President confirms his confidence imminent improvement in relations between the federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government

 

PM: 07: 51: 17/02/2016 Khandan

Khandan – The President of the Republic Fuad Masum, near the confidence of improved relations between the federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government, indicating a need on both sides to each other as partners in one nation and to ensure the interests of all citizens.

Quoted the presidency said in a statement from infallible as saying during a dialogue with a number of media session on Wednesday that “Iraq desperately needs now to the state of modern and vibrant institutions not to the quota system,” adding that “the formation of political parties on the basis of non-sectarian and non-nationalist alone sponsor leave quotas factional and partisan phase as a transition and orientation to build a real modern democratic state. “

And through the President of the Republic, “confidence in the ability of Iraqis to continue their victories against terrorism in parallel with their ability to cope and pass the economic crisis and minimize its impact on the situation of low-income people,” stressing that “support for the paper Government Reform put forward by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi,” stressing “the need to have candidates the next ministerial bags of administrative personalities known competence, integrity and independence, calling members of the House of Representatives to take these conditions into account when voting. “

He criticized the president of the republic, “the belief of some ministers that the ministries have become the property of their respective parties,” stressing “the need to continue the direct dialogue between the leaders of the blocks through regular meetings to speed up and ensure the achievement of the required reforms.”

The President of the Republic of confidence “imminent improvement in relations between the federal government and the government of the Kurdistan region,” stressing “the need on both sides to each other as partners in one nation and to ensure the interests of all citizens.”

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Baghdad is prepared to deliver the Kurdistan 17% of the budget if there is “serious”

Editor Mustafa Saad – Wednesday February 17, 2016 19:40 – +

 

Alsumaria News / Baghdad

Re Information Office of the Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, on Wednesday, on the decision of the Kurdistan Regional Government deliver its oil output of the federal government in exchange for payment of all the territory salaries of the staff, and while stressing the need to reach an agreement between the parties, confirmed the readiness of Baghdad hand over 17% of the actual budget expenditures to the region if you have the “seriousness of will.

A spokesman for the office, Saad al-Hadithi in an interview with Alsumaria News for, “if there is a serious will of the Kurdistan Regional Government commitment to the provisions of the Constitution and return to cooperation with the federal government in the export of oil, the Baghdad government will be committed in return hand over the percentage specified for the region from the general budget of the country through a grant of 17% of the actual budget expenditures. “

Sabri added that “the issue of delivery retroactively or not is left to search in case there was a serious desire of the region to move forward in this direction,” pointing out that “the economic and security challenges facing all parts of Iraq and therefore the cooperation and coordination in this regard is essential and strive to achieve it.”

The Kurdistan Regional Government announced, on Tuesday, ready to deliver the oil production of the federal government in exchange for payment of salaries of the staff of all the region, stressing the importance of continuing the dialogue and the implementation of legal obligations with the federal government on the basis of common interest.

The announcement came in response to Ebadi’s remarks in which the region was considered a referendum on independence “redundant ring” lead to more tension, while mortgage Kurdistan staff salaries to hand over Baghdad exporting oil revenues from the region.

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Abadi confirms to continue the transfer of powers to the provinces

 

PM: 05: 33: 17/02/2016 Khandan

Khandan – said Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, said the coordination and cooperation between the federal government and the provinces is essential to improve the country, while stressing the continuing transfer of powers to the provinces.

Ebadi said while chairing a meeting of the supreme body for coordination between the provinces, “Iraq will emerge from the challenges faced by a stronger and stiffer, but we need the cooperation among all the patience that does not mean surrender.”

He noted that “coordination and cooperation between the federal government and the provinces is essential to promote the country and provide services to citizens, a joint is not permissible contradistinction or conflict.”

He said al-Abadi, said that “the economic and financial challenge is one of the more challenges Tusbandnna but we can express our good planning, there are strategies for the government to maximize government revenues and stimulate the economy,” he said, “We have reduced government spending, largely because there was a major expansion of it.”

The new Abadi “continue its emphasis on the transfer of powers to the provinces and move it forward,” stressing “the importance of investment to be opened on the basis of transparent, clear and well thought out the door.”

He also noted that “the security situation is also the economic and financial situation, and there we have the challenge of organized crime, kidnapping and this is counter intelligence methods.”

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Oil ministerial meeting between Iran, Iraq and Venezuela in Tehran today

 

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02/17/2016 – 19:07

Said Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zangana, in a statement to reporters on the sidelines of a meeting with Assistant Prime Minister and Minister of Energy of Georgia Kakha Kaladze on Tuesday in Tehran, he will hold a trilateral meeting on the level of oil ministers of Iran, Iraq and Venezuela in Tehran on Wednesday, stressing that Iran will not give up its stake in the oil market.

