Wednesday Afternoon Iraq Economic News Highlights
Wednesday Afternoon Iraq Economic News Highlights 9-15-22
Note from Dinar Recaps: this post is actually from Thursday, not Wednesday...we goofed the title.
The Iraqi Government Discusses The Water File And Announces Support For The Investment Authority
Shafaq News/ On Tuesday, the Iraqi Council of Ministers took a number of decisions and recommendations, most notably supporting the Investment Authority and a number of sports clubs financially, while discussing the files listed on its agenda.
In a statement received by Shafaq News Agency, the media office of the Prime Minister, Mustafa Al-Kazemi, stated that the council held its thirty-third regular session, during which the overall general situation in the country was discussed, and the most important service, economic and development files were discussed, in addition to discussing the topics listed on the schedule of work.
Al-Kazemi directed all state ministries and their various formations to be in a state of maximum alert, and to harness all the required capabilities of the mechanisms to transport visitors heading to the city of Karbala and their return, provide services to them, ensure the smooth flow of their transportation, and secure their movement.
Meanwhile, Minister of Interior Othman Al-Ghanimi gave a detailed explanation of the progress of the fortieth visit, the mechanism for the entry of foreign visitors to Iraq with a high flow, and the necessary protection for all visitors coming from all over the country and heading towards the city of Karbala.
In this regard, Al-Kazemi stressed the need to exert maximum efforts; For the success of the security plan, to secure the visit, and to protect the crowds of visitors who celebrate the Arbaeen ceremonies and their processions.
The statement indicated that the Council of Ministers discussed the topics prepared on the agenda, including those related to the water file, and the challenges facing Iraq in this regard.
The Minister of Water Resources reviewed the country's water situation, the major problems facing the ministry, treatments, and preparations to address them and mitigate their effects on Iraq. The irrigation plan for the agricultural season and the mechanism for overcoming the obstacles encountered were also reviewed.
The Council also discussed the measures of the Ministry of Water Resources in the face of climate changes, and the challenges posed by the dry season, and agreed to approve the recommendation of the Ministerial Council for Energy (32 for the year 2022) regarding updating the strategic study of water and land resources in Iraq, in the face of climate changes according to indicators.
A council issued decisions that included, the General Directorate of Sewers in the Ministry of Construction, Housing, Municipalities and Public Works, assigning the project of equipping, implementing and operating the main and subsidiary lines of the rainwater and heavy water sewer networks, with the right-side lifting stations in the city of Mosul, to the implementing company with the best bid, as far as validity is concerned.
Finance, provided that the Ministry of Construction, Housing, Municipalities and Public Works bears the validity of legal procedures in assignment and contracting.
It also approved the recommendation of the Ministerial Council for Human Development (16 for the year 2021), and to approve the addition of 500 million dinars, as a maximum of profitable oil companies for each of the oil sports clubs, as an exception to the decisions of the Council of Ministers (25 for the year 2021);
For its participation in external tournaments, provided that the amount is added to the approved budget, and the Ministry of Oil has the discretionary power to determine the amount to be spent for each case as part of social services within the amount of the distributable net profit.
Increasing the financial allocation for Al-Zawraa and Al-Mina Sports Clubs by one billion dinars for the year 2022 from the social services account of the General Company for Ports of Iraq.
The Council also agreed to authorize the Chairman of the National Investment Commission to negotiate and sign a draft agreement to encourage and protect investment between the Government of the Republic of Iraq and the Government of the State of Qatar, as amended by the State Council.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs shall prepare the necessary authorization document on behalf of the Government of the Republic of Iraq to the Chairman of the National Investment Commission, according to the approved contexts, and submit it to the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers to obtain the signature of the Prime Minister.
The council also approved the establishment of a grain marketing center (silo) in Wasit Governorate, to enhance food and national security from the allocations of the Ministry of Commerce. LINK
The Ministry of Environment announces the formation of a committee to follow up on water pollution throughout Iraq
Iraq 11:30 - 09-15-2022 Today, Thursday, the Ministry of Environment in the federal government determined the capacity of the infrastructure of sewage plants in Baghdad, and the volume of daily water consumption per capita, while it announced the formation of special committees to follow up water pollution throughout Iraq.
