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Nasr Alliance, headed by Haidar al-Abadi, is leading a movement to open the case against leader of the State of Law Coalition and former Prime MinisterNouri al-Malikirelated to the waste of public money during his rule, Lebanese Al-Akhbar said.
The official investigations fuel political conflicts. Some opponents are trying to exploit them according to serve their interests, the report said.
The report said that 78 MPs submitted, days ago, a request to the presidency of the parliament to form a fact-finding committee to discuss the circumstances of the Camp Speicher Massacre committed by ISIS in June 2014, as well as cases of squandering public funds during the government of Maliki.
MP Yousef al-Kalabi of the Nasr Alliance, allied with Saairun Alliance, National Wisdom Alliance, and Iraqi National List have accused Maliki and his government of spending huge sums of money outside the controls adopted in the draft federal budget in 2014, to implement alleged economic projects and services.
Muqtada Al-Sadr
The Iraqi Shia cleric and prominent political leaderMuqtada Al-Sadrhas threatened to investigate former Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki for corruption, according to media reports in October last year.
Sadr’s Spokesman Sheikh Salah Al-Obeidi said the “thieves” would be held accountable, in addition to Al-Maliki’s men, “who brought back the thieves to Iraq and covered up their corruption”.
“The abundance of corruption crimes during the past years does not mean that crimes committed against the Iraqis would be abandoned,” he announced.
The spokesman concluded: “There is a lot to reveal in the coming days.”
These remarks came after a tweet posted by the head of the National Movement for Development and Reform party, Jamal Al-Karbouli, in which he called for the people who preach morals to teach themselves before teaching others.
The veiled comment was directed at Al-Sadr after he launched an appeal calling for people to ignore the sectarian partition of the government and allowing the designate prime minister to choose technocrats for his government.
The World Bank expects Iraq's economy to recover at this rate
{International: Al Furat News} The World Bank expects the economy of Iraq and Yemen to recover significantly during the coming period, expecting the growth of the Iraqi economy by 2.8 percent this year.
A report by the bank attributed its expectation to a new government in Iraq, compared with a rate of 0.6 per cent in 2018, as well as that the agreement on the reconstruction of Iraq will give the economy a strong boost. The outlook for the economic performance of oil importing countries in the region is closely related to developments in oil-rich neighboring countries, particularly in the GCC countries. The recovery of oil-exporting countries is linked to increased capital flows, foreign direct investment and cash transfers to neighboring importing countries Of oil. The decline in economic growth in the United States, China and the European Union could adversely affect economic growth in the region, according to World Bank experts.He attributed the reason for the slow growth in these countries, to the uncertainty caused by international trade tensions between the EU and the United States and China, and the decline in fiscal stimulus in the United States.
Governor of Wasit describes the budget (2019) investment
In the local April 2, 2019 comments on Governor Wasit describes balance (2019) closed investment 49 visits
Baghdad / SNG - Governor of Wasit Mohammed Jamil al-Mayahi, Monday, the budget of 2019 investment and development of the regions, pointing out that the budget of the ministries implemented in the province of Wasit up to approximately (220) million dollars.
Al-Mayahi said in an interview with Al-Khubari Center that "122 projects will be implemented in Wasit Governorate. All these projects are good projects and are funded to this year. Most of their achievements are 60-70%."
He added that "there are projects will be included later within the budget for the border posts for the province of Wasit, which amounts to (two billion and a half dinars) every month distributed to the population ratios for municipal work directly."
"The budget (2019) does not meet the volume of damage and service problems in the province, stressing that since (2014) so far did not come as a budget (2019) can move the work and market and projects and education in particular in the construction of schools." "
{International: Al Furat News} Oil prices rose to their highest levels in 2019 on Tuesday, supported by strong Chinese economic data, the possibility of new sanctions on Iran and the disruption of Venezuelan supplies.
Brent crude rose 32 cents, or 0.5 percent, to $ 69.44 a barrel by 0212 GMT, having touched $ 69.50, its highest since mid-November. US crude futures rose 30 cents, or 0.5 percent, to $ 61.89 a barrel after crossing the $ 62 mark for the first time since early November. China's manufacturing sector returned unexpectedly to growth in March for the first time in four months. Manufacturing data in the US also came in better than expected in March, helping investors outperform weak February retail sales data. A senior administration official told reporters on Monday that Washington was considering additional sanctions on new sectors of the Iranian economy. The official also noted that the United States may not extend exemptions from sanctions on Iranian oil exports.
(International: Al Furat News) President Barham Salih revealed that Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi will visit neighboring countries including Saudi Arabia in mid-April.
