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    Re: Iraqi National Security Adviser Faleh al-Fayad

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    Provide (Mahmoud Badr stallion) a compromise candidate to take over defense

    By kareem Kahdm 09/17/2014 10:03 | Views: 18559



    Brother - Baghdad

    The chairman of a coalition of national audiences and Minister of State for Provincial Affairs Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah al-Jubouri, Wednesday, for the provision of MP Mahmoud Badr stallion as a compromise candidate to take over the portfolio of the Ministry of Defence, indicating that the stallion of the characters that have efficient and fair for everyone, this position.

    Jubouri said in a frank for "Alsumaria News", seen by the Agency for News(et)that "a coalition of national audiences, composed of 10 deputies WIN with a coalition of Iraqi forces, nominated MP for the province of Salah al-Din Badr Mahmoud stallion to take over the position of the Ministry of Defence as a compromise candidate."

    He added Jubouri said that "our candidate for the position of the elements of efficient, fair and adequate competence to fill this ministry," noting that "Ktltna did not get the full maturity, and for this we introduced our candidate for this position a formal request to the Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi."

    The Presidency of the Council of Representatives decided, on Tuesday (September 16, 2014) to postpone the vote on the candidates for the ministries of interior and defense to the session tomorrow, Thursday, after the failure of Riad Ghraib, Jaber al-Jabri to get the confidence of the board.

    https://khabaar.net/index.php/permalink/30375.html



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    Federation of Chambers of Commerce calls for the issuance of a law regulating the work of the private sector


    BAGHDAD / JD / .. Student Federation of Chambers of Commerce to issue a law regulating the work of the private sector, to encourage investment in the country, while noting the need to modify some economic laws to drive the economy forward.

    The secretary general of the Federation of Abdul Hussein blessed Agency / JD /: "The government and the parliament, demanding the issuance of a law regulating the work of the private sector and encourages companies and businessmen to invest in the country, it can not be that the private sector is working without the presence of law protects and organizes his work."

    He added: "The demands of the House of Representatives to amend the laws chock also work as a law and corporate law and tax law in line with the conditions of the current stage accompanied by finding a formula for cooperation between government institutions and the private sector."

    The Federation of Chambers of Commerce and economic organization professional aims to care and regulation of economic activity and the commercial sector and enhance this role in the development process, and the European Union is one of the largest economic organizations he oversees all the chambers of commerce in the provinces of (18) eighteen rooms, including three rooms for the Kurdistan region of Iraq, Arbil, Sulaymaniyah and Dohuk was established under Law No. (43) Forty-three of the year 1989.

    The Union enjoys legal personality and financial and administrative independence, and manages the Union Council of the Union, which includes heads of chambers of commerce and is represented by the President of the Union, which is elected by its members. / Finished / 8 /

    https://www.dananernews.com/News_Details.php?ID=5125
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    Iraqi Kurds unhappy partners in Abadi's government

    Iraqi Kurds unhappy partners in Abadi's government

    ERBIL, Iraq — Iraqi Kurds appear to have decided to participate in Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s government as a result of strong international pressure and amid the serious challenges they face from the Islamic State (IS).

    Summary⎙ Print The Kurdish position in internal Iraqi politics has been weakened by the fight with the Islamic State, resulting in a new Iraqi government that largely ignores their demands.

    Author Mohammed A. SalihPosted September 16, 2014

    Nearly a month of negotiations between Kurdish delegations and Abadi produced no concrete agreement between the two sides. After a backlash in the ranks of the Shiite-dominated Iraqi National Alliance against former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Abadi managed to secure the support of the majority of the parliament members in the alliance on Aug. 11 and was assigned on the same day by President Fouad Massoum, a Kurd, to form a cabinet within a month.

