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The Dollar Ends Its Week In Iraq With Stability

Time: 7/24/2020 10:22:03 Read: 3,731 times {Baghdad: Al Furat News} Foreign currency markets in Iraq recorded, today, Friday, stability at the exchange rate of the US dollar against the Iraqi dinar.

The selling and buying prices of the dollar in banking companies and offices are as follows:

The selling price of one dollar is 1242.5 dinars, or 124 thousand and 250 dinars per hundred dollars.

The purchase price of the dollar is 1232.5 dinars, or 123 thousand and 250 dinars per hundred dollars.

As for the prices of foreign currencies, gold and crude oil - until the preparation of this news:

The euro The global price: 100 euros = 116.14 dollars global price: 100 pounds = 127.50 dollars

The Turkish lira The global price: 100 dollars = 685,00 Turkish lira

Price per ounce Gold globally = 1889.20 dollars

A barrel price of Brent crude = 43.25 dollars   abarrel of US crude oil = 40.90 dollars.  LINK

Agriculture Intends To Encourage Private Sector Companies To Export Agricultural Products In Excess Of The Consumer’s Need

Friday 24, July 2020 13:44 | EconomicalViews: 53  Baghdad / Nina / The Ministry of Agriculture confirmed its intention to encourage private sector companies to export agricultural products in excess of the consumer’s need.

A statement of the ministry quoted by the Iraqi National News Agency ( NINA ) a copy of it quoted Minister Muhammad Al-Khafaji as saying that: The ministry is determined to alleviate the suffering of farmers, farmers and poultry producers by delivering agricultural supplies of seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, fodder and veterinary vaccines at their specified times and not to load the farmer or wealth breeders Animal suffering, waiting as a result of routine episodes that exhausted him a lot.

He added that: The current policy of the Ministry is to zero the problems facing the agricultural sector in order to promote it and make it an important number in the country's national production, describing the farmers as the basis of the production process that the Ministry directly sponsors through the support it provides to the production process.

Al-Khafaji promised the great development that witnessed agricultural production through the local abundance of 28 agricultural and animal products, and its sustainability throughout the year is evidence of the recovery of this sector.

He emphasized the Ministry’s intention to encourage private sector companies to export agricultural products in excess of the Iraqi consumer’s need in order to increase revenue for the state’s treasury on the one hand and encourage the local product on the other. / https://ninanews.com/Website/News/Details?key=845828

Falling World Oil Prices

Friday 24, July 2020 12:59 | EconomicalViews: 55  Baghdad / Nina / Oil prices fell during trading today, Friday, with deepening concerns about the recovery of demand for crude.

Black gold came under pressure as diplomatic tensions between the United States and China escalated into a new retaliatory response today, deepening concerns about global oil demand.

Basically, demand is witnessing a state of weakness against the backdrop of the outbreak of the Corona epidemic, which caused the stalemate in economic activity and consequently the demand for fuel.

Investors are awaiting the announcement of oil exploration activity data in the United States later today.

By 7:49 a.m. GMT / 10:49 Baghdad time / Brent crude futures for September delivery fell to $ 43.20 a barrel, down more than 0.2%.

During the same period, the price of US West Texas crude futures for September delivery fell by 0.4% to $ 40.92 a barrel. / End 3    https://ninanews.com/Website/News/Details?key=845822

Iraq Resumes Tourism Aviation After Four Months Of Closure

Editing Date: 24/7/24 12:55 • 55 times read  [Baghdad_Yan]  Iraq Thursday resumed tourist flights in most of its airports, after four months of closure due to the Covid-19 epidemic that reached its peak in the country, where lifting the stone is essential to support the economy, which is experiencing its worst crisis.

On Thursday morning, several aircraft took off from Baghdad International Airport to Lebanon and Turkey. Employees wearing masks and gloves made sure of passenger checks that had to prove they were free of the virus to be able to travel.

The Basra and Najaf airports in the south of the country also reopened their doors on Thursday, while Erbil and Sulaymaniyah extended the closure until August 1, according to the Kurdistan Region authorities.

Airports were closed in March with curfews. Cases have risen dramatically since then, especially after the Eid holiday in June.

The curfew has been extended several times amid high numbers of cases, which has exacerbated an acute economic crisis sparked by low oil prices and paralyzing the Iraqi private sector.

Flights to Beirut and Cairo are scheduled to take off at 10:00 am Thursday.

The curfew will also be lifted after the Eid al-Adha holiday on July 30.

http://www.alliraqnews.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=96800

A Parliamentarian Reveals The Most Important Causes Of Corruption In The Ports And Calls For Their Treatment

Baghdad Post Friday, July 24, 2020 11:04 AM  A member of the Security and Defense Committee announced that the Saaroun Parliamentary Bloc, Saad Ma`a al-Hafi, revealed the most important reasons that led to the emergence of corruption cases in the work of border crossings, calling for their treatment by taking a number of organizational measures.

