electric power in the country, likely the opening of a large number of stations over the next year.
Shahristani said during the opening ceremony of the unit obstetric third station Zubaydiah thermal and attended by the Agency (news): that terrorism is always trying to target all the benefit and service to the citizen, including electric power, they must face in order to ensure the continuity of power generation.
He added: The opening of the second unit of the plant planned three years ago and have signed contracts two years ago to be the largest power station in Iraq and generate electrical energy (2500) megawatts.
He explained: We hope in the coming weeks, the entry of new power stations for the service, indicating that it was the opening of several stations during the past few months and entered the service station, including goods and Jerusalem and Babylon station.
He continued: that the coming weeks will be opening of الكيارة station in Mosul and a crutch in Anbar station as well as the opening of new stations in central and southern regions of Iraq and all those stations will be ready by next year.
Planning: Rising inflation index for the month of October last year by 1.6%
11/16/2013 - 12:48
Alsumaria News / Baghdad
The Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation, on Saturday, the high inflation index for the month of October last year by 1.6%, noting that the annual inflation also rose by 3%.
The spokesman said ministry spokesman Abdul Zahra al-Hindawi said in an interview for "Alsumaria News", that "the Central Bureau of Statistics of the Ministry of Planning completed the inflation report for the month of last October on the basis of field data collection for prices of goods and services components of the consumer basket of selected sample of outlets in all governorates of Iraq, "noting that" these rates are calculated from the goods and services that include food, rent, transport and communications, health, education and other than consumer يقتنيه ".
Hindawi said that "indicators of inflation for the month of October last year rose to a record 1.6% compared to prices in the month of September due to higher prices of some materials, especially food, which amounted to 6% on the level of Iraq, in addition to high housing department by 2.5%," adding that "index Department of Housing is still greatly affects the high and low inflation. "
Abdul-Zahra stressed that "the annual inflation rate for the period from October 2012 until October 2013 also saw the rise to record 3%."
It is noteworthy that the Central Agency for Statistics and Information Technology, specialized operations Census various nationwide, and most important work to do censuses General Population and Housing, and do statistical operations on all areas (agricultural, industrial, etc.), as well as to collect, consolidate and prepare, analyze and summarize the results of statistical operations in whole or in part .
A senior U.S. official .. Major powers closer to an agreement with Iran
Date Posted: 12:21 pm, November 16, 2013
Major powers meeting with Iran
Independent / - a senior U.S. official said Friday, that the major powers are approaching the conclusion of a preliminary agreement with Iran to curb its nuclear program and that it was "very possible" to reach an agreement when the two sides meet during the period from 20 to 22 November in Geneva.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity: "For the first time in nearly 10 years are approaching the first step .. This will stop the Iranian nuclear program progress and make him fall in key areas. "
He continued: "I do not know whether we will reach an agreement. I think that this is very possible, but there are still difficult issues to be negotiated. "
He stated that the responsible EU foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will meet on November 20 in Geneva, will join them later in the same day, representatives of the major powers (Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States), are likely to continue the talks until Nov. 22.
The talks seeking to put the final touches on an agreement in principle to give time to negotiate a comprehensive and lasting agreement with Iran to end the impasse began 10 years ago and provide guarantees for the six powers that its nuclear program will produce bombs.
Iran denies it is seeking to acquire the capability to produce nuclear weapons and insists that its nuclear ambitions are limited to the peaceful generation of electricity and other civilian uses.
And ended negotiations held in Geneva, last Saturday, and no agreement reached, although it seemed that the two sides were close to reaching a deal to defuse the standoff between the two because of its nuclear program.
He urged the U.S. president, Barack Obama, the U.S. House of Representatives skeptics not to impose new sanctions on Iran during the continuation of the negotiations, and called for a halt in U.S. sanctions to see if diplomacy can succeed.
Maliki: Iraq the greatest opportunity in the world to invest
المالكى: العراق أكبر فرصة فى العالم للاستثمار
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki
Saturday, 16 Nofemir 2013 12:38
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, Iraq's biggest opportunity to invest in the world, due to sabotage the terrorists and militias of infrastructure.
Maliki said during the opening ceremony of the third unit at the station Zubaydiah electrical province of Wasit, Iraq is the greatest opportunity to invest in the world in all areas due to sabotage the terrorists and militias of infrastructure during the years of the occupation of Iraq and after the phase of sectarian fighting that toppled all the efforts of construction and reconstruction.
Maliki stressed the importance of energy conservation to cross to the stage of the provincial electric power supply by that you need quotas, pointing out that more than 2,600 megawatts will be added to the electric power before the end of the year.
He revealed Iraqi Prime Minister signed a contract to set up a petrochemical plant in the amount of $ 11 billion with the private sector, noting that the Iraqi government has a general tendency to support the private sector and investment in various fields.
