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Gov’t settles down Madagascar’s debt to Iraq
June 16, 2010 - 09:24:30
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Iraqi Council on Ministers has decided to approve an agreement that settles down Madagascar’s debt to Iraq.
“Eighty percent of the debt (i.e. $234,507,234) has been cancelled,” the Iraqi government said in a release on Wednesday as received by Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
He noted that the 20 percent left will be paid on dispatches.
“The $46,901,446 will be paid over a period of seven years, with a payment dispatch every six months,” the statement explained.
It noted that the first payment should be made on Nov. 15, 2011.
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Industry Ministry starts offices in provinces
June 16, 2010 - 10:16:01
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Iraqi Industry Ministry has started offices in the country’s provinces so that remote businessmen can contact the ministry without the need to travel to Baghdad.
The ministry reported the event in a statement on Wednesday received by Aswat al-Iraq news agency, stressing that it has approved 726 new industrial projects during the first quarter of 2010.
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WOW good read.. Thanks for the post
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Sources of the Iraqi" .. Maliki will hand over power to Allawi's terms (from Mosul forum:
rocky Yesterday at 3:59 pm
Sources of the Iraqi" .. Maliki will hand over power to Allawi's terms (from Mosul forum: almawsil.com)
"Sources of the Iraqi" .. Maliki will hand over power to Allawi's terms
Manual / Informed sources from Iraq that it was considering Maliki's request to waive the prime minister and hand over power in return for guarantees not to legal liability for a lot of files that have remained the results of investigations are pending, and the disappearance of large quantities of the state treasury, where indicated Massadrily 17 billion dollars spent to the Ministry of electricity without any tangible progress in this file, Addition to the killings and the displacement filed dozens of citizens against Maliki's government. The sources that Maliki may give up power easily compared to those conditions, but other observers said that it needed more time to allow him (wiping effect), a policy followed by totalitarian regimes, where deliberately to money laundering and filter (s) of the campaign the secrets of those regulations, and the destruction of documents and papers which it condemns, it is clear that the issue of re-counting demanded by the Prime Minister is part of the winning time for the (erase the impact). She asked those sources for the commitment of Iraq over its electoral promises to the electorate, and the voiceless, which included the pledge of accountability of those involved in the sectarian war and financial and administrative corruption, and abandoning the pledge will not be Besalhaa in the future, will weaken before the audience in the next round of elections. It was a venue for the collection al-Maliki on the one hand, Allawi and al-Hashemi On the other hand did not announce its results and is expected to discuss the handover of power take much space from the time of the meeting leaked about the meeting of the friendly atmosphere prove that the preliminary consensus on this file
المصدر: شبكة أخبار العراق
Source: Iraq News Network
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rocky
Then she was like "No Way", and I was all "WAY!", and she was all "NO WAY", and I was all "WAY"!
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I can not wait to find out what happen today at the UN meeting. I hope we get great news. Also has anyone found out why CBI did not do a auction today? Was just wondering on that. I know I usally post info for you guys. But I have been in and out for the last 2 days and can only get a few mins at a time trying to get caught up on the news. God bless to you all.. GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV
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I don't see one since June 13th ... That is strange for the middle of their work week I think.
I know that they where going to cancel yesturdays because of the bombings. But they said that they would have one today. ???????????????? no news out there on why none today.
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Not a newbie but was out of the loop yesturday. Is CBI not having a auction today. Thanks guys. God bless
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Was there no auction today? Can't find anything
Duh!!!!! I posted this on the worng form sorry have not had enough coffee this morning
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Tuesday, June 15, 2010 11:40 GMT
Iraq Oil Minister Hussein Shahristani said that the daily fluctuation in oil prices is ordinary adding that oil market is generally stable. However, the ups and downs in the prices are not expected to affect Iraq budget which relies on crude oil exports, he said. The current prices are acceptable for Iraq, Shahristani added.
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Water Resources Ministry starts water management project in Karbala
June 15, 2010 - 11:44:53
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: The Iraqi Water Resources Ministry on Tuesday began work to execute a water management project in Karbala province.
“The project is executed by the ministry’s staff,” the ministry said in a release as received by Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
It said that the project is funded by Iraq with ID5 billion, but executed in coordination with the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
“The project is for irrigation purposes,” the ministry explained.
The holy city of Karbala lies 110 km southwest of Baghdad.