    Given the tumultuous state of affairs in the country, the Kurds expected the new Shiite prime minister to adopt a more lenient attitude toward them after eight years of often tense relations with former Prime Minister Maliki. But that did not happen. Abadi sent signals that he did not care much about Kurdish participation, as he had secured the support of Sunni Arab politicians, who were voted into the Iraqi parliament in April and before IS took over most of the Sunni parts of the country.

    “The Kurdish decision to participate in the Iraqi government was a half-hearted one,” said Renas Jano, an Iraqi lawmaker from the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), which has the largest Kurdish bloc in the Iraqi parliament. He told Al-Monitor, “We were hesitant right through the last moment.”

    Kurds say their participation in Abadi’s government is “conditional” and have set a three-month ultimatum for Abadi to meet their conditions.

    Key Kurdish demands to Baghdad include unfreezing the Kurdish government’s budget, which has been frozen since February; settling disagreements over oil exports; arming and funding Kurdish armed forces, known as the peshmerga; implementing constitutional Article 140 regarding the ultimate status of territories claimed by both Kurds and Baghdad; and granting full power to the Kurds over their airspace for civilian aviation.

    “If within three months we do not see a commitment to the conditions, Kurdistan’s political leadership will make an appropriate decision,” read a joint statement from Kurdish blocs in the Iraqi parliament.

    A document signed by various Iraqi groups in Abadi’s national unity government sets a one-year deadline to “generate suitable solutions” for territorial disputes between Kurds and Baghdad, a one-month period to deliver a budget installment to Kurdistan and a six-month deadline to pass legislation on regulating the country’s oil and gas sector. But it is not clear if Abadi will have any legal obligations to abide by the provisions in the agreement.

    The war between Kurdish peshmerga and IS jihadists has stretched Kurdish forces thin. The Kurds have come to rely on assistance from other countries, notably the United States and Iran, as well as support from the government in Baghdad. This has placed them in a weaker position vis-a-vis the Iraqi government compared to previous years.

    In what many in Iraqi Kurdistan saw as a clear show of disregard for the Kurdish role and weight in Iraqi politics, Abadi presented the names of his Cabinet members to the parliament for approval during the late hours of Sept. 8, even though Kurdish groups were still holding a key last-minute meeting in Sulaimaniyah to discuss whether they should join the new Cabinet.

    The Kurds boycotted the session for around half an hour and only joined after they were told to do so by political leaders in Kurdistan.

    “Four years ago, Shiites, Sunnis, the United States, Iran and the United Nations would come to Erbil, the Kurdistan Region’s capital, asking Kurds to take the initiative to form the Iraqi government,” said Barham Salih, a senior Kurdish politician and former contender for the office of Iraq’s presidency, in a Sept. 9 Facebook post. “But yesterday, the Iraqi Parliament’s session to approve the cabinet of Dr. Haider al-Abadi kicked off without the presence of Kurdish representatives and without waiting for a response from the Kurdish political leadership, who were still in a meeting at the time of the session and had not made their final decision whether to join the new Iraqi government.”

    Iraq’s previous government was formed in a 2010 Kurdish-brokered deal in Erbil following a broad meeting of Iraqi groups.

    The failure to reach an agreement with Abadi this time around prompted a final daylong round of intense talks between various Kurdish groups on Sept. 8 to hammer out a final position on whether to take part in Abadi’s broad-based Cabinet.

    The Kurdish delegations were also visited by Brett McGurk, a senior US State Department official handling Iraq and Iran affairs, and Nikolay Mladenov, the UN’s envoy in Iraq. Some Kurdish officials say that the Kurds' decision to join the government appears to have emerged under intense pressure from the United States, the UN and the Kurds' powerful eastern neighbor, Iran, to forge a united Iraqi front in the fight against IS.

    “We essentially reached an agreement with the US and UN and not the Iraqi government,” said parliament member Jano. “Negotiations with Baghdad did not generate any results.”

    The ultimate decision to join the Baghdad government hardly seems to have pleased Kurdish lawmakers, as they have lashed out at the deal one after another.