Maliki pointed out draws some partners in the political process to the outside to warn foreign companies from investing in Iraq under the pretext of the instability of the security situation, describing their behavior as treason to the country.
On the other hand, new Iraqi Prime Minister his government's readiness to contribute to security and stability in the region through the face of al Qaeda in Iraq and its branch local in Syria, and said, We are looking for friendships and good relations with all countries, and in return it is not allowed for others and the implementation of the agendas of the countries do not want goodness and stability to Iraq.
Maliki said, we want to contribute to stability in the region, noting that the front against terrorism and the victory given that Iraq was a victim of armed groups, including al-Qaeda.
The Iraqi Prime Minister Prafgah-Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs Hussain al-Shahristani, Electricity Minister Karim Aftan had arrived Saturday morning to Wasit province, about 180 km south-east of the capital Baghdad for the opening of the third unit of the power station Zubaydiah to maintain a 303 megawatt.
The delegation - Maliki: Iraq the greatest opportunity in the world to invest
Turkey Proposes to Mediate in Erbil-Baghdad Energy Row
By RUDAW
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region –Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said on Friday that his government is planning to mediate between Erbil and Baghdad over outstanding energy issues.
"We are trying to establish a method which we believe will counter the concerns of the central Iraqi government ... So far, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and central government have not been able to establish the system they wished," Reuters quoted Yildiz as saying.
Yildiz maintained that Ankara has prepared a proposal to settle the issue of payments between Erbil and Baghdad.
Since 2007 Erbil and the central government have been at loggerheads over the autonomous region’s natural resources.
Iraqi leaders say that Baghdad has the sole authority over the country’s oil and gas, while the KRG argues that the constitution gives them the right to extract and export their own oil.
“The distribution of the revenues would be carried out by Iraq, we would only hold these deposits at a Turkish state bank," said the Turkish energy minister.
Kurdish leaders have complained that the central government has failed to pay the fees of foreign oil companies operating in the Kurdistan Region, estimated at US$5 billion.
Earlier this month Erbil and Ankara finalized a comprehensive energy package that includes the building of a second pipeline connecting the Kurdistan Region’s oil and gas to the world market via Turkey.
Kurdistan’s Minister of Natural Resources, Ashti Hawrami, has stressed in the past that the revenue of Kurdish oil is shared with Baghdad and that there should be no cause for concern on the part of the central government.
Yildiz said that he has discussed Turkey’s proposal to play the role of mediator with Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs, Hussein Shahristani in South Korea, but that nothing has been finalized yet.
With more than 45 billion barrels of untapped oil, the Kurdistan Region has attracted international oil giants such as Exxon Mobil, Total and Chevron. Though the landlocked region relies on Turkey as its gateway to the outside world.
Kurdistan Alliance has not decided yet how to enter the next elections
16/11/2013 11:01:00
BAGHDAD / NINA / Vice president of the Kurdistan Alliance bloc, MP Mohsen al-Sadoun said that his alliance has not decided yet how to enter the next parliamentary elections, whether in a single list or multiple lists."
Sadoun told the National Iraqi News Agency / NINA / "The Kurdistan Alliance awaits presidential endorsement on the new election law to hold talks among the parties of the Kurdistan Alliance, to decide how to enter the next parliamentary elections."
He added, "The new election law will be studied well in next two months and then a position on how to enter the upcoming parliamentary elections will be taken" explaining that holding talks with other political blocs, on building alliances, will be after the upcoming parliamentary elections . "
Dr. Ibrahim al-Jaafari: Some countries in the region - and how much is not just recipients met with Iraqi interests - are the cause of the culture of rampant corruption in the institutions, and we need a revolution, but not a peaceful silent revolution to eliminate corruption
16-11-2013 | (Voice of Iraq)
Information Office of Dr. Ibrahim al-Jaafari
Dr. Ibrahim Jaafari, head of the Iraqi National Alliance that some countries in the region - and how much is not just recipients Iraqis met their interests - are the cause of the culture of corruption rampant in institutions, stressing that we need a revolution, but not a silent revolution peacefully to eliminate corruption, explaining: that some who speak to reform his corrupt, and some manner of corruption wants to demolish the house on the occupants .. Corruption is an integral whole, and when we talk about the state there must be a device, and the Constitution, and work programs, and must combine their efforts.
With regard to the performance of the House of Representatives, Dr. Ibrahim al-Jaafari said: not نجرد the whole Parliament and all members of distinct national positions. There are those group of figures standing honorable positions, يصدحون their vote, and Atafvon for a lot of things, this exists, and there is also another row thinks its interests, and is absent from what is happening in Iraq, do not dare to speak .. I say: to move from Alanaat the tactical strategies. From this came the parliament? Came the election, and the people came from. This miserable electoral system planners who planned, and Ktefoa off .. System, which comes in Him who gets a hundred or two hundred votes, and who gets the seven thousand or eight thousand, or ten thousand is not up to the Parliament, and gets a cent bicentennial up to Parliament, and have brains state thinking, legislation, and the conscience of the state control, and accounting , while that gets seven thousand, eight, or nine thousand, or ten thousand in the provinces is not up to the Parliament.
