Democrat: The region delivered all what Baghdad requested and is waiting for positive steps to implement Article 140

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The Turkmen Front: Sinjar is a district affiliated with Nineveh and has nothing to do with Article 140

Saturday 10, October 2020 20:31 | PoliticalViews: 183

Kirkuk / NINA / The Iraqi Turkmen Front affirmed: "The district of Sinjar is one of the districts of Nineveh governorate, and it has nothing to do with Article 140."

In today's statement, the Front demanded that the PKK be taken out and that the funds be secured for the reconstruction of the judiciary ./ End

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The American ambassador pledges to submit a report on new Iraqi measures to protect missions to Washington

 

 

Baghdad / Al-Akhbariya:
Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein announced that the government began taking organizational measures to create a suitable environment for the work of missions in the capital, Baghdad.
The ministry said in a statement that "Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein met with the US ambassador in Baghdad, Matthew Toller, and discussed the subject of the initial decision to withdraw the US embassy in Baghdad."
The minister emphasized that "the government has taken a number of security, technical and organizational measures to create a suitable environment for the work of all missions in Baghdad."
For his part, the American ambassador promised to submit the minister's submission to the government agencies in America for study.
According to the statement, they also touched on a number of developments in the region and the world that enjoy common interest.

https://www.ikhnews.com/index.php?page=article&id=228452

 

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Archive: He was hit with the chair ... Details of a quarrel between Adel Abdul Mahdi and the first ambassador of the Ba'ath government

2020.10.10 - 22:10

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Baghdad - People  

A university professor, Talib Al-Baghdadi, recounted the details of a quarrel that took place between former Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi and the first Iraqi ambassador to the Baath government in 1969.   

"A quarrel occurred between the Iraqi ambassador to France in 1969, Muhammad Al-Mashat, and the former prime minister, Adel Abdul-Mahdi, while he was in France," Al-Baghdadi said during his hosting of the "Special Certificates" program presented by colleague Hamid Abdullah and followed by "People."  

He added, "Adel Abdul-Mahdi was a delegate to Paris for two years, and when he came to France, he was opposed to the Baath Party, and he began studying Marxist books and became a Marxist."  

In the details of the incident, Al-Baghdadi said: “When Abdul-Mahdi and the Iraqi ambassador to France welcomed each other at the beginning of the meeting, while Abdul-Mahdi tried to bring the Iraqi students closer to the Iraqi embassy, as there was a break between the two parties, and Abdul Mahdi’s gesture of rapprochement was by inviting the Iraqi students to a lecture. Delivered by the ambassador Al-Mashat. "  

He pointed out that "Abd al-Mahdi called him (Al-Baghdadi) when he was one of the students there and invited him to the lecture that dealt with the Shatt al-Arab issue, as his problem was present at the time due to news that the Iraqi government had conceded half of the Shatt al-Arab to Iran, and this is something the opponents of the new regime reject. Saddam Hussein), adding, "There was an uproar in France and the French media, and the topic was very vital for the Iraqi students who attended the lecture that was presented at the Algerian Students Union in France."  

Al-Baghdadi added, "It was a large crowd of students, and one of the students asked the Iraqi ambassador to France a question about the sovereignty of the Shatt al-Arab, and the ambassador answered it (Shatt al-Arab does not have sovereignty over Iraq because it is water)." Some students laughed at the answer, while Adel Abdul Mahdi emerged Another answer is that (sovereignty over the air, land, water and underground), which prompted Mashat to insult and insult Abdul Mahdi, which forced the latter to attack the Iraqi ambassador, hit him with the chair, and beat him.  

Al-Baghdadi added, "The case at that time ended with the French police arresting Adel Abdul Mahdi, after it intervened to resolve the conflict in which a number of students who supported Adel Abdul Mahdi participated."   

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Turkmen Front: Article 140 has nothing to do with the 'Sinjar Agreement'

2020.10.10 - 20:55

 

Baghdad - People  

The Iraqi Turkmen Front said, Saturday, that the agreement to normalize the situation in Sjar should be far from Article 140 agreements, stressing the importance of the administrative and security files remaining in the hands of the federal government.  

In a statement that "People" received a copy of (October 10, 2020), the front indicated that "solutions must help restore stability and security and the return of the displaced Yazidis and all the people of Nineveh province to their liberated areas."  

https://www.nasnews.com/view.php?cat=42408

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Sairoun: The election law will be decided tomorrow's session

•  Time: 10/11/2020 09:44:59
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(Baghdad: Al Furat News) The deputy of the Saeron Alliance, Salam Al-Shammari, confirmed, on Sunday, that his alliance with the National Consensus by passing electoral districts to ensure fair and fair elections, while the election law will be passed tomorrow's session.

