WOTS WED APR 14 21
These are the articles I discussed on the My FX Buddies Podcast at: https://anchor.fm/dashboard/episode/euvvat
Parliamentary committee: the budget will adopt a new way to deal with the 'petrodollar' clause
The Parliamentary Oil and Energy Committee announced, on Wednesday, that the 2021 budget will adopt a new method regarding the "petrodollar" clause, as well as adding projects worth 1 trillion dinars to the oil-producing provinces.
Committee member Sadiq Al-Sulaiti said, in a statement to NRT Arabia (April 14, 2021), that "the issue of (petrodollars) in all budgets was mentioned that there are dues for oil-producing provinces, as well as provinces that contain refineries as part of the allocations of" petrodollars ", through sums For these provinces within their own investment plan.
Al-Sulaiti noted that "this issue is written in the budgets, but it is not applied, because the Ministry of Finance was citing the lack of financial revenues and the deficit in financing" petrodollar "projects remains.
Al-Sulaiti added that "the debts of the Ministry of Finance to the southern governorates amounted to more than 25 trillion dinars, according to the" petrodollar "clause, and this amount has not been paid yet. For the "petrodollars", by opening accounts on a monthly basis from oil revenues that are deducted from the "petrodollars" in order for these projects to be organized by the producing provinces according to their production quotas, and the amount is kept away from the disposal of the Ministry of Finance.
Al-Sulaiti added, "We hope that this step will help in finding investment service projects for these governorates, as they are worthy of them," stressing that "members of the House of Representatives are following up this issue with the Ministry of Finance in order to bring it into implementation as soon as possible." For oil, which is a very good amount that will give at least a push in the field of organizing service projects for these provinces, "noting that" the covered governorates are most of the southern provinces, as well as the central and Baghdad governorates.
Explosives-laden drone targets U.S. forces at Iraq's Erbil airport -Kurdish officials
ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) -A drone dropped explosives near U.S. forces stationed at Erbil airport in northern Iraq late on Wednesday, Kurdish officials said, with no immediate reports of casualties.
It was the first known attack carried out by an unmanned aerial drone against U.S. forces in Erbil, amid a steady stream of rocket attacks on bases hosting U.S. forces and the embassy in Baghdad that Washington blames on Iran-backed militias.
The interior ministry of the autonomous Kurdistan regional government, based in Erbil, said in a statement the drone was carrying TNT which it used to target the U.S. forces. It said no one was hurt in the attack.
A group that Western and some Iraqi officials say is aligned with Iran praised the attack, but did not explicitly claim it.
A barrage of rockets hit the same U.S.-led military base in the Erbil International Airport vicinity in February, killing a non-American contractor working with the U.S. military.
Shortly before Wednesday’s attack in Erbil, at least two rockets landed on and near a base to the west of the city that hosts Turkish forces, Iraqi security officials said.
Sirens at the U.S. consulate in Erbil blared during the airport attack, witnesses said.
Turkey also has troops in Iraq both as part of a NATO contingent and a force that has attacked Kurdish separatist militants in the north.
The Iran-backed militias oppose both the presence of the United States and Turkey and demand a full withdrawal of all foreign troops.
The United States has sometimes responded with air strikes against Iran-aligned militias including on the Iraqi-Syrian border.
An air strike ordered by former president Donald Trump that killed Iran’s top commander Qassem Soleimani in January 2020 sent the region to the brink of a full-scale conflict.
Adjustment to the exchange rate
On March 16, the Central Bank of Iraq explained in a statement, the reason for the decline in the exchange rate of the dollar in the parallel market - especially in February - from the official selling rate after the change of price by the Bank at the end of December 2020, and explained the central decline in what it called the "shock of the domestic market" which needed a period of adjustment to the adjustments that occurred between traders (wholesale, retail, singular) and wholesale settlements with banks, where imports declined to levels severe, and then lower demand for currency Foreign.".
