Iraqi Parliament News
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Turkey’s agreement to import lower- cost oil and gas from Iraq’s Kurdish region could help Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan cut the nation’s current-account deficit by more than a third.
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Iraq, the second-largest producer in OPEC, won’t reach its target of pumping 4.5 million barrels of oil a day by next year and plans to announce revised production goals in April, senior government officials said.
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The next meeting of the Iraqi parliament has been postponed until Nov. 11, al-Arabiya television said, citing Fuad Massoum, acting speaker of the assembly. He had called for lawmakers to return to the chamber on Nov. 8. Since the inconclusive March 7 election, lawmakers have met once, on June 14.
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Iraq will honor contracts to buy Russian helicopters and air-defense systems, though for “far less” than $4.2 billion announced by Russia, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said in an interview with Voice of Russia.
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The convening of Iraq’s parliament was postponed as the country’s political leaders failed to reach an agreement to form a new coalition that would eliminate an eight-month power vacuum.
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Iraq’s parliamentary seating distribution was little changed after a recount of national election ballots in Baghdad, the country’s electoral commission said.
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Iraq’s parliament approved the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki , who vowed to pursue national reconciliation, after nine months of post-election wrangling.
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Dozens of Iraqis staged a peaceful sit-in inside the parliament building in Baghdad to mark six months of political stalemate following inconclusive elections.
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Russia is unlikely to receive any compensation if Iraq has scrapped a $4.2 billion contract to buy weapons, Ruslan Pukhov, head of the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies in Moscow, said today.
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