Al-Shammari said, in a press release, that "Parliament will proceed with middle districts according to 83 electoral districts over all governorates."
Al-Shammari added, "The upcoming elections will witness an individual candidacy for a representative seat with the loudest votes," stressing "the importance of taking into account the geographical location of the electoral district and for it to be contiguous in merging the seats to include all governorates," indicating that "tomorrow's session will be during which the election law will be resolved."
It is noteworthy that the House of Representatives had voted on the electoral districts clause with 83 constituencies according to the number of women in Parliament according to a fixed standard of 3 to 5 districts, and then the Legal Committee was tasked with completing these districts according to this criterion.
Ali al-Rubaie

 

https://alforatnews.com/news/سائرون-قانون-الانتخابات-سيحسم-بجلسة-الغد

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Sunday, October 11, 2020 10:13 AM

 

The Turkmen Front: Sinjar is a district affiliated with Nineveh and has nothing to do with Article 140

 

 

 

The Iraqi Turkmen Front confirmed : "The district of Sinjar is one of the districts of Nineveh governorate, and it has nothing to do with Article 140."

In a statement, the front demanded that the PKK be taken out and that the funds be secured for the reconstruction of the judiciary.

https://www.thebaghdadpost.com/ar/Story/202632/الجبهة-التركمانية-سنجار-قضاء-تابع-لنينوى-ولا-علاقه-له-بالمادة-140

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The head of the Iraqi parliament calls on the government to draft a law that supports its obligations to the citizens

Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament, Muhammad Al-Halbousi - Archives

 11 October 2020 10:35 AM

Mubasher: The Speaker of the Iraqi Council of Representatives, Muhammad al-Halbousi, said that no government request has reached the House of Representatives to enact a law that strengthens the government’s budget to fulfill its obligations before citizens.

Al-Halbousi added, during the 11th session of the first legislative term in the third year, that the parliament is waiting for the government to send a bill that will boost government revenues to enable it to fulfill its obligations before citizens.

He continued: "The letter to amend the borrowing law has not been sent to the House of Representatives, indicating that the Federal Budget Law for the year 2020 was received by the Council and it was withdrawn the same day for amendments to it."

Al-Halbousi stressed that there is no failure by the House of Representatives regarding the issue of salaries or other expenses that the government is directly responsible for.

The Speaker of Parliament called on the government to expedite sending the financial reform paper in order to maximize state revenues and address the financial crisis.

For his part, the Vice President of the Finance Committee explained that the House of Representatives has no interest in delaying the payment of employees' salaries, indicating that the committee has not received any amendment to the borrowing law or the general budget law and is still awaiting the receipt of the government reform paper that the Minister of Finance committed to.

https://www.mubasher.info/news/3705311/رئيس-البرلمان-العراقي-يطالب-الحكومة-بمشروع-قانون-يدعم-التزاماتها-أمام-المواطنين/

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Us embassy says article 140 done including sinjar! It’s done!

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MP: The Sinjar agreement came as a result of American and Kurdish pressure, and it neglected all components

14:30 - 11/10/2020

 

The information / Baghdad .. The
deputy of the Al-Fateh Alliance, Muhammad Al-Baldawi, confirmed, on Sunday, that the agreement concluded by the government of Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi with the region regarding the Sinjar district was under American and Kurdish pressure, indicating that it was necessary to involve all components of Sinjar from the Yazidis, Shabak, Arabs and others to come up with a solution formula Satisfactory to all.
Al-Baldawi said in a statement to "the information", that "the agreement that took place on the Sinjar problem came far from the participation of the components of the judiciary from the Yezidis, Shabak, Arabs and other residents of the region to define the constants that guarantee the rights of all parties, especially the Yazidis who were subjected to the most heinous crimes against their humanity."
He added, "The agreement, apparently from its points, confirms that it came as a result of American and Kurdish pressure to achieve the interests of the Kurds in accordance with Article 140 and to protect the American presence by expelling the popular crowd."Which greatly contributed to the liberation of Sinjar, which was prepared by the Yazidis as the shield that protects them, according to the words of their Emir.
He explained that "the efforts of the representative of the United Nations Secretary-General Plasschaert were an American mission, not an international mission," noting that "it was the first for the representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations to gather all parties to listen to their real demands." End / AD 25

https://www.almaalomah.com/2020/10/11/499423/

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Security expert: The Sinjar agreement is a political deal between Kurdistan and Kazemi to target the popular crowd

13:52 - 10/11/2020

 

  

The information / Baghdad ..
The security expert, Sabah Al-Aqili, considered, on Sunday, the recent agreement on Sinjar that took place between the government of Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi and the region that its main objective is to target the popular crowd and prepare for the entry of the Peshmerga later to take control of the judiciary after he fled during the entry of ISIS and the cause of the misery that was It was exposed to the Yazidis in 2014.
Al-Aqili said in a statement to the information that “the recent agreement on the Sinjar district is clear of objectives and milestones and comes within the targeting of the popular crowd by Al-Kazemi and the region and the absence of the crowd’s sacrifices when Sinjar was liberated and it was welcomed by the Yazidis and the rest of the components of the Sinjar district.”
He added, "The agreement also threatened the entry of the Peshmerga, and this is contrary to what the Yazidis want, who were reassured of the presence of the crowd after their liberation from ISIS." In addition to the granting of the region to the service administration of the region in preparation for annexing the judiciary to the region in the future.
The deputy of the Al-Fateh Alliance, Muhammad Al-Baldawi, had confirmed to "the information", that the agreement that the Al-Kazemi government concluded with the region regarding Sinjar was under American and Kurdish pressure, and that the representative of the United Nations worked diligently to implement what the Americans wanted.

