President Barzani on Official Visit to Bulgaria 31/03/2012 : 11:03:44 Sofia, Bulgaria (KRP.org) – After arriving in Sofia, Bulgaria, on an official visit on Wednesday, Kurdistan Region President Masoud Barzani held meetings today with Bulgarian leaders to promote bilateral relations and cooperation.In a meeting, the President and the Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov discussed ways to develop cooperation and investment opportunities in a number of fields including agriculture, energy, water resources and dams, education, health and tourism.“We would like to establish a strategic relationship with the Kurdistan Region and to this end we are prepared to work with you in a number of areas. We will encourage Bulgarian companies to explore trade and investment opportunities in Kurdistan and through Kurdistan as a gateway, in the rest of Iraq” said Prime Minister Borisov, hailing the stability and economic potential of the Kurdistan Region.President Barzani stated that the KRG is equally keen to establish strong ties with Bulgaria and it welcomes Bulgarian firms and investors to explore opportunities in Kurdistan.The two agreed on the need for follow-up expert-level meetings and further visits between officials from both sides.Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nickolay Mladenov, who also attended the meeting, said that Bulgaria has decided to reopen its embassy in Baghdad and it will also open a consulate in Erbil in 2012 to help strengthen ties and mutual cooperation.The President later met with Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev and the Bulgarian Speaker of Parliament Tsetska Tsacheva. The President talked about the historical relationship between the people of Kurdistan and Bulgaria, including the many Kurdish students who came to Bulgaria on scholarships.“Our peoples have a lot in common. Both our peoples emerged from years of suffering under totalitarian regimes and are now living in freedom. We can learn much from each other and we are prepared to establish strong cooperation with your country,” said President Barzani in his meeting with President Plevneliev.President Plevneliev and President Barzani discussed economic cooperation and the Bulgarian President said that the Bulgarian-American Credit Bank is considering opening a branch in Erbil to facilitate and encourage economic trade and investment, a decision which President Barzani warmly welcomed.The President will end his three-day visit to Bulgaria on Friday and will travel on to the United States to meet President Barack Obama next week. http://www.gulan-media.com/english/t_detail.php?section=1&id=1442
Sources likely significant changes in the defence and interior ministries Saturday, 31 March 2012 17: 21 | Author: fadia Baghdad/with: high-level security source said that the coming days experiencing significant changes in the ministries of the Interior and defence, in the light of security intrusions that registered before Arabic Summit. The source for future news agency correspondent: "the existence of orientations of the Government to implement the resolutions of the accountability and Justice Commission for the demobilization of hundreds of officers because they belong to the Baath party leadership did not exclude resolve in Baghdad operations within six months." "There is a plan to lay off a number of senior army officers and the police after receiving information about involvement in security breaches in Baghdad and a number of provinces last month and just prior to the Summit, the Arabic". The Prime Minister was the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces Nuri al-Maliki, announced two weeks ago officers implicated in bloody attacks in the country last month. "There will be extensive mobility in the defence and interior ministries, particularly in the capital, security task episodes and will be assigning posts to their officers, including Yamin Al-Maliki again Commander of the Federal Police, replacing Lieutenant General Hussein Al-Awadi covered by procedures for accountability and justice."(Ended) Bright Mansour
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Parliamentary services: Gulf States agreed to participate in Iraqi optical cable Saturday, 31 March 2012 17: 08 | Author: fadia Baghdad/with: parliamentary services Committee member declared in Iraq Suhad al-Ubeidi, the Iraqi Ministry of communications has received approvals from the days before Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain to participate in fibre-optic cable, which will connect all the maritime States of the far East and the Gulf to Europe via Iran and Iraq. Ubaydi intrigues were weighted for future news agency correspondent that: "Iraq is dependent on revenues from oil exports, foreign, varied for the first time in decades," saying that "one of the most important projects that seek to run the communications Ministry, fibre-optic cable project, a first draft strategic telecommunications optical of its kind in the region." "Iraq will be the third Arab country after Saudi Arabia and Syria, in the application of the draft to link all schools one network for online courses under the supervision of Turkish educational companies, the introduction of this service to health institutions".(Ended) Bright Mansour SOURCE
Allawi calls on Al-Maliki to the implementation of the Convention to avoid "delaying tactics" of Arbil Saturday, 31 March 2012 10: 08 | Author: fadia BGhadad/with: cluster leader invited Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in person to complete the implementation of the Convention to avoid procrastination "Arbil," he said, adding that the current Government "illegal".
The dialogue interview with Sumerian space news, where he said "to announce that Maliki is the implementation of the Convention, and sends his followers to delaying tactics in talk, we will be attending,", adding that "the current Government is basically illegal now because it exited on what was agreed in Arbil.
