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    Re: 73 MPs violate constitution by not attending parliament session

    House opens its third electoral performance in the House of Representatives of the constitutional right


    July 1, 2014

    House of Representatives held its first session Alchrieihaiih headed by Deputy Prime Mehdi al-Hafez age and the presence of 255 deputies on Tuesday, 01/07/2014 at the Great Hall of the Council.

    And began the meeting which was attended by Mr. Khodair al Vice President and Mr. Osama Najafi former House Speaker and Mr. Nuri al-Maliki, the Prime Minister and Mr. Medhat al-Mahmoud Head of the Judiciary and gentlemen Rose Nuri Shaways and Hussain al-Shahristani and Saleh al-Mutlaq, Deputy Prime Ministers, ladies and gentlemen Minister and Mr. Nicolas Miladinov Special Envoy of the Secretary-General UN in Iraq, and the number of Manasahab happiness ambassadors of Arab and foreign accredited in Baghdad Sorhalvathh read the souls of the martyrs of Iraq, followed by the swearing in Arabhwalkordih for ladies and gentlemen, members of the council.

    He congratulated Mr. Chair in his new House members asking them to seize this new opportunity and historical to make the Council more effective the next to serve the Iraqi people, adding that the Council's significant challenges in front of him to make it a tool of effective legislative and oversight.

    Mr. Chairman and raise the age to the meeting on Tuesday 07/08/2014.



    To see pictures of the opening session, click here ***



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    Re: " The Dinar Daily " , Tuesday, 1 July 2014

    National powers: to provide our candidate for the presidency of the parliament depends on the submission of the prime ministerial candidate
    06:01:01 / 07/2014

    Khandan - Ali Naji linking alliance Iraqi forces, provide candidate for the Presidency of the Council of Representatives of Iraq to provide the National Alliance candidate for prime Alorza Federal. said the leader of the Alliance MP student of architecture in a statement to "Khandan" "We are in alliance Iraqi forces are waiting for the National Alliance to present the candidate formally for prime minister, and then we will give our candidate for the Presidency of the Council of Representatives of Iraq, "explaining that he" does not have a coalition of national forces any dispute or problem about the presidential candidate of the Council. " and the Iraqi Council of Representatives, has raised its first parliamentary session third to next Tuesday, which saw the swearing Constitutional both Arabic and Kurdish deputies new, while the political blocs have not reached an agreement on the positions of the three presidencies (the Republic, deputies, ministers).


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    Jaafary attributes lack of quorum of parliament session to not nominating parliament chairmanship

    Tuesday, 01 July 2014 19:57

    Baghdad (AIN) –The head of the Iraqi National Alliance, Ibrahim al-Jaafary, attributed the lack of quorum of the parliament session to not nominating the parliament chairmanship.

    In his speech during the first parliament session, he said "Leaving the parliament session by some MPs is due to not nominating the parliament chairmanship and the other two presidencies."

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    Altercation between the Kurds and the House of Representatives, a deputy state law
    11:53:01 / 07/2014

    Khandan - Ali Naji signed an altercation between a group of members of the House of Representatives from the Kurdistan Alliance and MP for the coalition of state law Kazem Sayadi, on the subject of failure to pay the federal government the salaries of employees of the Kurdistan region. parliamentary source said in a statement to "Khandan" that "after the completion of the performance sworn in Arabic and Kurdish, asked an MP for the Kurdistan Alliance Najeebeh Najib of Federal Prime Minister outgoing Nuri al-Maliki, pay the salaries of the staff of the region, "adding that" one of the deputies of the State of Law, which Kazim Sayadi, responded loudly on Najeebeh Najib as well as the MP Vian Intruder on this requirement, making the older Speaker Mehdi al-Hafez raising meeting for half an hour to agree on the selection of the President of the Council. "

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    Re: " The Dinar Daily " , Tuesday, 1 July 2014

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    PRESS RELEASE FROM THE UN WEBSITE:

    REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE
    1 July 2014

    Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the Spokespersons for United Nations Refugee Agency, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, International Organization for Migration, World Health Organization and the World Food Programme.