The Director General of the Technical Department in the Ministry of Environment, Amer Al-Fayyad, said that "the capacity of the infrastructure of sewage stations ranges from 3 to 4 million people in Baghdad," noting that "the capital, Baghdad, has a population of nearly 8 million, and therefore the stations operate with full capacity." to drain water as a result of population pressure.
Al-Fayyad added, "All the existing rain stations throw sewage without treatment as a result of pressure on the stations," pointing out that "there is a tendency to deepen drinking water pipes to avoid pollution."
He pointed out that "the share of one person, according to the official statistics of the Municipality of Baghdad, consumes 250 liters of sewage per day, and 300 liters of raw water, which is a large percentage."
He continued, "The fish projects from Baghdad to the district of Essaouira do not succeed properly due to the high level of pollution in the water," stressing that "the government is serious about developing plans and quick solutions to these problems."
He pointed out that "the ministry has formed a committee to follow up water pollution throughout Iraq, after which it submits its report to the office of the Prime Minister to see the extent of the pollution and treat it." https://kirkuktv.net/AR/Details/8917
For The First Time.. Iraq Is Close To Carrying Out Seismic Surveys In Regional Waters
Time: 09/13/2022 11:20:53 {Economic: Euphrates News} The Minister of Oil stressed the importance of directing the seismic survey of the marine area in the Gulf, which is the first experience and actual activity in a site in the territorial waters of the Gulf in its land and sea parts, where expectations and studies indicate that it includes hydrocarbon compositions.
Oil Minister Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar Ismail said in a statement that Al-Furat News received a copy of it that "the ministry's efforts have borne fruit over the past years to reach a contract formula for a joint study with the Chinese company Cinoc, in 2019, aiming to identify points and sites for land and marine exploration."
For his part, the Director General of the Oil Exploration Company Ali Jassim said that "the plans of the ministry and the National Oil Company aim to maximize and invest the national reserve of hydrocarbon wealth, by engaging the national effort, and joint work with sober international companies in transforming expectations into an actual reserve added to the national production."
Jassim pointed out the importance of oil exploration in the regional waters, and that his company is preparing to conclude a contract in the coming days with the Chinese company Cinoc to begin soon the work of exploratory surveys. https://alforatnews.iq/
The Ministry Of Interior Counts The Number Of Voluntarily Departing Foreigners Who Violate The Residency Requirements During A Year
local| 12:30 - 15/09/2022 Baghdad - Mawazine News, today, Thursday, the Ministry of Interior revealed a statistic of the number of expelled and voluntarily departing foreign nationals for violating the terms of the residence law.
The Director of the Deportation and Deportation Department in the Directorate of Residence Affairs of the Ministry of Interior, the human rights brigadier general Ahmed Jumaa Al-Saadi, told the official news agency, followed by Mawazine News, that "the number of expelled and voluntarily departed foreigners who violated the residency conditions since the beginning of this year and until September 12 this year, has reached 22,813 violators in the capital, Baghdad, while the number of violators in other governorates reached more than 20 thousand violators.
Al-Saadi pointed out that "violators of foreign nationalities of the enforceable residence law No. 76 of 2017, are dealt with in accordance with the legal articles stipulated in the same law," noting that "the residence law provides for the deportation of the violating foreigner to the country to which he belongs exclusively."
He continued, "The arrest of violating foreigners is subject to the procedures taken against them, as some of them hold expired passports," noting that "dealing with holders of expired passports is through the issuance of a travel document to him through his country's embassy in Iraq, and if there is no embassy representing his country, it is done." Issuance of a laissez-passer for a foreigner in violation that is allowed to leave the territory of the Republic of Iraq only.
On the legality of the entry of foreigners through Kurdistan, Al-Saadi affirmed, "The border crossings in the Kurdistan region are considered official and any entry through them is legitimate, according to the agreement between the Federal Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Interior in the Kurdistan Region, in addition to recognizing the holder of residence identity in the Kurdistan region if it applies." With the Federal Iraqi Aliens Residence Law No. 76 of 2017. https://www.mawazin.net/Details.aspx?jimare=205525
Major General Jamal Al-Halbousi Told Rudaw: Iran And]Maad Fayyad
Posted On2022-09-15 By Sotaliraq , an expert on borders and international waters, Major General Jamal al-Halbousi, confirmed that "the file of Iraqi borders and waters infiltrated in Iraq is very important and equal, if not more important, than what is happening on the internal political scene."
