More Iraqi News Thursday PM 11-4-21
More Iraqi News Thursday PM 11-4-21
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The Appearance Of Muhammad Salih To / NINA /: Increasing The Amount Of Iraqi Oil Exported Next Year Will End 65% Of The Financial Deficit
Thursday 04 November 2021 09:50 | Economic Number of readings: 564 Baghdad / NINA / - The government's financial advisor, Mazhar Muhammad Salih, confirmed: "Increasing the amount of Iraqi oil exported next year will end 65% of the financial deficit."
He said in a statement to the National Iraqi News Agency / NINA /: “The increase in the exported quantities of Iraqi crude oil in the year 2022, specifically after the end of the restrictions of the “OPEC +” agreement that restricted the quantitative quotas of member countries, will clearly reduce the financial deficit of the next budget, if a ceiling is adopted.
Total spending in the 2022 general budget with the same ceiling established in the General Budget Law 2021 of 129 trillion dinars, with a possible increase of 5% in total spending with an adjustment to the price of a barrel of oil to be $60 per barrel instead of the previously announced $50.
Last August, the Ministry of Finance announced its initiation of preparing the next year's budget.
The value of the deficit in the 2021 budget, as approved by Parliament, amounted to 19.8 billion dollars, compared to 23.1 billion dollars in 2019, knowing that Iraq did not approve the 2020 budget due to political tension.
The total value of revenues in the 2021 budget amounted to about 69.9 billion dollars, calculated based on the export of crude oil on the basis of a price of 45 dollars per barrel, and an export rate of three million and 250 thousand barrels per day.
The value of the 2021 budget was about $89.7 billion, which is 30% lower than the last budget approved in 2019. / End 3 https://ninanews.com/Website/News/Details?key=937035
Iraq's Exit From The Black List Of Discrimination In The Workplace
Thursday 04 November 2021 13:05 | Economic Number of readings: 219
Baghdad / NINA / - The Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs announced that Iraq has been removed from the black list of discrimination in workplaces, after taking quick and appropriate measures.
The Director of the Department of Labor and Vocational Training in the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, Raed Jabbar Bahed, stressed the necessity of activating the role of inspectors in implementing the effective labor law, pointing to efforts to develop the capabilities of labor inspectors by including them in development courses organized by the International Labor Organization.
He added, during a regular meeting today, Thursday, with the staff of the Labor Inspection Department, that "the implementation of the labor law depends on the efforts made by the inspectors, because the real tasks of the inspector are to check workers' wages, working hours, closings, layoffs, women's rights and combating child labor." / End https://ninanews.com/Website/News/Details?key=937075
Oil Prices Rise By About 3%
Political | 04:47 - 04/11/2021 Baghdad - Mawazine News: Oil prices rose today, Thursday, supported by expectations that the “OPEC +” group will continue with its current strategy, that is, offering an additional 400,000 barrels per day to the market in the last month of this year.
By 16:04 Moscow time, US crude futures "West Texas Intermediate" rose 2.76% to $83.09 a barrel.
Meanwhile, Brent crude futures rose 2.82% to $84.30 a barrel, according to Bloomberg data.
The rise comes at a time when the “OPEC +” group meeting to discuss the global oil market has begun, and they are expected to reconfirm their plans to maintain monthly supply increases at 400,000 barrels per day. https://www.mawazin.net/Details.aspx?jimare=173624
Baghdad And Washington Are Again Discussing The Evacuation Of Iraq From Foreign Combat Forces
Today, Thursday, National Security Adviser Qassem Al-Araji discussed with the international coalition forces plans that would reach the stage where there are no international coalition forces operating in Iraq with a combat role.
A statement by the Joint Operations Command said that Al-Araji hosted a meeting between the Iraqi Military Technical Committee headed by the Deputy Commander of Joint Operations, Lieutenant General Abdul Amir Al-Shammari, and its counterpart in the coalition forces, headed by the Commander of the Operations Solidarity Forces in Iraq, Major General John Brennan, and in the presence of his deputy, Brigadier General Richard Bell (United Kingdom). and Director of the Interagency and Civil Environment Department, Brigadier General Vincent Coste (France).
The statement added that, during the meeting, they continued to discuss plans that would reach the stage where there are no international coalition forces operating in Iraq with a combat role.
The assistant chief of staff of the Iraqi army, the commanders of weapons (land - air - air defense - army aviation - the navy), the director of military intelligence and the representative of the Ministry of Peshmerga, who gave a summary of their operations and plans to work with the coalition forces after moving to the role of advice, assistance and empowerment, also attended.