    “It was a big failure,” said Muthana Amin, a parliamentarian from the Kurdistan Islamic Union, which holds four seats in parliament. “This was a government formed on the basis of an alliance between the Shiites and Sunnis, and none of the Kurdish demands were accepted.” He said he voted for Abadi’s government reluctantly and only out of respect for the broad consensus among Kurdish groups to do so. Amin criticized Kurdish leaders for deciding to join the government in that manner and said waiting a couple of weeks would have strengthened the Kurdish position.

    Considering past relations between Kurds and Iraqi governments, prior to and after the US-led invasion in 2003, and in light of the unenthusiastic manner in which the Kurds joined Abadi’s government, the coming months will be a litmus test for the uneasy relations between the Kurdish and Iraqi governments.

    Kurds warn that the price of failure might be too high.

    “If Abadi and us could agree upon a reformed platform and could improve governance, then it would serve all sides,” said Arez Abdullah, an Iraqi lawmaker and a member of the Leadership Council of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, the party to which Massoum belongs. “Iraq is at an intersection. Either its problems need to be fundamentally resolved or Iraq will move in an undesirable direction … and the situation will get even worse.”

    https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/orig...#ixzz3DativsDl
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    Iraq's unified 'National Guard' may be impossible

    Iraq's unified 'National Guard' may be impossible

    The dispute regarding the formation of an Iraqi National Guard is ongoing among the country's political actors. The guard is supposed to incorporate Shiite and Sunni militias, as well as local armed forces, under an official umbrella that would work alongside the Iraqi army across the entire country.

    Summary⎙ Print Iraq's prime minister has proposed the formation of a National Guard that would unify the ranks of Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish forces.

    Author Mushreq AbbasPosted September 16, 2014

    Translator(s)Sahar Ghoussoub

    Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi included the issue of the National Guard in his plan of action, on which the parliament recently voted. He said the plan "is based on ensuring stability and security, supporting the security forces and the national reconciliation project, developing the popular mobilization experience, establishing a provincial national guard, [as well as] supporting the peshmerga.”

    Although it's unclear how the National Guard will be formed, in principle, the guard will take on the character of a local public force and attempt to resolve the clashes taking place between the army and the security forces, as well as between local inhabitants. These clashes continue to stir tensions in Sunni regions.

    This idea was first proposed when the Islamic State (IS) invaded Mosul and other cities.

    Kamel Muhammadi, a leader of a tribe in Anbar, told Al-Monitor, “The idea was discussed earlier as a solution for the practices of the governmental forces against the [region's] inhabitants. It focuses on forming a local force, like the Kurdish peshmerga, in each province to protect it locally and avoid the intervention of foreign forces.” Muhammadi said the project would also include the Sunni armed groups and tribes.

    Ali al-Hatem, a prominent leader who spearheaded early Sunni protests, said, "The idea first came about as a compromise solution, compared with their previous demands to establish regions to alleviate pressure [on Sunni cities] that [stem from] the government, the security and military forces, and the militias."

    “The establishment of Sunni regions was going to be accompanied by the formation of a local military force for protection. Everybody realizes that expelling IS and other extremist groups would not happen, except through the Sunni regions, which are the only ones capable of achieving this goal,” he said.

    The National Guard seems to be a compromise aimed at precluding a Sunni declaration of independent regions. But, it is still not finalized. “We are still holding on to our demand for [the establishment of Sunni] regions, but we are looking positively at the new government’s steps, and we will be watching closely its fulfillment of demands,” Hatem said.

    The fact of the matter is that Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish negotiators were confronted with another reality. On the military level — especially in the Shiite regions — militias are very powerful and fight IS under the banner of popular polarization in the wake of the devastation of the Iraqi army.

    A prominent Shiite source told Al-Monitor, “Containing the [Sunni] militias by confronting them or trying to disband them with the power of the state was not an option after they surfaced with full power and huge capacities. The Shiites agreed internally to include the militias in the National Guard, which would turn them into regime forces fighting in tandem with the Iraqi army and security forces.”