"Saudi-Iraqi relations are growing, I visited Saudi Arabia and I met King Salman bin Abdul Aziz, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Saudi officials," Saleh said in an interview. "King Salman has been very concerned about Iraq and stressed the need to develop relations. A Saudi ministerial delegation has visited us and a large Saudi delegation will soon visit Baghdad to confirm the activation of the joint Saudi-Iraqi committee," he said. Saleh said, "Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi will visit the Kingdom and neighboring countries in the middle of this month." "We see in the consolidation of relations with the Kingdom an essential part of our perspective of what we want to be the relations of Iraq, we may differ in political vocabulary here and there and on this issue or that, but at the same time there are geographical and historical constants and cultural ties. He said: "My meeting with the Crown Prince was good, frank and direct, and we spoke in depth of what was required. He was understanding of the situation in Iraq and the need to enable the Iraqis to overcome the challenges and the need not to load Iraq and the equations we need. Development ". The visit of Saudi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi is the second since he took office in October 2018 after he visited Egypt on March 23 and held a trilateral summit with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Jordan's King Abdullah II. is over
Al-Tufayli visits the plant of Tim Abu Sank and stresses the support of the national product
(Baghdad: Al-Furat News) member of the Committee on Investment and Economy Representative Salim Tahmir al-Tufaili dates factory in Abi Gharq district of Babel province.
Al-Tafayli briefed him on the work of the factory, stressing "the need to encourage the local product and provide the necessary means and facilitate procedures for investors in order to achieve self-sufficiency in the country and reduce unemployment." He called on "the competent authorities to cooperate with investors and buy government departments to their needs of investment factories located in the country instead of going abroad, as well as facilitate the procedures followed for investment projects and away from routine murder and corruption. For their part, investors praised the role of the parasite for its support and overcoming the obstacles facing them
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Deputy for the construction: Kurdish disputes over the justice portfolio has chosen to complete the government
MP from the coalition of construction Mohamed Baldawi, Tuesday, not complete the cabinet cab to the moment to the Kurdish dispute on the candidate of the Ministry of Justice, noting that the Kurdish dispute in the formation of the provincial government reflected on Baghdad.
Al-Baldawi said in a statement that all the political blocs are almost agreed to complete the ministerial cabin and there is a tendency to grant the national list the position of the Ministry of Defense, while the conquest got the Ministry of Interior and Education of the Axis alliance.
"What delays the completion of the formation of the government so far is the Kurdish dispute between the Patriotic Union and the Kurdistan Democratic Party on the post of Minister of Justice."
Baldawi said that "the dispute between the Kurdish forces during the formation of the Kurdistan government reflected negatively on Baghdad and led to delay access to a comprehensive agreement to pass the remaining four ministries."
Saleh: We need to imitate the Imam Kadhim for a dignified life and good behavior
The President of the Republic, Barham Salih, commemorated the martyrdom of Imam Kadhim "AS" Saleh said in a tweet to him on Twitter: On the anniversary of the martyrdom of Imam Musa bin Jaafar al-Kadhim "peace be upon him" we recall the values of tolerance, humility, patience, freedom and tender embodied by the Imam in his life, the Psalm of Doha Muhammadiyah was the best example of all the ethics that we need to invoke constantly, For a decent life and a high ethical conduct. " is over
Baghdad: The commander of the joint headquarters for joint operations in Kirkuk province, Major General of the Special Forces Saad Brigade, reassured the citizens of Kirkuk of the lack of risks due to the wave of rain and floods that hit a number of cities in Kirkuk. "Our heroic forces are present with their brothers in the crisis cell, who are carrying out their humanitarian and security duties around the clock," he said in a statement. Praising "the spirit and joint action that characterizes Kirkuk in all its security, service and administrative configurations," noting that "there are no risks in Elton Bridge, Debs, Abbasi and Zab."
The government directed to cut off national electricity from the ministries and departments affiliated with them during the summer
Baghdad: Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi, on Monday, to cut off electricity from the headquarters of the ministries and departments of the provinces in all during the summer. The Ministry of Electricity said in a statement received by "the news" that "the adviser to the Prime Minister transferred the direction of Abdul Mahdi, to begin cutting off the power of the headquarters of ministries and its departments in all provinces, and the replacement of national electricity generators, and the need for heads of energy committees in the provinces prepare teams to follow up implementation This directive is beneficial for the provision of electrical power in the coming summer to citizens in residential areas directly, and excludes some departments such as health, water, sewage and nationality, with the heads of the departments given the necessary powers to do so. The meeting was attended by Minister of Electricity Luay Khatib to review the reality of the electrical system and preparations for the summer of 2019. The meeting was attended by the Advisor to the Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, Abdul Hussein Al Henin, the Undersecretary for Transport and Distribution Nafie Abdul Sada, the Director General of the Technical Department Majed Hantoush, In the provincial councils, as well as the presence of directors of distribution departments in the provinces. The Minister of Electricity, during the meeting, on "the implementation of the plan of the Ministry of Electricity for 2019, after being studied and follow-up by the advanced owners of the ministry, noting that the budget in 2019, is a budget for maintenance purposes only, and complete schedules according to a specific time, Reconstruction of the electricity sector, including all the stations that were damaged as a result of sabotage and terrorist acts carried out by elements of the organization calling for the terrorist in the liberated provinces. According to the statement, Khatib said, "The possibility of maintaining electricity in the event of stable technical and operational conditions of the units produced, as well as the important role played by citizens in energy conservation and a sense of responsibility and promote a culture of rationalization in all sectors, as well as motivate citizens to pay fees The collection of each house according to its consumption, to ensure the sustainability of electricity and continuity in accordance with the legal systems in force internationally, the fact that these funds, supporting the conservation and implementation of large projects to promote the growth and development of the electrical system. He stressed the importance of cooperation between the Ministry of Electricity and the Ministry of Oil, increasing coordination and maintaining gas pressure and providing fuel of all types for all generating stations producing electricity. He pointed out the commitment of the decisions of the Higher Coordinating Committee between governorates, On their assessed shares. " With regard to the plan of the ministry for 2020, which represents a major challenge to the ministry, the Minister of Electricity, the development of radical solutions and not a patchwork when discussing the next federal budget plan in the Council of Ministers and the Council of Energy Ministerial and the Council of Representatives, and the preparation of the budget and decide, and the date 1/1/2019 , A date for the start of work and adoption of the methodology (reconstruction of electricity), as a work address instead of patching solutions. According to the statement, "There are stations within the maintenance program will enter the service, and there are switching stations (400 - 132) (KV), in progress, and will be opened sequentially to resolve the problem of bottlenecks in the network, Electric power to increase processing hours for citizens.