"I stressed to hold national conference and we were the first who responded to the invitation of President Jalal Talabani, to convene this Conference and we were among the first responders also invited Massoud Barzani when he called the meeting in Arbil and launched his initiative in which the Convention on Arbil."
"Since more than three months when we suspended our presence in the House felt the political parties and President Talabani in the forefront the seriousness of the situation, launched the initiative to convene national conference to discuss the crisis in Iraq, identified three issues to dismantle Iraq's crisis with regard to the question of Gibraltar and the issue of Al-mutlaq Saleh marginal and detainees in prisons, arbitrary arrests, and discuss the implementation of the Convention on Arbil, which had been signed, and thirdly a populate the roadmap forward."
It was agreed that these axles and formed Preparatory Committee ", but" more than three months they flout this issue simple problems such as rename or select the meeting points, but we agreed on everything and we issued a statement that if the meeting before the Summit "will get something.
The "surprised that this Conference be held after the Summit that identifies Arabic without clear mechanisms, and must discuss, issued a statement expressing our position that we do not have ready once again to discuss the Convention on Arbil, which passed by more than a year after it was signed", "some members of the State law who refrained from holding a national conference before the Summit said that there was no time to discuss the matter."
He was President of the Kurdistan region Massoud Barzani has presented an initiative to resolve the political crisis in Iraq from 16th September last year include the formation of a Committee of 8 to 12 members from representatives of the political blocs to begin discussions to resolve outstanding differences among them, and discuss the formation of a Government of national partnership, as well as resolving the issue of the three presidencies.(Ended)SOURCE
Unit Jumaili: Iyad Allawi will not attend the next meeting of the National Saturday, March 31 / March 2012 18:44 Unit Jumaili: Iyad Allawi will not attend the next meeting of the National
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Confirmed the MP for the Iraqi List coalition unit Jumaili not to attend the existing Iraqi President Iyad Allawi's national meeting to be held on the fifth of next April. "
She said in a statement to all of Iraq [where] the day I am sure that Iyad Allawi will not attend the national meeting to be held on [5] because the national meeting in April will not achieve anything concrete or positive results. "
She pointed out that the success of Jumaili National Congress would have required that there be a convergence of views between the political parties and to bridge the relations and direct contacts periodic but these things never happened. "
Stressed an MP for the Iraqi List, the political blocs that you want the success of the National Congress because he will have gained perspective, whether the National Alliance or the Kurdistan Alliance, or the Iraqi List, but there is a dispute surfaced between Baghdad and Erbil, led to a lack of convergence between the parties with the launch of fiery statements and caused these factors offload the National Congress of its content. "
It is scheduled to hold leaders of political blocs next Thursday "after the set by President Jalal Talabani," held a meeting to discuss the current political crisis, especially the differences between the State of Law coalition, led by Nuri al-Maliki and the Iraqi List led by Iyad Allawi, as well as the dispute with the province of Kurdistan. Ended 16 SOURCE
Deputy: Maliki to Arab leaders to draw a rosy picture of what is happening in Iraq Saturday, March 31, 2012 13:59 BAGHDAD - News Network Iraq - A former deputy Taha Lahibi member of the Iraqi Arab states are all really know the situation in Iraq, especially the Gulf countries, these countries wanted to attend the Summit to miss the opportunity to al-Maliki not to invoke that the gates of the Arabs closed in front of him to give the same justification to open his arms to Iran. He warned Lahibi of Maliki's comments, adding to the remarks made by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to one of the media following the conclusion of the Arab summit called for Arab states to reproduce the experience of Iraqi political in their countries, warning that the recent Maliki, a sectarian character does not reflect real intention to reform the conditions in Iraq. He reported that Maliki's speech has not changed, and continues to confirm the existence of its content through the blatant Iranian interference in Iraqi internal affairs, as it largely ignored the components of the Iraqi people and especially the year of them, when he accused during the period of their resistance to the occupation American terrorism and the practice of sectarian killings. He noted that al-Maliki to Lahibi forgotten that the number of militias, the Mahdi army, and the League of the Righteous, and Hezbollah - Organization of Iraq, and al-promised day, what are the only tools sectarian killings, however, Iran. He believed that Maliki wanted to convey the idea that the Arabs that Iraq is the homeland of the same community, noting that the Arab leaders to be wiser than imagine what al-Maliki. He emphasized that the fee-Maliki to Arab leaders during the meetings of the Arab summit conference a rosy picture of what is happening in Iraq, and pictures of it that what is happening in Iraq, in fact, as if it were happening on the planet Mars, as he put it. SOURCE