And pointed Znکnh to the meeting, the Quartet held in Doha between Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi, Minister of the Russian energy Alکsandr Novک and Minister of Industry and Energy Mohamed Bin Saleh and Oil Minister Venezuelan Alojیo Del Pino, he said, he just came in the news and did not look so far the results accurately, it has been researching in this meeting about installing the production ceiling, which requires research and study and know the intent behind such case.

He explained that in the context of this topic is scheduled to come and Iraqi Oil Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi, Minister of Venezuelan oil Alojیo Del Pino to Tehran for a three-way, adding the meeting that the issue now is, first the market is facing an increase in supply and secondly, that Iran will not give up market share in oil.

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Barzani’s party: our revenue will deliver oil to the center in exchange for paying the salaries of our employees and the Peshmerga and our share of the 17%

 

Date: 02/17/2016 18:04

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Kurdistan Democratic Party, announced Wednesday, the readiness of the Kurdistan Regional Government to hand over its oil revenues to Baghdad against the latter’s obligation to pay the region and the Peshmerga salaries, as well as for sending the region’s own financial stake, amounting to 17%.

A member of the party Dry longings told / information / “We are sure not the federal government’s ability to push the region staff and salaries of the Peshmerga because the Kurdish delegation met with the directors of bodies ministries of trade, finance and agriculture to discuss the financial benefits related to the Kurdish peasants, and we were shown not to the federal government’s ability to pay salaries its employees due to lack of financial allocations, “indicating that” the Government of Arbil ready to hand over its oil revenues to Baghdad against the latter’s commitment to its promises. “

She added that “Erbil is ready to deliver financial returns levied from oil exports in exchange for the Iraqi government’s commitment to pay the KRG staff and salaries of the Peshmerga, as well as financial share of Kurdistan, amounting to 17% as an item of the financial budget for the current year the law.”

The Deputy President of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Qubad Talabani, on Tuesday, ready for delivery Arbil next financial returns from the oil-for Baghdad province’s obligation to pay employees’ salaries. Finished / 25’s

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International Alliance: trained more than 18,000 fighters in the Iraqi security forces

 

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Announced the international coalition, said on Wednesday that his troops stationed in Iraq as advisers and trainers were in the six training and military sites, indicating they have trained more than 18 thousand Iraqi fighters and security forces.

The alliance said in a statement received / balances News / copy it, that “the international coalition has six training centers, four of which are to build capacity of the army and two specialized training.”

The statement added that “the number of Iraqi troops that have been trained amounted to 18,000 fighters in there about 2,000 fighters have been trained at the moment,” noting that “the spread of training centers in Erbil and Basmajh and Taji, north of Baghdad, the center of the center of the capital and another in the eye of Assad’s rule.” It ended 29/33 h

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Abadi: reduced government spending substantially and there are strategies to maximize revenue

 

 

Wednesday February 17, 2016 16:14

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Alsumaria News / Baghdad He showed Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, Wednesday, confidence in the possibility of Iraq out of the current challenges are “stronger and harder,” and as he emphasized reducing government spending degree “large”, he referred to his possession of strategies to maximize revenue and stimulate the Iraqi economy. Follow…

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Iranian banks reconnected to global payments network

 

Business | Wed Feb 17, 2016 7:35am EST

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A red London bus passes a branch of Iranian owned Bank Sepah International in London December 22, 2011.

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Global transaction network SWIFT has reconnected a number of Iranian banks to its system, allowing them to resume cross-border transactions with foreign banks after the lifting of sanctions on Tehran, a SWIFT official said.

Iranian banks were disconnected from Belgium-based SWIFT, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, in March 2012 as international sanctions against Tehran over its disputed nuclear program tightened.

The system is used to transmit payments and letters of credit and Iran’s exclusion severely damaged its ability to conduct foreign trade and money transfers. Under a nuclear deal reached between Tehran and world powers, most sanctions against the country were removed last month.

“SWIFT has completed the on-boarding process for these banks, and can confirm that they have now been reconnected to SWIFT,” said Onur Ozan, a country manager at SWIFT.

“We will continue to work with the remainder of the entities that have applied to rejoin SWIFT to ensure their smooth reconnection,” Ozan said in a statement carried on the Iranian central bank’s website on Wednesday. A representative for SWIFT confirmed that the statement was accurate.

Iran’s reconnection to SWIFT became a political issue in the last few weeks, with some conservative parliamentary critics of President Hassan Rouhani complaining that the reconnection was not occurring fast enough and that the nuclear deal was not delivering enough benefits to the country.

Ozan did not give details of the Iranian banks that had been reconnected. The central bank said in its statement that all banks not covered by the remaining sanctions had now been connected, including itself, but that some of the banks’ foreign subsidiaries and branches were still working on it.

