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  1. #11
    Nujaifi calls for building the State according to balanced and correct foundations

    01/02/2014 10:58:00

    BAGHDAD / NINA / Iraqi House Speaker, Osama al-Nujaifi called to build the state according to the balanced and correct foundations and extend a helping hand to all components of the Iraqi people.

    At a news conference, after signing the longer document of peace to renounce violence and terrorism in Iraq, in cooperation with the parliamentary commission on tribal and group of Najaf youth on Facebook, Nujaifi said: "The components of the people do not have an interest of the ongoing conflict in the country and the State builders should follow the correct and balance basics and extend help to all components and remove the scourge that has taken hold in the society, which is terrorism."

    He added, "The young people should not be dragged to sectarian conflict so as to be able to re- build Iraq, indicating that the enemies wanted to sectarian conflict be a factor to disrupt the unity of Iraq ."

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  2. #12
    MP: Parliament is no longer prepared to pass important laws because of the continuing political differences

    01/02/2014 09:07:00

    BAGHDAD / NINA / MP, of the citizen bloc, Jawad al-Bazzuni saw that the parliament is no longer prepared to pass important laws in the current session because of the continued problems and political differences and lack of sense of responsibility.

    He told the National Iraqi News Agency / NINA / that "The agenda of the meeting of the Council of Representatives for this session is empty of affecting and important laws in the current period , such as the budget and retirement laws, noting that many of the MPs did not attend the meetings (Motahedoon coalition, the Kurdistan Alliance and some the national Alliance MPs because of the lack of sense of responsibility. "

    He added, "The controversial paragraphs about the budget can be corrected within the House of Representatives and no need to be returned to the government to make amendments to them, expecting to see a big discussions about this law in the future meetings , especially with the proximity of the election."

    The House of Representatives had failed to start the first reading of the budget bill of 2014, and the session adjourned to Saturday for lack of a quorum.

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  3. #13
    Ahrar bloc: State of Law and the Kurdistan Alliance are responsible for the delay in approving the budget

    01/02/2014 12:42:00

    BAGHDAD / NINA / The parliamentary bloc, Ahrar held state of law and the Kurdistan Alliance blocs responsibility for delaying the budget bill , because of the political and electoral conflicts between them .

    The head of the Ahrar bloc, Bahaa al-Araji said in a news conference attended by members of the bloc, that "there are reasons delayed approving the budget and retirement laws."

    He added, "The government had delayed the budget for more than 63 days despite the fact that the Constitution and the law set dates for these things clearly, therefore the delay in sending the budget for propaganda reasons."

    Araji said that " approving the budget at this time is very low probability , so we will seek , however, to achieve it even though it will need a long time for approval may extend to the June , therefore, the government at the time would be a caretaker government and cannot control the money and in this situation there will be procrastination for money and take advantage of for electoral purposes . "

    He continued, "the conflicts around the budget law between state of law and the Kurdistan Alliance are political and electoral conflict, and we know very well that the budget for all Iraqi people and there is no reason to be exploited for propaganda campaign , but unfortunately , this matter is what happened and will be the only loser will be the citizen."

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  4. #14
    Sorry, Shale. Iraq Is The Real Oil Revolution

    After pushing up domestic crude oil production by about three million barrels a day (mb/d) in the United States, shale oil has inspired speculation about radical shifts in the global oil market.

    Radical shifts are certainly on the horizon, but something other than shale is likely to be driving them. That something is Iraq.

    Iraq is ramping up oil-exports in 2014, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit. The draft budget anticipates average exports of 3.4 mb/d, marking a nearly 30% increase from 2013 export levels.

    Considering the political struggle between Baghdad and the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan, the budget forecast seems bullish but not beyond the realm of possibility. New sources of production in the south are coming on-stream and infrastructure bottlenecks are easing.

    Iraq is currently the world’s third-largest oil exporter. and has the resources and plans to increase rapidly its oil and natural gas production as it recovers from three decades punctuated by conflict and instability.

    smart-grid-sky

    “The emergence of Iraq as an oil power of the nature of Saudi Arabia is the big thing in the future of the oil business,” said Henry Groppe, a seasoned oil and gas analyst from Texas, in an interview on Wednesday with Toronto’s Globe & Mail. “It dwarfs everything else. It’s the thing that everybody ought to be watching and following as closely as possible.” increase of the post Saddam era

    Oil exploration efforts in the post Saddam era have suggested that Iraq’s oil resource is much bigger than analysts had previously anticipated.

