Al-Halbousi and the Chargé d’Affaires of the US Embassy discuss issues of common interest

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Baghdad today – Baghdad 

Speaker of Parliament Muhammad Al-Halbousi discussed today, Monday, with Charge d’Affairs at the US embassy, Brian McFitters, a number of issues of common concern.

A statement by the Speaker of Parliament’s office said, “Speaker of Parliament Muhammad Al-Halbousi received the Chargé d’Affaires at the American Embassy in Baghdad, Mr. Brian McKevitters.”

He added, “The meeting discussed developments in the country, a number of issues of common concern, and ways to activate it to serve the interests of the two friendly peoples.

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Al-Kazemi takes a tour of the streets of Tarmiyah

Baghdad / news

Today, Monday, Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi toured the streets of Tarmiyah.

A brief statement by the Prime Minister’s Information Office stated that the Commander in Chief of the armed forces, Mustafa al-Kazimi, “conducted a field tour in the streets of the Tarmiyah district.”

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Gold rises above $ 1,800 due to growing virus fears

Editing Date: 7/20/2020 14:08

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Gold prices stabilized on Monday to establish themselves above the $ 1,800 level an ounce psychologically important, as the attractiveness of the metal as a safe haven was reinforced by concerns about growing Corona virus infections worldwide, but the rise of the dollar curbed the gains.

By 0721 GMT, the spot price of gold was stable at $ 1808.92 an ounce. US gold futures settled at $ 1809.50, little changed.

“There are technical indications that the US dollar may appreciate, and perhaps that is why we see gold market dealers lifting the cap from the price today,” said Michael McCarthy, chief strategist at CMC Markets.

The dollar index rose 0.2 percent, which increases the cost of the metal to holders of other currencies.

Palladium fell 0.7 percent to $ 2008.01 an ounce, platinum fell 0.1 percent to $ 836.91, while silver settled unchanged at $ 19.32.

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Parliamentary Finance announces that the issue of salary insurance is completely resolved

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Economy News _ Baghdad

The Finance Committee in the House of Representatives revealed, on Monday, the disappearance of the technical defect that caused delaying the salaries of employees last month, stressing that the salaries of this month are fully insured for all employees and some of them have acted before the blessed Eid al-Adha.

“The salaries of the employees for the month of July are fully insured, but we have not heard any notice by the Ministry of Finance that they can be disbursed before the blessed Eid Al-Adha holiday,” or committee member Abdel-Hadi Al-Saadawi said in a statement reported by the official “Al-Sabah” newspaper and seen by Al-Iqtisad News. Act according to the schedule fixed for each ministry.

Al-Saadawi attributed the delay in salaries during the past month to “a technical problem in approving the internal and external borrowing law, and delaying notifications from the Central Bank of Iraq and the Ministry of Finance to banks.”

Al-Saadawi pointed out that “the current month and the coming months will witness the payment of salaries according to the schedule fixed for each ministry.”

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The third session of the Iraqi-Saudi Coordination Council concluded with the signing of a memorandum to submit Saudi loans to Baghdad

The Iraqi-Saudi Coordination Council

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Economy News – Baghdad:

The Saudi News Agency revealed that the Iraqi Ministry of Finance signed with the Saudi Fund for Development a memorandum to provide loans for a number of development projects in Iraq.

The agency said, in a news published today, the Iraqi-Saudi Coordination Council concluded its third session today in Saudi Arabia, which came as an extension of efforts to strengthen relations between the two brotherly countries at the strategic level, cooperation in various fields, developing partnership between the private sector in the two countries and opening new horizons of cooperation in Economic and development fields, deepening joint cooperation in important international and regional affairs, and protecting common interests .

The Iraqi side was represented during the works of the third session of the Council, a ministerial delegation headed by the Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq and Minister of Finance Ali Abdel Amir Allawi, and the membership of His Excellency the Prime Minister of Iraq, Minister of Planning, Minister of Oil, Minister of Health, Minister of Electricity, Minister of Agriculture, Minister of Youth and Sports, and Secretary-General of the Council Ministers, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Ambassador of the Republic of Iraq to the Kingdom .

The Minister of Commerce, Dr. Majid Al-Qasabi, also headed the Saudi side during the course of the session, which was attended by the Minister of Energy, the Assistant Chief of General Intelligence, the Minister of Environment, Water and Agriculture, the Minister of Investment, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Saudi Fund for Development, the Minister of Education, the Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources, and the Minister of Transport, Deputy Minister of Interior, Deputy Minister of Finance, Deputy Minister of Economy and Planning, Governor of the General Authority of Customs, Governor of the General Authority for Foreign Trade, Secretary General of the Saudi side in the Saudi-Iraqi Coordination Council, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Political and Economic Affairs, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health for Public Health, and Ambassador Khadim The Two Holy Mosques to the Republic of Iraq, in addition to the President of the Saudi Business Council and a selection of Saudi businessmen .

The council’s work included holding a number of meetings, members of the Saudi-Iraqi Coordination Council, during which the meetings reviewed the most important developments of the council and the committees emanating from it. To provide loans to a number of development projects in Iraq, and a memorandum of cooperation in the health field between the two sides was signed to confront the Corona virus crisis and provide medical assistance to the Iraqi side in implementation of the directives of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, may God protect him .

The council’s work also included holding several bilateral meetings between the two sides with the participation of the private sector in the Kingdom to discuss opportunities for cooperation in all fields and the development of the strategic partnership between the two countries, where a number of priority investment projects were discussed between the two brotherly countries, and the two sides agreed on the executive plans of the agreements and memoranda of understanding Signed between them in the interest of the two countries, as they agreed to resume holding the committees emanating from the council and to resume the work of the specialized technical teams to discuss economic projects within the framework of the council .