https://www.almaalomah.com/2020/10/11/499418/

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Security expert: The Sinjar agreement is a political deal between Kurdistan and Kazemi to target the popular crowd

13:52 - 10/11/2020

 

  

The information / Baghdad ..
The security expert, Sabah Al-Aqili, considered, on Sunday, the recent agreement on Sinjar that took place between the government of Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi and the region that its main objective is to target the popular crowd and prepare for the entry of the Peshmerga later to take control of the judiciary after he fled during the entry of ISIS and the cause of the misery that was It was exposed to the Yazidis in 2014.
Al-Aqili said in a statement to the information that “the recent agreement on the Sinjar district is clear of objectives and milestones and comes within the targeting of the popular crowd by Al-Kazemi and the region and the absence of the crowd’s sacrifices when Sinjar was liberated and it was welcomed by the Yazidis and the rest of the components of the Sinjar district.”
He added, "The agreement also threatened the entry of the Peshmerga, and this is contrary to what the Yazidis want, who were reassured of the presence of the crowd after their liberation from ISIS." In addition to the granting of the region to the service administration of the region in preparation for annexing the judiciary to the region in the future.
The deputy of the Al-Fateh Alliance, Muhammad Al-Baldawi, had confirmed to "the information", that the agreement that the Al-Kazemi government concluded with the region regarding Sinjar was under American and Kurdish pressure, and that the representative of the United Nations worked diligently to implement what the Americans wanted.

https://www.almaalomah.com/2020/10/11/499418/

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Tarazi: The Peshmerga in Sinjar and the disputed areas have spread a conspiracy left by the US embassy

14:54 - 11/10/2020

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The former Turkmen MP, Fawzi Akram Tarazi, confirmed, on Sunday, that the redeployment of the Peshmerga in Sinjar and the rest of the disputed areas is a big conspiracy behind the American embassy in Baghdad and the implementation of Iraqi hands .

"The American embassy in Baghdad is leading a big conspiracy to redeploy the Peshmerga and Asayish in Sinjar and the rest of the disputed areas extending from Mandali to Tal Afar," Tarazi told Al-Maaloumah .

He added that "the American goal of the matter is that Kurdistan is the next foothold for the Americans to settle in after it narrowed down in the rest of Iraq and the political blocs insisted on their exit from the country."

He explained that "Washington wants to reward the Kurds for providing them with a place and embracing them by expanding its administrative borders."

https://www.almaalomah.com/2020/10/11/499447/

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The Yazidi movement demands the cancellation of the Sinjar agreement and threatens to escalate otherwise

13:40 - 11/10/2020

 

  

The information / Baghdad .. The
Yazidi movement for reform and progress demanded, on Sunday, the government to cancel the so-called normalization agreement in Sinjar, while it threatened to escalate if this agreement is not canceled.
"The central government presented Sinjar on a gold plate to the Peshmerga forces, which had previously withdrawn from the judiciary while entering the terrorist gangs of ISIS ," the movement said in a statement seen by the information .
The movement demanded "the abolition of the so-called normalization agreement in Sinjar."
The movement threatened "escalation in the event that coordination with the people of Sinjar is not done and this agreement can be canceled." End / 25

https://www.almaalomah.com/2020/10/11/499413/

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 Iraq announces the resumption of air traffic to and from Iran

 

Economy News _ Baghdad Today, Sunday, the Ministry of Transport announced the return of air traffic and the resumption of scheduled flights to Iran. The Minister of Transport said in a statement reviewed by "Al-Eqtisad News", that the air traffic and the resumption of scheduled flights of the General Company of Iraqi Airways to and from the sectors of Iran (Tehran, Mashhad) will return from tomorrow, Monday, 10/12/2020. The minister pointed out that "the flights were resumed after obtaining the fundamental approvals from the Iranian aviation authority to operate direct flights to Baghdad and Najaf towards Mashhad and Tehran and vice versa, which were suspended for a period from 9/25/2020 to 10/8/2020 at the request of the Iranian authorities." He stressed: “The Ministry and the National Carrier Administration are keen to re-operate this important line while strengthening its preventive measures and adhering to the instructions issued by the Supreme Committee for Health and National Safety during the implementation of flights in addition to the instructions issued by the Iraqi Civil Aviation Authority and international aviation organizations to prevent the risk of catching the Corona epidemic.” And the Ministry of Transport had announced earlier today the resumption of direct flights from Basra International Airport terminal to Delhi Airport after a stop that lasted more than 7 months due to the Corona pandemic crisis. The Director General of the Iraqi Airways Company said that a direct flight, carried out by one of the air fleet’s aircraft, was launched from Basra to Delhi, with 199 passengers on board, most of them Iraqis.

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A report highlighting Iraq's financial crisis and its sovereign debt: a tremendous impact from the pandemic and a future disaster ahead!

