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  1. #11
    02/01/2014 12:44
    Turkey: waiting for the approval of Iraq to export oil from Kurdistan, connecting us to the world market

    Turkey hopes a deal to export oil Iraqi Kurdistan this month

    BAGHDAD / obelisk said Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said on Thursday he hoped to reach an agreement this month to allow the export of oil through Turkey from the region of Kurdistan in northern Iraq, noting that crude oil, which began pumped from Kurdistan via the new pipeline to the port of Ceyhan Turkey will not be exported to world markets without the approval of Baghdad.

    Said Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz, said that "began pumping crude oil from a new pipeline from Iraq's Kurdistan to the Turkish port of Ceyhan on the Mediterranean Sea and were being stored raw, not being exported to the world market only with the consent of Baghdad."

    He added that "oil will not be issued without the approval of the central government in Baghdad that angered Ankara conclude agreements in the field of energy with Kurdistan, where she says she only authority the power to manage the Iraqi oil."

    The minister noted that "pumping crude oil through the new pipeline will start at a rate of 300 thousand barrels per day and gradually increase to 400 thousand barrels per day."

    Turkey signed agreements in the field of energy with billions of dollars in Iraqi Kurdistan late last year to export power from the region through Turkey to markets directly.

    Turkish-Kurdish agreement and of great importance to international oil companies as well as the Kurds and Ankara They can take advantage of it to meet the needs of the local and export through the port of Ceyhan in the west.

    Yildiz visited Baghdad in early December / December for talks with Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Hussain al-Shahristani, who had reservations on the rapprochement between Turkey and the Kurdish region.

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  2. #12
    Deputy for the citizen: We will seek to achieve agreement and overcome their differences to pass the budget bill

    2014/1/2 10:36

    {Baghdad} Euphrates News MP for the parliamentary bloc citizen an inch, that the mass of the citizen will seek to achieve agreement and overcome their differences to pass the budget bill in order to achieve the interests of the people.

    He said an inch, told News} {Euphrates on Thursday, "We will strive for approving the budget quickly because they serve the interests of the people and citizens, it is necessary to agree on a budget, even if there are differences, it could surpass it and move legislation to the budget law as soon as possible for the advancement of the country in this big money , which are waiting to be implemented and invested their domain real. "

    A member of the parliamentary finance committee, Faleh applicable, that "the budget is still in the inclusion of the Council of Ministers and the problem regarding the budget is not able to be submitted to the House of Representatives in order to be voted on," Shira said that "the change that took place in the Ministry of Finance, including the replacement of Finance Minister Ali Shukri Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs purity of net debt instead of him, has a negative impact on the provision of the budget, including the lack of a strategy of the government in the breakdown of the budget, "pointing out that" the law of the current budget did not take the laws of the House of Representatives, such as giving {5} dollars to the provinces producing oil instead {1} of dollars. "

    The parliamentary Finance Committee had revealed earlier that the draft budget of the year 2014 from the Ministry of Finance to the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers reached {174} trillion and {649} billion dinars, "noting that" the budget included an increase from the previous one for the current year 2013 by more {of} 36 trillion dinars.

    The religious authority has urged the words of its representative in the holy city of Karbala, Sheikh Abdel Mahdi al-Karbalai on the need to speed up the passage of the general budget of the country, hoping that are not subject to the budget for bargains and the political pressure that may be trying some of the blocks to achieve political gains or zonal.

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  3. #13
    Chairman Businessmen Union calls for the implementation of the customs tariff law

    2014/1/2 8:18

    {Baghdad: Euphrates News} student president of the Federation of Iraqi businessmen Reza Ragheb Blibl application of the customs tariff law fully.

    He told the News} {Euphrates on Thursday that "in all countries of the world there is a law of the customs tariff but unfortunately, despite the enactment of the law in Iraq, but it has not been applied so far."

    He Blibl that "there are the interests of several parties want non-implementation of the law in order to keep the country imported only and does not produce," he said, adding that "there was a claim by the private sector and private enterprise productivity application of tariff law even provides jobs and goods needed by the country and is available her agents support and stimulate the Iraqi economy of the local product, but continuing claims fell on deaf ears because of the interests of the decision-maker has not been activated. "

    He explained that he "began to think about the implementation of the law at the beginning of the current year to be partial and the materials do not work on the promotion of the industry, the Iraqi luxury products."

    He Blibl "We demand that the law be implemented on all goods despite the fact that its implementation in the beginning but in partially have an impact in stimulating the economy and projects and provide fled PO work and to be a significant growth."

