Trump envoy: Iraq is exempt from our sanctions on Iranian oil exports

Wednesday 07 November 2018

The most dangerous man in the region as a candidate .. Baghdad awaits the new ambassador of Washington and MacGurke, the most prominent

 

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06-11-2018 03:02 PM

A senior official source for the ‘Tigris’ Washington is seeking to provide Britmaghork new ambassador to Iraq in succession to Douglas Seelman the beginning of the new year.

The sources said McGuck was one of the most prominent candidates for the post, but the White House was waiting for his nomination formally after being approved by the US Senate.

McGowork, who is described by everyone as ‘the most dangerous man in the region’, was born April 20, 1973, as a US lawyer and diplomat appointed by President Barack Obama on November 23, 2015 to be the special presidential envoy of the International Coalition Against Fighting, replacing General John Allen after he was his deputy since 16 He served as assistant secretary of state for Iraq and Iran and led secret negotiations with Iran between October 2014 and January 2016 that led to the release of four American prisoners from Evin prison in Tehran. They were released by the Washington Post reporter T., Jason Arzaiیan, and according to the New York Times, that task , which lasted for 14 months , in addition to many other tasks led by Macgork reinforced his reputation as a person capable of performing difficult tasks.
McGuck was a special aide to former President George W. Bush and director of Iraq and Afghanistan. During Obama’s tenure, MacGorek served as a special adviser to the US National Security Council and senior adviser to the US ambassador to Iraq. In the field of law, Mr. McGork served as Assistant Chief Justice of the Federal Supreme Court, Judge William Rinkweest in 2001.

In January 2016, the diplomat visited McGork in northern Syria as part of a counter-offensive mission and met with officials from the Democratic Unionist Party (PYD) and People’s Protection Units (YPG). Between November 2014 and January 2016, Mr. McGowork was the main negotiator in secret and intensive negotiations with Iran to release four US prisoners and return them to the United States, including Jason Rezaian, Amir Hakmati and Said Abidini
On June 9, 2014, Mr. McGowork was in Erbil when she invaded Mosul and approached Baghdad.
He then left for Baghdad and helped supervise the evacuation of 1,500 US employees from the US Embassy while working with President Barack Obama and the National Security Council to formulate a US diplomatic and military response to a threatening threat.

After that, McGovern had a leading role in facilitating the formation of a new government in Iraq led by Prime Minister Haider Abadi after Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who had served as prime minister for the past eight years,

On September 13, 2014, US Secretary of State John Kerry announced the appointment of Mr. McGowork as ambassador and deputy to the Special Presidential Envoy of the International Coalition against Da’ash. Three days later, Ambassador McGorek met at the White House Oval Office with President Barack Obama and retired Marine Gen. John Allen to discuss the strategy of building an international alliance to fight the staunch. On December 3, 2014, a meeting was held in the Belgian capital of Brussels. An official coalition of 62 countries was formed to support Iraq and help the new government headed by Prime Minister Haider Abadi in the fight against Dahesh as well as five military and diplomatic frameworks to support this effort.

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Abdul-Mahdi announces the latest results of the negotiations to complete the government and reveals an important decision in the budget {expanded}

 

Editorial Date: 2018/11/6 21:54 

(Baghdad: Al-Furat News) Prime Minister, Adel Abdul-Mahdi, the latest results of his negotiations with the political blocs on the completion of his cabinet.