    Iraq

    Ms. Shamdasani said that the human rights team of the United Nations Mission in Iraq had released figures on the number of civilians who had been killed and injured in Iraq over the previous month, bringing into stark focus the terrible toll on civilians of the ongoing insurgency.
    In June, a total of at least 1,531 civilians had been killed. The last time such a high number of civilians had been killed in a single month was in 2007. An additional 886 members of the Iraqi security forces had been killed. Another 1,763 civilians had been injured in June. Those figures did not include the Anbar province, where 244 civilians had been reportedly killed, according to official figures, and 588 civilians had been injured.
    OHCHR condemned in the strongest terms the upsurge in violence and killings. International law required parties to the conflict to take all possible measures to ensure that civilians were protected from violence. However, OHCHR was consistently receiving reports of civilians being targeted, kidnapped, harassed and killed by the forces of the “Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant” (ISIL), and of indiscriminate shelling of civilian areas. OHCHR had also received reports that ISIL forces had been going door to door in Mosul trying to forcibly recruit young men to fight against the official Iraqi forces.

    Ms. Shamdasani said that the OHCHR urged all parties to the conflict to respect international human rights law and international humanitarian law and called on the Iraqi authorities to hold accountable those responsible for such violations.

    Asked why the victims from the Anbar province were not included in the total count, Ms. Shamdasani said that those figures were provided in addition to the total count, but there was no one from the OHCHR on the ground to verify the numbers. The number for the Anbar province thus came from the Iraqi authorities.

    Elisabeth Byrs, for the World Food Programme (WFP), answering a question, said that despite the challenging security situation and displaced people on the move, the WFP was distributing food to 90,000 displaced people who had fled the violence in Mosul. Most of WFP food distribution for displaced had taken place in the Kurdistan regional government area.


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    Re: " The Dinar Daily " , Tuesday, 1 July 2014


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    New Iraqi Parliament Ends Session Without Progress

    BAGHDAD — Jun 30, 2014, 7:15 AM ET OOTW- I'M THINKING THEY SURE HAVE A LOT OF INFO FOR A SESSION WHICH TOOK PLACE TODAY - EVEN THOUGH THEY PUBLISHED WITH A JUNE 30 2014 DATE

    By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and SINAN SALAHEDDIN Associated Press
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    Iraq's new parliament ended its inaugural session Tuesday after failing to make any progress in choosing a new prime minister even as the country faces a militant blitz that threatens to rip it apart and a spike in violence that made June the deadliest month in at least two years.

    Acting speaker Mahdi al-Hafidh called off the proceedings after most of the 328-member legislature's Sunni and Kurdish lawmakers did not return after a short break. Their absence deprived parliament of a quorum.

    The entire session, from the opening national anthem to al-Hafidh's final words, lasted less than two hours. The impasse prolongs what has already been days of intense jockeying as political blocs try to decide on the posts of prime minister, president and speaker of parliament.

    The country's top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, urged lawmakers last week to agree on the three posts before Tuesday's meeting in hopes of averting months of wrangling that could further destabilize the country. But Tuesday's session dashed the prospects — always farfetched — of a quick compromise.

    Embattled incumbent Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki — whose bloc won the most seats in April elections — is under intense pressure to step aside. Sunnis and Kurds accuse him of breaking promises, and long-held Sunni grievances are seen as one of the main factors driving resurgent militancy in the country.

    The need for a new government that can keep the country together is urgent following the recent offensive spearheaded by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, an al-Qaida breakaway group that has overrun much of northern and western Iraq.

    The threat posed to Iraq by the recent militant offensive was underlined by new casualty figures released Tuesday by the United Nations that put June's death toll at 2,417 — making it the deadliest month so far this year.

    The figures issued by the U.N. mission to Iraq include 1,531 civilians and 886 security forces. UNAMI added that 2,287 Iraqis, including 1,763 civilians, were wounded.

    The figures exclude deaths in embattled Anbar province, which is largely controlled by Sunni militants.

    The second deadliest month this year was May, with 799 Iraqis killed, including 603 civilians. April's death toll was 750.

    The latest casualty figures exceed even last year's peak. The U.N. reported that last July at least 1,057 Iraqis were killed and another 2,326 were wounded.

    "The staggering number of civilian casualties in one month points to the urgent need for all to ensure that civilians are protected," the U.N. Special Representative in Iraq, Nickolay Mladenov, said in the statement.