2020-10-11

Yes Iraq: Follow up

The Executive Director and Head of Researchers at the IFPMC_LONDON Policy-Making Forum, Rana Khaled, issued a report on the financial crisis in Iraq entitled "Iraq's sovereign debt ... the past is in crisis and the future is in disaster."

The report stated that Iraq is among the countries most affected by the negative consequences of the epidemic at the level of financial liquidity systems, while the external debt of Iraq reached Iraq and reached 135 billion dollars, which represents 90% of the gross domestic product.

And "Yes Iraq" publishes the report as stated on the official website of the forum:

The sovereign debt crisis in Iraq is one of the worst economic experiences in the world, which sheds light on the role of government policies, governance crises and political stability in transforming one of the richest countries into the worst, poorest and most destitute debtors. Iraq has suffered from a foreign debt crisis over four decades of its history, and yet there are no efficient economic policies to this day that help Iraq get rid of the consequences of this crisis, which may reach the collapse of the Iraqi state.

In the early eighties of the last century, Iraq had an advanced financial position in the region, which made it one of the debt-donor countries, and Iraq's debts did not exceed 2% of GDP (Figure 1). As oil prices, accompanied by advanced economic policies, provided stability to the financial position of Iraq. But with this financial strength, which made it safe from external debt, there were no future economic policies that would reduce the burden of public spending. Rather, the state continued, by virtue of (the prevailing socialist policies) to control the economy with the marginalization of the private sector and slow development processes, despite the fact that Iraq was at the right time and circumstance that could have provided a historic opportunity to change the economic systems and shift to the stage of the economic model, as happened in other countries. Such as Malaysia and Singapore.

The image of Iraq's sovereign debt changed dramatically during the 1980s. Iraq emerged from the Iran-Iraq war and is burdened with war debts, and Iraq's foreign debts have reached 86 billion dollars in less than ten years. In 1989, Iraq transformed from a creditor state to a debtor state, with a net debt ratio of 278% of the gross domestic product.

In the wake of the 1991 Gulf War, Iraq's sovereign debt has ballooned to a record high, reaching about 733% of GDP.

In 2003, within the framework of the (war on Iraq) variables, the Paris Club restructured the Iraqi debts and the International Monetary Fund provided loans for the reconstruction of Iraq, but the Paris Club countries requested the Fund to prepare an integrated study of how the Iraqi debt can be sustained before agreeing to any reduction or write-off of debts Iraq. On the other hand, the United States led a wide campaign to reduce Iraq's debts, which it considered a fundamental and very important matter, and appointed a special envoy to deal with this issue. Indeed, the United States succeeded in writing off Iraq's debts with the Group of Seven within one year.

After 2003, the United States succeeded in putting pressure on allies to remove the burden of debt and reduce the proportion of debt to GDP, as the ratio of sovereign debt to GDP reached about 50%, thanks mostly to the growth of the size of the gross domestic product and not to the decline in debt as well as to a change in the composition of debt .

However, the previous table does not provide a realistic picture of Iraq's sovereign debt. As Iraq's debts are considered poor sovereign debt that does not have sufficient cover for repayment, but it often depends on the presence of international support or the will of international powers that provide facilities to restructure those debts. On the other hand, the floundering of domestic politics and the trap of conflicts, in addition to the fragility of political stability, often lead to the waste of wealth and the inflation of public debt.

Despite the opportunities that were made available to Iraq to reduce its foreign debt and improve economic performance, these opportunities have not been exploited and the harmful debt crisis continues to dominate development in Iraq, where the debts constitute only 10% of the total public spending on development projects and infrastructure. The "natural resource trap" continued, especially the unilateral dependence on oil as a primary source to pay off consumer debts. After 2003, the Iraqi governments did not succeed in finding alternatives to oil or reducing public government spending, developing the private sector and making it sustainable to serve the gross domestic product.

Iraq was able to obtain a huge amount of international grants and loans that could have been converted to serve investment in development and improving infrastructure, as Iraq got, between the years 2003 to 2013, about 94 billion dollars. But what happened is that Iraq used these loans in favor of filling the deficit in the operational budget, especially after the crisis of low oil prices after 2014 and the war on terror, which brought Iraq back to the stage of external borrowing allocated to support the defense budget, which is the same trap that Iraq fell into in the eighties, which led to His foreign debt has ballooned with default.

Indeed, Iraq's debts returned to inflation again with the decline in the value of debt service. Iraq's debts in 2017 amounted to about 122.9 billion dollars. Iraq continued to manage the financial deficit by resorting to debt. The debt ratio reached 64% of the value of GDP, and rose to 65% in 2018.

The future of the sovereign debt crisis: the missing solutions

The Iraqi Ministry of Finance announced that the size of the external debt of Iraq reached 135 billion dollars, which represents 90% of the gross domestic product, at a time when government efforts have faltered in approving the general budget, in which the size of the deficit is estimated at 67 billion dollars. The World Bank expected that the sovereign debt crisis in Iraq will continue due to low oil prices and unstable imports, and that this gap will be financed from the reserves of the Central Bank of Iraq and state-owned banks, which increases the country's vulnerability in the near term.