The parties indicated, according to the statement, the evacuation of more than 2,100 shipments of military equipment from Iraq, within the framework of the continuous transition of the security relationship with the coalition forces to an advisory and non-combat role.
The parties reaffirmed their commitment to the ongoing partnership between the Iraqi security forces and the coalition, and clearly defined how the coalition will continue to support the Iraqi security forces through its role in advice, assistance and empowerment, and agreed to re-evaluate progress in their relationship on a quarterly basis.
The parties indicated the successful transfer of ownership of the equipment to the Iraqi side during the past months, which included more than 1,800 armed armored wheels, cranes, water tanks and other wheels, which contributed to increasing the mobility of the Iraqi security forces and enabling them to protect Iraqi citizens from ISIS.
The Iraqi government reiterated its commitment to protect the members of the international coalition who provide advice, assistance and empowerment to the Iraqi security forces, and the members of the coalition are present at the invitation of Iraq in accordance with Iraqi sovereignty and international laws and norms.
The parties also agreed to continue holding their regular sessions through future meetings with the Iraqi Security Coordination Group for the purpose of completing the discussion of the remaining steps to complete the transition of the coalition forces to the non-combat role by the time specified for it at the end of this year. https://www.radionawa.com/all-detail.aspx?jimare=26320
Planning Sets The Date For Conducting The General Population Census In Iraq
Posted On 2021-11-04 By Sotaliraq The Federal Ministry of Planning has begun conducting the general population census experiments in preparation for conducting it no later than next November 2022, and the ministry has requested for this purpose financial allocations of up to 120 billion dinars in the next year's budget.
The official spokesman for the Ministry of Planning, Abdul-Zahra Al-Hindawi, said in a press statement: “Preparations are continuing to conduct a population census by the Ministry of Planning and the Central Statistics Authority, and a number of experiments have been conducted in a number of governorates, including Basra, Anbar, Karbala and Erbil, and now we have an experiment that is currently taking place in Dohuk Governorate in the Kurdistan Region.
And he indicated that "the aim of the experiments conducted by the ministry is to determine its technical and electronic preparations, so it needs these intensive tests in order to test the ministry's capabilities and thus determine the challenges that the ministry will face in implementing the general population census."
He added that "the ministry is working to implement the census next year 2022 after the recent cabinet decision to include the 2022 budget the financial allocations required to implement the census, and because of the lack of allocations for the 2021 census, the ministry was unable to conduct the census, so we work according to the mechanisms of including financial allocations for the year 2022. The population census will be conducted no later than next November.
He stressed that "the ministry demanded allocating an amount of 120 billion dinars to cover all requirements, because the census includes many operations and procedures, starting with the preparation of tablets with a quantity of 150,000 devices, the process of training enumerators, 150,000 counters and field researchers, and the operations of listing and numbering houses and facilities and building a data processing center." Internet, and secure transmissions to the National Data Processing Center for the implementation of the general population census. LINK
Al-Baldawi: Political Forces Are Preparing For Further Demonstrations Against The Election Results
Thursday 04 November 2021 10:24 | political Number of readings: 363 Baghdad / NINA / - A member of the Al-Fateh Alliance, Muhammad Al-Baldawi, confirmed on Thursday: "Canceling the election results and going towards new elections is one of the solutions to the current crisis."
And the website of the Sadiqoun bloc quoted Al-Baldawi as saying: "The coming days may witness an escalation in demonstrations and sit-ins, greater than what is currently in place," pointing out: "The Commission can take advantage of the opportunity and resolve things easily and return them to normal."
He added: "Many political forces have begun to prepare beyond the existing demonstrations, especially since there is leniency on the part of the parties that hold the reins of the electoral process, and in the end the situation may go to mobilization for large demonstrations and sit-ins larger than what is currently present."
Al-Baldawi explained: "The current crisis can be resolved, in easy ways, without any complexity, through the Commission's tendency to take advantage of the opportunity and carry out comprehensive manual counting and sorting in order to put things back in place," stressing: "The cancellation of the election results and going towards holding new elections, It is one of the solutions to the crisis, but there are easier ways that can be resorted to to resolve the current situation."
The Electoral Commission confirmed that the Federal Court is the one who decides to repeat the comprehensive counting and sorting. / https://ninanews.com/Website/News/Details?Key=937042
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