Iraqi News June 7th and 8th 2022 Catch-Up The Iraqi House of Representatives votes on paragraphs of the emergency support law
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Parliament is moving to consider the presence of thousands of advisers in government institutions
A member of the Parliamentary Integrity Committee, Tariq Al-Khikani, revealed, on Tuesday, that the House of Representatives intends to review the file of advisers in the Iraqi state to find out their true numbers .
Al-Khikani told Al-Sabah that, "After the fall of the former regime, Iraq suffered a great loss in the number of advisors and experts who do not give a single useful advice during their tenure in office, but rather consider the advisory job as a mere spoil for obtaining identities, money and cars ."
He explained that "there are hundreds, or even thousands, of (voluntary) advisors who do not have the legal basis that allows a head of a commission, a minister, or someone of his rank to appoint a voluntary advisor. Even the relevant ministries should have one or two advisors.
He added, "What we see at the present time is that the ministry and the entity that is not affiliated with a ministry, as well as the presidencies, include huge numbers of advisors, and they are in fact just names without the required specializations, and some of them have an initial university degree, that is, a bachelor's degree only," wondering: "How can this be? As a consultant, he only holds the initial certificate ?!
Al-Khikani called on all presidencies, ministries, and agencies not affiliated with a ministry to “review their work and the number and quality of their advisors. What matters is quality, not quantity .”
He pointed out that "there is a great tendency by the House of Representatives to review this file, as it is one of the important files that must be discussed to know the number of advisors in the Iraqi state, although some of them have pension salaries, and partisan and political accounts helped the presence of
these large numbers of advisors. in institutions".
Through the Zoom platform, a joint international meeting between the Baghdad Chamber of Commerce and international organizations
The Baghdad Chamber of Commerce, headed by its Chairman Firas Al-Hamdani and Raad Brij, First Vice President of the Chamber, held an expanded meeting via the zoom platform with the International Trade Center ITC and the International Agency for Migration IOM to discuss a joint work plan and new future projects that provide services to companies, agricultural institutions, trade and entrepreneurs registered in the private database.
A statement of the Baghdad Chamber of Commerce, a copy of which was received by Mawazine News, stated that during the meeting, the launch of the international conference was discussed in the Babylon Hotel next November in cooperation with international and regional organizations and stakeholders from the public and private sectors and with a large international presence
. The statement continued, that it was presented by Falah Al-Jubouri Director of Entrepreneurship and Marketing and Anmar Iyad, Director of International Organizations in the Baghdad Chamber of Commerce, the comprehensive vision and mission of cooperation with such important global organizations.
For his part, President of the Baghdad Chamber of Commerce Firas Al-Hamdani and Raad Brij presented the Chamber's interest and cooperation with the international trade and economic event and well-known international organizations, and a joint committee will be formed to work on further cooperation in the near future.
The House of Representatives evacuated its employees after the demonstrations in the Green Zone
A security source said today, Tuesday, that the security forces evacuated the parliament building from its employees after demonstrations for contract holders in the Ministry of Electricity in the Green Zone.
The source told Earth News, "The evacuation decision came after a number of injuries were recorded among the demonstrators from electricity contracts in friction with the security forces near one of the gates of the Green Zone, after they were asked to install permanent owners within the food security law, which will be voted on tomorrow, Wednesday.
It is noteworthy that hundreds of contract employees in the Ministry of Electricity and from all electricity departments in Baghdad and the provinces today, demonstrated this morning in front of the Green Zone gate on the side of the Rashid Hotel, specifically opposite the parliament building.
The Parliamentary Finance Committee had announced earlier that contract employees would not be fixed on permanent owners within the food support law prepared by the committee, while it indicated that the Ministry of Finance did not respond to two official letters from the committee on how to deal with lecturers, contracts and daily wages and transfer them according to Resolution 315.
Friction between demonstrators and security forces causes three injuries in central Baghdad
A security source said today, Tuesday, that three injuries were recorded, as a result of friction between demonstrators and security forces in the Al-Alawi area in central Baghdad.
Find out the date of Eid al-Adha and its holidays in Iraq
Observers expect the blessed Eid al-Adha to coincide with the ninth of July and Saturday, while the official holiday will be from the day of Arafa, which is the eighth of July, until the 15th of next .month
According to astronomers, "the eighth day of the next month, or the ninth of July, will be the ".day of Eid, meaning Saturday According to expectations, the government will grant the official holiday to state departments .from the 8th of July until the 15th of the same month
Double What It Got In 2021.. Baghdad Sent 400 Billion To Kurdistan In The First 4 Months
The economic expert, Nabil Al-Marsami, stated, on Monday, that the government sent 400 billion dinars to Erbil within the past months of 2022.