Although SWIFT’s action will make it easier to move money into and out of Iran, many foreign banks are expected to remain wary of doing business with the country, at least initially.

The nuclear deal says non-U.S. banks may resume trading with Iran, but because Washington retains sanctions against Iran that predate the nuclear crisis and were imposed over other issues such as human rights, bankers are uncertain of the legal basis for business and worry they could still be targeted by U.S. officials.

U.S. banks remain prohibited from doing business with Iran directly or indirectly.

(Reporting by Andrew Torchia in Dubai, David Milliken in London and Phil Blenkinsop in Brussels; Editing by Keith Weir)

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Urgent Iraq welcomes the agreement prepared by the oil quartet and a step in the “right direction.”

 

History of edits:: 17/2/2016 15:48 • 128 visits readable

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Iraqi Oil Ministry welcomed the quadrilateral agreement, which was held yesterday between Russia – Saudi Arabia – Qatar-Venezuela] judge to freeze oil production for these countries at the level of exports for the month of January last.

He said ministry spokesman Assem Jihad told all of Iraq [where] that “This agreement is a step in the right direction and will reflect positively on the global oil market.”
Taking place today in Tehran negotiations between Iraq and Iran and Venezuela to discuss the possibility of joining the two countries [Iran and Iraq] to this Agreement.
it was Iraq’s production rate of oil for the month of January, according to preliminary statistics of the Ministry of oil, amounted to 3.9 million barrels.
Jihad said, he was “an update of the agreement [quartet] today in talks between Iraq and Iran and Venezuela in Tehran will discuss the tentative agreement to freeze oil production at levels of month January. ”
he stressed that” Iraq with any decision hurt the producers service and raise oil prices, “noting that” Iraq finds that this step in the right direction, and already he was calling for the need for there to be discussions and consultations among producing countries inside OPEC and outside especially Russia, which occupies first place in oil production, and certainly what happened yesterday of the agreement is a positive development will impact certainly on oil prices. ”
he pointed out that” Iraq is an important and active member of OPEC, which seeks to work with member states in order to reach the steps leading to the return of oil prices to normal. ”
explained a spokesman for the oil Ministry, said that” this proposal in the process of the talks and we are with any decision in the interest of Iraq and improving oil prices, so we are with a positive decision. ”
He pointed out that” there are consultations in Tehran and certainly hope to reach an agreement paving the way for an emergency meeting of OPEC to make a decision in this regard in the interest of producers and lead to the lifting of oil prices. ”
the new Jihad welcomed the agreement quadruple saying,” this agreement is a step in the right direction and will be reflected positively on the global oil market, which will be the first Coordination 7 among oil-producing countries inside and outside OPEC, and therefore this is an important message in a serious put an end to the decline in world oil prices. ”
the Minister of energy and Industry of Qatar and chairman of the Organization of petroleum exporting countries [OPEC] Mohammed bin Saleh Al Sada said on Tuesday his country’s agreement with Saudi Arabia, Russia and Venezuela on the proposal to keep oil output ceiling at January levels last after the approval of oil-producing countries within the UPC and abroad.

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Alliance forces announce his support for Ebadi make radical reforms

 

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alliance announced its strong support for Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi in a radical Corrections meet the aspirations of the Iraqi people.

The alliance said in a statement received by all of Iraq [where] a copy of it, that the “coalition of the Iraqi forces underlines its support to the call Haider al-Abadi Prime Minister for a reshuffle, leading to the events of real and radical reforms that meet the aspirations of Iraqis and hopes to live in peace and security and preserve their independence and sovereignty and preserve their wealth and believe in future generations. ”
He said the coalition after a meeting of the political to the whole” we’re with the reform and any change would ensure strict implementation of the terms of a close political agreement that Ebadi became whereby the head of the government and the return of displaced persons and displaced persons to their areas and be compensated for damages and the reconstruction of liberated towns of Conception Daash gangs criminal and bear arms to the state and to work for the release of abducted by militias outside the law and be held accountable for their crimes and to extend security and stability in the whole of Iraq. ”
He stressed the coalition,” the need to be a cabinet reshuffle intended result of the Abadi dialogue serious and constructive with blocs and political forces to reach a unified position to choose the appropriate mechanism for the formation of cabins ministerial able to shoulder the burdens of the current stage of economic, political, security and thereby to save the country from the dangers posed to him internally and externally and efforts to undermine the national unity and loot its wealth and metamorphosis of the Arab and Islamic identity, “stressing that” the monopoly in making a decision to change ministerial cabin and lack of commitment to political consensus would increase the landscape complex, and get things back to square one and this is what he can not afford Iraq under the high-risk internal, regional and international circumstances. “

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