However, this interpretation, based on the market mechanism, did not take into account the impact of the political space on this mechanism, as the apprehension of many of the public, including many traders and speculators, continued to escalate at other times and decline, according to statements and promises about influencing the central decision and the intention to undo it in favor of slogans, which were employed to win positions, without taking into account the nature of the variable that requires preparing for the flow of foreign investment and establishing an investment climate, led by allied capital of globalization capital in the region, which requires action on several axes. In order to achieve this trend, the exchange rate in the parallel market did not rise, until after the approval of the budget, and to ensure that the relevant authorities are continuing their policy irreversibly, to create a competitive environment that protects the local product from the low prices of goods produced in the countries of geographical neighboring and preparing for monetary stability, encourages foreign capital to enter the Iraqi arena in a security, legal and monetary atmosphere Stable.
But adjusting to the exchange rate will not take its attractive form of investment, except by liberalizing the exchange rate and creating monetary stability in an atmosphere of free exchange and trading to ensure the movement of capital to and from within Iraq, without any effect on the difference in the value of the exchange rate with currencies The other one.
To ensure investment accounts in feasibility studies developed by investors, they are keen in financial feasibility studies to ensure that the price in the parallel market does not change during the life of the project to achieve the feasibility of the establishment of the project, as well as the importance of competitiveness to protect the local product, which is likely to adopt the method of "managed float" in the next step in conjunction with the increase of central reserves, which will contribute to giving more freedom of maneuver to those in charge of monetary policy, and ensuring adjustment to parallel market fluctuations to reach for stability.
Ramadan breeds dread in crisis-hit Iraq
Baghdad (AFP)
Faced with sharp price rises, a decline in the buying power of the dinar and rising unemployment, Iraqis enter the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan with a feeling of dread.
"After a whole day of fasting, we have to eat something," even if the price of a kilo of tomatoes has more than doubled, said Umm Hussein, a single mother of five who has no salary.
She struggles each month to raise the $45 rent for their modest home.
Like 16 million of Iraq's 40-million population living under the poverty line, Umm Hussein relies on her ration card for food.
Under the legacy from the 1990s when Iraq's Saddam Hussein was under a stringent international embargo, every Iraqi whose household heads earns less than $1,000 a month is entitled to certain basic provisions at subsidised prices.
But this year, "we've only received the rations for February", said Abu Seif, 36, who like his father before him has the job of distributing bags of subsidised goods.
"We still haven't got the rations for Ramadan," during which Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset, a period that starts this week.
Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi had promised extra rations for the holy month. But "people are coming in or calling every day to ask when they're arriving", said Abu Seif.
In Abu Ammar's grocery store, the credit line has been stretched so far that he fears not being able to pay his suppliers any more.
With prices rising sharply, "some families owe more than 200,000 dinars" ($130), the grocer told AFP.
The authorities in energy-rich Iraq, with revenues slashed by the decline in world oil prices, last year devalued the dinar, which has lost 25 percent of its value against the dollar.
As a result, for example, the price for a bottle of cooking oil has gone up to 2,500 dinars, from 1,500 dinars.
- No joking matter -
On top of price hikes, Covid-19 restrictions such as lockdowns and curfews have killed jobs, especially the day jobs on which many Iraqis rely following decades of conflict.
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization says Iraqis are trapped in a vicious circle.
"Over 90 percent of small and medium enterprises in the food and agriculture sector reported being severely to moderately affected by the pandemic. To cope with decreased revenue, more than 50 percent either let staff go or reduced salaries," it says.
A joke doing the rounds on Iraqi social media goes something like: "This year, salaries are in the group of death with Covid-19 and Eid al-Fitr (the feast marking the end of Ramadan). Not sure they will make it though to the next round."
Haider, a 32-year-old civil servant, says it's no laughing matter.
"Ramadan fills me with dread. We need a lot of things for the house and new clothes for the children," he said.
Even in normal times, he struggles to pay the rent, for daily expenses and electricity charges with his monthly salary of $600.
Electricity is one of the heaviest financial burdens, in a country with at times 20-hours-a-day power cuts that force Iraqis to turn to private generators that run on pricey fuel.
Abu Ahmad, a 32-year-old colleague, says he will skip the traditions this Ramadan.