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Kurds will not back new government without guarantees - Saleh
June 15, 2010 - 12:30:50
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Kurds will not support the new government without written guarantees from Iraq’s main political leaders on key Kurdish issues, according to Kurdistan region’s Prime Minister Barham Saleh.
“Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region wants written guarantees from Iraq’s main political leaders that key Kurdish issues, such as the region’s right to oversee its oil resources, will be protected before it backs a new Iraqi government,” he said.
“We would like to see clear guarantees that some of the marginalization that the Kurds have suffered (in recent years) will not be repeated,” Saleh said, in an interview in London with The Wall Street Journal.
He added that “these (guarantees) have to be written by whoever will be forming the next government.”
“Saleh’s comments come amid a political standoff that has left the Kurds in a position to play kingmaker in the formation of Iraq’s next government,” the newspaper commented.
Iraq’s new parliament met on Monday in a short and largely symbolic session, three months after parliamentary polls. No single bloc won a majority, forcing politicians to scramble to cut deals with each other in the pursuit of a grand coalition that would be able to form a government.
The Kurdish alliance-comprised of the Kurds’ two main political parties, which captured 43 seats in the Iraqi election-would give the Shiite alliance more than enough political backing to form a government.
Kurdish politicians have signaled they wouldn’t be opposed to joining Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, as they did in the previous government. Saleh, who served as deputy prime minister under Iraq’s previous government, declined to say whether he would support his old boss, Maliki, for prime minister.
But Saleh said Kurdish support for either side would need to be conditional on promises over key Kurdish issues, including oil policy.
The Kurdish government has long argued that its management of oil resources in its three-province northern territory is protected by Iraq’s post-war constitution. The Kurds have signed dozens of production-sharing contracts with foreign companies over the past three years, but Baghdad has refused to recognize them.
“The contracts need to be honored. We believe we are within our constitutional rights,” Saleh said. Disagreement over the oil contract issue led the Kurds and the companies operating in their region to halt about 100,000 barrels a day of oil exports last year.
The Kurds and the central government reached a deal several weeks ago over paying foreign oil companies for the costs they have incurred working in Kurdistan, which could pave the way for Kurdish oil exports to re-start. But Saleh said details on how payment will be made are still being worked out.
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Officer charged with smuggling to change plea
By Adrian Sainz - The Associated Press
Posted : Monday Jun 14, 2010 17:29:49 EDT
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — An Army officer facing federal charges of smuggling more than $100,000 out of Iraq during a deployment there is ready to change his plea from not guilty.
The attorney for Maj. Charles E. Sublett said Monday the soldier is set to change his plea “pursuant to an agreement with the government.”
But neither attorney Michael Stengel nor the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Memphis will divulge what the new plea will be, or what the agreement entails.
Sublett, of Huntsville, Ala., was indicted in January on charges of bulk cash smuggling and making a false statement. He is scheduled to change his plea in a federal court hearing set for July 7.
Sublett reviewed and approved supplies contracts while serving at the Balad Regional Contracting Center in Iraq between August 2004 and February 2005. The center was located at Camp Anaconda, about 50 miles north of Baghdad.
According to the indictment, the disbursement office where he worked provided payment in sequentially numbered $100 bills.
In January 2005, customs officials in Memphis intercepted a package containing almost $108,000 in sequentially numbered $100 bills and more than 17 million Iraqi dinar, then worth about $11,600, that Sublett sent from Balad to Killeen, Texas, the indictment said.
Sublett faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine if convicted. He would also have to forfeit the money if convicted of the bulk smuggling charge
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2010/06/ap_major_smuggling_iraq_061410/
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Hi guys I watch the news alot but today I have been busy can't post much info sorry. Just wanted to know if anyone has found out if they are still meeting with the UN June 15th? thanks guys I will be checking back here though out the day when I can. God bless to you all
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Hi all,
With everything that is going on over there. What to you guys think when they might RV. Or has anyone found some news out there?
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OK folks I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. I can not belive I am on here so late at night. Looking and waiting to see what is going to happen next. I have been on this ride for over 6 years. And this is the first time in 6 years I can really say I think we are close. Like this month close. How wonderful will that be to wake up and RV...............So lets all keep are noses in the news, post things has they happen. Then soon very soon we will all party GOOOOOOOOOOOOOORVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV.. God bless to you all.
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Only time will tell for the 15th. If we get up really early on the 15th half there day will be over. we will all know by about 8:00 in the morning if anything is going to happen. just two more wake ups and we will know if we can go to bank. Or work on next date. God bless to you all.