    Mladenov called on Iraqi political rivals to "work together to foil attempts to destroy the social fabric of Iraqi society."


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    PUK: Peshmerga Forces in Disputed Territories to Stay

    PUK: Peshmerga Forces in Disputed Territories to Stay
    By RUDAW

    Peshmerga forces in disputed territories. The Kurds see Kirkuk as the capital of future homeland.

    ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) said that Peshmerga forces sent into areas outside Iraqi Kurdistan’s formal borders were there to stay.

    “It should be evident that the Peshmerga forces will not leave these areas on the orders of some bureaucrats (in Baghdad),” the PUK said in a statement.

    Kurds would never accept to be bullied around once again under the pretext of Iraq’s sovereignty,” it added.

    Kurdish Peshmerga forces moved into Kirkuk, and other disputed areas in the provinces of Nineveh and Diyala, after the Iraqi army largely collapsed when jihadi-led insurgents began a lightning offensive three weeks ago.

    The fate of Kirkuk and the other disputed lands was supposed to be decided under Article 140 of the constitution, in a 2007 referendum that never took place.

    “One should hold those accountable who failed both Iraq and the article 140,” the PUK said.

    It added that Shiite parties had the right to nominate anyone they wished as prime minister: “We do not approve of any government that sidelines any faction. The Shiite factions are entitled to nominate a candidate for the position of prime minister.”

    Maliki’s State of Law Coalition has nominated him as its only candidate for the post.

    The PUK statement came as the Iraqi Parliament met Tuesday for an inaugural session, but failed to choose a new premier after the Kurdish and Sunni blocs walked out.

    International leaders, who have included US Secretary of State John Kerry and his British counterpart William Hague, traveled to Erbil last week to seek Kurdish support for an inclusive emergency government in Baghdad.

    Kurdish President Massoud Barzani has suggested that Kurds may seek independence from Iraq, and has expressed his mistrust towards Maliki.

    He has insisted that the prime minister should step down, and that the Kurds must retain one voice against Baghdad.

    The PUK’s primary backer, neighboring Iran, is standing behind Maliki in the current crisis. Tehran has reportedly sent troops and arms to help the prime minister confront the jihadis, who have declared an Islamic state in territories straddling Iraq and Syria.

    The PUK also is eyeing the Iraqi presidency: PUK leader Jalal Talabani, who has been politically absent since suffering a stroke in December 2012, is also Iraq’s prime minister ( ????????? / President ????????? ) , and his party insists it must retain that position.

    “We firmly believe that Kurds are entitled to the position of the president and within the Kurdish political factions, we insist that the PUK should nominate a candidate for that position,” the party said.

    In multi-ethnic and multi-religious Iraq, the post of prime minister has gone to a Shiite, the presidency to a Kurd and the post of speaker of parliament to a Sunni Arab.

    Senior PUK leader Adil Murad angered many Kurds last week when he said that Article 140 remained valid, and that calling it expired was unconstitutional.

    In a Facebook statement last week, President Barzani said that Article 140 had come to an end. “Our initial acceptance of Article 140 didn’t mean our doubt in the Kurdish identity of those territories.” he wrote.

    Barzani on Sunday called on the United Nations to help arrange a referendum in Kirkuk, to decide whether the oil-rich city in northern Iraq will formally become part of the autonomous Kurdistan Region.

    https://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/010720142

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    Turfi: INA to nominate its nomine for PM post soon

    Turfi: INA to nominate its nomine for PM post soon

    Tuesday, 01 July 2014 20:56

    Baghdad (AIN) –MP, Habeeb al-Turfi, of the Citizen bloc stated that the Iraqi National Alliance will nominate its nominee for the Prime Minister's post.

    Speaking to AIN, Turfi said "The INA will present its nominee for the PM post soon," noting that "The first parliament session does not oblige the INA to present its nominee where the parliament chairmanship is not nominated yet."

    https://www.alliraqnews.com/en/index....r-pm-post-soon

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    12 signed a multi-storey parking for cars in Baghdad

    Tuesday, July 1st, 2014 18:4212 signed a multi-storey parking for cars in Baghdad





    BAGHDAD / Baghdadi News / .. announced the Municipality of Baghdad, on Tuesday, for the selection (12) locations in the capital to set up a multi-storey parking smart, to reduce the phenomenon of random corner.