"I'm not going to be giving big dinners at my place, so as not to spread Covid," he said. "But also, because I can't afford it."
Central Bank: The importance of international technical support to implement financial and economic reforms
The Governor of the Central Bank of Iraq, Mustafa Ghaleb, stressed on Tuesday the importance of international technical support to implement financial and economic reforms in the White Paper.
In a statement received by the Tigris, the Central Bank said, "His governor met with a delegation from the French Development Agency (AFD), and the two parties discussed ways of joint cooperation."
The governor assured the delegation, "the importance of international technical support to implement the financial and economic reforms presented in the white paper, proposing a meeting between the French Development Agency and the private banking sector to define the area of joint cooperation."
For its part, the French Development Agency expressed "its desire to establish a branch in Iraq to increase cooperation, as well as to provide loans for service and productive projects of the Iraqi government, and to provide financing for the public and private sectors."
It is reported that the French Development Agency (AFD) is a public institution for development financing that works to combat poverty and promote economic growth in developing countries.
The rise in the price of the dollar in the Kurdistan Region and Iraq
The exchange rate of the dollar rose today, Tuesday, significantly, on the main stock exchange, Kurdistan Region, and the capital, Baghdad.
In the capital, Erbil, the dollar price witnessed a rise, as the selling price reached 150,000 dinars per hundred dollars, and the purchase was 149,500 dinars per hundred US dollars.
As for the central Al-Kifah and Al-Harithiyah Stock Exchange in Baghdad, it registered 149,300 Iraqi dinars for 100 US dollars.
While the Central Kifah Stock Exchange recorded 147800 Iraqi dinars during its opening this morning.
The selling and buying prices increased in the exchange shops in the local markets in Baghdad, where the selling price reached 150,000 Iraqi dinars, while the purchase prices reached 149,000 dinars per 100 US dollars.
The fluctuation of the Iraqi dinar and the fate of "the most vulnerable sectors of society"
Muhammad Al-Wazzan, the owner of a large banking and remittance company, lost about $ 60,000, on Tuesday, after the Iraqi dinar’s exchange rate fell against the US dollar in the Baghdad markets, and lost about $ 12,000 more on Wednesday, when the dinar’s price rose slightly.
The value of the US dollar, on Tuesday and Wednesday, ranged between $ 1475 and $ 1495 against the Iraqi dinar.
Al-Wazzan says to Al-Hurra that the daily dealings he conducts are in the Iraqi currency and the dollar, and the variation in the exchange rate may lead to large losses, and it may also lead to profits "if you are lucky."
And luck, here, that you are in possession of an American currency more than the Iraqi one at the time of the high price of the dollar, and more Iraqi at the time of its decline, in order to benefit from the price difference between them.
Al-Wazzan says that only two of his 14 colleagues were lucky and made profits of twenty and twenty-five thousand dollars respectively.
In one day, the difference in the value of the Iraqi dinar against the dollar caused a difference of up to twenty million dinars (about 15 thousand dollars) for every million dollars exchanged. And if the numbers that Muhammad said were accurate, then this means that each of these traders conducts transactions with numbers exceeding one million dollars per day.
There are more than 100 large companies in Iraq, the size of the company supervised by Muhammad Al-Wazzan.
And economist Jassim Al-Muhanna says that "the dollar has risen in Iraq, driven by its global rise," adding that "this issue may be repeated, especially since the Iraqi Central Bank is trying to lift the subsidies on the currency rate."
Al-Muhanna expert warns that "the government's policy of partial floating of the dollar will make the fragile Iraqi consumer hostage to fluctuations in global markets, which affects his economic security severely."
But this rise "does not justify the impact of the Iraqi market," according to another economist, Ali Al-Asadi, who works as an appraiser in the Iraqi market for securities.
Al-Asadi says to Al-Hurra website that "the amount of cash in the Iraqi market is greatly affected by political decisions."
Al-Asadi says that this flow "came from a desire to buy goods in Iraq, whose real value decreased against the dollar. It also coincided with Kurdistan paying part of the salaries of its employees."
