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The most prominent events in Iraq, economic and cultural in 2011
Friday, December 30 / 1 December 2011 15:07
{Baghdad} News picked up the Euphrates and the Euphrates News Agency highlighted the economic and cultural events in Iraq during 2011, economic events and cultural events Zahmt strongly political, security and topped the concerns of the Iraqis.
The most prominent economic events in 2011:
January
In 10 of the same month, Iraq signed a long-term economic agreement with Jordan to improve trade between the two countries.
In 15 of Iraq signed a contract with the company Alixtrom rail project for the implementation of the suspense.
In month 16 of the Security Council voted to extend the immunity of Iraqi funds.
In 20 of the same month, the Iraqi government began to extend an oil pipeline through its territory to Syria to deliver Iranian gas to the Mediterranean.
February
In February 1st Iraq signed an agreement with German company Baronk for the development of government banks.
March
March 1 / March period was Prime Minister percent on the development of the economic situation and the service of the government institutions.
In 15 of the month which ended Iraq prepared by the restructuring of the development of payments in the government banks.
On 24 March the Iraqi government announced it had agreed with the EU on the development of the instruments in the government banks.
April
On April 5 and the Iraqi government signed a two-year agreement with Turkey to develop and rehabilitate the factories in the country.
In 7 of the same month the Ministry of Commerce announced that 50 of the Federal global and local territory and participated in the second gallery of the building housing the modern and accessories.
On April 10, opened the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity Station Sadr gas card up to 320 mega watts and 100 million euros.
On 28 Iraqi government announced that the volume of trade with Turkey amounted to 12 billion dollars.
May
In 17 of the Oil Ministry have agreed with the Government of Iraq, South Korea to supply crude oil export of 166 thousand barrels per day to 250 thousand barrels per day.
In 29 of Iraq to resolve the issue of freezing of funds by the Jordan Kuwait to freeze the assets of Iraqi Airways.
June
In the June 6 struck the Iraqi Oil Ministry and two finalists with the Turkish Petroleum Company, Kuwait and Kuwait Energy Company, Kocaz Korea, to develop the fields Sebe and Mansuriyah invading into the third round of licensing approval of the Council of Ministers on the initial contract.
On June 12, Washington announced afford the protection of Iraqi funds, as agreed in 17 of Iraq with Turkey to establish a company Skkih common between them, and in 21 of the same month announced the Federal Ministry of Transport said it had agreed with France to develop the country's airports and equipped with modern equipment.
In 29 of the same month announced that the Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation has allocated $ 500 million to build housing complexes for low income people within the Chtha to alleviate poverty in the country.
July
On July 1 and signed the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity signed a contract with any CG to extend to the Iranian gas pipeline worth $ 365 million.
In 3 of the same month entered into the Ministry of Science and Altklnoggio agreement for a period of 5 years and worth $ 256 billion with Iran to develop technical projects and Altklnoggio in the country.
On 6 July and signed an information and communications contract with Eskom Swedish $ 800 thousand euros to import 8 devices to check e-mobile.
In 23 of the same month announced the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister for Energy that Iraq agreed on a draft of the Chinese company responsible for developing global Ahdab to increase production to 200 thousand barrels.
August
On 2 August / August completed the final designs for the oil refinery in Karbala, was signed a memorandum of understanding with the Italian investment company for a period of six months of the completion of financing and providing technical personnel to start work on a refinery in Karbala.
On 20 August the Ministry of Finance announced it has completed the final accounts for 2010 to all ministries and government bodies.
In month 22 of the Ministry of Transport announced that the Jordanian government officially approved plans to extend Skki from the port of Aqaba to the Iraqi border.
In 30 of the 16 companies entered the Italian to work in the field of housing through the payment term.
September
In September 11th, the Ministry of Municipalities officially the fourth licensing round with the participation of 44 international companies.
In 15 of the same month revealed that the Council of Ministers of Iraq's debt in accordance with the Paris Club amounted to $ 23 billion.