    So far, the war on IS, even the one being waged internationally, seems more defined than before, as local Sunni forces help the Kurdish peshmerga and the Iraqi army liberate regions under IS control. The international alliance will back these local forces with air support and also provide military experts and consultants to lead plans on the ground.

    After the end of the battles, local forces should take control of the situation in the liberated cities. The Iraqi government should reformulate how it deals with the provinces of Anbar, Mosul, Salahuddin and Diyala to put an end to present tensions. Shiite militias should adopt defensive positions in their current locations without advancing toward Sunni regions.

    Nevertheless, this vision of a future National Guard does not seem completely consensual. Nouri al-Maliki, Iraq's former prime minister and current vice president, strongly rejects this vision, viewing it as a prelude to dividing Iraq.

    “Local calls to establish an army in Anbar, Mosul, Salahuddin and Diyala represent a dangerous idea and serve as a prelude to the country’s division,” Maliki said during a Sept. 14 press conference in Karbala. “All formations in line with popular mobilization ought to serve as a military branch affiliated with the central government, entrusted with national tasks and not limited to [serving] a certain province only.”

    Ammar al-Hakim's al-Muwatin Alliance and Muqtada al-Sadr's al-Ahrar Bloc responded to Maliki’s statements on the same day. They said the National Guard proposal is currently under legislative review since the Iraqi parliament voted on the idea.

    The threats raised by Maliki are plausible. However, his alternate solution — one of “popular mobilization” that barely differs from a National Guard — is no less dangerous, with one exception: It would allow Sunni and Shiite fighters to fight on common battlefields.

    Iraq has many Sunni and Shiite militias that also suffer from internal disputes within their own ranks. Nothing guarantees that similar conflicts will not break out in the future.

    Furthermore, the Kurds have rejected the inclusion of the peshmerga under the banner of the National Guard, considering that the peshmerga forces are officially defined as the "Guards of the Region."

    Kurdish officials said that "peshmerga forces will not become part of the National Guard," considering that the forces are unique to the Kurdistan Region, which, just like any other independent region, needs such a force guarding its territory.

    Until the concept of National Guard is included within the framework of clear legislation, one cannot speak of the process by which all these forces will be regulated. It still remains unclear whether these forces are ready to give up their religious, intellectual and sectarian affiliations in favor of joining an official force.

    https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/orig...#ixzz3DauYgnCb
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    Jubouri: Parliament receives report over Spiecher massacre

    Jubouri: Parliament receives report over Spiecher massacre

    Wednesday, 17 September 2014 17:58

    Baghdad (AIN) –The Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament Salim al-Jubouri assured that "The Iraqi Parliament received a report which names certain figures as suspects in Speicher massacre," stressing that "All MPs are determined to name the security ministers during the parliament session of Thursday."

    Jubouri said during a press conference he held at the Parliament "The committees are still working on Spiecher case and we here by assure that the parliament received a detailed report which accuses certain figures of committing the massacre."

    "The report was prepared by the Ministry of Interior," he added, stressing that "the Parliament will reveal all details over this case."

    https://www.alliraqnews.com/en/index....massacre-.html
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    The Iraqi Parliament Fails to Approve New Security Ministers

    The Iraqi Parliament Fails to Approve New Security Ministers

    Posted by Reidar Visser

    New Iraq PM Haydar al-Abbadi kept his promise to present ministerial candidates for portfolios not included in the recent vote on his new cabinet, but the Iraqi parliament proved uncooperative. As a result, only one minister, for water management, was approved in today’s session. Crucially, all key security ministries remain vacant.