In a recent report issued by the United Nations Development Program in Iraq, it indicated that the size of Iraq's sovereign debt is likely to rise to a rate of 87.0% in 2022, which leads to the exposure of financial policies in Iraq to increased risks in the short and medium term.

The Iraqi government is still suffering from its inability to resolve its financial strategy to manage sovereign debt inflation, although the effects of financial distress and sovereign debt inflation have become evident on the Iraqi economy and the government has begun to suffer from an imbalance in the operational budget allocated for the payment of salaries and dues that are consuming most of the internal and external public debt. In fact, the absence of a clear plan or strategy will affect the Iraqi government's ability to borrow as international lenders are looking for repayment guarantees that are guaranteed by realistic and revolutionary reform plans carried out by the government accompanied by a package of serious reforms, which is often done through a painful process of reducing Government spending, import cuts, and economic activity.

Iraq is going through a global economic circumstance, the economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, as it is one of the countries that is expected to fall within the circle of the most affected by the negative consequences of the epidemic on the financial liquidity systems. It is also from the countries that are going through a bad political circumstance by virtue of the weakness of political stability systems and the absence of mechanisms for building Turkish economic policies that help in building medium and short-term economic rescue plans, and accordingly, there is no doubt that Iraq will continue to adopt external or internal borrowing as a means to fill the deficit in the balance of payments . But the biggest danger is embodied in political confusion and the absence of central policies to manage economic reform programs, which means that Iraq loses international support and any international borrowing process becomes a very complex process and is accompanied by painful social and economic consequences.

https://yesiraq.com/تقرير-يسلّط-الضوء-على-أزمة-العراق-الما/

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Turkey announces its first position on the Sinjar agreement

•  Time: 10/11/2020 15:16:08
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(Baghdad: Al Furat News) Turkey announced its first position regarding the Sinjar agreement, which the government concluded with the Kurdistan region.

The Salvation and Development Front said in a statement that its head, Osama Najafi, met with the Turkish ambassador in Baghdad, Fatih Yazd. 

The statement stressed that "in the meeting, they discussed the Iraqi-Turkish relations, the political situation, especially in the wake of the recent agreement on Sinjar, as well as developments in the elections file and files of common interest." 

Al-Nujaifi affirmed, "the content of the statement issued by the Salvation and Development Front, and presented his vision in the field of evaluation from its positive and negative aspects, stressing the importance of the return of the displaced from the various components of the Sinjar district, and the withdrawal of crowds of non-residents of the region with the necessity and importance of consulting with the political forces in Nineveh Governorate that have suffered." Much is due to the situation in Sinjar and other parts of the governorate, and any solution should be based on the interest and will of the citizens in Nineveh Governorate specifically, especially the citizens of Sinjar, including Arabs, Yazidis and Kurds.

He also stressed the "negative effects associated with the activities and practices of the Kurdistan Workers Party, which has wreaked havoc and terrorism in the region." 

In dealing with the election file, Al-Nujaifi stressed the importance of completing the election law’s provisions, distributing electoral districts in a manner consistent with the will and interest of the citizens, and standing against any attempt to exploit this for the sake of a party or political bloc. 

For his part, Ambassador Al-Nujaifi thanked his "visions and assessments of the situation, stressing that the Turkish side is absolutely keen on ending the presence of the Baha Kahka organization forces because they are a terrorist organization and greatly abuse Iraq and Turkey, and are working to exploit young people and brainwash them through recruitment and money and providing them with weapons, benefiting from the unemployment situation, which is A method similar to what the terrorist organization ISIS did. "  

He also expressed "his satisfaction with the government's intention to remove these groups, indicating that Turkey will monitor the actions because that is what it is interested in."

https://alforatnews.com/news/تركيا-تعلن-أول-موقف-لها-من-اتفاق-سنجار

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Labor calls on the cabinet to increase salaries and the number of people covered by social care

•  Time: 10/11/2020 19:24:28
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{Baghdad: Al Furat News} The Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, Adel Al-Rikabi announced that "the ministry has submitted a request to the prime minister to increase the ceiling of subsidies and the number of families included in the event of an improvement in the country's financial situation."

Al-Rikabi said during his visit to Erbil today, "We have in the Federal Ministry of Labor one million and 400 thousand families registered in the Social Protection Network who receive actual salaries, and these salaries are few and do not meet the needs of these families, but the current financial crisis may prevent us from increasing the subsidy ceiling. We hope for the 2021 budget and in the event of improvement." Economic situation: There is a request on behalf of the ministry submitted to the Federal Cabinet to increase the benefit ceiling and the number of families included as well.
He added, "We discussed with the Minister of Labor in the Kurdistan Region, who proposed the inclusion of the poor in the region with social care, and this issue must be discussed at a high level because it relates to large allocations that must be spent on the poor and those below the poverty line in the Kurdistan Region, similar to the center, but this issue needs to be discussed. The region’s cabinet with the Federal Cabinet, as well as in the House of Representatives and the Ministry of Finance, must reach an agreement, and we do not mind that we have the necessary financial allocations. The country as well as the region is living in a major financial crisis.
Ammar Al-Masoudi

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Turkey on Sinjar: We hope the agreement will come into effect

The Turkish embassy in Baghdad commented, on Saturday, on the decision of the agreement regarding Sinjar district, while expressing hope that the agreement would enter into force.