    He said the "arguments in the fact that law enforcement would cause material prices rise, they would learn about the law, they will find that most of the materials are exempt from customs duties and special food and medicine."

    Blibl said that "law enforcement exploits from some quarters that the country Stsudh imagine the state of inflation and rising prices, and this is just talk."

    The General Administration of Customs has announced that the customs tariff law work will start from the second day of January next, that includes all merchandise guidelines set forth by land, sea and air.

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  4. #14
    House of Representatives approves a law through 2013 / 49

    1/2/2014 0:00

    Legislation, most notably the elections and grant students and the agreement with Kuwait

    BAGHDAD - morning - Muhannad Abdul Wahab
    Could the House of Representatives during the 2013 approval of 49 legally only some of them described as "important" and the other a "foregone conclusion." And criticized by observers and Vice lack of legislation during the year 2013 compared to 2012, which saw the adoption of 120 law, stressing that the House did not succeed in passing laws strategy infrastructure such as the law or the Federal Court or the budget or the respect of retirees.
    In the following laws enacted by Parliament: READ MORE : https://www.alsabaah.iq/ArticleShow.aspx?ID=61151

  5. #15
    Analysts: al-Maliki «the biggest beneficiaries» crisis of Anbar «election» .. The parties are obliged to «consensus» after polling 2014

    02-01-2014 | (Voice of Iraq)

    BAGHDAD - Mustafa Nasser
    Analysts Iraqi politicians, that the crisis of Anbar province, entered the game in the election, and turned into an occasion to revive the "trenches of sectarianism," while swung the "popular boycott" of the election, in light of what they described as "public loss" of the major political blocs.
    A confident al-Hashemi, a political analyst, said that "the political blocs do not have a product to offer their audience, all the electoral programs that we have seen in 2010, which promised the people a better tomorrow not only produce crises and conflicts."
    He also added, "the world", that "the large blocs are trying to fabricate a crisis in the country for the escalation of sectarian and ethnic in the belief that this could keep them in the circle of electoral competition, and this is a big problem."
    He continued by saying, "Do not be surprised Btgier all necessary for the interests of the constituency, including the crisis in Anbar province (...) so I think that everyone used this paper in ways illogical and outside the framework of the principles, and resorted to the policy of beating below the belt for election propaganda."
    He explained that "the public may boycott the elections if it continues to do so, considering that the convictions People began falling because of the politicians exploit the crisis in the electoral propaganda."
    And increased al-Hashemi, saying, "Everybody is trying to take advantage of the crisis Anbar, but electoral map will not change much no matter what happens developments, in spite of owning a team and playing card of its own in the aftermath of military operations in the province."
    He stressed that "the rule of law and the Sadrists and the Supreme Council are united, and even the Kurdistan Alliance, using the crisis by electoral interests."
    The al-Hashemi, to be "the most prominent Sunni lists are united attempt to charge the public Anbar religiously for electoral gains, while Shiite blocs competing for the owners are trying to use this issue against him and accused him of fabricating crises."
    But al-Hashemi, however, saying, "blocs will return to the coalitions under the names of Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish are forming a government of national partnership weak Tnfrt soon after two or three months of its announcement, and the back of the conflict as it was for four years."
    He said, "Politicians do not want to change and do not want to be in the parliamentary opposition, even if there was opposition to what we got to this case."
    For his part, said Haval Zakhuy, a Kurdish political analyst, said that "the Kurdistan Alliance can benefit from the security operation in Anbar, the electoral propaganda, because in the case of playing a positive role and sought to bring the views to be a factor again balance."
    He guessed Zakhuy, in an interview with "the world", that "Arbil is sponsoring a pivotal role in resolving the crisis and calm things down, it will be subject to election campaigning in some of its aspects."
    He went on to say, "despite the fact that the Kurdistan Alliance, whatever play a positive role between all the parties, the issue of getting the vote will be limited to the Kurdistan region, but there are accounts related to the stage after the results were announced by the intervention in the accounts of the blocks that are trying to exploit the crisis to find a rapprochement with the blocks were far from it, in addition to taking a position may reflect its good faith toward the Sunni blocs, for example. " He stressed that, "the Kurdistan Alliance will soon be of the Shiite parties more than the Sunni blocs, especially as the Iraqi List, proved in more than one occasion that it stands deduced from trends and Kurdish ambitions."
    He continued, saying, "In this case, the old alliances and especially four-Kurdish parties and the Dawa Party and the Supreme Council will remain the same."
    He added by saying, "Kurds relationship with the Sadrist movement, will not see an improvement soon, especially as the position of the Sadrist movement of a negative decision of the Council of Ministers announcement of Halabja, a new province in Iraq, where the position of Minister of the Liberal bloc between shows and abstention".
    And the position of the Sunni blocs, said Amir Jabbar, a political analyst, "the world", "The Speaker has issued assurances not to exploit the sit-in squares for electoral propaganda, while united bloc led by now trying to invest crisis Anbar for electoral gains."
    He added that "the withdrawal of 44 deputies from the united bloc of parliament does not represent a heavy load as much as it is to send positive messages to certain groups of voters."
    The Titanic, that "the circumstances of Anbar is still a mutant and can not predict what they point to things where it will benefit them, and the re-conversion Maliki file cities in Anbar to the local police and the withdrawal of the army after the evacuation Square sit-in would bring him up in the index of popularity of what was thought that his decision Sikhmd this crisis. "
    However Jabbar said, "the coming days may exhibit shifts hit the fortunes of al-Maliki, a lot."
    He continued by saying, "the security operation entered in electoral calculations, and things have become trapped in the war campaign and prepare to reap the largest number of voters."
    It is believed Jabbar, that "the primary beneficiary of this crisis is to al-Maliki and his alliance class basis, having faded star united and the rest of the Iraqi parties due to the resignation of the House of Representatives of the Parliament, despite the fact that the arrest of MP Alwani has put al-Maliki in the axis of doubt between the center popular in Baghdad, but remained conservative on his popularity in the South and East of the Euphrates. "

