Turkey announces the formation of a ministerial council between “Ankara and Baghdad” to follow up on the “development road” project

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Shafaq News / Turkish Transport and Infrastructure Minister Abdulkader Uraloglu revealed on Friday a (Turkish-Iraqi) decision to establish a joint mechanism similar to the “Ministerial Council” to follow up the “development road” project.

Uraloglu said in a statement that the visit, which President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is planning to conduct, to Baghdad, at the end of this month, will address issues that will enhance cooperation between the two countries in the “development methods” project.

The “development road” is an economic project aimed at connecting Iraq with Turkey through land and railway routes with the aim of transporting goods between Europe and the Gulf countries.

Uraloglu pointed to the taking of important steps over the past year on the “development path”, and the holding of ministerial negotiations between the two countries to develop cooperation.

In this regard, Ankara hosted technical talks under the supervision of the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, with the participation of representatives from the Turkish Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and an Iraqi delegation, including representatives from the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Transport and the General Authority of Customs.

“As a result of our regular meetings with Iraq, we have decided to establish a mechanism similar to the Ministerial Council between the two countries,” he added.

Uraloglu pointed out that in the past period he held talks with his Iraqi counterpart Razak Mheibis Al-Saadawi, during which they agreed to start establishing the mechanism along the lines of the ministerial councils between Turkey, Hungary and Serbia.

He explained that they are waiting for the participation of the UAE and Qatar along with Turkey and Iraq in the Ministerial Council.

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Al-Shammari: Sudan’s upcoming visit will chart the identity of the relationship between Baghdad and Washington

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{Political: Euphrates News} Political adviser to Prime Minister Fadi Al-Shammari confirmed today, Friday, that Sudan’s upcoming visit to the United States of America will chart the identity of the relationship between Baghdad and Washington.

Al-Shammari said in a press statement, “It is expected that the Prime Minister will put the activation of the framework agreement at the top of the visit’s agenda in order to enhance cooperation and coordination with the United States and activate the terms of the agreement between the two countries, especially in the fields of development, economy, investment, education, technology, artificial intelligence and climate.”

He added, “The Prime Minister seeks to deal with the files in a way that restores balance, strengthens the partnership, matures the relationship between the two countries, and draws out the nature, identity and identity of joint relations, by fixing the factors of joint commitment and focusing on the main aspects of the strategic framework agreement as well as the joint political, security and military files.”

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Internal Affairs: The national card will be the basis for all transactions

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Economy News – Baghdad

The Ministry of Interior confirmed on Friday that the national card will be the basis for all transactions.

The Director General of Civil Status, Passports and Residency, Major General Nashat Ibrahim Al-Khafaji, said, “There is prior coordination with the Ministry of Commerce and Planning and the Election Commission so that the national card is the basis for all transactions.”

He pointed out that “the basis of electronic governance in the national card is that its data is real, in addition to the presence of a face image, eye print, and fingers, and all of these things were not present in the status records.”

Al-Khafaji added, “Any citizen can be easily identified in the national card system, so the Prime Minister and the Minister of Interior paid great attention to the project and the cadres are able to register all Iraqis.”

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Mazhar Saleh: The launch of government spending in the coming weeks will constitute 50% of the gross domestic product

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{Economic: Al-Furat News} The financial and economic advisor to the Prime Minister, Mazhar Muhammad Saleh, confirmed today, Friday, that the launch of government spending in the coming weeks will constitute 50% of the country’s gross domestic product.

Saleh told {Al-Furat News} agency, “The launch of government spending after the adoption of the federal general budget schedules for the year 2024 in the coming weeks will constitute the most important incentive in moving the joints of aggregate demand in the national economy.”

He added, “Government spending or demand constitutes approximately 50% of the country’s gross domestic product.”

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Sudanese for US companies: The current stability in Iraq encourages them to engage in development projects

Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani

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Prime Minister Mohammed Shiaa al-Sudani called on US companies to work inside Iraq.

Al-Sudani said, the current stability in Iraq should be encouraging for American companies to engage in important development projects in the fields of energy, communications, housing, health care, education, transport and others.

He added that it is also important to fight corruption, which is the other face of terrorism, as its impact is no less destructive, and to work to ensure that the people’s money is directed towards valuable goals, and that we must also work to diversify our economy away from dependence on oil, even while we take advantage of our position as the second largest oil exporter in OPEC (in addition to our acquisition of large natural gas reserves).

Al-Sudani stated that our urgent need for American expertise and technology extends to clean energy and the green economy, as we seek to develop sustainable and renewable sectors, adding that “the strategic framework agreement laid the legal basis for these activities, and that by investing in them, we will be able to put Iraq in a position that helps it strengthen its democracy, strengthen the state, and strengthen the rule of law, which are the pillars that will allow us to restore Iraq to its historical brilliance.

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Advisor to the Association of Banks: The Prime Minister’s decisions in supporting private banks confirm the government’s vision of stimulus and bank reform

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Economy News – Baghdad

Samir Al-Nusairi, advisor to the Association of Iraqi Private Banks, said that the seven decisions recently issued in implementation of the directive of Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani, on supporting our private banks confirm the government’s vision in its government platform and its strategy in line with the Central Bank’s strategy to reform the banking sector.