According to Al-Asadi, "The amount of the dollar in the market has decreased dramatically, and for this reason its price has increased. It is a simple form of supply and demand principles."
A member of the House of Representatives for the financial committee told Al-Hurra that the parliament and the government "are not considering taking new measures to control the exchange rate."
The member, who asked not to be named, added, "For the government, the decision to remove subsidies on the Iraqi dinar is successful, because there is money flowing into the treasury, and there is maximum benefit from the high oil prices, and the expenditures paid in dinars have decreased significantly."
Last March, the Central Bank of Iraq announced that "there is no return to the previous price of the dollar, and the price will not be reduced in any way," stressing that there is no intention to raise the price from 145 thousand per 100 dollars, which is the official Iraqi exchange rate.
Last January, the Central Bank of Iraq reduced the value of the Iraqi dinar against the dollar from 1180 dinars to the dollar to 1460 dinars.
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi said in March that "Iraq began to see the results of the decision" on the growth of cash reserves and on Iraq's international credit rating.
Nevertheless, the appreciation of the dollar is hitting the most vulnerable sectors of society.
Hajj Karim Obaid, an Iraqi retired, said, "His salary is barely enough to pay for the food."
The prices of basic foodstuffs doubled after the government devalued the dinar, while prices increased again on the occasion of Ramadan, before rising again due to the high price of the dollar.
The prices of some foodstuffs in Iraq increased by between 25 and 75 percent, as the price of one kilogram of sugar rose from 1,000 dinars to 1,300 dinars in the single market, a bottle of edible oil from 1500 to 3000, and grains from 500-750 to 1000-1500 dinars.
Egg prices increased from 4,500 dinars per class (24 eggs) to 6,500 dinars.
"The merchants are raising prices quickly, but they are reducing them slowly," Obeid told Al-Hurra. "I bought this bottle of oil for two thousand five hundred dinars, and I used to buy it for one thousand five hundred before the rise in the dollar price."
State of law indicates "the weakness of managing monetary policy in Iraq"
The MP for the state of law, behind Abdel Samad, confirmed, on Wednesday, that the rise in the exchange rate of the dollar in the financial markets to a new record is a dangerous indicator that confirms the weakness of the management of monetary policy in the country and puts many question marks.
In a statement received by the Tigris, Abdul Samad said, "The gap created between the already high exchange rate and its market price means more high prices, and as a result, more economic difficulties for the poor and middle classes and those with limited incomes."
He added, "The repercussions of the wrong decision to raise the exchange rate and include it in the budget have eaten up with a significant increase in prices, indicating that the state of law adheres to its firm position on the necessity to return the exchange rate to what it was with the rise in the price of oil in global markets
SALEH DISCUSSES WITH ROUHANI EASING TENSIONS IN THE REGION
Baghdad-Al-Sharqiya, April 14: Iraqi President Barham Salih made a phone call with his Iranian counterpart, Hassan Rouhani, during which he discussed developments in the region on the security and political level and ways to stabilize the region. A statement by the Presidency of the Republic stated that Saleh assured Rouhani the need to reduce tensions in the region and the commitment to dialogue and convergence in resolving outstanding issues and solidarity between countries in facing challenges, especially with regard to the Corona pandemic, and work to limit its economic repercussions.
Iraq: The World Bank called on us to raise the exchange rate of the dollar to 160,000 dinars
link this is in Jordan's news why are they reporting on the value of the dinar hmmmm?
Baghdad, April 13 (Petra) -Iraq announced today, Tuesday, that the World Bank proposed to amend the dollar exchange rate to 160 thousand dinars per 100 dollars, compared to neighboring countries.
The Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Iraq, Ihssan Shamran Al-Yasiri, said in press statements that the World Bank and in negotiations to raise the exchange rate of the dollar against the value of the Iraqi dinar, they asked us to be 160 thousand dinars per 100 dollars. And Abizaid, but the Central Bank of Iraq, through its study of the market and the living situation, found that the current value of the exchange rate is 145 thousand suitable.