Al-Marsoumi said in a Facebook post seen by / the information / that “the amounts transferred by the Ministry of Finance to Kurdistan until April amounted to 400 billion dinars,” adding that “the remittances will reach two trillion dinars at the end of this year, which is equivalent to double what the region received in 2021.” .
He added, that this comes "even though the net revenues that Kurdistan achieves per month from selling oil and other revenues amount to 1.2 trillion dinars per month."
Government Revenues At The End Of 2022 Will Reach 142 Trillion Dinars
The Ministry of Finance announced, on Monday, the data for the month of April, indicating that the total oil revenues until the month of April amounted to 45 trillion dinars, and non-oil revenues amounted to 2 trillion dinars.
And the ministry stated, in a report seen by / the information /, that “the total current expenditures amounted to 29.7 trillion Iraqi dinars, while investment expenditures amounted to about 2 trillion dinars.” As for the total advances granted until the end of April, it was “2 trillion Iraqi dinars, and thus the surplus achieved is up to April 13.5 trillion Iraqi dinars.
He expected that "the total total revenues until the end of the year will reach 142 trillion dinars, while the total expenses and advances will be around 100 trillion Iraqi dinars, and Iraq will achieve a surplus that will exceed 40 trillion Iraqi dinars."
The Oil and Gas Committee reviews 4 files it discussed hosted by the advanced staff of the Ministry of Oil
Today, Tuesday, the Parliamentary Oil, Gas and Wealth Committee revealed the discussion of 4 files hosted by the advanced cadre in the Ministry of Oil, including dealing with pollution caused by refineries, increasing the local workforce working in oil projects, the possibility of increasing oil production and subjecting oil companies in the region to the federal government.
Member of the committee, MP Muhannad Al-Khazraji, said that "the Parliamentary Oil, Gas and Wealth Committee hosted the advanced cadre in the Ministry of Oil, in order to discuss the suspended laws and legislation."
Al-Khazraji added that "the hosting included a discussion of the problems facing the work of oil companies, as well as a discussion of the ability to increase oil production for companies, and the demand for oil to seek the assistance of local technical cadres and expertise and not to rely on foreign labor."
He stressed, "The committee is going to legislate laws related to the oil sector, the most important of which is the draft oil and gas law, which was referred from previous to current sessions," calling on the Ministry of Oil to "address the pollution situation resulting from the work of the Dora refinery and the toxic waste that it raises in the atmosphere of the capital, Baghdad."
He pointed out that "the committee touched on the issue of the region's oil and the need to move in this regard in order to subject the oil companies operating in the region to the federal authority, as stipulated by the Iraqi law and constitution and the recent Federal Court decision that obligated the regional government to hand over oil imports to the Federal Ministry of Oil.
Finance and the World Bank agree on a road map on the tax system
Today, Tuesday, the Ministry of Finance and the World Bank agreed on a roadmap for the tax system.
The media office of the Ministry of Finance stated in a statement received by "Dijla", that "under the guidance and follow-up of the Minister of Finance, Ali Abdul Amir Allawi, and based on the agreement between the Iraqi Ministry of Finance and the World Bank, related to improving the work of the tax system in Iraq, he expressed his willingness to provide the necessary support towards the reforms of the administration. taxes".
He added, "Support will be provided to help Iraq enhance the effectiveness of the General Tax Authority, with the support of the support team funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in the United Kingdom, which includes the introduction of good international practices and assisting the Authority in the use of modern technology."
He continued, "The agreed roadmap consists in conducting an assessment of the performance of the tax administration using international standard tools, and providing guidance on tax administration issues according to a reform program that relies in its work on the use of technology over the medium term from 3 to 5 years, as well as exercising an advisory and technical role from by supporting the design of a technical procurement process.
He explained that "this agreement comes within the framework of the Ministry of Finance's endeavors aimed at raising the efficiency and performance of all its institutions, as part of a series of reform measures for financial institutions adopted by the ministry by introducing modern systems and keeping pace with current international standards and with the supervision and support of experts, specialists and leading organizations in this sector."
Iran’s Central Bank Claims Highest Ever Foreign Currency Reserves
The Central Bank of Iran (CBI) claims it currently enjoys the highest ever foreign currency reserves in cash, saying it will utilize it to stabilize the market.
