Last Night's KTFA News Articles 4-14-17

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Don961 » April 14th, 2017


Pentagon: US defense secretary John Matisse to visit ME Tuesday

April 14 2017 08:30 PM Breaking

US Secretary of Defense, John Matisse will start a Middle East visit on Tuesday, the Pentagon announced Friday in a statement.

The visit, which will last till April 23th, includes Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, Israel, and Djibouti, the statement read.

The statement affirmed Matisse "will reiterate the importance of military alliances in the region, stresses on cooperation in combating terrorist groups that seek to disturb peace and stability in the Middle East".

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/9351/Pentagon-US-defense-secretary-John-Matisse-to-visit-ME-Tuesday

BigIron » April 14th, 2017

At a program rate Kuwait can buy Iraq. hmmmmmmm

Don961 » April 14th, 2017

Iraq to give Kuwait investment privileges, says minister

April 14 2017 09:22 PM

Iraqi Minister of Planning and Trade, Salman al-Jumaili, stressed on Friday Iraq's keenness to grant Kuwait a comparative advantage in investment, The Baghdad Post reported.

In a joint press statement with Kuwaiti Minister of Trade and Industry Khalid al-Roudhan, Jumaili said, "Iraq relies on Kuwaiti investors to contribute to economic development, and to achieve the Iraqi government program as required".

He added that both sides reached an integrated plan to deal with obstacles in the upcoming period by facilitating the obtaining of visas between the two countries, the possibility of entering goods across land borders and facilitating the flow of goods.

Jumaili indicated that "the Iraqi government began to take a package of economic reforms through the amendment of laws and legislation in order to create an attractive environment for foreign investment to ensure the expansion of the country's productive base".

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/9353/Iraq-to-give-Kuwait-investment-privileges-says-minister

Samson » April 14th, 2017

Iraq is seeking to re-open Trebil with Jordan to activate international trade

2017/4/15 8:59

Planning Minister Salman Jumaili said that much interested in the issue of re-opening of Trebil with Jordan for re-land trade with the countries of the world, which constitute a high proportion of the country's imports every year the government.

He added Jumaili in a press statement that "hinders the opening of Trebil border with Jordan , the large number of bridges destroyed by the terrorist gangs Daesh during the control of the cities of Anbar province since the beginning of 2014 until the liberation of Fallujah and Ramadi , a few months ago."

He said "about 36 bridges destroyed by the terrorist gangs Daesh, and the cities of Rawa and pubic as well as the need to edit the existing fast time of Daesh gangs."

He predicted that Jumaili "will be the opening of this international road during the coming period and the return of the commercial activity."

He called Jordan several times from Iraq to rehabilitate the international highway , which runs for an estimated distance of {500} km from Baghdad to the Jordanian and Syrian borders west as a prelude to re - activity of international trade.

The Prime Minister Haider al - Abadi said earlier that the competent authorities struck a deal with one of the security companies to rehabilitate and secure movement on the international highway and re - energize the international trade movement between Iraq and the countries of the world .anthy

http://alforatnews.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=141367

Samson » April 14th, 2017

Iran, Pakistan central banks sign agreement on payment arrangement

Islamabad and Tehran had earlier signed an agreement to increase annual trade volume to $5 billion by 2021. Sat Apr 15, 2017 2:21AM

Islamabad and Tehran had earlier signed an agreement to increase annual trade volume to $5 billion by 2021

The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) and Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran (CBI) have reached an agreement on banking and payment, as the two countries seek to raise the volume of bilateral trade to $5 billion.

SBP Deputy Governor Riaz Riazuddin and Gholamali Kamyab, the CBI deputy governor for forex affairs, signed the agreement on behalf of their respective central banks in the Iranian capital Tehran on Friday.

The agreement seeks "to provide a trade settlement mechanism to promote trade between Pakistan and Iran. This mechanism will be used for the payment of trade conducted via letter of credit (L/Cs) and in accordance with international laws and regulations," said an official statement released by the SBP.

"In the next step, both the central banks will invite banks in their respective jurisdiction to act as authorized banks for undertaking trade transactions under this" agreement, the statement read, adding, "Details of the mechanism will be issued by the SBP in due course."