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  6. #16
    Kurdish source: Baghdad and the province agreed to contracts with foreign oil companies and pay their dues

    02-01-2014 | (Voice of Iraq)

    Baghdad - where

    Detection Kurdish source close to the negotiations that took place between the delegation of the Kurdistan region, which was chaired by the Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government Barzani and the federal government headed by Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Hussain al-Shahristani, as "took place smoothly high, amid flexibility unexpected by the government side in Baghdad."

    Barzani had arrived in Baghdad in 25 of the last month for talks with the federal government on outstanding issues between the two sides, including the budget and the export of oil from Kurdistan via the oil pipeline to Turkey.

    The source told all of Iraq [where] that "al-Shahristani agreed on oil contracts Kurdistan region to participate and not service contracts, as they want and the Federal Ministry of Oil in the past."

    "It was agreed to pay the federal government dues oil companies operating in Kurdistan, worth 10 billion dollars that are exported oil through the oil marketing company National Sumo."

    The source continued that "the only point that is still disputed is that the Kurdish delegation demanded the deposit amounts of oil exported to Turkey from the region in the Bank, Turkey, and go from 5 percent to the Compensation Fund of Kuwait to the United Nations and 17 percent to the Kurdistan region and the rest of the federal government, shall be deposited in the Fund Iraq's development in New York, and distributed through the annual budget. "

    The Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Hussain al-Shahristani, said during a meeting with a government delegation from the Kurdistan region in 25 of the last month the agreement with the Kurdish delegation, export oil province of Kurdistan via Sumo according to pricing mechanisms and the export of Iraqi oil, to be deposited revenue fund Iraq's development, and distributed through the annual budget. According to a statement from the office of al-Shahristani.

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  7. #17
    Haider Mulla: the third mandate of the owners of means of dividing Iraq

    02-01-2014 | (Voice of Iraq)

    BAGHDAD / Baghdadi News

    MP from the Iraqi Haidar al-Mulla, on Thursday, that the renewal of the mandate of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki means the division of Iraq.

    Mulla said in a statement, Baghdadi News received a copy of it: "Ten years have passed from the age of the political process and the people of Iraq prisoner to the dominance of the Dawa Party and the power of its Secretary General, Mr. al-Maliki."

    He added: "We are on the cusp of an election stage we call on all political blocs, specifically those that split from the coalition in Iraq to build its political project to get rid of the dictatorship Maliki and methodology of reprisals against the Iraqi people."

    He said Mullah "Any compromise to keep him or deal with him will be prepared for each betrayal blood and the sacrifices made in order to build a state of citizenship and salvation of political sectarianism."

    He also said: "We call on the parties to the National Alliance to realize that the unity of Iraq is subject to the salvation of the influence of al-Maliki, the fact that the third term meaning the division of Iraq inevitably Iraq and go into the unknown."