The two sides also discussed the extent of the readiness of the border crossing “Jadidat Arar” as a prelude to its opening after verifying the provision of all the necessary requirements for that, with the two sides stressing the serious desire to advance bilateral relations and enhance means of cooperation in all fields to serve the aspirations of the governments and peoples of the two brotherly countries .

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Tomorrow .. Al-Kazemi to Iran and {Al Furat News} reveal the names of the accompanying delegation

Time: 7/20/2020 18:47:41

{Baghdad: Al Furat News} Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi will leave tomorrow afternoon, Tuesday, for the Iranian capital, Tehran, on an official visit.

An official source told the agency {Euphrates News} that “Al-Kazemi will head a high-level delegation to Tehran tomorrow afternoon on an official visit during which he will meet with a number of senior officials in Tehran,” noting that “the visit will take two days.”

The agency (Al Furat News) obtained the names of the delegation accompanying Al-Kazemi, as follows:

Mustafa Al-Kazemi / Prime Minister

Ali Abdel Amir Allawi / Minister of Finance

Fouad Hussein / Foreign Minister

Khaled Battal Al-Najem / Minister of Planning

Juma Anad / Minister of Defense

Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar / Minister of Oil

Majid Mahdi Hantush / Minister of Electricity

Hamid Naeem Al-Ghazi / Secretary General of the Cabinet

Qasim Al-Araji / National Security Adviser

Salem Jawad Chalabi / Adviser to Prime Minister

Soha Dawood Al-Najjar / Adviser to Prime Minister

Hassanein Rashid Al-Sheikh / Director General of the Coordination and Protocol Department for Prime Minister

Faisal Al-Humsan / General Manager of the Iraqi Trade Bank.

In addition to a number of advisors and employees from his office. 

Mohammed Al-Marsoum

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Iraq and Saudi Arabia sign a set of agreements within the Coordination Council

Baghdad / news

Iraq and Saudi Arabia signed today, Monday, a set of agreements and memoranda of mutual understanding within the coordination council between the two countries.

The agreements, according to what was broadcast on official television, included work in the investment, educational, sports, energy, and other fields.

A high-level Iraqi ministerial delegation arrived in Riyadh yesterday and held two rounds of discussions within the work of the Iraqi-Saudi Coordination Council.

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Joint operations: We discussed with the Peshmerga the mechanism of work of the joint coordination centers

a wish | 12:23 – 07/2020

Baghdad – Mawazine News,

The Joint Operations Command announced on Monday the details of its meeting with the regional guard forces.

The leadership said, in a statement received by / Mawazine News / a copy of it, that “today, Monday, July 20, 2020, the meeting of the High Coordination Committee between the Joint Operations Command and the Command of the Regional Guard Forces was held in Erbil.”

The statement added, “The meeting discussed the topics that were on its agenda, which included strengthening cooperation and coordination in the field of combating terrorism, closing the gaps that exist between the opening line of the sectors and creating a mechanism for the work of joint coordination centers as well as joint security operations in areas of common security interest.” Ended 29 / A 43

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Al-Jubeir: We look forward to seeing Al-Kazemi soon

Political | 02:24 – 07/2020

Baghdad – Mawazine News

, the Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Adel Al-Jubeir, said that his country is looking forward to a visit by Iraqi Prime Minister, Mustafa Al-Kazemi, “who wanted the Kingdom to be his first destination, very soon.”

Al-Jubeir affirmed his page on “Twitter” today, Monday, that “the Saudi-Iraqi relations witnessed growth in all fields, and the leadership in both countries has a common desire to enhance this strategic relationship in a way that is appropriate to the historical ties and what brings us together.”

Earlier today, the Saudi Foreign Ministry announced the postponement of the visit of the Prime Minister of Iraq to Riyadh, after the agreement between the two countries.

In a tweet on Twitter, Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan said: “The Kingdom appreciates the choice of the Iraqi Prime Minister to visit her as the first country after taking office, and to celebrate this extremely important visit and a desire to provide all means of success for her, our rational leadership has influenced, in coordination with our brothers in Iraq, the visit was postponed until after the departure of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques from the hospital. ”Ended 29 / A 43

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Iraq receives international support to remove its name from the list of high-risk countries

Political | 11:57 – 07/2020

Baghdad – Mawazine News, The

Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed, on Monday, that Iraq receives support from some European countries to remove its name from the list of high-risk countries in the field of money laundering.

The ministry’s spokesperson, Ahmed Al-Sahaf, according to the official agency, said, “Iraq’s mission to the European Union delivered several messages through diplomatic channels to the European Commission, in its capacity as the body that administers the executive procedures for assessing states’ actions in the areas of fighting money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism, to inform them of the fulfillment of Iraq has adopted the standards adopted by the European Union or the International Financial Action Task Force FATF in this field. ”

Al-Sahaf stressed that “our embassies in the European Union member states have sent similar messages to the concerned authorities in this field in those countries.”

He added that “a number of those countries responded to the messages addressed to them, foremost of which was the German Foreign Minister, who expressed Germany’s support, which presides over the current session of the European Union, for Iraq and stand with him in all fields.”

Foreign Minister Fouad Hussein called for support to remove the name of Iraq from the list of high-risk countries, while German Foreign Minister Haikou Maas stressed that efforts to remove the name of Iraq from the list of high-risk countries were completed. 29 / A 43

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