Samson: Iraq maintains 37th place globally from its reserves to gold
08/01/2017 – 10:44
World Gold Council said on Saturday that Iraq maintained the 37th place globally and Arab fifth of its reserves of gold with the beginning of the year 2017, indicating that these reserves did not register a change, reaching 89.8 tons.
The Council stated in the statistics published on its website and seen “Economy News” him that “Iraq has maintained its 37th place globally and fifth Arab from its reserves of gold during the month of January of this year 2017,” noting that “Iraq came fifth Arab rank after Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Algeria and Libya. ”
It added that “these reserves of gold are held constant which reported 89.8 tons, representing 7.1 of the rest of the other currencies,” he said. “The last purchase of gold for Iraq was in the month of April 2014 where 15.16 tons bought.”
He added that “the world’s gold reserves rose by 67 tonnes for the month of December to reach 33,248 tons, while the United States ranked first globally in terms of these reserves, which amounted to 8.133.5, followed by Germany with 3.377 tons.
http://economy-news.net/content.php?id=6373
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Samson: Iraq, Kuwait : preliminary agreement on joint oil fields, gas exports
7th January, 2017
Chairman of Basra Oil and Gas Commission Ali al-Faris reported that the Iraqi oil minister Jabbar al-Li’aibi signed a contract with Kuwait to jointly invest border oil fields and exporting the surplus gas to Kuwait.
He added that Iraq is expected to export 50 million cubic feet per day till reaching 200 million cubic feet daily.
A joint committee was formed for further discussions by the two oil ministers, he added.
No other details were given.
http://www.iraqtradelinknews.com/2017/01/iraq-kuwait-preliminary-agreement-on.html
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JackFrost: Urgent Jordanian Prime Minister to visit Baghdad tomorrow
[Oan- Baghdad] An informed source said the Jordanian Prime Minister Hani Mulki, will visit Baghdad on Monday, the official invitation.
The source told all of Iraq [where] that “Mulki will meet with Prime Minister Haider al – Abadi, senior Iraqi officials and looking with them ways to strengthen bilateral relations and cooperation in the field of counter – terrorism and economic activities and dents reopen Trebil border so as to promote trade between the two countries.”
It was the caster has received an official invitation from al – Abadi to visit Baghdad transported him and Transport Minister Kazem cup , who visited Oman in 22 of last September.
It is said that the visit of Prime Minister of Jordan comes after a day of visiting Turkish counterpart Ben Ali Yildirim to Iraq.
http://www.alliraqnews.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=56108
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Don961: The fight against terrorism: the next few days will witness the liberation of Mosul
Major General Fadel Barwari, anti-terrorism
Roudao-Erbil
explained Major General Fadel Barwari, of the Anti – terrorism, said : “On Friday , January 6 marked the Iraqi army holiday, but because of our progress in the fighting was not possible for us sweets were distributed to the army and the citizens.”
Berwari said network Roudao media, we “Today we distribute sweets to mark the founding of the Iraqi army, and in the near future also Snozaa sweets to mark the liberation of Mosul city is full of elements of al – Daesh.”
Berwari said that “progress on the part of anti – terrorism device of this side arrived in Al Muthanna, was the liberation of the first aspect of this neighborhood until we arrived at the archaeological village that separates Al Muthanna to both sides, and now go towards the second side neighborhood of Muthanna and crossed Khosr River River.”
In the last Major General Fadel Barwari added that “We have big surprises we will announce in the next few days, and this happy surprises for all Iraqis, and especially to the people of Mosul
http://rudaw.net/arabic/middleeast/iraq/080120173