    The most contentious nominations related to the defence and interior ministries. With respect to defence, the name of Jabir al-Jabiri, an Anbar politician with considerable popular backing and past ties to the former finance minister, Rafe al-Isawi, has recurred for some time as the nominee of the Sunni coalition in parliament. Conversely, it was something of a surprise that Riyad Ghrayb, a Shiite chameleon who has gone from a past with ISCI to the State of Law bloc and the faction of Hussein al-Shahristani, was put forward in the last minute. Before that, it had largely been thought that Badr would present a candidate, even after their original nominee, Hadi al-Ameri, was found by most other parties to be too unpalatable in such a sensitive position. As late as yesterday, a modification of the Badr proposal was presented in the shape of “independents” that might be acceptable to Badr, such as Ahmad Chalabi and Qasim Dawud. Today, the Shiite alliance held a last-minute meeting before the parliament session without being able to agree internally on a candidate.

    There are regional and international dimensions involved, too. It has been suggested that the Iraq interior ministry struggle is a reflection of the contradictive relationship between the United States and Iran in the region as a whole, with Iran backing Badr candidates in Iraq and the United States – finally in possession of some real leverage because of the ISIS threat and Iraqi requests for American military assistance, and tacitly in alliance with Iran against ISIS – strongly objecting to this.

    It is noteworthy that during the parliament session today, Abbadi implored the chamber to approve the nominees whereas parliamentarians of the Shiite alliance (whom Abbadi himself represents) voiced opposition to a vote, saying the interior minister at least should be internally approved in the Shiite alliance first. Deputy speaker Humam al-Hammudi of ISCI at one point tried to stop the vote according to the official parliamentary record.

    Whereas the voting record hasn’t been tied down to individual MPs or even parties, the patterns suggest that parts of the Shiite alliance may have voted No and possibly that there was a revenge No in the vote on the State of Law nominee for tourism (Ali al-Adib). Interior minister Riyad Ghrayb got 117 out of 245 votes, Jabir al-Jabiri 108 out of 251, and Ali al-Adib got only 78 out of 250 votes. By way of contrast, a Sadrist nominee for the water ministry was approved with a more resounding 162 out of 250 votes. Altogether 285 MPs were in attendance, probably a reflection of the realization that a simple majority could have settled the matter of the security ministers and have them approved if those who were against Jabiri and Ghrayb had simply absented themselves.

    Parliament adjourned until Thursday 18 September but it is unclear whether Abbadi will come up with new nominees by then. It cannot be stressed enough that these final components of the Abbadi cabinet are among the most important decisions relating to the new Iraqi government as a whole – and as such far more significant than the plethora of international gatherings that are currently going on in the name of defeating ISIS in Iraq. Experiences from Yemen suggest that airstrikes will eventually hit someone that shouldn’t have been hit. In that kind of context, only a durable political coalition in Baghdad can prevent the situation from fragmenting completely. The absence of agreement on security ministers was a key reason the second Maliki government remained so shaky throughout its term, and it is likely this issue, more than anything else, that will seal the fate of the new, so far partial, government put in place by Haydar al-Abbadi.

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    Hakim describes excluding Iran from international alliance as "Big mistake"

    Hakim describes excluding Iran from international alliance as "Big mistake"

    Wednesday, 17 September 2014 19:19

    Baghdad (AIN) –The head of the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council, Ammar al-Hakim, said during the Wednesday forum that "The faithful sides in fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant are those who did not allow the ISIL to cross their borders towards Iraq."

    Hakim said during the Forum "Excluding Iran from the international alliance for fighting the ISIL was a big mistake since we should stand united against terrorism."

    Hakim addressed the citizens of the areas occupied by the ISIL as saying "The ISIL are killing you under the pretext of defending you."

    https://www.alliraqnews.com/en/index....-mistakeq.html
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    The Minister of Planning department inspected legal and International Cooperation Dir

    The Minister of Planning department inspected legal and International Cooperation Directorates at the ministry's headquarters
    Web News 17 September, 2014

    The Minister of Planning, Dr. Salman Ali Al-Jumaili (**This is the new MOP), inspected a number of directorates in the ministry center for the reality of work and ways to overcome obstacles faced by the employees.