“We hope within the next few hours or days to complete the formation of the government and there is no vacuum in the rest of the vacant ministries,” said Abdul-Mahdi, during a press conference held on Tuesday evening after the cabinet session. “The ministries are not similar to the proxy for years. And the occupation of the position of business management is part of the rules of procedure in the Council of Ministers. 
“The formation of his government in Iraq differed from its predecessors, consisting of 22 portfolios, while the government of former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki of 44 ministries and his successor Haider Abadi 33 ministries before reducing them while the current cab is composed of 22 ministries.”
He added Abdul Mahdi, “this government differed that the Prime Minister himself selected the candidates were on the basis of experience and competence, experience and integrity and bore the Prime Minister of the responsibility of choice and some blocks have granted freedom to choose ministers and in the composition of the 14 ministers were on the basis of efficiency, and the eight ministers were on the basis of merit The election of the blocs want to represent themselves in the government and nominated the ministers and gave several people to the ministry and had to consult with the Prime Minister. ” 
“The context of the formation of the government was within the context of constitutional and frank, which is better than previous governments and we sent biographies of candidates six hours ago to Parliament and we did something not done by previous governments.”
“We have asked official questions to all parties concerned, such as integrity, crimes, accountability and justice. We received reports from each other and we await the other, and we do not want to indict them based on statements and accusations attributed to them,” Abdul Mahdi said. 
He pointed out that “There are 13 thousand cases of integrity, but this does not mean that the charges are true or issued by judicial rulings nor do we want to tolerate any element that has a semi-flawed personality either legal or behavioral or historical and do not want to oppress people in a mere Charges “. 
And on the budget of 2019, said the Prime Minister, “We were in front of two possibilities, the first either the rebalancing of 2019 to the Council of Ministers or discussed by the House of Representatives and approved by the same as the previous government, especially as we are in a critical situation and do not want to start the new year without the balance of what is happening great damage.
“We have agreed with the parliament to keep the budget and discussed and formed a committee headed by the Minister of Finance and go to parliament and put forward the vision of the new government on them in a realistic way can not change all sections of the budget and we hope that the cooperation between the two authorities to accelerate the adoption.” 
“We will discuss the budget of the Kurdistan region in real terms and I can not personally decide that and there is a Council of Ministers and the Ministry of Finance and the Council of Representatives and the Kurdistan region and there will be another committee includes representatives of the region and the provinces to resolve the obstacles.” 
“There are no higher decisions in the budget and we will discuss their quotas in accordance with clear rules and must be legal and financial justification to achieve justice and equate provinces and the Iraqi people in a balanced manner.”
“There are Iraqi delegations and lawyers with a wide capacity in international law and the Iraqi economy have been negotiating for a while with the United States and Iran to reach the equation we put forward in the government program,” he said. 
He stressed that “Iraq is not part of the system of sanctions or aggression against any state and takes into account its interests first and our position is similar to the position of Europe, Russia, China and Japan is the preservation of national interests without harm or harm to the other and does not want to be part of the conflict is not a party. 
And the situation in the provinces, he said, “We have followed the situation, including Basra, which we attach special importance to meet the demands of the demonstrators and we met with the Judicial Council to resolve the problems that resulted from the demonstrations and the closure of these files quickly and promised by the Judicial Council.”
He referred to the incident of the protection of the head of the Baghdad Provincial Council, Ali al-Adadh, on two traffic police in Aden Square in Baghdad a few days ago, the prime minister described the situation as “unjustified aggression and we promoted and reward the two policemen.” 
He stressed that “the official and the position he occupies must be subject to the rules and respect of the public service and be more careful than others in the implementation of laws and not to exceed the staff and will not accept any aggression, nor do we accept public servants to infringe the rights of citizens and be a tool to achieve justice and equity” .is over

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Oil Minister: We plan to increase production to 8.5 million barrels and this is the right price

 

Editorial Date: 2018/11/6 23:39 

(Reuters) – Iraq plans to increase its oil production and export capacity in 2019, focusing on its southern fields and is close to reaching an agreement with international companies, Oil Minister Thamer Ghadhban said on Tuesday.

