KTFA Members "News and Views" Thursday Morning 11-26-2020
KTFA:
DELTA: In the presence of His Excellency the Governor of the Central Bank of Iraq, Mr. Mustafa Ghaleb, the respected members of the House of Representatives, the Iraqi Economic Council held a special seminar to provide support to the private sector, discuss the challenges and develop appropriate solutions that facilitate the procedures.
Jaime-O: SO PLEASE TELL US THE SIGNIFICANCE, IF ANY, OF THIS.
StephenMac63: It's the governor of the CBI having a meeting along with respected members from the house of representatives and the Iraqi Economic Council was there also and they spoke about providing support to the private sector, even talked about different challenges and came up with possible solutions for various problems if they arise.
Oh wait, thats what the article says....ok, it was like one big giant Chamber of Commerce meeting with super duper economic big shots and they were discussing how to make the markets in iraq successful...imo
Samson: With the participation of officials and more than 700 personalities ... "Chatham House" is hosting a conference on Iraq
26th November, 2020
On the initiative of the (Iraq Initiative Project) headed by Renad Mansour, the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), based in London, from November 23-25 (November) held a virtual conference, via the Zoom app, on Iraq under the title: (Iraq : Dealing with reforms, the status quo, and collapse).
The conference was attended by the Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Ali Allawi, Deputy Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Qubad Talabani, National Security Adviser Qassem Al-Araji, Minister of Culture and Antiquities Hassan Nazim, President of the National Investment Authority, Soha Al-Najjar, Deputy Assistant to the US Secretary of State David Coeli, Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister Fener Haddad and a group of experts Economists, academics, ambassadors and more than 700 personalities from different parts of the world.
The sessions were moderated by Renad Mansour, Lina Al Khatib, Maya Jabili, Eleanor Robson, Jane Araf.
Over the course of three consecutive days, with eight sessions, the attendees discussed the crises afflicting Iraq and ways to overcome them, the future of Iraq in the region, the prospects for reforming the security sector and the flabby economic system, the nature of the problems between Baghdad and Erbil and ways to address them, and how to empower Iraqi youth to shape the country's future. And the importance of cultural heritage in the process of building the Iraqi state.
The dialogues featured a distinguished interaction with the participants by presenting questions and interventions. LINK
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Samson: British Support For The Iraqi Government's Measures Towards Financial Reforms
25th November, 2020
Britain showed its support for the Iraqi government's plans towards achieving financial reforms and expanding the horizons of cooperation with Iraq.
The Minister of Finance, Ali Abdul-Amir Allawi, discussed during his meeting with the British Ambassador to Iraq Stephen Hickey, in a statement by the ministry, ways of cooperation between the two countries in the financial aspect.
Allawi praised the level of the relationship with the United Kingdom and its support for the aspirations of the Iraqi people.
For his part, the British ambassador affirmed his country's desire to expand the horizons of cooperation with Iraq and support the Iraqi government's measures towards achieving financial reforms that the Ministry of Finance is working on. LINK
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Samson: Economist: Stopping corruption and recovering smuggled money is a guarantor to cover the budget deficit
08:51 - 11/25/2020
The economic expert, Hassan al-Kinani, said that stopping and combating corruption and recovering smuggled money is a guarantee of solving the budget crisis and covering the financial deficit, pointing out that the currency auction is the other one must go to and control the money entering and leaving Iraq.
"There is an urgent need to control hard currency and prevent its exit from Iraq, and to identify the exit points for this currency," Al-Kinani said.
He added, "The extent of corruption is large, especially with regard to the oil file, in addition to the waste of a lot of money by some ministries and state departments, as covering the budget deficit needs to stop corruption as well as recover the smuggled money."
And that "maintaining political hegemony over some financial sources, oil companies and currency outlets, will make Iraq a bankrupt country unable to pay the dues of its employees, and may live in a self-economic blockade." LINK
Samson: Nassif: Transferring Corruption Files From Major Ministries And Agencies To Integrity
25th November, 2020
The deputy for the State of Law coalition announced that corruption files in the Ministry of Youth, Transport and Communications, and the Tax Authority were transferred to the Integrity Commission.
Nassif said in a statement, which Al-Mustaqilla received a copy of today, Wednesday, “We referred corruption files to the Integrity Commission for investigation, and they belong to the Ministry of Youth and Sports, the Ministry of Transport (the project of automatic cutting competitions), and the Ministry of Communications (regarding the Internet and the companies that the ministry has contracted with), And the General Tax Authority (due to corruption and waste of public money worth 19 billion dinars in the tax accounting of the Chinese Oasis Company).
Nassif explained, "These files have been officially referred to the esteemed Integrity Commission, and there are many files that we will refer in the coming days, and we hope that the Commission will initiate its investigations and announce the results to the Iraqi people who are awaiting justice and recovering public money stolen by the corrupt." LINK
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An Expert In The Oil Issue: The Rise In Oil Prices To $ 60 In 2021
25th November, 2020
An expert on oil matters, Hamza al-Jawahiri, suggested that oil prices would rise to $ 60 next year.
Al-Jawahiri said in a press statement that the Independent monitored that according to the situation related to the Corona pandemic, if the ban is eased or lifted completely or partially, or the vaccines succeed in alleviating them or not, oil prices will rise in all cases to $ 60 next year.
He added: The next year will witness a better situation because a number of these vaccines must succeed and thus life will return to normal.
Prices will rise and may reach $ 60 per barrel, OPEC countries production will return to the state before the pandemic and global production will return to the level of 100 million barrels per day. LINK
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Samson: "Mosul" .. An International Film In The Iraqi Dialect On Netflix
25th November, 2020
The film "Mosul" will be shown tomorrow, Thursday, on the US digital broadcasting platform, "Netflix," the first Hollywood action movie, speaking in Arabic and in the Iraqi dialect, and starring real Iraqi characters.
The film was directed by the American Matthew Carnahan and produced by the brothers Anthony and Joe Russo, who produced the movie "The Avengers .. The Game Is Over."
The film's story revolves around a special unit in the Iraqi forces that fought against ISIS between 2016 and 2017 to retake the city of Mosul, in northern Iraq.
Director Carnahan revealed that he required shooting the film in Arabic to be directed, and he was surprised by the quick approval of the Rousseau brothers.
Four months after Mosul was retaken from ISIS in December 2017, filming began secretly in Morocco for security reasons, with a crew made almost entirely of Iraqis.