On 23 September and signed with the Ministry of Communications Alixtrom global contract worth $ 9 million to implement the project the gates of power electronics.
In 28 of the same month and agreed to the Iraqi government to develop the field of crutch by a company Kocaz Korean.
October
3, the first Shrine / October and the oil ministry agreed with Italy's ENI to raise the level of oil production in the Zubair oil field to 1.2 million barrels and production of the field was a time about 227 000 barrels per day.
In 4 of which Ministry has decided to set up Msfian Alinvtt display in the provinces of Karbala, Maysan, their energy productivity of up to 290 thousand b / d, the same day and agreed with the Ministry of Transport and the stricken Iranian Park on the rehabilitation of the railway system.
On 8 October, said the Iraqi Central Bank, the IMF agreed to a policy of monetary Iraq.
November
In November 1st, the Ministry of the Baghdad International Trade Fair Bdorth 38 and with the participation of 200 companies worldwide and witnessed the signing of the Convention on 50 secondary.
In 11 of Iraq began procedures to open a port, a new border with Turkey to enhance trade between the two countries.
On November 13 the Iraqi government informed the company Mobil Aksen not legal to work in the Kurdistan region.
On November 18, Shell announced that the production of the Majnoon field was 76 thousand barrels of oil per day.
In 23 of the same month, Iraq signed a contract funded by the European Union at a cost of 24 billion euros for the development of human capacity.
December
In December 12th exhibition opened Baghdad for reconstruction and housing participation of 200 international and Arab companies and local.
On 23 it announced that the Kuwaiti government facilitate the entry of Iraqi traders to, and on 25 the Iraqi government announced that Iraq would emerge from Chapter VII depends on the position of Kuwait.
At the level of the most prominent cultural events has occupied the Festival of Baghdad film, which was held from October 3 to 10 / October, the site of the event is more important, as it participated in about 30 countries with more than 140 films, many of them presents for the first time in the Arab world, and another section displays the time First in Iraq.
Either at the cinema, it made Iraq more than a victory on several occasions. And won the documentary «Cola» Yahia Keywords second prize of the "Gulf Film Festival" in Dubai, then won the award for best documentary film in the "Festival of the Beirut International Cinema", and got a movie Qutaiba al-Janabi, "the departure from Baghdad," was named best feature film at the festival itself . In the recent Dubai Film Festival, won the film director Omar contributed to the "land of heroes," the second prize in the Muhr Arabic Short Film, won as "Missing children of Halabja," Akram Hedo an award for Special Jury for Documentary Film.
In return, set up local festivals such as the Baghdad International Film Festival and the Festival Mrbd hair in Basra; although he did not succeed in overcoming the mistakes of the past years.
In terms of festivals, has launched Festival films Kurdish fourth city of Sulaimaniya in the December 24 being the participation of 43 short films and documentaries, as well as the second session of the festival (no violence) short film by the Ministry of Culture and Youth the Kurdistan region, for the period December 25 to 28 / December. in the hall of the cultural media, included a show 15 short films, and the second came after the festival of short films has launched in the city of Irbil, under the slogan (No to violence against women), with the participation of 15 films Kurdish short.
Iraq and the guest of the annual conference of Arab journalists in Baghdad, on the seventeenth of October, in the presence of more than 20 Member States of the Union. The announcement came as the Antiquities Authority and Heritage of Iraq in Baghdad, 11 December / December of this year, they recovered 4,500 stolen antiquities from within and outside the country during the current year. After exposure of the Iraqi Museum and a number of archaeological sites to looting after the year 2003.
And formed the festival of the fifteenth session of the Festival Clauaz cultural November 22, in the city of Sulaimaniya, a significant event in terms of literature and culture, the participation of 28 the result of the story, poetry and literary study, and about 120 man of letters, writers and journalists from within the Kurdistan region and beyond. On the sidelines of the festival announced that the British Consul in the Kurdistan region, to visit Britain, a way out about 50 of the Territory to participate in the Festival of British film involving Erbil for the first time the participation of about 50 British way out in the festival with 15 films.
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