He added that this provided a competitive advantage of more than 23 percent against the importer of products, which had difficulty competing with the local product.
He pointed out that the Iraqi government could invest the initiative to adjust the exchange rate through more support for local industry and agriculture to encourage competition for Iraqi goods to foreign goods.
Favorite Currencies Forex Quotes
| Symbol | Bid | Ask | High | Low | Open | Change | Time |
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| USD/IQD |  1460.0000 | 1465.0000 | 1458.0000 | 1457.7000 | 1457.7000 | 0.5000 | 00:06 |
| USD/VND | 23078.0000 | 23080.0000 | 23053.3000 | 23047.8800 | 23047.8800 | 7.5900 | 00:06 |
| USD/CNY | 6.5308 | 6.5328 | 6.5434 | 6.5283 | 6.5424 |  -0.0125 | 05:21 |
| USD/KWD | 0.3010 | 0.3020 | 0.3015 | 0.3012 | 0.3015 | -0.0003 | 05:13 |
| GBP/USD | 1.3773 | 1.3775 | 1.3808 | 1.3747 | 1.3748 | 0.0023 | 05:24 |
| USD/IRR | 42000.0000 | 42210.0000 | 42097.5000 | 42097.5000 | 42097.5000 |  0.0000 | 00:00 |
| USD/IDR | 14621.0000 | 14621.0000 | 14649.0000 | 14602.0000 | 14618.0000 | 4.0000 | 05:23 |
Parliamentary committee: the budget will adopt a new way to deal with the 'petrodollar' clause
The Parliamentary Oil and Energy Committee announced, on Wednesday, that the 2021 budget will adopt a new method regarding the "petrodollar" clause, as well as adding projects worth 1 trillion dinars to the oil-producing provinces.
Committee member Sadiq Al-Sulaiti said, in a statement to NRT Arabia (April 14, 2021), that "the issue of (petrodollars) in all budgets was mentioned that there are dues for oil-producing provinces, as well as provinces that contain refineries as part of the allocations of" petrodollars ", through sums For these provinces within their own investment plan.
Al-Sulaiti noted that "this issue is written in the budgets, but it is not applied, because the Ministry of Finance was citing the lack of financial revenues and the deficit in financing" petrodollar "projects remains.
Al-Sulaiti added that "the debts of the Ministry of Finance to the southern governorates amounted to more than 25 trillion dinars, according to the" petrodollar "clause, and this amount has not been paid yet. For the "petrodollars", by opening accounts on a monthly basis from oil revenues that are deducted from the "petrodollars" in order for these projects to be organized by the producing provinces according to their production quotas, and the amount is kept away from the disposal of the Ministry of Finance.
Al-Sulaiti added, "We hope that this step will help in finding investment service projects for these governorates, as they are worthy of them," stressing that "members of the House of Representatives are following up this issue with the Ministry of Finance in order to bring it into implementation as soon as possible." For oil, which is a very good amount that will give at least a push in the field of organizing service projects for these provinces, "noting that" the covered governorates are most of the southern provinces, as well as the central and Baghdad governorates.
They have done this before especially around these holidays
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Adjustment to the exchange rate
On March 16, the Central Bank of Iraq explained in a statement, the reason for the decline in the exchange rate of the dollar in the parallel market - especially in February - from the official selling rate after the change of price by the Bank at the end of December 2020, and explained the central decline in what it called the "shock of the domestic market" which needed a period of adjustment to the adjustments that occurred between traders (wholesale, retail, singular) and wholesale settlements with banks, where imports declined to levels severe, and then lower demand for currency Foreign.".
However, this interpretation, based on the market mechanism, did not take into account the impact of the political space on this mechanism, as the apprehension of many of the public, including many traders and speculators, continued to escalate at other times and decline, according to statements and promises about influencing the central decision and the intention to undo it in favor of slogans, which were employed to win positions, without taking into account the nature of the variable that requires preparing for the flow of foreign investment and establishing an investment climate, led by allied capital of globalization capital in the region, which requires action on several axes. In order to achieve this trend, the exchange rate in the parallel market did not rise, until after the approval of the budget, and to ensure that the relevant authorities are continuing their policy irreversibly, to create a competitive environment that protects the local product from the low prices of goods produced in the countries of geographical neighboring and preparing for monetary stability, encourages foreign capital to enter the Iraqi arena in a security, legal and monetary atmosphere Stable.