The statement, which was released ahead of a new session of the Iran-Pakistan joint economic committee, also expressed hope that the agreement would lead to boosting trade ties between Tehran and Islamabad.

The 20th session of the joint committee is scheduled to be held on April 17-18 in Tehran, and a delegation from the neighboring country, including deputy ministers and directors at Pakistan's miniseries of economy, trade, oil, industry, communication and power along with senior banking authorities, are due to arrive on Saturday in Tehran.

Speaking at a business conference with Rouhani in Pakistan in late March, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said Islamabad and Tehran had signed an agreement to increase annual trade volume to $5 billion by 2021.

Heading a high-ranking politico-economic delegation, including 60 Iranian businessmen, Rouhani paid his first landmark visit to Pakistan since the conclusion of a nuclear agreement, dubbed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which was clinched by Iran and the P5+1 group of countries in July 2015.

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2017/04/15/518065/Iran-Pakistan-central-bank-SBP-CBI-BPA-agreement

Samson » April 14th, 2017

Jubouri: the greatest wealth that the country is owned by the Iraqi

2017/4/15 12:35

Confirmed House Speaker Salim al - Jubouri that the greatest wealth is owned by the country of Iraq and the new generation is the strategic part of this wealth.

Jubouri said during the Baghdad dialogue educational conference , which was held today under the auspices of a member of the board of the presidency of the parliament Hamoudi said , "when the content of the reform before a solution related to the constituent stages of generations , it means that we are going to the most dangerous episode in education, the most important and sensitive."

He stressed that " the establishment of a new understanding takes into account the circumstances of the stage and plans to overcome its mistakes and complexity of works on immunization generation of potential effects if left without treatment and redress."

He called al - Jubouri , a serious revolution in Tndij educational curricula to live up to the scale of the disaster and its aftermath, and take into account the jurisprudence of the crisis requirements, Valemrahal post - conflict and wars need to be an educational and educational effort professional and mature and responsible. "

He stressed" the need to take into account the gradient in the methods of this transformation and as potential obstacles We will confront us in this project and ways of adapting these methods for the benefit of achieving the desired objectives of education development project. " the Jubouri" we are about today on the completion of the armed confrontation with the terrorism stage and is preparing to run more complex and influential war in victory and defeat, and not up to us enough time to waste and Altadhaaa, and Its capabilities are limited to a large extent , but large and great ability size of Iraq and address. "

He stressed that " we need to explicitly bright in the diagnosis and suggestion, frankly that would put us on the shortest and most effective way, by asking the obvious questions and the obvious and the first of these questions about who or entities involved in this act reform and their willingness to interact with solutions that require generous positions of this or that party. "

He also stressed" the need for the Ministry of Education has a vision to develop a special approach to the liberated areas and methods of measuring the size of the impact on the generations and methods of treatment and correction as well as the extent of its potential to create specialized cadres in this The project, the management of the positive impact of community programs and even the size and type of services provided by local authorities to the oppressed class of our people. "

He noted that " the real wealth is not that underground oil, gas and minerals, but also the greatest wealth possessed by Iraq is Iraqi and the new generation is the strategic part of this wealth , which are counting on it to build the future and draw a picture of tomorrow hopefully."

He said Jubouri that " the new generation of wealth is exposed today to waste and neglect a systematic process of March part of terrorism and helped him folk others are a handful of corrupt who worked on emptying the closet country of Iraqi money that was supposed to turn into pens, notebooks, schools and devices Electronic advanced techniques teach advanced , a work no less than a crime of the bloody terrorist act. "

He pointed out that "the Education Committee in the Iraqi parliament is working to communicate with the executive bodies of the relevant, as a point of legislator, monitoring and supporting the University of institutions of education in Iraq, and is working with parliament to overcome all the difficulties that hinder educational devices."

He called Jubouri at the end of his speech , the executive bodies with their bonds to link effective educational organizations and international communication, including UNESCO , to give effect to what has been talked about the rehabilitation of the curriculum and active cadres in the liberated areas of the terrorism program, and achieve the objectives of the National Development Plan and approved by the International Compact with Iraq ".

http://www.alliraqnews.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=60765

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