Al-Halfi said: The Parliamentary Security and Defense Committee hosted the Chairman of the Border Ports Authority , Dr. Omar Al-Waeli, to closely review the challenges facing the work of the organization and to discuss ways to control the ports and end the rampant corruption in them.

He added: The proliferation of illegal crossings and the multiplicity of departments belonging to the ministries of finance, interior, health, transport, trade, planning, tourism, etc., which number (14), are operating in the customs campus, in addition to overlapping authorities and lack of administrative and technical association with the port authority.Borders is one of the most important reasons that contribute to the growing phenomenon of corruption and dispersal of all efforts to eliminate it.

Al-Halfi called for a decision by the Prime Minister to link the work of government departments to the border entry authority, to introduce modern technology to control the movement of people, materials, and goods entering and leaving the country through the ports, and to tighten control over them and not underestimate those responsible for wasting public money.

He stressed the importance of submitting all land border, sea and air points to the authority of the central government, including the central, eastern, western, southern and northern ports alike, as well as the closure of illegal crossings, which are considered to be one of the most important gaps affecting the security of the country and its national economy.  LINK

The International Coalition Hands Over New Sites And Camps To Iraq

Time: 7/24/2020 12:44:06 Reading: 3,367 times  (Baghdad: Al Furat News) The international coalition against ISIS delivers a camp in Basmaya, south of Baghdad, to the Iraqi forces.

The joint operations said that "the international coalition will hand over the security forces to new locations. There is a timetable prepared between the government and the coalition forces for the handover of the camps."

She pointed out that the side "is committed to the date of handing over the sites and there is high coordination in this regard and the international alliance is still supporting Iraq in combating ISIS terrorist gangs."

The deputy commander of the international coalition forces, the American General Kenneth Eckman, said last Wednesday that "the coalition has already handed over a number of military bases to the Iraqi army, noting that the huge training camp in Samaya near Baghdad, where a fake village was built to train soldiers in urban fighting, Iraqi forces Sttzlmh Saturday.

He added that the US forces, which represent the bulk of the coalition force in Iraq and Syria, will be reduced , "slowly and in close coordination with the Iraqi government."  LINK

The International Coalition Is Still Supporting Iraq And Will Hand Over Security Forces To New Locations

3 hours ago Iraq  Today, Friday, July 24, 2020, joint operations announced that the international coalition will hand over security forces to new locations.

The operations said in press statements, reported by the Iraqi News Agency, that "the international coalition will hand over security forces to new locations", pointing out that "there is a timetable prepared between the government and the international forces to hand over the camps."

She added, "The government and the international coalition are committed to the deadline for handing over the sites and there is high coordination in this regard," stressing that "the international coalition continues to support Iraq in combating ISIS terrorist gangs."

Today, Friday, the international coalition led by the United States announced the start of a new phase of its advisory missions in Iraq, noting that the group of "military advisors" working within the joint task force will be "smaller" but with specialized capabilities of experts to provide advice

https://www.radionawa.com/all-detail.aspx?jimare=21314

Parliamentary Integrity: A Special Government Body To Assess Leadership Positions

Posted On 2020-07-24 By Sotaliraq   Yesterday, the Parliamentary Integrity Committee revealed the government’s intention to form a special committee to assess leadership positions in order to reform the administrative apparatus in the country. This coincided with a government plan to displace more than a hundred local officials.

The plan, which is supervised by the implementation of a government committee headed by Al-Kazemi, included an inventory of all sites, positions, and special grades in the institutions and joints of the Iraqi state, determination of staff numbers, and was able to make changes in a number of locations. The government of Mustafa Al-Kazemi inherited a plan that was developed several days ago to replace and change more than six thousand government sites and positions after a media campaign launched by the political parties and political blocs against the Prime Minister.

Member of the Integrity Committee MP Alia Nassif said that "the files on the government of Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi are very large," noting that "the previous government left a heavy legacy in various aspects, whether administrative, financial or political." She added that the Prime Minister is seeking to reform the administrative apparatus of the country by forming a committee to evaluate leadership positions and make changes for some general managers.

A member of the Integrity Committee indicated that "Al-Kazemi asked the ministers to provide him with statistics on the degrees of agents and general managers," usually these measures are correct steps towards fighting corruption and reforming the administrative apparatus. Nassif stressed "the need to open important corruption files, especially in the areas of oil, electricity, currency auctions, money laundering, and others."

(Al-Mada) had published a report on the seventeenth of this month, which revealed that two major blocs controlled the 800-degree general manager in the government, which became vacant to enter the new retirement law into effect.  LINK

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