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  8. #18
    Iraq Ministers Agree Turning Halabja into Province
    By RUDAW

    ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Iraq's Council of Ministers approved a bill that would turn Halabja district into the autonomous Kurdistan Region’s fourth province, but the decision has to be approved by the parliament to take effect.

    “We talked with Baghdad and we were informed officially that the Council of Ministers has approved Halabja as a governorate," said Goran Adham, the mayor of Halabja.

    He said the resolution was approved by majority vote at the council’s weekly meeting, but that three Iraqi ministers did not vote in favor, including youth minister Jasim Muhammad Jafar and transportation minister Hadi al-Amri.

    According to law, the ministerial decision must be approved by the parliament to take effect. “We believe that since the Council of Ministers approved it the Iraqi parliament will approve it, too,” said Adham. “Several factions have vowed to support us,” he added.

    He said his office was “in constant contact with the Council of Ministers and Kurdish MPs for this purpose.”

    Should the bill be approved, Halabja will take part in the Iraqi legislative elections, scheduled for April 2014, as a new governorate.

    Safa al-Mousawi, the spokesman for the Election Commission, said: “We have not received any official directives to make preparations to treat Halabja as a governorate.”

    “If we receive the decision in a timely manner to make preparations, then the election will be carried out in Halabja like in Sulaimani, Erbil and Duhok,” she stressed.

    According to Mousawi the Election Commission has data on Halabja that would assist in paving the way for it to be treated like a governorate in the elections.

    If the bill is approved, Halabja would become the 19th Iraqi governorate, and the autonomous Kurdistan Region’s fourth province.

    Halabja, which was gassed by Iraq’s former regime on March 16, 1988, still suffers from the aftermath of the attack. It suffers from the highest number of birth defects in Iraq.

    The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) approved Halabja as a new governorate in June 2013.

    The latest ministerial decision comes a week after KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani delivered a letter from regional President Massoud Barzani to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Baghdad last Wednesday, demanding the Iraqi government complete procedures and raise the administrative level of Halabja to a governorate.

    The Kurdish president has been one of the main advocates of turning Halabja into a province.

    "The promise that I made to you has now come true and I hope there will be an administration that will make the people of the area happy," Barzani said in a congratulatory message after the ministerial decision was announced.

    In an official statement, Barzani said that Halabja is a city that has suffered and sacrificed a lot and that, "their wounds should be healed."

    All Kurdish parties unanimously supported and welcomed the decision of the ministers.

    On Tuesday, the Change Movement (Gorran) said that it stands by the decision, applauding Maliki for this historic step.

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  9. #19
    Has Mr. Erdogan Passed his Expiry Date?
    By DAVID ROMANO

    Beginning December 17, a corruption scandal swept Turkey be storm. Shady real estate deals and bribery-lubricated schemes to evade sanctions on Iran lie at the heart of the scandal. Several ministers of Prime Minister Erdogan’s ruling Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi (AKP), including cabinet ministers, resigned while others were removed from their posts. Investigators found several million dollars stuffed in shoe boxes in the home of the head of Turkish state-controlled Halkbank. After the initial round of raids, searches, arrests and interrogations, prosecutors, police and judges appeared set to go after a second set of suspects that included the Prime Minister’s son and other family members.

    The worst kept secret in Turkey at the moment is that this corruption scandal is the latest symptom of a worsening feud between Mr. Erdogan’s AKP government and the Fethullah Gulen movement. Fethullah Gulen is an enigmatic Turkish Muslim preacher advocating a moderate brand of Islam who, fearing arrest in Turkey, found refuge the United States since 1999. His “service” (hizmet) movement has founded schools and charities across the world, and especially the Turkish judiciary and police are thought to include many of his disciples. The Gulenists used to be allies of the AKP, and several AKP ministers may have been Gulenists themselves.

    The AKP and the Gulenists successfully cooperated to push the Turkish military out of politics. They did not see eye to eye on everything, of course, but in the past they could agree to disagree.

    The AKP and the Gulenists successfully cooperated to push the Turkish military out of politics. They did not see eye to eye on everything, of course, but in the past they could agree to disagree. That is until Mr. Erdogan decided to start closing private Gulen schools in Turkey several weeks ago, schools which form the economic lifeblood of the movement. Why did Mr. Erdogan fire this first real shot against Gulen? Increasingly paranoid, cantankerous and arrogant leaders probably don’t need a reason other than the very existence of a check on their power or a limit to their ambition. When it comes to Prime Minister Erdogan, I can’t think of any force left in Turkey that could challenge him except the Gulen movement.