CBI governor Ali Salehabadi said on Monday that the bank has the largest cash currency reserve in the history of the country, “therefore we have no problem in balancing supply and demand in the foreign exchange market.”
His remarks came as the bank has reportedly started injecting cash dollars into the market to stop the current freefall of the Iranian rial as it has hit record lows against major currencies, while nuclear talks with the United States remain in limbo, prices are rising and popular protests continue.
Iran has increased oil exports despite United States sanctions since last year and claims to have been able to repatriate the revenues. However, it is not clear why the rial is falling and the economic crisis continuing if it has large foreign currency reserves.
The rial has been sliding since mid-March when year-long multilateral talks in Vienna to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement known as the JCPOA came to an abrupt halt. Washington and Tehran apparently were too far apart on some issues, including Iran’s demand that its Revolutionary Guard should be removed from the US list of terrorist organizations.
Since 2018, when Washington withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal with six powers and reimposed sanctions, Iran's economic crisis has deepened with inflation rate reaching 50 percent and the rial losing over 75 percent of its value.
Iraqi prime minister: Iran-Saudi talks have made 'remarkable progress'
In a press conference today, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi provided a report of his two years in the office, highlighting his top achievements and top challenges facing his government
During a press conference in Baghdad today, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Kadhimi said that he had come into office at a very difficult and complicated time, in terms of the economy, the COVID-19 pandemic and the conflict on Iraq soil.
“Before this government, the Iraqi economy was on the verge of collapse," Kadhimi said. “We had no cash to pay salaries.”
“However, Iraq has over $75 billion in reserves in its central bank now and this is expected to increase to over $90 billion by the end of this year."
Kadhimi said Iraq was an isolated country before he came to the office, but now it is the centre of the region, hosting several regional dialogues.
“Iraq has hosted five different dialogues in these two years, of which Saudi–Iran talks are just one,” Kadhimi said, emphasizing that the “Iran-Saudi talks have made remarkable progress."
Kadhimi said the while the white paper prepared in 2020 (with 600 proposals for reform) contributed to economic reform and had been praised by international economic organizations, there is still a long road ahead for the Iraqi government in this area.
Iraq is spending $7 billion monthly on public servant salaries, costing the country's budget $84 billion annually, Kadhimi said, emphasizing that Iraq cannot rebuild its economy and move toward development in this way.
He said the government has a plan for the Iraqi economy, as stated in the white paper, and it already started implementing it, but the plan has been stopped following the elections, since the caretaker status of the government gives it only the authority to deal with everyday issues.
In regards to the political deadlock, Kadhimi accused the political parties of preventing the government from carrying out its reform plan, as the caretaker government cannot present a budget to the parliament.
“The government proposed the food security law to address the food and the electricity issues in the country."
Iraq has been facing rises food prices following the Russia–Ukraine war, alongside electricity cuts in the hot summer.
The food security law proposed by the government was nullified by the federal court last month. The parliament has worked on a different version and it has been scheduled for discussion tomorrow, but it is still not certain that it will pass — or that the federal court won't cancel it again.
Kadhimi said his government has paid all its debt to Iran for imported gas and electricity, but Iran is asking for the remaining debt from the previous governments, something this government is not able to pay without an official budget.
Iran last week cut its daily gas supply from 40 million cubic meters to 30 million cubic meters, something that has already affected electricity supply in the country.
Kadhimi slammed the former governments for establishing gas-based generators while Iraq does not have gas for these generators to operate, claiming that this has made Iraq dependent on Iran.
He said his government worked on clean energy and made several deals for solar energy and also is working on grid connections with Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Jordan.
He added that the government is working on developing another reform plan for the environment and improving Iraqi agriculture, calling it a “Green Paper.”
Iraq is negotiating with Turkey to get its fair share of water, and the region needs more cooperation in dealing with environmental challenges, he said.
Kadhimi emphasized that his government realized a great achievement in organizing the recent elections, as the United Nations and other international organizations praised the election's integrity.
An amended table of the emergency support law showing the new exchange doors (documents) - Urgent
Today, Wednesday, the representative of the Al-Fateh Alliance, Ahmed Rahim, announced that .amendments have been made to the Food Security Law
In a statement posted on his Facebook account, he said, "Amendments have been made to the ".emergency food support law, related to exchange gates He added, "In addition to the exchange doors that the law will use, there is another addition, especially for the security forces and the crowd, regarding the examiners whose contracts have ".been voided ".He stressed, "Soon we will vote on the law
Al-Maliki: We will support the Food Security and Development Law under conditions
The State of Law coalition bloc held a meeting, Wednesday, June 8, 2022, headed by the head .of the State of Law coalition, Nuri al-Maliki :The obelisk publishes the text of the statement .The State of Law coalition bloc held a meeting this morning, headed by Mr. Nuri al-Maliki During the meeting, developments in the political situation were discussed, as well as the emergency support law, food security and development, which the House of Representatives is preparing to approve today.