    International oil companies have already secured contracts that imply an epic increase in Iraq’s oil production capacity by 2020.

    “Reaching output in excess of 9 mb/d by 2020 would equal the highest sustained growth in the history of the global oil industry,” the International Energy Agency concluded in the 2012 Iraq Energy Outlook.

    The barriers to achieving these admittedly ambitious targets are as big as they are diverse, including everything from infrastructure inadequacies and skilled labor shortages to financial risks and lack of security.

    While it is questionable whether Iraq will be able to meet this ambitious target, increasing Iraq’s oil production by half of that target would make Iraq the largest contributor to global supply growth over the next 20 years and on course to displacing Russia as the world’s second-largest oil exporter by 2030.

    In any scenario, Iraq is the primary force affecting the long-term outlook for oil markets.

    “Almost every second barrel of world oil production growth in the next two decades will come from Iraq, with the potential to provide prosperity for all of Iraq’s 32 million people,” said Dr. Fatih Birol, the lead author of the IEA’s report in 2013.

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  5. #15
    Agenda for the meeting (9) Saturday (1) February 2014
    February 1, 2014

    First, read verses from the Koran.

    Second: The vote on the draft labor law. ( Committee for Labor and Social Affairs , the Committee on the institutions of civil society). (Article 157). (The remaining 134 items).

    Third: The final report of the parliamentary sub-committee responsible for monitoring the project and the Ministry of Education No. (1.2) and on the subject of re-building mud schools and ramshackle.

    Fourth: the first reading of the proposed law to amend the Criminal Procedure Code No. (23) for the year 1971. (Legal Committee). (3 items).

    Fifth: the first reading of a bill to preserve the documents. ( Legal Committee , the Committee on Culture and Information). (Article 15).

    Sixth: The second reading of the draft law regulating the work of counselors. ( Legal Committee ). (Article 5).

    Seventh: the second reading of the proposed law to honor scientists, writers, artists and scholars State Prize). (Committee on Culture and Information, Commission of Higher Education and Scientific Research , Commission of Awqaf and Religious Affairs). (Article 14).

    Eighth: the second reading of the draft law of the First Amendment to the law on compensation for those affected by the military operations and the mistakes of military and terrorist operations No. (20) of 2009. (For security and defense committee, the Finance Committee , the Committee of Martyrs and victims and political prisoners , the Legal Committee ). (Article 18).

    IX: the second reading of a bill establishing civil federal health institutions. (Committee on Health and the Environment, Legal Committee ). (Article 19).

    Tenth: The second reading of the draft law on passports. ( Legal Committee , the Commission on Security and Defence ). (Article 22).

    Eleventh: the second reading of the draft law amending the Law on Judicial Fees No. (114) for the year 1981. ( Finance Committee , Legal Committee ). (Article 31).

    Begins the session time: ten in the morning.

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  6. #16
    Law amending the Law on Judicial Organization number (160) of 1979
    January 28, 2014

    Name of the people
    Presidency
    Based on what passed the House of Representatives and approved by the President of the Republic and, according to the provisions of subsection (I) of Article (61) and item (iii) of Article (73) of the Constitution
    Issued the following law: -

    No. () for the year 2013
    Law
    Amend the law on judicial organization
    No. (160) of 1979


    Article 1 - First - The text of paragraphs (angel) and (beer) of item (First) of Article (13) of the Judicial Organization Law No. (160) for the year 1979, and replace them Mayati: -
    A - General Authority: - is being held under the chairmanship of the President of the Federal Court of excellence, or the oldest of his deputies in his absence or the presence of a legal mind of his participation and membership of his deputies, judges, court employees and all concerned given as follows: -
    1 - What it is transmitted from one of the bodies if it considers the decision to abandon the principle of previous provisions.
    2 - chapter in the conflict, which is located on the opposed judgments and decisions issued by the Federal Court of Cassation.
    B - body extended and consist of: -
    First - the extended body penal: - is being held under the chairmanship of the President of the Court of Cassation or the oldest of his deputies in his absence or the presence of a legal mind of his participation and membership of at least four Ashredoa of judges and has jurisdiction in the following: -
    1 - suits which issued the death sentence.
    2 - suits, which insists on the Criminal Court ruled Almnicod.
    3 - winning the dispute over the appointment of jurisdiction in the proceedings, which is located between the two courts Dzaúatin.
    4 - What President transmits them to decide which of the provisions of the penal decisions fall within the jurisdiction of the court according to the law, which was issued under which those judgments and decisions.