He stressed that "what is happening in the Iraqi political arena does not reach the importance of 10% of this file, and I mean the file of borders and water and the violations and penetrations that cause drought and desertification, and the importance of this file also lies in economic security, which is more important than political security that can be resolved." Replacing parties and governments through elections.
Al-Halbousi said during his hosting on the Arab Twitter platform, Rudaw, to discuss the topic, “Iraq’s borders and waters are breached or respected?” That all Iraqi borders are breached by Iran, Turkey and Kuwait, and intact with Saudi Arabia and Jordan, and that our waters are stolen by upstream countries.”
He blamed the Iraqi governments for not returning to the agreements signed between Iraq and neighboring
Iran has violated all agreements
. Regarding Iran’s violations of the borders, Al-Halbousi explained: “After all the agreements concluded by Iraq with Iran, the most recent of which was the Algiers Agreement in 1975, which defined 5 agreements and three protocols, including water and borders, was dropped by the Iranian artillery bombardment of Iraqi lands, because any violation of agreements and protocols is considered A violation of the borders, and Iran is bombing Iraqi lands in the Kurdistan Region, and this is a clear violation of all agreements.”
The expert on borders and international waters stressed that “Iraq shares with Iran 42 rivers and watercourses indicated by the International Borders and Good Neighborliness Agreement called the Algiers Agreement of 1975, and divided according to different categories according to their sizes, lengths, and water flow quantities, with classifications (A - B - C) and defined by a complete and independent protocol.
ran has continued to reduce and cut off Iraq’s quotas from 1951 until now, diverting the courses of all these rivers into the Iranian interior, bypassing international rights and norms.
Turkish Violations
With regard to the Turkish violations of the borders and on the Iraqi waters, Al-Halbousi said: “The Turkish army’s violation of the borders and its entry into Iraqi territory in the Kurdistan Region is a flagrant violation of the agreements.”
He pointed out that "Iraq has agreements, protocols, minutes of meetings and good-neighborly relations with neighboring countries, foremost of which is Turkey, and therefore these countries must respect their signatures on the agreements. He cautioned that: "All of Iraq's borders are breached, except for our borders with Jordan and Saudi Arabia, which we can say are peaceful or calm."
He added: "Turkey has crossed the Iraqi borders to the Ararat region since 1921, and we have many border problems with it, and there are good-neighborly treaties with Turkey, the most important of which is the 1946 agreement during the era of Prime Minister Nuri al-Said, which relates to borders and the issue of water."
Al-Halbousi blamed “the Iraqi governments, as they are responsible for these violations, and they must return to the agreements concluded since 1923, the Lausanne Agreement and before it Sèvres, and the agreements signed later, all of which guarantee Iraq’s land and water rights, all of which were violated by Turkey.”
He added: “As a soldier, I was an operations manager and I follow all the military movements that concern my country. I say that Turkey is not allowed to breach the borders under the pretext of pursuing the Turkish Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
Our borders with Kuwait are not fair, and about the Security Council’s interference in demarcating the borders between Iraq and Kuwait, Al-Halbousi said: “Security Council Resolution No. 833 of 1993 is the most severe executive decision against Iraq that has been taken in history.”
He pointed out that: “Even in the two world wars and other wars, the Security Council did not interfere in the issue of borders, and this is a dangerous precedent, and our borders with Kuwait, when they were drawn, did not take place in the presence of the Iraqi side, and there was injustice in land and sea areas. The military shows that there is a difference of 5 to 7 kilometers.”
He added: “Although the Security Council resolution when it was taken, Iraq was under Chapter VII and stripped of its sovereignty and has just emerged from the war, there are many countries, including Germany, that have returned the lands that were deducted from them after the Second World War.
Noting that "Iraq fulfilled all its obligations with Kuwait and the border file remained, and until we extinguished the fire of sedition between peoples and not between governments, given that governments change and go and peoples remain, so the Iraqi and Kuwaiti peoples should think about this issue with reason, and the issue of silence must be taken in 1973 Which the Arab army entered under the guidance of the Arab League and determined the border line, and returning to this line is the best solution now.”
