News Coverage for Tuesday - July 17, 2012

CBI / ECONOMY

On the anniversary of the establishment of the Iraqi Central Bank
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Central Bank: a new mechanism will be announced within a few days to deal with branches of international banks
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The central bank adviser: the integration of small banks with large management will help to build strong banking
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GOVERNMENT

Najafi al-Maliki asked to postpone the parliamentary sessions for a week to stop the interrogation file
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Source: Barzani and Iraqi leaders in express consent to the nomination for the post of Nadim al-Minister of the Interior
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Albzona Jawad: Assadi the favorite candidate of the Interior .. Jubouri and to defend
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Fatlawi: National Alliance will be included in the subject of Council policy reform paper
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Sadr: Iraqi Kurdistan and support the proposal of the mandate of the Prime Minister two sessions retroactively
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.PDF File from The Congressional Research Service
Iraq: Politics, Governance, and Human Rights
- by Kenneth Katzman Specialist in Middle Eastern Affairs
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Page 17 of Adobe .pdf File / Page 13 at the bottom of page:

On November 10, 2010, with reported direct intervention by President Obama, the “Irbil
Agreement” was reached in which (1) Allawi agreed to support Maliki and Talabani to remain in their offices for another term; (2) Iraqiyya would be extensively represented in government—one of its figures would become COR Speaker, another would be defense minister, and another (presumably Allawi himself) would chair the enhanced oversight body discussed above, though renamed the “National Council for Strategic Policies;”9 and (3) amending the de-Baathification laws that had barred some Iraqis, such as Saleh al-Mutlaq, from holding political positions.  Observers praised the agreement because it included all major factions and was signed with KRG President Masoud Barzani and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq James Jeffrey in attendance. The agreement did not specify concessions to the Sadr faction.