    Second: - The Commission extended the Civil: - is being held under the chairmanship of the President of the Federal Court of Appeal or the oldest of his deputies in his absence or the presence of a legal mind of his participation and membership of at least six of the judges and has jurisdiction over the following: -
    1 - the conflict happening on the implementation of judgments Moktspin degree bits contradictory rulings of the single subject if the litigants themselves or had someone Trava in these provisions and weighting single sentences and decide implemented without judging each other and the president of the court to stop the implementation of the provisions contradictory to the pending decision discriminatory.
    2 - winning the dispute over the appointment of competence in the eyes of lawsuits between civilian tribunals.
    3 - suits, which insists the trial court ruled on Almnicod.
    4 - decisions issued by the Court of Appeal judges complain.
    5 - Miahilh by the president to decide which of the provisions and decisions fall within the jurisdiction of the civil court according to the law, which was issued under which those judgments and decisions.
    6 - other jurisdiction determined by the laws in force.

    Article (2): - Amend the text of paragraph (iv) of Article (47) of the Judicial Organization Law No. (160) for the year 1979, and reads as follows: -
    Fourth: - appoint a Vice-President of the Federal Court of Appeal by a presidential decree on the nomination of the Supreme Judicial Council from among the judges who have spent a period of not less than two years there.

    Rule - 3 - This law shall be from the date of publication in the Official Gazette.

    Reasons
    For the purpose of securing proper functioning of the Federal Court of Cassation and facilitate the resolution of pending cases smoothly through the distribution of competences between the Authority and the Authority extended.

    This law

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  7. #17
    President doctor: Health Talabani in lasting improvement

    1/2/2014 0:00

    BAGHDAD - morning
    Doctor confirmed your president, Dr. Necmettin cream that the health of President Talabani in permanent improvement, pointing to continuing to receive physical therapy. Explained Dr. Karim in a statement received "morning," he in touch with President Talabani and physician supervisor treatment in Germany, stressing that the President continues asks permanently on the conditions of the Iraqis, he said, adding: "It cost me Talabani to convey his greetings to all the Iraqi people."

    https://www.alsabaah.iq/ArticleShow.aspx?ID=63367

  8. #18
    Kurdistan Region – Iraq Enters Political Quagmire?
    Hiwa Zandi — Special to Ekurd.net

    February 1, 2014

    Kurdistan Region of Iraq is at the behest of an emerging political crisis as the political tension over forming the new government after the September 2013 parliamentary election is procrastinating. The tension has reached a level that has warranted regional States intervention, complicating the impasse even further.

    The predicament couldn’t be at a worse timing when much of the region is locked in deep-seated turmoil from Anbar and Fallujah to the borders of Syria, yielding the likelihood of expanding the conflict into the Kurdistan Region.

    According to a local press, Levin, Peshmerga, the armed forces of the Kurdistan Region, have been put on high alert after al-Qaeda terrorist fighters linked to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant entered the predominantly Kurdish region of Khanaqin, a disputed area between the Kurdistan Region and Central Government in Baghdad adjacent to the current administrative borders of the Kurdistan Region [1].


    On the surface, the political impasse lingers over the division of important posts of the new government between the two ruling parties, Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), and the previous opposition parties, in particular Movement of Change (Gorran). This is because the opposition parties have decided to join the new government as no party could win a clear majority to form the government.

    At the core, however, the issue goes beyond the distribution of posts to the underlying challenge against the long established two parties’ supremacy in the Kurdistan Region.

    For decades, the two ruling parties enjoyed equal circulation of power within the Kurdistan Regional Government - since the region first became autonomous in 1991. Both parties further formalized the power sharing arrangement in a confidential agreement in 2007 referred to as the “Strategic Agreement”.

    The agreement reflected the apprehension that both parties shared equal support of more than 90% of the constituencies as shown in the 1992 and 2005 Kurdistan regional parliamentary elections.