"An agreement was signed yesterday between the Iraqi central government and the Kurdistan Regional Government on security and administrative affairs issues in the town of Sinjar," Turkish Ambassador Fatih Yildiz said in a statement.

He added, “We hope that the agreement will enter into force in a way that will ensure that the Iraqi authorities restore their authority in Sinjar, the elimination of“ ISIS ”and the“ PKK ”terrorist organization and its expansion, and the return of the Yazidis and people of the region who have been subjected to severe persecution and oppression by the organization“ ISIS first ”and“ B Ka-ka "and its subsequent extension to their homelands safely."

"On this occasion, we reaffirm our readiness to cooperate with the Iraqi authorities in order to achieve stability and combat terrorism in the town of Sinjar and other parts of Iraq where the terrorist organization is located," he added.

http://www.sotaliraq.com/2020/10/11/تركيا-بشأن-سنجار-نأمل-أن-تدخل-الاتفاقي/

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The Sinjar Agreement ... expelling 10 thousand armed men from the judiciary, including foreigners ... The police and intelligence services hold the land

Baghdad / Tamim Al-Hassan

Away from the clamor, discussions are underway to expand the recently unveiled "Sinjar Agreement" to include the areas known as the "disputed".

And live more than a million people of the Kurdish nationality in the common areas between Baghdad and the region, which extends to an area of 37 thousand square kilometers.

The discussion on these issues may open the door to criticism against Mustafa Al-Kazemi's government, as some websites affiliated with armed factions have begun accusing the latter of "selling Sinjar."

According to some political circles, these criticisms may be slight, in exchange for the possibility of a clash with armed factions, some of which are close to the Popular Mobilization Forces, if they are evacuated from Sinjar.

It is not known precisely the number of armed elements in Sinjar, but it is estimated, according to sources, of more than 10 thousand, including non-Iraqi nationalities.

In the agreement, which was revealed last Friday, regarding the restoration of the situation in Sinjar, the Baghdad government described the armed elements in the city as "intruder groups" that must "end their power."

The agreement between Baghdad and Erbil is supposed to return hundreds of thousands of displaced people, most of them Yezidis, to Sinjar, six years after the journey of displacement after ISIS took control of the city.

According to a leaked copy of the agreement received by Al-Mada, the local police and the National Security and Intelligence Agency are responsible for providing security within the judiciary and all other security formations outside the boundaries of the judiciary are excluded.

The agreement also includes consideration of the administrative sites by the joint committee, which will proceed with its work by selecting a new mayor.

Harvesting long understandings

The struggle of Mahmoud, the media advisor in the office of the leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Massoud Barzani, reveals that the agreement is "the outcome of understandings that spanned for months between Baghdad and Erbil," which crystallized in Al-Kazemi's visit to the region. On Friday, Ahmed Mulla Talal, a spokesman for the prime minister, Mustafa Al-Kazemi, announced an agreement he described as “historic” to strengthen the government's authority in the Sinjar district. Mulla Talal said, in a tweet on his Twitter account, that “the Prime Minister, today, sponsored a historic agreement that strengthens the authority of the federal government in Sinjar in accordance with the constitution, ends the domination of intruder groups, and paves the way for the reconstruction of the city and the return of its people, in coordination with the Kurdistan Regional Government. “.

Since the end of 2018, groups close to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which are opposed to Turkey, have fully controlled Sinjar, after it displaced the previous administration, which was elected from the Nineveh Provincial Council in 2015.

"The agreement will end the state of chaos in the Sinjar district, which has turned, due to the dispute between Baghdad and Erbil, over its administration into a focus of terrorism and international conflict," Mahmoud’s struggle said.

Last September, Baghdad and Erbil demanded that Ankara settle its account with the parties opposing it outside the borders of Iraq, against the background of the repeated bombing of Sinjar under the pretext of pursuing the PKK.

Mahmoud added that the agreement stipulates "the expulsion of the Workers' Party and Syrian Kurdish factions, and others that receive salaries and weapons from the Popular Mobilization Forces, all located in Sinjar, and replace them with the Federal Police forces in coordination with Kurdistan."

Fear of clash

It is not known yet how the mechanism for removing these forces from the city will be, but the advisor to President Barzni "hopes that an armed clash will not take place in it."

Barzani's media advisor continues: "Some of the details of the agreement were not announced, and the popular crowd was a party to the agreement, but the mechanisms have not yet been determined."

In March 2019, the Labor Party was accused of attacking security forces affiliated with Nineveh operations, when its members ran over a member of the patrol. Khalaf Al-Hadidi, a former member of the Nineveh Provincial Council, told Al-Mada that "the Labor Party has become a state within a state, and it prevents federal forces from entering the city." After the crisis of the self-determination referendum that was organized by Kurdistan in September 2017, armed factions invaded Sinjar and established a new administration there, and deported the old one to Dohuk.

