Zig’s Place Chatroom News Monday Night 4-25-22
Zig’s Place Chatroom News Monday Night 4-25-22
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Butterfly The price of Brent crude was at $103.3, down from $106.7 and the price of WTI crude was at $98.72, down from $102.1.
butterfly 2022-04-25 07:42 Shafaq News/ The Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) auctioned more than $216 million in foreign currency (forex) today, Monday.
Shafaq News Agency correspondent said that the CBI sales of foreign currency in today's auction amounted to $212,967,148. The transactions were made at a weighted average of 1460 dinars to one dollar. Our correspondent explained that 14 banks and 141 exchange companies cashed out $31.450 million. The remaining $181,517,148 went to boost funds abroad in the form of credit and non-cash transactions, with 33 banks meeting those requests.
butterfly Baghdad Elevated Train (BET) is "Vital" and "Strategic" https://www.iraq-businessnews.com/2022/04/25/baghdad-elevated-train-bet-is-vital-and-strategic/
butterfly Zain Iraq's Revenue Increases https://www.iraq-businessnews.com/2022/04/25/zain-iraqs-revenue-increases/
butterfly Iraq's Oil Dysfunction https://www.iraq-businessnews.com/2022/04/25/iraqs-oil-dysfunction/
butterfly In pictures, a citizen hands over seven artifacts dating back to the Islamic period to the Dhi Qar Antiquities Inspectorate LINK 04/25/2022 16:35:32
butterfly In numbers.. Iraq achieves a surplus of 7 trillion dinars within two months LINK ..
Butterfly Dave will enjoy this one............... Dialogues between the Sadrist and the Framework continue; an Official says .............. https://shafaq.com/en/Iraq-News/Dialogues-between-the-Sadrist-and-the-Framework-continue-an-Official-says
Butterfly 2022-04-25 13:32 Shafaq News/ Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin slipped into Ukraine on Sunday for an extraordinary wartime meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, bringing new promises of military and diplomatic support and defying grave concerns about whether it was safe to make the journey.
The trip, the highest-level American visit since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, was designed to show steadfast U.S. support for Ukraine and its defense as the war enters a new, worrying phase expected to be marked by a major Russian offensive in Ukraine’s south and east.
Speaking to reporters in Poland on Monday morning following the meeting, Blinken said that a coordinated effort between the United States and its Western allies to support Ukraine and pressure Russia “is having real results.”
“We’re seeing that when it comes to Russian war aims, Russia is failing. Ukraine is succeeding,” he said.
Blinken said he and Austin took the train from southwestern Poland to Kyiv and met with Zelenskyy and other senior Ukrainian officials for three hours at the presidential palace. Blinken said they did not meet with the public or tour parts of the country damaged by the war.
"We don’t know how the rest of this war will unfold, but we do know that a sovereign, independent Ukraine will be around a lot longer than Vladimir Putin is on the scene," he said. "And our support going forward for Ukraine will continue until we see final success."
butterfly The pair arrived in Poland on separate planes for a visit shrouded in secrecy. The U.S. government declined to confirm it happened until it was over and Blinken and Austin were safely out of the country — even after Zelenskyy announced the day before that they’d be coming. Zelenskyy's revelation during the Saturday news conference had caught Washington off-guard, prompting a last-minute scramble to determine whether it was still safe for them to go, U.S. officials said.
It’s typical for war zone trips by U.S. presidents and other high-level officials to be unannounced in advance, lest it make it easier for enemy forces operating in the country to target them. Blinken and Austin traveled to Poland with small contingents of journalists under U.S.-imposed ground rules requiring them not to report on the trip until it was finished. No U.S. journalists accompanied the secretaries on the journey from Poland to Ukraine.
In his comments ahead of their visit, Zelenskyy had publicly urged the U.S. secretaries not to show up empty-handed — and they didn’t.
Blinken came bearing news that the Biden administration will finally nominate an ambassador to Ukraine: Bridget Brink, currently the U.S. ambassador to Slovakia, who for weeks has been widely reported to be President Joe Biden’s likely pick.
The U.S. has not had a Senate-confirmed ambassador to Ukraine since then-President Donald Trump fired Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch in 2019, and the vacancy had become a diplomatic black eye for the U.S. as the Ukraine war erupted into the top global crisis. Brink, who has deep experience in Eastern Europe, will face another Senate vote to be confirmed for the post in Ukraine.
butterfly While in Kyiv, Blinken also informed Zelenskyy that U.S. diplomats will return to Ukraine this week — possibly as early as Monday — for the first time since the U.S. evacuated its remaining diplomats in the country to Poland weeks ago, a senior State Department official said. At first, U.S. diplomats temporarily based in Poland will make day trips over the border to the Ukrainian city of Lviv and then to other parts of the country, the official said. Source: NBC News
butterfly The price of Brent crude was at $103.3, down from $106.7 and the price of WTI crude was at $98.72, down from $102.1.
butterfly SULAIMANI — The total foreign reserve currency in Iraq's Central Bank has topped 70b dollars as crude oil prices soared recently.