But adjusting to the exchange rate will not take its attractive form of investment, except by liberalizing the exchange rate and creating monetary stability in an atmosphere of free exchange and trading to ensure the movement of capital to and from within Iraq, without any effect on the difference in the value of the exchange rate with currencies The other one.
To ensure investment accounts in feasibility studies developed by investors, they are keen in financial feasibility studies to ensure that the price in the parallel market does not change during the life of the project to achieve the feasibility of the establishment of the project, as well as the importance of competitiveness to protect the local product, which is likely to adopt the method of "managed float" in the next step in conjunction with the increase of central reserves, which will contribute to giving more freedom of maneuver to those in charge of monetary policy, and ensuring adjustment to parallel market fluctuations to reach for stability.
The decision to devalue the currency between the data and the problems
CBI Update: Just a note:
including $ 13,050,000.00 CASH
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4-13-2021 Intel Guru Frank26 Article: [Adapt to the exchange rate] Quote: 'to adopt the method of "flotation" Al-Madar - in the next step, in conjunction with the increase in the central reserves...' You now understand - Phase One: Solid date 1 to 1 fixed rate. Phase Two: Bring in enough zeros...and we will give you [CBI] the opportunity to raise the value again. How about $1.19 or $1.46? Outside of the country the same thing is happening. Strengths and stability is being added to your currency...because of the investors...they recognize that Iraq now qualifies for the international rate of their currency. When it enters Phase Three: Maybe 6,7,8 months later as it floats...that's the next step after we do phase 1 and 2...these phases are upon us.
4-13-2021 Intel Guru MarkZ [via PDK] [What’s your predecition?] My best guess is “anyday” could be today…could be tomorrow …could be a week…we simply do not know. [Do you think we will have it in April?] I thought we would have in March. But yes I think we will see it in April. I did speak to one redemption center contact who said they will be on call this weekend. The chatter out of Iraq is still exceptionally good...more statements from the finance minister over there saying they will soon have the best currency in the region.
4-13-2021 Intel Guru Frank26 The goal is to change the rate again. These articles are coming out and they're saying 'we're changing the rate of the American dollar. No. The CBI has no authority to do anything with the exchange rate - only the U.S. Treasury...not understanding the translation properly really applies to these articles. That's why they get you depressed and confused...they are talking about the exchange rate of the Iraqi dinar AGAINST the American dollar...that's the only way they can talk about it...these articles are not saying they're going to decrease the value [of the dinar]...
4-13-2021 Newshound Guru MilitiaMan They (Parliament) are clearly stating the 2021 budget has been approved to price oil in dinars now. The PM states the 2021 budget is financing the the Port of Faw project in the billions. To price oil in dinars is only possible with an exchange rate change, imo. Whereby, if the deletion of the zeroes is to happen, then it would make sense, as there are not enough dinars in existence to do so in dinars. With an approximate 4 million barrels of oil a day at say $65.00 brl is upwards of 379.6 billion dinars a day... Nope not going to happen imo... Drop the 3 zeros and that can happen... And hence the projects cornerstones are being put in place today. imo.
4-13-2021 Newshound Guru Kaperoni ...The dinar exchange rate is the dinar exchange rate. The word..."program rate"...was taken from IMF consultations with Iraq that referred to agreements...it is not some temporary exchange rate in anticipation of some significant other rate or RV...
1- A partial curfew will be implemented during the blessed month of Ramadan from 20:00 to 05:00 the following morning for the first three weeks of Ramadan, while allowing restaurants to provide delivery service.
2- A full curfew on Fridays and Saturdays every week. Exempt are pharmacies, food marts, fruit and vegetable stands, and bakeries, and allowing them to carry out their work until 19:00, and allowing restaurants to provide delivery service.