The new minister said that “the lack of oil supply resulting from the new US sanctions on Iran was not yet measured before Iraq and the rest of the members of OPEC decide to take action at the next meeting of the Organization next month 
Iraq, the second largest producer of crude in OPEC after Saudi Arabia, With a production capacity of 5 million barrels per day in 2019. Its average exports are expected to reach 3.8 million barrels a day, 
Iraq currently pumps 4.6 million barrels per day and exports most of its oil through its southern ports. Crude exports through these ports On 95 percent of government revenue .
“This is a priority, we have a dialogue with international companies, and it took a while, but we are about to agree, we will resolve this issue soon,” Ghadhban told Reuters in his first interview since taking office last month. 
Iraq plans to increase its export capacity to 8.5 million bpd in the coming years after upgrading its infrastructure, Ghadhban said. 
This will include 6.5 million barrels per day of oil fields in the south of the country, with the availability of one million barrels per day after the completion of the construction of a new pipeline extending from the city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq to the Turkish port of Ceyhan overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. 
Iraq is trying to recover from the years of violence that have wreaked havoc with Baghdad and badly damaged infrastructure. Baghdad is also trying to reduce corruption and resolve disputes with the Kurdistan region, which runs oil-rich areas in the north of the country.
Ghadban, who replaced Jabbar al-Luaibi as oil minister, is also looking to diversify Iraqi oil export outlets through new pipelines. 
One of the immediate challenges for Iraq is to gauge the size of the global oil shortage caused by the sanctions Washington imposed on Iran’s oil sector on Monday. 
Ghadban said Iraq wanted to know the “actual decline” before Baghdad and other members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries decided how to deal with the drop in Iranian shipments. 
“How will the demand for Iraqi oil increase in the present market, and if there is no demand, how can I say that we will make up?” 
Ghadban does not specify the price of oil he expects for 2019, but said a price above $ 70 a barrel would be “fair and the higher the price, the better for Iraq.”
“I compare that with previous prices, when we talk about prices above 70, I say it’s a fair price, it’s not 30 or 50 and not 100.” 
“In principle, the higher the price, the better for Iraq, but we do not work alone, we are an OPEC member, we see the interests of consumers and we want to be productive and effective source.” 
US sanctions target Iran’s oil, banking and transportation sectors, and Washington has threatened to take further action to halt what it says are “outlaw” policies in steps Iran has described as economic war and vowed to tackle. 
Iraqi officials said last week that Baghdad would be allowed to continue importing gas and power supplies needed to run power plants, as well as food commodities.
Ghadhban said the Iraqi Oil Ministry had received offers from three foreign contractors to build a giant water treatment plant, a project necessary for the OPEC member to boost its oil production capacity. 
He said he expected to start work in early 2019, and cost the project billions of dollars. 
He added that additional export capacity of one million barrels per day would be added from a pipeline that would eventually link the southern city of Basra with Jordan’s Red Sea port of Aqaba, adding that the construction of new pipelines aims to “diversify export outlets”. 
The minister said a final deal was expected with BP to boost production from oilfields around Kirkuk. 
“I met with their representative (BP) yesterday, and I hope we reach an agreement very soon,” he said. “It’s a priority.”

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Decisions of the Council of Ministers today (expanded)

 

Release date: 2018/11/6 21:40 • 8 times read

(Baghdad: Al Furat News) The Cabinet held its regular session, on Tuesday, chaired by Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi.

A statement of the Council, received the agency {Euphrates News} a copy of it today, “The Council of Ministers voted to approve the project of the unified national card with {five million} raw card by contracting with a global company, and also voted to approve the tax exemption for the project power station First invasive chest “. 
He added that “the Council also voted on the draft system of determination of criminal cases covered by the provisions of the Law on the protection of witnesses and experts, informants and rescuers No. (58) for the year 2017.”
“The Council also voted to increase the allocations and salaries of the people of the Popular Mobilization Authority by conducting transfers of 197 billion and 896 million dinars in accordance with the provisions of Article (2 / I / 3 / b) of the Federal Budget Law of the Republic of Iraq for the fiscal year / 2018 and on the basis of 122 thousand level Have been identified since 2015 after the issuance of allocations and the current salary for the purpose of increasing the allocations and salaries of the staff of the Commission starting from 1/10/2018. 
He pointed out that “the Council discussed in its regular session today, the subject of the financial budget for the coming year 2019, where the Council of Ministers to form a government committee with the House of Representatives to resolve a number of outstanding issues.” 
He pointed out that “
“The Minister of Health has submitted a report on the death of fish and the measures taken on that, as the crisis cell continues its work on the subject. The Minister of Agriculture also reported on the task forces that have been assigned the task of killing fish as well.”

