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30 January 2012 -- The investment Authority in Basra announced approval to grant investment licenses worth two hundred and thirty-five million dollars for a number of projects that have been studied ...
30 January 2012 -- The Parliamentary Finance Committee announced on Saturday, about allocating a grant of two billion Iraqi dinars for retirees from the budget in 2012, noting that this amount will ...
30 January 2012 -- Parliamentary Commission on Economy and investment asked on Saturday, for, granting full powers to the provinces for the investment authorities, while confirming that the issue of ...
Baghdad, 30 January 2012 -- Vice-President Khudhair al-Khuza'i declared today that Iraq is ready to provide the guarantees needed by the Swedish investment companies.
29 January 2012 -- The closure of the Strait of Hormuz even for a short period will suffocate the Iraqi economy and bring economic activity in the country to standstill, a top Iraqi economist said.
29 January 2012 -- Issues such as the region's budget draft for 2012 and the upcoming change of the Cabinet discussed.
The Council of Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government met on Monday, ...
Najaf, 29 January 2012 -- The Governor of southwest Iraq's Province of Najaf has conferred in Najaf on Saturday with the US Ambassador to Baghdad on Saturday, expressing willingness of his Province ...
28 January 2012 -- Baghdad Secretary Saber Al Issawi announced, on Thursday, that Baghdad Secretariat’s share in 2012’s budget isn’t at the level of ambitions arguing that these allocations are ...
28 January 2012 -- A trade delegation from Iraq's Kurdistan held talks at the Amman Chamber of Commerce (ACC) on means of boosting economic and trade relations between Jordan and Kurdistan region.
Geneva, 28 January 2012 -- The United Nations released $1.02 billion (774 million euros) in Iraqi compensation to Kuwait on Thursday in the latest payment of a war reparation scheme that began in 1994.
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