Tishwash: Baghdad and Erbil complete agreements to resume oil exports.
9/6/2025- Kurdistan
The Director General of the State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO), Ali Nizar, confirmed today, Saturday (September 6, 2025), that the agreements and understandings related to the resumption of oil exports between the federal government in Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government have been completed.
Nizar said in a statement to Kurdish media outlets monitored by Baghdad Today, “The Ministry of Natural Resources in the regional government has made every effort to resume oil exports.”
He pointed out that the concerned authorities are now awaiting the start of the export process. LINK
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Clare: Integrity: Digitization and automation of state institutions are an effective weapon to combat corruption and maximize revenues.
9/7/2025
Chairman of the Federal Integrity Commission, Mohammed Ali Al-Lami, stressed on Sunday the need for state institutions to digitize and automate their procedures, noting that this would help prevent corruption and maximize the state’s revenues.
Al-Lami noted, according to a statement received by Al-Eqtisad News, during his meeting with Titon Mitra, the Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Iraq
The long-standing partnership between the Commission and the Programme, praising the great cooperation shown by experts and technicians at the UNDP in the Commission’s departments’ procedures for digital transformation, including the Enterprise Management System (Laser Fiche), and the project to establish a Digital Forensics Laboratory (DFL), which seeks to support the Commission in tracking smuggled funds resulting from corruption crimes, and enhances its ability to detect corruption, fraud and money laundering, investigate these crimes and deter their perpetrators.
Al-Lami continued, saying that all countries suffer from the serious effects of the scourge of corruption, highlighting the importance of concerted efforts among countries, organizations, and United Nations programs to help track down and extradite wanted individuals and recover the proceeds of corruption they smuggled.
For his part, Titon Mitra, according to the statement, praised the harmony, coordination, and cooperation with the Authority, especially in launching awareness and educational programs, noting the importance and difficulty of oversight work and the hardships endured by those who undertake these important tasks.