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Kurdistan Economic Conference in London on Tuesday
June 13, 2010 - 10:24:05
ARBIL / Aswat al-Iraq: The Kurdistan Economic Conference will be held on Tuesday (June 15) in London.
“The Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Prime Minister Barham Salih will attend the conference,” a Kurd governmental source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency said on Sunday.
He noted that the conference will last for two days.
“The conference will discuss methods to develop the economy and trade in Kurdistan,” the source explained.
He pointed out that a number of British investors and businessmen will attend the meeeting.
“The conference will invite British companies to work in Kurdistan,” the source added.
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Do you guys think this is good news the banks have not sold anything for the past week. IMO it is good news. what do you guys think?
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News Summary
June 12, 2010 - 12:59:13
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Following is a summary of news reports posted until 04:00 p.m. Baghdad local time Saturday – June 12:
*Politics:
BAGHDAD -: There will be a meeting on Saturday evening between Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Head of the Al-Iraqiya Bloc Ayad Allawi.
BAGHDAD - Iraq Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi said on Saturday that disputes mark Iraqi political scene.
*Security:
SALAH Al-DIN - Unknown gunmen on Saturday assassinated an emergency police commander in central al-Shergat district of Salah al-Din province.
NINEWA - Unknown gunmen on Saturday killed a woman inside her house in eastern Mosul city.
KARBALA - U.S. forces on Saturday dawn launched an airborne operation in northern Karbala, killing two persons and wounding others without notifying the province’s governor and local authorities.
SALAH AL-DIN - Unknown gunmen on Saturday detonated the house of a police officer in the Yathrib suburb of Balad district, Salah al-Din province.
SALAH AL-DIN - One student was seriously wounded on Saturday when a roadside bomb went off near a middle school in Balad district.
*Economy:
KIRKUK - Iraq has resumed oil pumping to Turkey through the pipeline between the two countries after a 5-day pause.
BASRA - Basra oil and gas revenues over the first quarter of 2010 exceeded $223 million.
BASRA - The Basra Council voted on relieving three members of the Basra Investment Commission, a source from the council said on Saturday.
*Variety:
NINEWA - The Iraqi Electricity Minister has travelled to Arbil, the capital city of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, to restore the Turkish power feed to Iraq that has been out of service since 2008.
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KTF Missions Rumor
June 10, 2010 · Posted in RUMORS · Comment
LAST MINUTE!: U.S. Regions Bank stopped the Sale and Purchase Dinars!
You personally check Regions Bank who sold and bought dinars like me, now stop the same thing. Why?
[color:5723=#000]They do not say why but the System says “HOLD weitere to notice”!
They know something we do not know us?
I have no info from my broker yet!
For Evildoers: DTB
TOMANSEE ESE!!
PS: I also have in “HOLD” the Dong of Vietnam! JM
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Fri Jun 11, 2010 8:58am GMT Print | Single Page[-] Text [+] Iraq sits on the world's third-largest oil reserves and has signed contracts that would boost its output by around 10 million barrels per day by 2017, generating an additional $700 million a day in oil revenues at current prices. Though it may never reach that target and output gains over the next year or so are expected to be much more modest at around 600,000 bpd, the contracts themselves have encouraged companies to move ahead as quickly as possible.
To start recuperating investment, oil companies need to boost output at producing fields by 10 percent. From Iraq's untapped fields, firms have an early target called first commercial output to trigger cost recovery.
Hitting the targets fast reduces capital investment exposure to Iraq by allowing oil firms to recycle money already invested. The faster oil firms hit the targets, the faster they can begin recycling investments, reducing the need for new exposure.
"The reality is that the quicker you can get to commercial output on these contracts, the quicker you can recover investment and begin receiving remuneration," Alkadiri said.
While the outgoing government failed to pass a new oil law to provide a framework for investment, it said the deals were legal under existing legislation.
So far, legal uncertainty has done little discourage investment, said Hadeed Hassan, a Baghdad-based lawyer for Al-Tamimi & Co, who worked on the deals.
"It's not enough to stop them," said Hassan. "They're already signing subcontracts, they wouldn't be signing such contracts if they weren't ready to go ahead and move down south
http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFLDE64I0FP20100611?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0
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11 June 2010
The Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) dollar sales went down in its daily auction on Thursday to reach $144.150 million compared to $158.199 million in the previous session.