    The Secretariat said in a statement received / Baghdadi News /, a copy of "(12) locations within breakers municipalities (Karrada and Mansour Rusafa center and Karkh Center) have been selected for the establishment of garages intelligent multi-storey (Smart Park) for parking in cooperation with companies specialized investment adopting the best specifications and designs in line with global economic growth in the capital, Baghdad. "
    He added, "The creation of these garages large capacity cards will contribute to the reduction of traffic violations and corner random cars in the streets and on the sidewalks and the mitigation of traffic momentum."
    She said, "These garages will be available where all required services and security systems and safety and compliance with standards of engineering design and conditions of the permanent development to keep pace with the progress that the world is witnessing in this area," he said, "This project is an important step to improve the rate of the capital Baghdad and enhance the movement of reconstruction and construction in it."
    They pointed out that "the subject of the provision of car parking has undergone numerous studies by the secretariat of Baghdad has identified transport study the overall city of Baghdad public policy relies mainly on the public transport system has shown that study the requirements of the city of spaces for positions within the areas of the city of Baghdad."
    The suffering of the capital Baghdad (Iraq's provinces after more population) of traffic momentum and corner indiscriminate parking and particularly in popular areas and narrow streets, as well as a few garages in most of those cities

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    Re: 12 signed a multi-storey parking for cars in Baghdad

    Abadi alliance holds national forces responsible for naming disable the speaker and his two deputies

    01/07/2014

    Accused the MP for the coalition of state law, Haider al-Abadi, on Tuesday, a coalition of national forces to disrupt naming parliament speaker and his two deputies. Ebadi said in a press conference in the presence of a number of members of the bloc, and attended by the agency / not / that "the presence of a coalition of state law for this session was hoping to be elected president of the House of Representatives and his deputies, according to what was agreed upon at the meeting, yesterday evening, but the brothers in the alliance national forces did not agree on the name of the candidate for the presidency of the parliament, to the presence of more than one name they Matrouh Osama Najafi, and Salim al, who put in that meeting. " "The National Alliance did not want to go beyond the agreement among themselves, with that we have enough votes to vote for a candidate for the Presidency of the Council of Representatives," adding that "the political process of compromise, especially at this stage that the country is going through." Abbadi said that "the nomination of a prime minister by the National Alliance will be in the final stage, according to Alasthaqat constitutional, ie, after being named head of the House of Representatives and his deputies and the president and his two deputies, then president assigns the biggest bloc to nominate a prime minister."


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    Iraqi Parliament Fails to Reach Deal on New Government


    By ROD NORDLAND JULY 1, 2014

    BAGHDAD — Iraq’s major parties initially thought they had a deal ready when they sat down Tuesday to form a new government, but the effort collapsed in factional acrimony in less than half an hour.

    “We need our salaries!,” shouted a Kurdish representative, Najiba Najib, complaining that the Shiite-dominated government in Baghdad had not been paying Kurdish officials since the Kurdistan region all but broke away last month. When extremists with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria drove the Iraqi Army from northern Iraq, the Kurds took the opportunity to seize control of Kirkuk. The Kurds have long laid claim to the oil-rich city, and insisted that they intend to keep it.

    “You brought ISIS into our country and took the Iraqi flag down in Kirkuk and put your flag up!,” shouted Mohammed Naji, a Shiite politician, at Ms. Najib. “Go and sell your oil to Israel.”

    Ahmad Chalabi, center, last month at a camp for displaced Iraqis in Khazer. He is being considered for prime minister.For Iraq, Potential Leader With a Tarnished Past.

    The meeting’s rocky start did not come about for lack of incentive. American diplomats have made it clear that any major new military assistance against extremists would come only if the Iraqis form an inclusive government acceptable to all sects. The powerful Shiite religious establishment had issued an edict telling legislators they had to conclude the entire deal by Tuesday. And up and down much of the country, Sunni militants pressed the government on numerous fronts.

    The seriousness of the violence was reflected in a United Nations report issued Tuesday confirming that June had been the deadliest month in Iraq since at least 2008, with 2,417 people killed, 1,531 civilians and 886 members of the security forces — four times as many as in May.