    However the September 2013 changed the equation as the opposition parties won 44% of the general contested seats (44 seats), making Gorran (24 Seats) as the second largest party in the Kurdistan region after the KDP (38 seats).

    Thus Gorran’s rising political power at the expense of dwindling PUK eminence that ranked third (18 seats) in the election has thus aggravated the political tension.

    PUK for its part has not submitted to the balance of power being shifted in favour of Gorran within the new government and the green zone. As PUK has military control of the green zone, it has emphasized its political eminence regardless of the election outcome. Adnan Mufti, the PUK politburo member, recently stressed that “PUK’s [political] position and magnitude cannot be measured through its number of seats” [2] . Mufti further added that the current political situation in Kurdistan requires PUK maintain its strategic eminence [3].

    PUK however must compel KDP to uphold to the principles of the Strategic Agreement to maintain its eminence within the regional government.

    KDP on the other hand faces a paradoxical situation. Whilst KDP wishes to maintain its strategic relation with PUK, it cannot ignore Gorran and other opposition parties.

    As KDP will be leading the new government, for winning the largest block of seats, it would confront significant hurdles from Gorran and other opposition parties if they take the opposition bench and do not join the new government. Therefore, KDP is forced to forge a new alliance with Gorran and other opposition parties to lead a multi-party government, even at the expense of cracking the principles of the Strategic Agreement.

    Such an arrangement however would not delight Iran as the risk of PUK losing its preeminence would also mean Iran losing influence in the Kurdistan region and consequently inability to counter balance Turkey in the region. The recent joint PUK-KDP visit to Iranwww.Ekurd.net (12.01.2014) was an Iranian-PUK attempt to exert pressure on the KDP to maintain the principles of the Strategic Agreement.

    Foreign intervention may make the matter even worse. The opposition parties are already calling it a retraction to the democratic pathway of the Kurdistan Region. Mahmoud Othman, a prominent Kurdish political figure and member of the Iraqi parliament brand it as a “mistake”. He further stated that “it is a shame that external interventions go that far” [4].

    The question is therefore whether a unified multi-party government will be formed on the basis of the election outcome or the interests of the individual political parties or that of the regional States.

    These conflicting interests are proving hard to reconcile the political parties. If brave and calculated steps are not taken in favour of democratic principles, the region could breed a political crisis of violence and instability.

    Kurdistan Region cannot afford instability and political crisis especially at a time when political changes are sweeping through the Middle East and much of Iraq is grappled in violence.

    [1] https://www.lvinpress.com/newdesign/D...x?jimare=23172
    [2] https://rudaw.net/sorani/kurdistan/080120144
    [3] https://rudaw.net/sorani/kurdistan/080120144
    [4] https://www.mesop.de/2014/01/14/tehra...ation-to-iran/

    Hiwa Zandi is a lawyer, Kurdish politics analyst and Kurdish history researcher and translator. He has published two books of his historical research and translation works. He also writes a blog on Middle East politics with particular interest in Kurdish politics: www.hiwazandi.blogspot.com He is also a regular contributing writer for Ekurd.net.

  9. #19
    British report: Iraq may be unable to finance its projects

    Warned a report issued by the International Center for Development Studies, based in London, of the inability of the Iraqi government to finance its projects or to fulfill its obligations within the next three years.
    And between the center in his report that the failure of Iraq's ability to provide other sources of income to finance its budget is the sale of oil as well as to increase government spending by up to 60%, compared to investment spending, the deficit ratio would be significant to the extent that it threatens to halt a number of projects in different parts of the country.
    The report also pointed out that the general budget for the year 2014 amounting to nearly 150.1 billion dollars is not much different from its predecessors but it was marked this year by an increase in the deficit of 16.7 billion dollars last year to 18 billion dollars at a rate of 12% of the total this budget.
    And adopt budget for Iraq in 2014, the oil revenues by more than 95% as the impact of oil prices and the vagaries of international markets to finance the budget and expenses of those projects.
    While reliable when Iraq to increase its oil production to more than 4.7 million barrels until 2015, but the oversupply in the global markets with a strong return for Iranian oil and increase the production of oil shale in the United States and slow growth of the Chinese economy are all factors began to put pressure on the price of Brent crude which may fall over the next year in 2015 to about $ 100 a barrel.