So be submitted in such electoral systems do not expect better than this, and I know they planned the international community, and I mean what I say, and directed to speak to a representative of the United Nations several times, and I know that there is fraud happened in the elections.
In talking about the role of the Iraqi National Alliance, and his speech .. Dr. Jaafari said: when you say the National Alliance .. National Alliance of it? National Alliance speech? Or the National Alliance Foundation, or the positions of the National Alliance? ..
Try discourse speech at the National Alliance to remain a national speech does not take up the issues of sectarianism, and the issues of racism, nor Baltharat, and maintains his humanity, and his patriotism, but the plug-in National Alliance Vmtdharbh, and different, and trying to weaken each other. It is no secret to a certain issues be binaries intervention some parties of the National Alliance with certain destinations, and يتقاطعون among themselves in public under the light of the sun. There is no secret to anyone, and we differentiate between money constructive, we criticize the government, and say there is corruption in the institutions, but does this prove that Down with the government, and not let Iraq go to a vacuum.
Is there any country in the world to behave this way? We now we are in a democratic contexts, and to let the people choose.
This came in statements made by Dr. Ibrahim Jaafari, head of the Iraqi National Alliance for the channel (Free Iraq) in an exclusive interview program note that the meeting of the full broadcast on Monday, 11/18/2013 at seven o'clock and ten minutes ..
Dr. Ibrahim al-Jaafari: Some countries in the region - and how much is not just recipients met with Iraqi interests - are the cause of the culture of rampant corruption in the institutions, and we need a revolution, but not a peaceful silent revolution to eliminate corruption
16-11-2013 | (Voice of Iraq)
Information Office of Dr. Ibrahim al-Jaafari
Dr. Ibrahim Jaafari, head of the Iraqi National Alliance that some countries in the region - and how much is not just recipients Iraqis met their interests - are the cause of the culture of corruption rampant in institutions, stressing that we need a revolution, but not a silent revolution peacefully to eliminate corruption, explaining: that some who speak to reform his corrupt, and some manner of corruption wants to demolish the house on the occupants .. Corruption is an integral whole, and when we talk about the state there must be a device, and the Constitution, and work programs, and must combine their efforts.
With regard to the performance of the House of Representatives, Dr. Ibrahim al-Jaafari said: not نجرد the whole Parliament and all members of distinct national positions. There are those group of figures standing honorable positions, يصدحون their vote, and Atafvon for a lot of things, this exists, and there is also another row thinks its interests, and is absent from what is happening in Iraq, do not dare to speak .. I say: to move from Alanaat the tactical strategies. From this came the parliament? Came the election, and the people came from. This miserable electoral system planners who planned, and Ktefoa off .. System, which comes in Him who gets a hundred or two hundred votes, and who gets the seven thousand or eight thousand, or ten thousand is not up to the Parliament, and gets a cent bicentennial up to Parliament, and have brains state thinking, legislation, and the conscience of the state control, and accounting , while that gets seven thousand, eight, or nine thousand, or ten thousand in the provinces is not up to the Parliament.
So be submitted in such electoral systems do not expect better than this, and I know they planned the international community, and I mean what I say, and directed to speak to a representative of the United Nations several times, and I know that there is fraud happened in the elections.
In talking about the role of the Iraqi National Alliance, and his speech .. Dr. Jaafari said: when you say the National Alliance .. National Alliance of it? National Alliance speech? Or the National Alliance Foundation, or the positions of the National Alliance? ..
Try discourse speech at the National Alliance to remain a national speech does not take up the issues of sectarianism, and the issues of racism, nor Baltharat, and maintains his humanity, and his patriotism, but the plug-in National Alliance Vmtdharbh, and different, and trying to weaken each other. It is no secret to a certain issues be binaries intervention some parties of the National Alliance with certain destinations, and يتقاطعون among themselves in public under the light of the sun. There is no secret to anyone, and we differentiate between money constructive, we criticize the government, and say there is corruption in the institutions, but does this prove that Down with the government, and not let Iraq go to a vacuum.
Is there any country in the world to behave this way? We now we are in a democratic contexts, and to let the people choose.
This came in statements made by Dr. Ibrahim Jaafari, head of the Iraqi National Alliance for the channel (Free Iraq) in an exclusive interview program note that the meeting of the full broadcast on Monday, 11/18/2013 at seven o'clock and ten minutes ..
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