"The demand hit $10.160 million in cash, covered at an exchange rate of 1,183 Iraqi dinars per dollar, and $133.990 million in foreign transfers outside the country, covered at an exchange rate of 1,173 Iraqi dinars per dollar," according to a CBI news bulletin received by Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
None of the 18 banks that participated in today's session offered to sell dollars.
The Central Bank of Iraq runs a daily action from Sunday to Thursday.
© Aswat Aliraq 2010
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June 11, 2010 · Posted in CHATS / POSTS
MED : WELL I’VE BEEN UP FOR ABOUT 36 HRS STRAIGHT
MED : WATCHING ALL THE POLITICAL NEWS
MED : I HAVE SPENT HRS READING EVERYTHING EVERY HR ON WHAT IS GOING ON
MED : AND ALL I CAN SAY IS
MED : I AM AS FRIGGN CONFUSED AT WHERE THINGS ARE REALLY
MED : AS 36HRS AGO
MED : MALIKI GOT THE ALLIANCE ANNOUNCEMEMEDIC
MED : THOUGH HE DIDN’T WANT IT
MED : NOT UNTIL HE WAS PICKED AS PM
MED : HE HAS NOT BEEN
MED : THEY HAVE 3 OUT THERE
MED : BUT
MED : THE SADRISTS SAID FLAT OUT NO
MED : AND THIS IS THE POSSIBILITY THAT EXISTS
MED : THAT THEY WILL LEAVE THE ALLIANCE ANNOUNCED TODAY
MED : AND FORM WITH THE IRAQI LIST
MED : THIS WOULD TAKE 39 SEATS FROM THE NEW COALITION ALLIANCE
MED : AND THAT WOULD GIVE MALIKI 31 EXTRA
MED : THEN THE LARGEST BLOC IS IN ALLAWI’S CORNER
MED : THEY ARE ALSO TALKING WITH THE KURD ALLIANCE
MED : WHICH HAS 40
MED : AND WITH SEVERAL OF THE SMALLER ONES
MED : BUT NOW A NEW KINK WAS THROWN IN BY THE IRAQI LIST
MED : THE SPOKESWOMAN FOR THE LIST
MED : IS SAYING NOW THEY HAVE THE OFFICIAL PARLIAMENT TRANscriptS OF THE DISCUSSIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION
MED : AND THEY STATE IN THOSE DOCS
MED : THAT ART 76 IS TO BE REPRESENTED FROM THE LARGEST ELECTION BLOC WHO WON THE MOST SEATS
MED : NOT A POST LOSS MERGER
MED : ALSO APPARENTLY THE U.S. GOVT ALSO HAS HAD ENOUGH
MED : THEY ARE SENDING JOE BIDEN IN WITH A MESSAGE FROM US
MED : THE UNNAMED U.S. SOURCE IS SAYING THAT IF THINGS DONT’ GET BASICALLY FIXED
MED : WE WILL HAVE TO RESORT TO WHAT WE DID BEFORE
MED : PUT IN A GOVT THAT CAN GET THINGS DONE
MED : THOUGH WE SURE MADE A BAD ONE THE LAST TIME
MED : CUZ WE PUT MALIKI IN POWER
MED : SO THE NEXT 72 HRS WILL BE REALLY INTERESTING
MED : AND I EXPECT THE MEDIA TO BE EMPLODING WITH NEWS IN ABOUT 5 OR SO HRS
MED : I PURPOSELY STAYED OFF TODAY
MED : SO I COULD READ EVERYTHING OUT THERE
MED : AND SEE IF I COULD COME ON AND GIVE SOME TYPE OF ANALOGY THAT MADE SENSE
MED : I APOLOGIZE THAT WE ARE ALL JUST IN A WAIT AND SEE MODE
MED : BUT THAT IS ALL WE HAVE FOR NOW
MED : I EXPECT TO SEE THE LIST HAVE SOME TYPE OF MAJOR NEWS FROM THEIR BLOC
MED : TO COUNTER MALIKI’S
MED : ACTUALLY I AM NOT SURE THIS IS MALIKI’S DECISION
MED : BECAUSE HE SAID HE DID NOT WANT TO ANNOUNCE ANY ALLIANCE
MED : UNTIL THEY SAID YES TO HIM
MED : THEY HAVE NOT
MED : NOW THIS ALLIANCE DOES NOT MEAN IN THE SLIGHTEST THAT MALIKI IS GOING TO BE THE PM
MED : THE LIST ALONE HAS ENOUGH VOTES TO VETO HIM FOR 30 DAYS
MED : THEN THE LIST WOULD GET THE NEXT CHANCE
MED : I DOUBT IT WILL COME TO THAT
MED : I DO HAVE SOME GOOD NEWS THOUGH
MED : NO AUCTION TONIGHT
MED : LOL
MED : WELL I AM RELAXING WITH MY FAMILY RIGHT NOW
MED : DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY ?’S BEFORE I GO FOR A BIT
irishbrian : Whose block renamed themselves The New Alliance Med I read it earlier but cannot recall?