In the meantime, Sherwan Dubardani, who is a deputy from Nineveh, told Al-Mada that the implementation of the agreement will take place in several stages, explaining, "We fear a clash with armed groups in Sinjar." The PKK forces hid behind Yazidi forces in the city known as “Al-Yebsha”, which was established 6 years ago, and is in fact composed of Labor Party members or supporters of it at the very least.

Al-Yabsha is a formation that appeared in 2014, after ISIS’s occupation of Sinjar, where the Workers' Party recruited some angry youth from the extremist organization, and then participated side by side in the liberation operations, before joining the PMF, according to Sinjar officials.

Revive old agreements

Rep. Dupardani expects that the Sinjar agreement will "reactivate the joint security room between the federal forces and the" Peshmerga "in the Kasak area, west of Mosul, and revive other similar rooms in Diyala and Kirkuk to increase coordination.

Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi confirmed in a statement issued by his office last Friday, that "the federal government, in coordination with the regional government, will play its primary role in order to properly implement the agreement, to ensure its success, in cooperation with the people of Sinjar first."

After that statement, websites - promoting the recent armed operations carried out by Shiite factions under the name of "resistance" to attack foreign interests in Iraq - launched a wide criticism campaign against Al-Kazemi. Those groups launched a “hashtag” on Twitter under the name “Al-Kazemi sells Sinjar,” and the number of tweets in it reached more than 60,000 tweets, most of which accused the Prime Minister of sacrificing the blood of the “Popular Mobilization Forces” in liberating Sinjar. In turn, Barzani’s advisor Kifah Mahmoud said, "The Sinjar agreement is the beginning of other agreements that are being discussed quietly to normalize the situation in Khanaqin, the Nineveh Plain, Kirkuk, and all the disputed areas."

The President of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Masrour Barzani, welcomed the agreement between Baghdad and Erbil, and said that "the two sides agreed to manage Sinjar from the administrative, security and service aspects jointly," noting that "the agreement will be the beginning of the implementation of Article 140 of the constitution."

Re-displaced

The struggle of Mahmoud confirmed that the agreement, which is supposed to return about 350,000 displaced people from Sinjar, was sponsored by the United Nations and the United States. The Washington embassy in Baghdad said in a message on its Facebook account that it "looks forward to being fully implemented."

“The United States of America congratulates the Iraqi government and the Kurdistan Regional Government for reaching a joint cooperation agreement in Sinjar,” the embassy said in a statement. We look forward to its full implementation, and we hope that this agreement will lead to lasting security and stability for the Iraqi people in northern Iraq. ” The Sinjar agreement was also supported by the United Nations, and the representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Jenin Plasschaert, who attended the signing ceremony, said that it is "a historic day for Sinjar after the massacres that its sons lived at the hands of ISIS gangs, and the hardships they suffered after the expulsion of ISIS." "It is a real beginning for the return of the displaced to their areas, and the United Nations is ready to support stability in this region," she added.

The struggle of Mahmoud indicates that the Iraqi government has a responsibility "to restore the usurped and destroyed homes of Sinjar residents and to achieve security so that the implementation of the agreement begins."

According to estimates by officials and members of the Human Rights Commission that visited Sinjar in 2016, there are about 4,000 completely destroyed homes in the city.

http://www.sotaliraq.com/2020/10/11/اتفاق-سنجار-طرد-10-آلاف-مسلح-من-القضاء-بي/

 

[Mary B]

Sunday, October 11, 2020 03:24 PM

 

Nechirvan Barzani: The Sinjar agreement is a correct national step in the interest of the whole country

 

 

 

The President of the Kurdistan region, Nechirvan Barzani, confirmed that the Sinjar agreement is  a correct national step in the interest of the whole country, and will lead to rebuilding and strengthening confidence between the federal government and the regional government.

According to a statement by the Kurdistan Regional Presidency, Barzani said, "We look at the agreement that was concluded between the federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government to normalize the situation in Sinjar with a positive and optimistic view, and we urge the two negotiating teams on both sides to succeed in dialogue and reaching an agreement.

 He explained that this achievement is a result of a sense of responsibility." And solidarity and joint action between the relevant parties. "

He added, "We extend our thanks and special appreciation to Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi, who had a prominent, effective and helpful role in making the talks succeed and reaching this agreement, and we also thank the support and participation of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Iraq, Jenin Blashart and the efforts she made to reach an agreement, and we thank all those who Cooperate and help reach it. "

He expressed his hope that this step will be followed by other steps to solve all problems between the two sides and will result in the return of the Yazidi sisters and brothers and all the people of Sinjar with dignity, safety and without problems, and lead to stability and reconstruction of the region. ”

He called on international partners to help in the reconstruction of Sinjar and the region and revive its infrastructure. It will lead to achieving safety, stability and societal peace, and deepening coexistence and tolerance among the components.

https://www.thebaghdadpost.com/ar/Story/202660/نيجرفان-بارزاني-اتفاق-سنجار-خطوة-وطنية-صائبة-تصب-في-مصلحة-البلد-كله

[Mary B]

Bilateral talks between the foreign ministers of Egypt and Iraq in Cairo ... Monday

The foreign ministers of Egypt and Iraq in a press conference - archive

 October 11, 2020 09:30 PM

Cairo - Mubasher: Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry will hold a session of talks tomorrow, Monday, with his Iraqi counterpart Fouad Hussein, who is on a visit to Cairo.