3- Enforcing measures by health control teams and the security forces, and holding violators accountable.
4-Directing health departments to ask their employees in hospitals and health centres to provide proof that employees are Covid-19 negative through PCR examination results, with tests being conducted within a week or providing proof of their inoculation with a Covid-19 vaccine, to allow them to work starting 1 May 2021. Directors of health institutions will be held legally responsible for implementing and following up these procedures.
5- Conducting PCR tests on all patients and their caregivers if they are unable to provide a certificate of inoculation against Covid-19.
6- Starting 1 May 2021, those employed in retail stores, restaurants, malls, factories and other places of business subject to health control measures will require inoculation. Health permits for the aforementioned businesses will be conditional on providing proof of inoculation of all staff. Following this date, businessowners will be held accountable and subject to fines if any employee cannot provide evidence that:
- The employee has been inoculated with a Covid-19 vaccine.
- Those who are unable to be inoculated such as pregnant women and other contraindications, or those who can provide evidence that they contracted Covid-19 during the last three months, by providing a positive PCR test or CT-scan will need to provide proof of a negative PCR test taken within the most recent week.
- Ministry of Health monitoring authorities, with the support of the security forces, must hold accountable violators of these health measure in accordance with the Public Health Law and the decisions of the Higher Committee for Heath and National Safety.
7- Starting 1 May 2021 staff working in pharmacies, drug stores, laboratories and private clinics, including radiology clinics, and private hospitals will not be allowed to work if:
- They cannot provide evidence that they are Covid-19 negative through a negative PCR test conducted within the most recent week.
- There cannot provide evidence of being inoculated with the Covid-19 vaccine.
- Ministry of Health inspectors and the relevant associations (Doctors’ Syndicate, Dentists’ Syndicate, Pharmacists’ Syndicate) will enforce the implementation of the above and hold violators accountable and closing the practice of violators in accordance with the laws and regulations in force.
8- Citizens will not be allowed entrance into ministries and government agencies of a crowded nature (pension department, traffic directorates, passport directorates, civil and national status directorates, etc.), as well as not allowing employees of the aforementioned to work starting from 20 April 2021, in case of:
- They cannot provide evidence that they are Covid-19 negative through a negative PCR test conducted within the most recent week.
- There cannot provide evidence of being inoculated with the Covid-19 vaccine.
- All government entities not associated with a ministry and all governorates are responsible for implementing the procedures and following up with their employees and considering any violating employee in absent without payment.
9- Sports clubs will not allow the presence of any of the players unless they present their inoculation card for the Covid-19 vaccine.
10- The Ministries of Education, Higher Education and Scientific Research, and Health will coordinate regarding conducting campaigns to vaccinate the covered groups of faculty and students.
11- The Hajj and Umrah Authority will not register any of the citizens wishing to perform the Umrah and Hajj pilgrimages unless it is proven that s/he has obtained the inoculation card with the Covid-19 vaccine.
12- Urging all government entities not associated with a ministry and all governorates to direct their employees to be inoculated with a Covid-19 vaccine.
13- Calling upon community leaders, students of religious sciences, tribal sheikhs, intellectuals, activists and media professionals to take their national and moral responsibility in raising awareness and not to stand watching in light of the continuing dangerous epidemiological situation.
14- Calling upon all media outlets, governmental and private institutions, and civil society organisations to make efforts to urge citizens to adhere to preventive measures, and to encourage citizens to take the vaccine in health centres and accredited hospitals.
15- Putting into force the application of the provisions of Article 240 of Penal Code No. 111 of 1969, as amended, related to violating orders and regulations, and authorizing the security forces in support of health teams and their application against citizens in violation in the event that they fail to pay fines.
16- The Joint Operations Command, Baghdad Operations Command, the Ministry of Interior, and the National Security Agency will continue to support health teams in their inspections and follow-up on the implementation of preventive measures in public places, restaurants, shopping malls, cafes and others during and outside of official working hours.
17- Reducing working hours in public departments and institutions by one hour during the holy month of Ramadan.
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