    New crises
    According to the International Center for Development Studies, what issued by the Kurdistan region of oil and $ 400 thousand barrels per day, is an important source of Iraq's budget, but the outstanding issues between Baghdad and Erbil regarding dues oil companies and the budget Guard Region and the disputed areas could hinder reaching an agreement concerning the revenue of these exports. The Iraqi government calls for obtaining revenue for the entire quantity exported in Arbil, while insisting that the exports did not exceed 255 thousand barrels per day.
    While the complexity of the Erbil agreement with Ankara Energy to export oil independently of the center threaten the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to reduce the share of the Kurdistan region of 17%, allocated in the budget to only 13%. In the event the parties did not reach an agreement, the budget deficit has increased by about another $ 13.8 billion to reach nearly 22 billion dollars which accounted for 14.6%, of the budget of 2014.
    The report of the International Center for Development Studies shows that the general budget in Iraq are suffering from a significant rise in public spending, especially since the large increases occurred due to pay retirement and increasing the minimum wage and install staff contracts and compensation rain and floods and student grants and other expenses which carried this year's budget burdens large too.
    And Iraq needs, according to the report to support the dramatically improve the reality of the infrastructure for oil and gas sector at a time by which the Iraqi government's intention to increase its oil exports, but the actual exports in the last year of 2013, amounted to 872.3 million barrels, an average of 2.39 million barrels per day, compared with the average daily production of 2.42 million barrels per day during the year 2012. The annual revenues of oil exports during the year 2013 amounted to nearly 89.22 billion dollars, less than oil revenues recorded a year earlier in 2012, amounting to 94.02 billion dollars.
    Attempts to finance the deficit
    At the time you talk Iraqi government sources for a lot of pressure facing as a result of higher expenses, the report of the International Center for Development Studies is expected to increase the budget deficit to the extent that you can not state with the payment of salaries to its workers or its obligations to its citizens what has forced them to use part of the Iraqi Central Bank reserves of 80 billion dollars.
    And in an attempt to finance the huge deficit in the budget plans of the Iraqi Central Stamping alloy of pure gold to sell to citizens and investors in Iraqi dinars. The Iraqi government decided to deal with the deficit in the budget of 2014, the Treasury Bills by subtracting the central bank buys. The Iraqi government also agreed to offer third-generation services frequencies of communications for the way public auction sale to companies wishing.
    The report indicates that Iraq needs to spend nearly a trillion dollars over the next ten years to develop its oil sector and a number of strategic projects, notably housing and industry. However, this figure seems far-fetched, especially in light of the difficult conditions to attract foreign investment and lack of flexibility of the system and the economic failure of the banking environment in Iraq.
    In case you do not succeed in Iraq reduce its expenses of government and reform of its economic system and its institutions, which suffer from red tape and bureaucracy, and financial and administrative corruption in addition to the diversification of income sources and find quick solutions to provide security and stability, it could pressure future for the formation of new regions announced a split from the center raises Questions about the future of Iraq as an oil and a strong economy.

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  10. #20
    Poll Center: U.S. al-Maliki has 75% of his popularity

    Published Date: Friday, 31 January 2014 06:56

    The U.S. embassy in Baghdad and the collapse of the apparent popularity of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.

    According to a survey for the Center for U.S. conducted by the Arab Center American translation, research and the media, "a n as a result of the last poll done by the center show that the Iraqi prime minister has accounted for 74.9% of its audience compared to the period that preceded the introduction of the general budget of the country to the Iraqi parliament.

    The survey showed that the percentage of supporters of the decision to deduct the amount of five dollars from the budget of oil-producing provinces did not exceed 25.1% and this percentage concentrated in the capital, Baghdad, Diyala and Salah al-Din.

    The sample included 1945 people were divided between the provinces of Basra, Maysan and Dhi Qar, Baghdad, Diyala, Salahuddin, where the rejection of most of southern respondents Prime Minister's decision, which fell with him recently. "

    A report attached to the results of the poll that Mr. Maliki was unable to exploit the rising popularity achieved as a result of military operations in Anbar province.

    This decline president of a coalition of state law, the current prime minister for his decision to truncate four dollars from the law of petrodollars, as a result of pressure of the street in the popular and official promised parliamentary bloc citizen Maliki backtracked from its decision a victory for the will of the people and deprived investigation "of the principle of justice.

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