The meeting - which will be held at the Tahrir Palace - deals with the Egyptian-Iraqi relations and means of enhancing them in various fields as well as regional issues of common concern, according to the Middle East News Agency.

The agency reported that the two ministers are scheduled to hold a joint press conference at the conclusion of the talks.

https://www.mubasher.info/news/3705803/مباحثات-ثنائية-بين-وزيري-خارجية-مصر-والعراق-في-القاهرة-الاثنين/

[Mary B]

Al-Hakim Alliance sets conditions for elections and emphasizes restoration of state's prestige

 2020-10-11 15:24
  
Shafq News: An Iraqi coalition led by Ammar al-Hakim stressed on Sunday the need to hold elections in positive and safe climates, away from gun control, watering campaigns and defamation.
"The political commission of an Iraqi coalition held its regular meeting headed by Ammar al-Hakim, president of the coalition, and discussed the issues on the agenda of the meeting, as well as discussing the latest political and economic situationin Iraq," the coalition said in a statement to Shafq News.
"It is important to complete the files concerning the holding of early elections, particularly with regard to the Federal Court, and to resolve the mechanism of compensation of members," they stressed, stressing the need to conduct positive and safe climates away from the power of arms, watering campaigns and defamation.
"It is important to find economic remedies for the crisis caused by low oil prices and the consequences of the Corona pandemic, and the need to combat corruption, address financial waste, activate other sectors and create jobs," they said.
"The doors of the coalition are open to the forces that believe in the state, pointing out the importance of strengthening the path of the state and restoring its prestige and countering all attempts to undermine it," they said.
Prime Minister's election adviser Abdul Hussein al-Hindawi on Sunday ruled out the possibility that the country's financial crisis could affect the early elections on schedule.
Iraq is facing a financial deficit due to the fall in crude oil prices on the world market due to the outbreak of the coronavirus, and the crisis has been reflected in salaries and benefits for public sector workers, whose numbers are estimated to be in the millions to be late.
Kadhimi's announcement of the date of the elections was welcomed by the United Nations and pledged to support and work to make it a success, but the positions of the political blocs remain vague and divided over the date and mechanisms for holding the elections.

https://shafaq.com/ar/سیاسة/تحالف-الحكيم-يضع-شروطا-ل-جرا-الانتخابات-وي-كد-على-استعادة-هيبة-الدولة

[Mary B]

Al-Halbousi is discussing with the heads of the National Retirement Authority and the Martyrs Foundation the compensation file

Sunday 11, October 2020 23:58 | PoliticalViews: 152

Baghdad / NINA / Parliament Speaker Muhammad al-Halbousi received today, Sunday, the head of the National Pension Authority, Iyad al-Jubouri, and the head of the Martyrs Foundation, Kazem Awaid.

A statement by the Office of the President of the House of Representatives of the Iraqi National News Agency received Nina a copy of which had been discussed during the meeting file of compensation, and the need to facilitate procedures and overcome the obstacles and to find the necessary covered solutions by those salaries stopped, and follow up their transactions and audit.

During the meeting, Al-Halbousi stressed the fairness of this important segment, which was affected by military and terrorist operations, and the need to provide the necessary allocations to obtain their dues. / End 9

http://ninanews.com/Website/News/Details?Key=862174

 

[Mary B]

Al-Baldawi: America and those who press with the Zionists seek to weaken the state’s power represented by the "crowd"

09:02 - 10/12/2020

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between the representative of the Al-Fateh Alliance, Muhammad Al-Baldawi, that the United States and the Gulf states that printed with the Zionist entity are moving to weaken the strength of Iraq represented by the popular crowd, stressing the need for everyone to stand against these conspiracies in order to preserve the prestige of the state.
Al-Baldawi told "the information" that "America and the Gulf states that were printed with the Zionist entity and the practical personalities that line up with them are working today to weaken the strength of the Iraqi state represented by the popular crowd."
He stressed the need for "everyone to stand up to defend the prestige of the state and the presence of the popular crowd against internal and external plans seeking to weaken it and end its existence."
Al-Baldawi was surprised by the arbitrary measures taken against the members of the Popular Mobilization Forces , especially that the government did not do justice to them as it did their peers in the security forces.In the Ministries of Interior and Defense ”. 25 n

https://www.almaalomah.com/2020/10/12/499537/

[Mary B]

Sunday, October 11, 2020 04:28 PM

 

Iraqi Health Ministry records 62 deaths and 2,206 new cases of Corona epidemic

 

 

 

Today, Sunday, the Ministry of Health announced the registration of 2,206 new cases of Coronavirus in Iraq.

The ministry said in a statement, that "2,206 new cases of Coronavirus have been recorded, and 3,827 people with Coronavirus have recovered."

The ministry added that "62 new deaths from the Corona virus were recorded."

https://www.thebaghdadpost.com/ar/Story/202670/الصحة-العراقية-تسجل-62-وفاة-و-2206-إصابة-جديدة-بوباء-كورونا