Vice-Maliki: up to now has not been chosen figure of the National Alliance for the post of Minister of the Interior for a vote Saturday, March 31 / March 2012 09:14 Baghdad - where] The MP said the coalition of state law, Abdul Salam al-Maliki that until now has not been chosen figure of the National Alliance to take over the position of the Ministry of Interior and voted on in meetings of the Council of Representatives. " Maliki said in a statement to all of Iraq [where] the day "for the Iraqi list until now there is no agreement on a candidate for the office of the Ministry of Defense." The security ministries still vacant because of an incompatibility of the political blocs on the names of candidates for those ministries that currently run by acting Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, the Ministry of Interior and the Minister of Culture Saadoun Dulaimi, who was assigned the management of the Ministry of Defense agency. And leaders of political blocs agreed at the meeting held under the auspices of President Jalal Talabani on the fifth of August last to provide the Iraqi National Alliance for the candidates of the security ministries during the period of two weeks. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said in a television interview that the Iraqi List, often provide the names of candidates belonging to the Ministry of Defence to the Baath party or armed groups other than the candidate Khalid Al-Obeidi. Ended 2THANKS BACARDI RICK SOURCE
Damluji: Maliki spoke about another planet and gave the Arabs a different picture of the reality of Iraq Saturday, March 31 / March 2012 17:25 [Baghdad - where] Spokeswoman criticized the Iraqi List, Maysoon al-Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's speech at the Arab summit which was held in Baghdad last Thursday. " Damluji said in a statement to all of Iraq [where] that al-Maliki spoke on another planet, in his speech at the summit of Baghdad and the transfer of a different picture from the reality of Iraq and the way that does not satisfy the Coalition and Iraqi Kurdistan. " The spokeswoman added that the Iraqi al-Maliki wanted to be the star of the Arab summit and delivered speeches at the meeting of Ministers of Economy and Finance at a meeting of Arab foreign ministers at the time did not include such words in the previous summits. " Damluji and was amazed at the way in which they occur al-Maliki at the Arab summit at a time when Iraq is suffering from many problems, "afterthought" The world and the Arabs know what is happening in Iraq and have a clear vision for all events. " Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has participated in the meetings of ministers of finance, economy and foreign ministers' meeting of Arab as well as attending a meeting of Arab leaders and delivered a speech in Iraq at the Summit, which called them to be Iraqi model mainly adopted by States that rely on the diversity of building a state citizen, and not State of the sect or party. "also delivered words of welcome at the meeting of Ministers of Economy and Finance and the meeting of Arab foreign ministers." is over 14
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Saturday, March 31, 2012 07:45 Parliamentary economy: the poor must be compensated for the loss of "Arab Summit" BAGHDAD / Baghdadiya News / .. According to the parliamentary committee that the economy should offset the liberal professions, especially of poor daily wage for the losses they sustained by the disabled Economic activities in the country for more than a week because of the measures imposed simultaneously with the Arab summit. Said MP Qusay Fri Member of the economy and invest in the House of Representatives to / Baghdadiya News / that he is "on the government to compensate the liberal professions, especially of poor daily wage as people who were late for their jobs because of the actions their government and the financial compensation in order to feel respected and that the community does not violate their dignity and their rights, "he said. He said Friday "will adopt, we raise the issue of demand and compensate the affected segments in the House of Representatives next week," pointing to the existence of a number of events and other forums and it make sense that we are in each month disrupt life for a week. " Fri pointed out that government actions that amounted to disrupt economic life in the country were not justified in this way the broad and harmful and should be limited to actions on the streets that routes delegations. "/ Finished / 26 / a. P THANKS BACARDI RICKSOURCE
Views: 10 Block calls on citizens to give financial rewards to the security services in appreciation of their summit in Baghdad Saturday, March 31 / March 2012 16:07 Baghdad {: News} Euphrates MP on the mass of citizens Terminal Habib, commander of the armed forces to give the security services financial rewards in appreciation of their efforts in maintaining security during the summit of Baghdad. The Terminal, told the News} {Euphrates today that "Macamt by the security services of an exceptional and powerful efforts before and during the Arab summit conference in Baghdad, worth more than words of thanks and gratitude." "The security challenges facing the big top, but carefully and awakening our security forces have thwarted all attempts to target the terrorist." He called for the citizen "concerned authorities and the Prime Minister, Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces Nouri al-Maliki, to give such security money in appreciation of their efforts." Baghdad has seen in recent days included tight security, the spread of heavy security forces and increase the number of military checkpoints and the tightening of the process of searching cars and people, as well as carry out a campaign of raids and house searches in different areas of the capital in search of terrorists. Ended 2. THANKS BACARDI RICK
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