Constitution and .law On the law of emergency support for food security, the head of the State of Law Coalition indicated: Our position will be supportive of all laws that affect the demands of graduates, lecturers, farmers, the poor, and support the energy and electricity sector, provided that it does not violate the decisions of the Federal Court and the powers stipulated for .the caretaker government
The House of Representatives votes on paragraphs of the emergency support law
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From the articles that were voted on:
Contracting with certificate holders (bachelor’s and diploma) and all specializations to work in the governorate departments and their local administrations for governorates that are not organized in a region at the rate of (1,000) contractors for each governorate, and a monthly salary of (300) thousand dinars per month for one retiree for a period of three years for the purposes of training and development
Parliament enters recess for the second legislative term
A parliamentary source told Al-Furat News that: "The House of Representatives entered the recess of the second legislative term {30} days after the end of its first legislative term, which will start from tomorrow, Thursday."
Iraq sends a request to the United States
The National Security Adviser, Mr. Qassem Al-Araji, received in his office today, Wednesday, the new Ambassador of the United States of America in Baghdad, Mrs. Alina Romanowski.
Al-Araji welcomed Mrs. Romanowski, wishing her success in her new duties, as the US ambassador to Iraq.
Al-Araji stressed to the US ambassador that the terrorist threat from ISIS still exists, and the international community must remain coherent to confront this danger.
For her part, the US ambassador indicated that the Strategic Framework Agreement is a vital agreement that regulates the relationship between Iraq and the United States, and it is
a road map, stressing that her country is working to stabilize Iraq and work with it together, in order to defeat terrorism.
The US ambassador also expressed her country's endeavor to develop the relationship with Iraq, indicating that the presence through the international coalition is an important thing, in order to provide advice, empowerment and assistance.
Al-Araji called on the United States of America to pressure countries to withdraw their nationals from the al-Hol border camp, and that there be a real will for countries to receive
them.
The US ambassador stressed the importance of countries receiving their nationals who are in the al-Hol camp, noting that her country is aware of the extent of the problem and its complexities, calling on those countries to work to change the extremist ideology carried by these nationals, stressing the continuation of cooperation with Iraq in this field.
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Muqtada al-Sadr addresses the bloc's deputies after approving the Food Security Law
Muqtada al-Sadr's message to the Sadrist bloc's deputies:
“Peace be upon you.. You have my deepest thanks and appreciation for approving the law (criminalizing normalization) and the Food Security Law..
It is an honorable position for you and us.
Adviser to Al-Kazemi: The emergency support law will compensate for the budget and move the wheel of the economy
Saleh told {Euphrates News}: "The emergency support law is related to national food security, as well as electric power, support for farmers, and Iraq's fuel needs."
And he indicated that "Iraq's survival on the Financial Management Law {1/12} according to last year's expenditures is not enough."
Saleh stressed that "the emergency support law will move the wheel of the economy, and its approval is a very positive matter in supporting the poor classes, as it is considered a compensatory law for the budget law, which prevented the political impasse between its approval."
The House of Representatives voted in its session this evening on the proposal of the Emergency Support Law for Food Security and Development, allocating 25 trillion dinars to different pieces, after which it raised its session and entered into a legislative recess for a whole month.
Al-Sadr after the adoption of the Food Security Law: I will not compromise in revealing who is manipulating the people's power
The leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, proposed, on Wednesday, the formation of a parliamentary oversight committee to prevent fraud in the implementation of the Food Security Law.
Al-Sadr said in a statement, a copy of which was received by "Nass", (June 8, 2022), that "Parliament's approval of the Food Security Law is another victory for Fustat Al-Islah. It has proven to everyone the unprecedented strength of the Iraqi parliament in the past years."
However, he added, "But the concern is all about the corrupt domination of this law and its application, so it should not be overlooked that the presence of the Sadrist bloc currently does not go beyond Parliament and does not exist in the current cabinet formation."
He added, "From here, I propose to form a parliamentary oversight committee and one of the specialized and relevant committees to prevent fraud and corruption in the implementation of the provisions of the Food Security Law, or else the people's summit will be lost again. I will not be negligent in exposing everyone who begs himself to manipulate the people's power and summit."
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