    The Minister wandered in the corridors of the directorates and met with managers’ legal departments and employees in the department who gave a detailed explanation about the nature of the work of their departments and the mechanics of dealing with the file classification of contractors, which is one of the main tasks undertaken by the department mentioned.

    The employees showed that there are some difficulties in work, especially in regard to the process of classification and the late arrival of written health breasts on transactions of contractors who want get classifications, they hoped getting help from the Minister to resolve this issue through the adoption of mechanisms over the speed that would facilitate the work of the department and not to delay the contractor who submit a request to obtain identity.

    The employees reviewed procedures and mechanisms to manipulate the functions of the department and other follow-up of many of the legal issues related to the work of the ministry.

    The Minister affirmed during a visit to the legal directorate the need to facilitate the procedures and mechanisms used in the process of classification of contractors, because this process is linked to the file of the reconstruction of Iraq and the delay in the proceedings means delayed the contractor or company to obtain the identity of the classification and hence the delay to get projects and enter into contracts with General States to implement the projects in all the provinces.

    The Minister also promised to work seriously in order to find appropriate solutions and treatments for such important issues in order to facilitate the procedures and serious contribution in the process of building the proper development of Iraq.

    In addition, the Minister visited the International Cooperation Directorate and met the Director General of the Directorate, Ms. Anwar Buni, and the employees.

    Ms. Anwar, the general manager, reviewed a detailed explanation about the nature of the work of the International Cooperation Directorate and its role in the follow-up process and receipt of the projects carried out with funding from the aid, grants and loans obtained by Iraq from countries and international organizations, indicating that the department has managed over the past years of follow-up the implementation of the (353) projects funded by donors as well as its coordination with the ministries and various Iraqi parties to receive more than (5424) projects, as well as, the signing of a loan document between the World Bank and the Iraqi government to fund strategic projects, which is not possible through funding from the state budget.

    The Minister noted during the visit that Iraq today is in great need of international support, particularly in the area of expertise as well as financial support due to developmental reality experienced by the country, indicating that we and during the next phase to activate cooperation with the international community in order to get more technical and financial assistance in accordance with the regulations and international laws prevailing in order to preserve Iraq's sovereignty and prestige.



    https://www.mop.gov.iq/mop/index.jsp?...=2014&m=8&d=17
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    Erbil and Baghdad Close to Oil Agreement

    Erbil and Baghdad Close to Oil Agreement

    17.09.2014
    Hemin Salih
    BasNews, Erbil

    The Kurdistan Region and the federal Iraqi government in Baghdad have been engaging in talks regarding oil and are approaching an agreement.

    Former Iraqi prime minister Nuri al-Maliki had previously cut off Kurdistan’s budget to show Baghdad’s opposition to the exportation of Kurdish oil. Kurdistan has nonetheless participated in Iraqi’s new cabinet and agreed upon a period of time for the two sides to solve conflicts between them.

    According BasNews sources, the agreement is as follows: half Kurdistan’s oil will be exported through the State Organization for Marketing Oil (SOMO) company and the revenues will directly go to Iraq’s central government, however, the other half will be exported throughout Ceyhan Port in Turkey, the revenue from which to come directly to the Kurdistan Region from Turkish HalkBank.

    As a result, one portion of Kurdistan’s budget will come from Baghdad, and an Iraqi team will be monitoring the dealings and the profits that Kurdistan makes from the oil sale, which will be sent to the central government.

    Iraqi president Fuad Masum revealed to Al-Hayat Newspaper that Kurdistan and Baghdad have settled their conflicts, and are coming on agreement regarding oil issues.

    https://basnews.com/en/News/Details/E...t-/34421%C2%A0

    OOTW - IF ANY OF YOU RECALL, I POSTED AN ARTICLE SHOWING THE PDF'S/JPEG'S FROM THIS AGREEMENT LAST WEEK.
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