    Your humble columnist has no way of knowing the veracity of the corruption allegations, of course. What does seem clear, however, is that the Gulen movement went after Prime Minister Erdogan’s government through legal channels. They seem to have had dirt on some of his ministers and closest associates, and used their people in the judiciary and police to pursue it. That they waited until now to come public with what they knew is problematic but also probably the way politics works in a number of places. The allegations are ground shaking for a political party that centers its discourse on clean, corruption free governance – and for a state that claims to be a key U.S. and European ally to help Iran circumvent sanctions is equally damning.

    Most damning of all has been Mr. Erdogan’s reaction to the whole scandal, however. Instead of expressing shock and stating his determination to get to the bottom of the problem, which is what most leaders would do when presented with such evidence of malfeasance within their own government, Mr. Erdogan responded by attacking the rule of law in Turkey. On December 25th, he sacked Muammer Akkas, the prosecutor who started the corruption probe. He also sacked hundreds of police chiefs and other prosecutors related to the investigation, and moved to change the law so that the government has to be informed by the judiciary and police even in the case of investigations into its own wrongdoings – something which would make it nearly impossible to ever catch the government doing anything wrong. Clearly no country hoping to maintain even a semblance of democracy can function without the sorts of separations of power that Mr. Erdogan is assiduously dismantling in Turkey.

    What’s more, Mr. Erdogan railed about domestic and international conspiracies against him, casting the Gulen movement as a proxy for the United States and Israel. His media’s immediate attacks on the U.S. ambassador to Turkey drew a harsh reaction from the United States, and again we heard dark mutterings about the “interest rate lobby,” which is Mr. Erdogan’s anti-Semitic euphemism for Jewish conspiracies. We heard the same nonsense during the Gezi Park protests a few months ago, and indeed any time something goes wrong for Mr. Erdogan.

    Instead of expressing shock and stating his determination to get to the bottom of the problem, which is what most leaders would do when presented with such evidence of malfeasance within their own government, Mr. Erdogan responded by attacking the rule of law in Turkey.

    The Turkish people and the AK Party must now ask themselves if Prime Minister Erdogan has gone sour, like milk kept past its due date. He accomplished many great things for Turkey in more than ten years of leadership. Pushing the military back to the barracks, steering the country through significant economic growth and breaking some taboos in regards to ways to settle “the Kurdish problem” are all very solid achievements. As the Prime Minister’s tantrums grow more pronounced, however, and the list of sycophantic names in his inner advisory circle gets smaller, his determination to crush all dissidence and criticism become more pronounced, his willingness to compromise shrinks, and his tendency to see foreign plots lurking in every shadow turns more paranoid by the day, Mr. Erdogan risks turning his legacy, his party and his country down a very bad path.

    There are very many good and able leaders within the AKP – Abdullah Gul and Bulent Arinc for example – and for the sake of the party and the country Mr. Erdogan might consider stepping down. I doubt he will of course – this kind of leader, as opposed to the likes of Kemal Ataturk, George Washington, Nelson Mandela and others – never willingly hands over the reigns of power.

    David Romano has been a Rudaw columnist since August 2010. He is the Thomas G. Strong Professor of Middle East Politics at Missouri State University and author of The Kurdish Nationalist Movement (2006, Cambridge University Press).

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  10. #20
    24 political entities and coalitions participating provinces of Kurdistan elections

    02-01-2014 | (Voice of Iraq)

    Twilight News

    Announced the Electoral Commission for elections, on Thursday, as a number of political entities and coalitions to participate in the elections provinces of Kurdistan - Iraq in 2014.

    A spokesman for the Office of chroma-Moussawi, said in a statement reported for "Twilight News", that the number of political entities to participate in the election boards of the provinces of the region approved by the Commission amounted to (24) political entity, noting that the coalition and one was approved to contest the election.

    Moussawi noted that the Commission had already extended the period of registration and approval of political entities and coalitions participating in the election boards provinces of the region for the purpose of giving the opportunity to register at the offices of the Commission.

    He said the Board of Commissioners also decided to extend the period of receipt of the names of candidates of political entities and coalitions until the end of working hours on Thursday, 01.09.2014.

    The Presidency of the Kurdistan Region and in collaboration with the Office of the Independent Electoral approved elections boards provinces of the region in conjunction with the elections of the Iraqi parliament in the next 04/30/2014.

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