Al-Halbousi pointed out that “there is an agreement that took place in 2008, which is a more humiliating agreement than others, the navigation agreement, which was signed by the Ministry of Transport, which neglected the joint administration and gave Kuwait the right to monopolize the Khor Abdullah, and there must be joint action between Iraq and Kuwait in this matter from the military aspect.” and navigation, establishing a fishing company, and the movement of fishermen in the two countries so that there is a fair work for both parties.”
Iran and Turkey confiscated our waters. Jamal al-Halbousi, an expert on borders and international waters, explained that: “The responsibility for water is shared, but Turkey and Iran have greatly exceeded Iraq’s water quotas and violated all international agreements on this issue, and Iraq has spared no effort to demand its water shares with neighboring countries:
Turkey and Iran. And Syria, dozens of joint agreements and protocols on water were concluded, and a year passed without negotiations and meetings at different levels, technically, diplomatically and politically.
However, these countries have for decades dominated their interests and future needs over the humanitarian situation, neighborhood rights and international water agreements such as the United Nations Agreement on Rivers and Sewers The non-navigational system signed in Geneva in 1997, which became binding on all riparian states.
He stressed that “there is no agreement that allows the construction of dams or the change of river courses. Rather, there are provisions in the Agreement on Non-Navigational Rivers and Streams that specify several axes, including the equitable sharing of rivers from the source to the estuary, and do not allow the conduct of any irrigation or agricultural projects in the upstream countries ( Turkey-Iran) without consulting with the downstream countries (Iraq), establishing joint projects on the rivers to share the benefit and harm, preventing the arbitrary use of water and reducing or cutting rivers from the downstream countries, and the upstream countries bear any harm to the citizens of the downstream country.
He pointed out that "we have with Turkey eight rivers, two main ones, the Tigris and the Euphrates, and the proportions of Iraq's share of them have been reduced to less than 40%, and it has also reduced the quantities of the rest of the rivers after rain-harvesting dams and cut-off dams were established to reduce Iraq's shares of them." LINK
Masrour Barzani: We Are Working To Establish A Strong Economic Infrastructure In The Kurdistan Region
Posted On2022-09-14 By Sotaliraq We are working to establish a strong economic infrastructure in the region, and that will appear in the near future, Prime Minister of Kurdistan Regional Government Masrour Barzani said on Tuesday.
This came while he rang the bell at the beginning of the new school year at Ayloul School in Bardarash District in Dohuk Governorate, and talked about the importance of paying attention to science and knowledge.
The head of the regional government added, "I congratulate all dear students on the occasion of the new school year, and I wish you to spend a new year full of excellence and success," adding that "a new stage has begun in your life," stressing that "we need an intelligent and educated generation that can serve the people and the country."
Masrour Barzani expressed his thanks and appreciation to the teaching staff, students' families and the Ministry of Education for their continuous efforts in continuing the educational process, adding that despite the economic difficulties and crises facing the country, they successfully passed the stage.
In part of his speech, Masrour Barzani touched on the importance of establishing a strong economic structure in the region, noting that this would provide job opportunities and create better living conditions for citizens and the next generation.
On the establishment of new schools and the restoration of old ones, Barzani said that they have done their duty to repair and restore a number of old schools and establish new ones. He thanked the private sector for their help in establishing new schools, calling on them to continue to help provide better living conditions for students.
He stressed that the Kurdistan Regional Government launched a campaign to educate citizens on the importance of patriotism and interest in the lofty values of society, telling the students, "You represent the future of our country, and the future of this country will depend on you."
He pointed out that today we are visiting the district of Bardarash, which is considered an area known for its agricultural importance, adding that the regional government has recently given a prominent interest in this sector and in this area that produces potatoes and exports them abroad, stressing the importance of having skilled farmers and engineers for the development of this sector through the superiority of generations in Educational attainment.
At the end of his speech, Masrour Barzani thanked again the teachers for their support in the continuation of the educational process inside Kurdistan.
He stressed the need to make all efforts to improve the lives of citizens, adding at the same time to the importance of knowing the limited capabilities of the government due to the crises that afflicted it, adding that some of the crises we faced, whether economic or fighting military wars, were created by some parties to harm us and eliminate the territorial entity. Kurdistan
He stated that after overcoming this crisis, we will spare no effort to provide all services to citizens, improve living conditions and provide a better environment for students. LINK