Financial advisor to the Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi said on Monday (April 25) that the total reserve currency in the country's central bank has topped 70b dollars.
Mazhar Mohammed Salih told the Iraqi News Agency (INA) that the reserve is three times all of Iraq's debts that must be paid back between 2022 to 2028.
He said that between 2020 and 2021, Iraq faced financial difficulties as the price of oil plummeted due to the coronavirus pandemic, which reduced crude oil demand.
In December, the central bank said that foreign currency reserves had reached 64b dollars.
butterfly SULAIMANI — The Presidency of the Iraqi parliament summoned The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Fuad Hussein, to discuss Turkey’s recent cross-border offensive against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
Hussein met on Sunday (April 24) with the first Deputy Speaker in the Iraqi parliament, Hakim al-Zamili.
Hussein said according to an agreement between Iraq and Turkey that was signed in 1984 by Tariq Aziz, the former foreign minister of Iraq, Turkey is allowed to pass 5 km across the Iraqi border under the condition Ankara informs Baghdad 72 hours before entering the country’s territory.
The agreement was for only one year and no further agreements were signed, Hussein said.
Turkey began its fresh cross-border offensive known as Operation Claw Lock against the PKK early on Monday.
The Foreign Ministry’s Spokesperson Ahmed al-Sahhaf, said on Thursday the ministry regards Turkey’s attack as "a violation of Iraq’s sovereignty, and a threat to its territory’s unity and the country’s security.”
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan claimed on Wednesday the operation was conducted in cooperation with the Iraqi government.
The foreign ministry condemned Turkey’s offensive earlier in the week and summoned the Turkish ambassador over the attack.
butterfly SULAIMANI — The Turkish Minister of Defense, Hulusi Akar, said on Monday (April 25) the first phase of the country’s cross-border Operation Claw Lock against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has come to an end.
Akar said Turkish forces killed 56 PKK members in the operation that was launched on Monday and claimed 991 "terrorists” have been killed in the Kurdistan Region and Syria this year, according to Anadolu Agency. Turkey considers the PKK to be a terrorist organization and views the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) as an affiliate of the group.
The operation’s main target was the Zap region, 30 km into the Kurdistan Region from Turkey’s border, according to Hurriyet Daily News.
Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said on Monday three PKK members were killed in the southeast province of Sirnak as part of Operation Eren Blockade-5, which was conducted by special forces and gendarmerie teams, and was supported by drones, Anadolu said.
Anadolu said. The People’s Defense Forces (HPG), the military wing of the PKK, said in a statement posted by Firat News Agency that 218 Turkish soldiers were killed in the operation since April 17 and that Turkey carried out 387 air strikes by fighter jets.
Hulusi Akar will join a meeting with defense ministers from 30 countries to discuss Ukraine at NATO’s Ramstein Air Base in Germany on Tuesday, according to Anadolu.
Akar posted a statement on Twitter on Monday commemorating "Turks massacred by the Armenians in 1915” a day after April 24, the day traditionally used to mark the beginning of the Armenian genocide.
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Professor dinard butterfly given the current status of energy in the world do you agree with bidens decision to reduce u.s. energy independence? Is so why?
Dave Eid over July !0th.......dont hold your breathe
Dave OPPS... May 2nd..........can hold my breathe that long....
Dave ......though doubt that maliki and the slc will enjoy being muted or hamstrung.....
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Butterfly 2022-04-25 07:42 Shafaq News/ The Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) auctioned more than $216 million in foreign currency (forex) today, Monday.
Shafaq News Agency correspondent said that the CBI sales of foreign currency in today's auction amounted to $212,967,148. The transactions were made at a weighted average of 1460 dinars to one dollar.
Our correspondent explained that 14 banks and 141 exchange companies cashed out $31.450 million. The remaining $181,517,148 went to boost funds abroad in the form of credit and non-cash transactions, with 33 banks meeting those requests.
butterfly Donald Trump will not return to Twitter even if the social network has a new owner
The former US president was once one of Twitter's most active users. Now he has TRUTH, his own social network. https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/425677
butterfly Twitter CEO tells employees company is in the dark over future under Musk .................. After it was confirmed that Elon Musk will buy Twitter , Donald Trump spoke about it on the Fox News network and explained that he would not return to Twitter even if his account was reinstated: “I will not use Twitter, I will stay on TRUTH. I hope Elon buys Twitter because he'll make it better and he's a good man, but I'm staying at TRUTH." ............................... https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/425677
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