    Yet only 255 of the 328 newly elected lawmakers even showed up for the first session of Parliament, with some boycotting, and others afraid to travel to Baghdad because of the violence. That was enough, however, for the two-thirds quorum needed to elect a speaker and begin forming a government.

    As the Parliament members arrived amid heavy security, there were reports from police and Interior Ministry officials of violence from many quarters. A roadside bomb exploded in the Sunni neighborhood of Ghazaliya, in west Baghdad, killing four civilians. A government employee was assassinated in the Jihad neighborhood nearby. Four other civilians were killed in a bombing in Ramadi and six soldiers were wounded in a mortar barrage near Falluja, both in Anbar Province, west of Baghdad. A policeman was killed during a fight with insurgents in Diyala Province and three soldiers were killed in an explosion in Iskandiriya, south of Baghdad.

    Monday night, six civilians were killed when the extremists fired mortars at the Askariya Shrine in Samarra, revered by Shiites, but the damage to the shrine was slight and the attack did not cause any immediate public reaction, as a similar attack did in 2006, which set off a sectarian blood bath.

    The sense of urgency seemed to have little effect on Iraq’s new legislators, however. The major players arrived thinking they had a deal that would speed up formation of a government — a process that took nine months in 2010, but during a time of relative calm.

    Sunnis and Kurds were to have agreed on Salim al-Jabouri, a Sunni, to become the new speaker, replacing Usama al-Nujaifi. In exchange, they expected the Kurds to announce their choice for president, who has to be a Kurd, and the Shiites’ National Alliance bloc to announce a Shiite prime minister to replace the incumbent, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki. Both Sunnis and Kurds, along with some Shiites, have insisted that Mr. Maliki has to go.

    Sunnis at the last minute faced a challenge from Mr. Nujaifi, who wants to hold onto his seat, according to the Shiite politician Haider al-Abadi, a supporter of Mr. Maliki’s State of Law party. And Kurds were nowhere near agreeing on a candidate for president. Kurds and Sunnis, however, said the Shiites reneged by not coming to the meeting with a nominee for the post of prime minister.

    Iraq’s complex system of choosing a government makes such deal-making both difficult and essential. The speaker is necessary to preside over Parliament to elect a president, who then chooses the biggest bloc in Parliament, which picks the prime minister. But a two-thirds vote is required to choose the speaker, so politicians try to have the entire deal agreed on in advance.

    “We cannot jump to the last stages without taking the first step,” said Mr. Abadi, adding that it would be foolish for the Shiites to announce their prime ministerial candidate now if the process ended up taking months. That, he said, would render Mr. Maliki a lame-duck leader in the middle of running a war.

    So after Ms. Najib and Mr. Naji exchanged words, a recess was called by the temporary speaker, Mahdi Ahmed Hafith (whom everyone agreed on because he was the oldest person in the assembly). Only 60 legislators returned from the recess, however, so there was no quorum to continue. Parliament was adjourned until July 8.

    “I think there will be an agreement by then, maybe sooner,” Mr. Abadi said. “Yesterday we thought we had an agreement.”

    “It was not a good beginning,” conceded a Kurdish legislator, Ala Talabani. “But it’s not bad as well.”

    Within hours, the United Nations issued an unusually strong rebuke. “Politicians in Iraq need to realize that it is no longer business as usual,” said the top representative here, Nickolay Mladenov. “I call upon all political leaders to set aside their differences.”

    Not only was it four times higher than that of May, when 799 people were killed in Iraq, 240 of them security forces, but it was the highest such toll since at least 2008, in the midst of the American-led invasion, when 7,000 people were killed in the entire year. The figures do not take into account Anbar Province, much of which has been under the control of ISIS-led insurgents and where the United Nations has no presence. The United Nations cited Health Ministry officials in Anbar as recording 244 civilians killed and 588 wounded from June 1-29, bringing the total death toll for the country in June to at least 2,661.

    “What can be achieved through a constitutional political process cannot be achieved through an exclusively military response,” Mr. Mladenov said. “Security must be restored but the root causes of violence must be addressed.”

    Reporting was contributed by Suadad al-Salhy and Marwa Salman from Baghdad, and Iraqi employees of The New York Times from Tikrit, Baquba, Ramadi, Hilla and Baghdad.


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