He explained that these decisions drew the executive procedures and support the comprehensive reform.

For the banking sector, which forms the basis and the real beginning of the completed economic reform, which included:

1- Monopoly prohibition in banking services

2- Activating the financing initiatives of the Central Bank

3- Increasing cooperation between private banks and the Central Bank in discussing decision-making related to supporting and developing banking work

4- Determining the contribution of foreign capital in Iraqi banks

5- Participation of government institutions and financing funds with private banks and expanding the opening of branches in countries

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6- Supporting the government and the Central Bank of private banks in offshore institutions and banks

7- Increasing reliance on private banks by the Iraqi state and activating the deposit of government deposits

And deposits of government banks with banks

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Al-Nusairi stressed that the implementation of the decisions, which came as a result of an in-depth study of the Ministerial Council for the Economy and the presence of the Central Bank of Iraq, the challenges facing private banks, especially after 28 private banks were exposed to the restrictions of the US Treasury by stopping its dealings in US dollars in foreign transfers, are practical applications to motivate private banks to develop their internal and external banking operations, which contributes to economic reform.

He pointed to the importance of discussing this important file to lift US restrictions on these banks during the visit of the Prime Minister and his accompanying delegation to Washington next week.

This file is certainly the focus of the concerns of the government, the Central Bank, the Association of Iraqi Private Banks and the banking sector in general, hoping that efforts will succeed in finding new balanced relations between the American side and our Iraqi delegation in the field of regulating and developing clear foundations for the parties in banking relations in accordance with international standards.

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Erdogan prepares to put forward the most complex plan to Sudan to end the presence of the Kurdistan workers

Political| 09:44 – 12/04/2024

Mawazine News-Baghdad
Turkish sources confirmed that plans for a major operation to eliminate the PKK in northern Iraq are ready, and their implementation is expected to be discussed during President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to Baghdad on April 22.

The sources said that Ankara has completed the determination of the steps it will take to clear the line leading to Sulaymaniyah of the elements of the “Kurdan Workers”, and the designation of forces and support elements that will cross the border has begun, and the shipping of armored units, military and logistical elements has accelerated, and will be pushed to the border line after the Eid al-Fitr holiday.
The Harriyet newspaper, which is close to the Turkish government, quoted sources it described as “informed”, that Ankara intends to deploy the Russian air defense system “S-400”, on its borders with Iraq within the framework of the large-scale operation targeting the “PKurdish Workers”, which will be conducted in coordination with Baghdad and Erbil, and the focus will beside the ground attack on thwarting attacks of terrorist organization (PKWK) elements with drones.

The Russian two-battery system, which Turkey acquired from Russia in the summer of 2019, raises a oddds with the United States and fears by NATO that a NATO member state could use the system that could expose Russia to its military systems.

Turkey has been subjected to US sanctions over the purchase of the Russian system, including preventing it from acquiring F-35 fighters, and has not yet been able to use them.

The newspaper reported that pro-Ankara Syrian armed opposition factions confirmed that they would provide all possible support for the upcoming Turkish operation in northern Iraq.

Through the operation, Turkey aims to eliminate the positions of the “PKK” within the borders of the military operation “Al-Mulab” area that has been ongoing since 2019, through ground operations with air attribution and the closure of the 378-kilometer border completely at a depth of 40 kilometers, like what is being worked on in northern Syria.

According to the sources, the border line including the Gara area known as the KKK caves and shelters will be reached to destroy it, and the area will be placed under the permanent control of the Turkish forces to prevent it from using it again.

The governments of Baghdad and Erbil are expected to provide intelligence support, and take action against the Kurdish workers in Sulaymaniyah and Sinjar.

Last month, a Turkish Defense Ministry official confirmed an agreement on cooperation with Iraqi officials on the establishment of a safe zone 40 kilometers deep in northern Iraq by the summer, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced.

He stated that during the high-level security meeting held in Baghdad on March 13, with the participation of foreign and defense ministers and heads of intelligence and security services, it was agreed to establish a joint operations center to coordinate movements against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party in northern Iraq.

He added that preparations are continuing to prepare the strategic framework document to be signed between the two countries during Erdogan’s visit to Baghdad, and that one of the issues that we want to include in this document is the establishment of the Joint Operations Center, and the technical details of the operation of the center will be determined after its signing.

Turkey is seeking to eliminate the presence of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party in northern Iraq, and to sever its link with the Kurdish People’s Protection Units, the largest component of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) as part of the war on ISIS in cooperation with Baghdad.

In this context, a series of meetings were held that began with a high-level security meeting in Ankara on December 19, followed by mutual visits by foreign and defense ministers and intelligence and security officials of the two countries, as well as visits by Turkish officials to Erbil.

Turkey wants to launch a large-scale military operation to eliminate the presence of the “Kurdish workers” in northern Iraq in cooperation with Baghdad, which linked its participation in these efforts to cooperation in energy, water and transport files along with the development road project, which was welcomed by Ankara.

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