The Chairman of the Union of Contractors discusses with the Minister of Planning the disbursement of financial dues
(Independent) .. The President of the Union of Iraqi contractors with the Minister of Planning, outstanding problems on the payment of receivables of financial contractors. The head of the Iraqi Contractors Union Ali al-Sanafi said that when I met with Minister of Planning Nuri al-Dulaimi on Monday, the payment of dues 30% , and to instruct the provinces of Basra, Maysan, Diwaniyah, Muthanna, Wasit, Karbala, Dhi Qar, Anbar, Salahuddin and Babil to follow up the disclosures sent to the Ministry of Finance, . The minister explained that the minister directed the deputy minister, Maher Hammad, to follow up the matter and expedite the completion of the disbursement as soon as possible, and disbursing the outstanding amounts for the second part. He promised to follow up with the Ministry of Finance and complete any approvals required by the financial authorities, and exempt the conditions and mechanisms of classification of contractors. the condition .
Minister of Trade: We initiated an emergency plan to equip the affected families as a result of rain with food
Baghdad Mawazine News The Ministry of Trade and Industry in coordination with local governments in Salah al-Din and Anbar began to identify areas affected by floods and rain as well as displacement camps in Baghdad for the purpose of starting a plan to equip them with food items within 24 hours of enumeration of these families. This was announced by Minister of Commerce Dr. Mohammad Hashim Al-Ani, in charge of the work of the crisis cell, which is following up the developments of climatic conditions in all regions of the country and preparing immediate reports to the Ministry's headquarters and companies supervising the processing directly. Minister Al-Ani stressed that "Sub-committees and centers in all governorates should take their role in determining the damage caused to the citizens by floods and rain and determining their need for foodstuffs as well as the importance of acting urgently on the immediate treatment after the enumeration of these families by the staff of the Department of Planning and Follow- Scattered throughout the country. " At the same level, the food companies in the Ministry of Commerce and implementation of the directive of the Minister of Commerce, Dr. Mohammad Hashim al-Ani, "immediate immediate processing of all affected areas in Salah al-Din and Anbar after reports of the exposure of places of citizens and their homes in those provinces to the full damage and exit from them." The branches of food companies, grain processing and grain trade have been assigned to the processing and cutting of foodstuffs to agents in those areas, while quantities of ready-made salmon will be sent from the kilns of the grain manufacturer in Baghdad to these areas and immediately to meet the need of families and provide food possible to cope with the conditions of rain and floods experienced by some Governorates. The Ministry of Commerce formed a crisis cell in all its companies and branch sites in the provinces and in a proactive step to secure the food possible to cope with the consequences of climatic conditions in a number of the provinces of the country
The Chairman of the Union of Contractors discusses with the Minister of Planning the disbursement of financial dues
Independent .. The President of the Union of Iraqi contractors with the Minister of Planning, outstanding problems on the payment of receivables of financial contractors. The head of the Iraqi Contractors Union Ali al-Sanafi said that when I met with Minister of Planning Nuri al-Dulaimi on Monday, the payment of dues 30% , and to instruct the provinces of Basra, Maysan, Diwaniyah, Muthanna, Wasit, Karbala, Dhi Qar, Anbar, Salahuddin and Babil to follow up the disclosures sent to the Ministry of Finance, . The minister explained that the minister directed the deputy minister, Maher Hammad, to follow up the matter and expedite the completion of the disbursement as soon as possible, and disbursing the outstanding amounts for the second part. He promised to follow up with the Ministry of Finance and complete any approvals required by the financial authorities, and exempt the conditions and mechanisms of classification of contractors. the condition .
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