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The House of Representatives votes on the approach of the Cabinet to amend the budget of 2019 {expanded}

Editorial date: 2018/11/6 17:31

The House of Representatives voted in its tenth session headed by Mohamed Halboussi, Speaker of the House of Representatives on Tuesday and in the presence of 253 deputies, a proposal to approach the Council of Ministers to make amendments to the draft federal budget law for 2019 before starting the first reading or return to the government.

A statement by the Information Department of the House of Representatives received the agency {Euphrates News} a copy of it today that “at the outset of the session, was sworn in by Iyad Hashim Allawi, Kazem Fangan Hussein and Mohammed Shi’a Sudanese and Sadek Mdlul members of the House of Representatives.”

Then the Council voted not to approve the appeals submitted by Yonadam Yousef Kanna regarding the validity of the membership of MP Burhanuddin Ishaq and Sabah Abdul Rasoul on the health of MP Zeitoun Hussein Murad and Star Jabbar on the health of MP Ajyal Karim Salman and Khalida Khalil Chamou regarding the health of membership MP Safwan Bashir Younis.

The President of the Council called on those who filed appeals or those affected to resort to the Federal Court.

On the other hand, the Council completed the vote on a proposal to approach the Council of Ministers on the necessary amendments to be included on the draft budget law during the Joint Committee to proceed with the first reading of the draft law and in the absence of the inclusion of amendments required to be added by the deputies on the budget the Council retains the right to restore the draft federal budget To the government.

The revenues of the federal budget bill for the year 2019 are estimated at one hundred and five trillion five hundred and sixty-nine billion six hundred and eighty-six million eight hundred and seventy thousand dinars and the calculation of revenues from the export of crude oil at a rate of 56 dollars per barrel and an export rate of 3880000 barrels per day.

Also included in the draft law the allocation of one hundred and two and thirty-two trillion two hundred and seventy-two billion five hundred and forty-eight million two hundred and ninety-two thousand dinars, while the total deficit planned for the federal budget twenty-six trillion seven hundred and two billion eight hundred and one and sixty million and four hundred and twenty-two thousand dinars.

In turn, I propose Turhan Mufti representative of the government, the formation of a joint committee of the House of Representatives and the Government to make the necessary amendments to some articles of the draft federal budget, indicating that the strategy of the budget bill is prepared by the Ministries of Finance and Planning, especially after the reduction of investment projects in recent budgets and their dependence on operational Just.

He also presented Halabousi a letter directed by the representative of the government to the House of Representatives calling for not to return the draft budget law to the Government to invest time with the proposal to form a joint committee of the legislative and executive authorities to study the draft law, noting that the budget needs to see a clear and new in many joints because it lacks to provide The Council of Representatives needs a letter from the Prime Minister or his authorized to adopt the draft budget law and take into account the comments of the deputies to make amendments with the readiness of the House of Representatives to provide the necessary assistance to the Government for the purpose of fueling the budget.

On the other hand, the Speaker of the House of Representatives presented a vote on the formation of the Finance Committee in the meeting on Thursday.

Halaboussi decided to “postpone the discussion of the issue of fish deaths to the meeting next Thursday and in the presence of the ministers concerned, as well as vote on a number of parliamentary committees.”

It was then decided to adjourn the meeting until next Thursday

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Iyad Allawi leaves the House of Representatives after taking the constitutional oath

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The head of the National Coalition, Iyad Allawi, left Tuesday, the House of Representatives after his performance of the constitutional Yemen.

The correspondent “Al-Ghad Press”, “Allawi left the House of Representatives just a few moments after his constitutional oath of membership of the House of Representatives.”

It is noteworthy that the House of Representatives held its meeting earlier in the day, in the presence of 253 deputies.

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