MED : THE RULE OF LAW AND THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE
MED : I KNEW THE BUDGET WAS RATIFIED ALREADY YESTERDAY
MED : BY TALABANI
butterfly : the budget was ratified back in feb, wasnt it?
wej : Perhaps I misunderstood, You said that if the Sadrist leave the coalition with the Rule of Law, that would still leave Maliki with 31 extra, but then said the Iraqi list would be the largest block. Not clear who would then have the largest coalition at this point.
MED : NO
butterfly : that is when the article was posted tho med
MED : IT WAS ONLY PASSED BY PARLIAMENT
MED : WAIT
butterfly : that was the article that was bumped today
butterfly : was from feb
MED : YES I SEE THAT
MED : BUT
MED : WHY DID THE ARTICLE JUST GET POSTED TODAY
MED : IN OUR FORUMS
MED : THAT TALABANI RATIFIED IT
MED : THE ONE THING IS
MED : WHAT IS IN IT THAT IS SO IMPORTANT
MED : BECAUSE GDF SAYS IT IS HUGE
MED : WHAT IS HUGE
MED : WHERE IS HE
MED : IN DV
dmitch : yes
MED : OK I WILL GO THERE
MED : NOW
azeroo : don’t youy think that it is resovled
MED : NO
MED : I DON’T
lazeroo : and who cares who wins
MED : I DON’T
lazeroo : it’s allawi
MED : I WANT THE STABILITY ISSUE
lazeroo : and we win
MED : NO ALLAWI DID NOT WIN
MED : IN FACT AS OF NOW
MED : HE IS THE LOSER
lazeroo : today
lazeroo : only
MED : THEY ANNOUNCED THE ALLIANCE
MED : YES
MED : BUT WILL THE SADRISTS JUMP
MED : AND WILL HE GET THE KURDS
MED : BEFORE MONDAY
MED : NOTHING IS FOR CERTAIN HERE
MED : NOW FOR US THE BEST IS ALLAWI
santafe : I keep thinking that despite what they are putting out in the media, that they can’t be that chaotic, that they must have a plan behind the scenes… but after listening to Medic… I think things ARE that chaotic over there. Absolutely amazing. Kind of like our hanging chad conterversy.
MED : SANTAFE
MED : IT IS CHAOTIC
MED : THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED
MED : 5 YEARS AGO
MED : AND WE HAD TO STOP IT
MED : THEY WOULD HAVE NEVER FORMED A GOVT
MED : IT WOULD HAVE GONE ON FOR A YEAR
MED : OK SORRY GOTTA HEAD
MED : MY INFECTION IS A PAIN
MED : I WILL BE UP ALL NIGHT
MED : READING AND FOLLOWING ALL THE NEWS SITES
MED : I WANT TO SEE IF ALLAWI GETS ANY BACKING
MED : FROM THE OTHER TWO HE WAS NEGOTIATING WITH
MED : LATER ALL
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The Iraqi Parliament needs 2 wks – 3 mos. to meet again
in Iraq & Dinar Related News
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06/16/2010
(Voice of Iraq) – and agencies: the UN envoy said Ad Melkert to Iraq that the Iraqi Council of Representatives may take a period of two weeks to three months to hold its next meeting, but he considered that the convening of the first session of parliament on Monday.
Put pressure on the political blocs to reach a settlement regarding the formation of the government. For his part, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Christopher Hill that he could not predict when the next meeting of the Parliament and added that it would require a difficult political consultations and genuine.
Meanwhile, he congratulated the British ambassador to Iraq, John Jenkins, the Iraqi people and politicians on the occasion of the Council of Representatives. Jenkins said in a statement that is the positive side is that the event has taken three months to be a reality and continued British Ambassador: It was during his talks with Iraqi officials that there is a growing sense of frustration at the grassroots level due to slow this process.