France24 (Free subscription) | yesterday
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani flew to Tehran on Sunday to appeal for the lives of Iranian Kurds sentenced to death, a newspaper website reported. "President Talabani on Sunday pays a secret visit to Tehran to ask President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to intervene with the chief of the judiciary to avoid the execution of Iranian Kurds," said the Sulaimaniyah-based Awina journal. Officials in Baghdad...
Memri Latest Blogs (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
In a special interview with the London daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, Iraq's foreign minister Hoshyar Zibari made a number of key points: Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's official visit to Paris this week sent a message to the Arab and ... November 19, 2009, 9:45 am
France24 (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The Iraqi parliament will on Saturday attempt to finally pass an electoral law jeopardised by Vice President Tarek al-Hashemi's demand that it be changed before a general election can go ahead. Iraq's presidential council, composed of President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, and two vice presidents, including Sunni Arab Hashemi and one Shiite, has demanded a greater say in the election for minorities and...
The Economist (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
As Americans prepare to leave, Iraq’s biggest neighbours vie for influence OF ALL the foreign officials an American general or ambassador would least want to be seen with, General Qassem Suleimani would—you may think—be high on the list. For he commands the Quds Force, an elite arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, and thus runs the dirty war that Iran has been conducting for...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Visiting Iraqi President Jalal Talabani appealed Wednesday for large scale of investment by French enterprises to Iraq when addressing a main French employers' association here. On his third day in France, 75-year-old Talabani took his delegation of industrial elites to drum up business opportunities in Iraq, encouraging French companies to invest in "all sectors" of Iraq. "The perspectives...
France24 (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani told FRANCE 24 in an interview on Wednesday that he feared a power vacuum if January elections are delayed following a veto from an Iraqi vice-president on a key electoral reform.
Kishkushim خربطات קישקושים (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
BY AMOS Last week , the Iraqi parliament passed an elections law that was to have resolved some of the contentious issues surrounding voter eligibility. But today, one of Iraq's two vice presidents, Tariq al-Hashimi , vetoed the bill. Hashimi belongs to the Iraqi Islamic Party, a Sunni Islamist coalition. He objected specifically to some of the details of the proposed legislation which limited the...
France24 (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani on Wednesday promised lucrative oil and reconstruction contracts to French business leaders keen to restore their country's place as Iraq's top business partner. "You need to be brave, you need to be courageous and to invest in all sectors," he said to applause, at a meeting with France's MEDEF employers' association. "Iraq is a very promising basket for...
France24 (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani told business leaders in Paris Wednesday that he wanted to see the French energy giant Total working in his country's oil fields. A senior Total executive confirmed that the company is preparing bids.
France24 (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani told business leaders in Paris that he wanted to see the French energy giant Total working in his country's oil fields. "We might favour a French bid whatever the figures. Don't fear this auction. ... The figures aren't everything," he said during a state visit to France. "We want to see Total work in our oil fields." A senior Total executive confirmed...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Paris - Iraqi President Jalal Talabani is to meet later Monday with his French counterpart, Nicolas Sarkozy, to discuss relations between their two countries. Talabani's four-day stay is the first-ever state visit of an Iraqi president to France, and...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Paris - Iraqi President Jalal Talabani is to meet later Monday with his French counterpart, Nicolas Sarkozy, to discuss relations between their two countries. Talabani's four-day stay is the first-ever state visit of an Iraqi president to France, and...
France 24 (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
France moved to raise both its profile and its profits in Iraq on Monday, welcoming President Jalal Talabani to Paris with a series of trade and aid deals ready for signing. Talabani will be treated to full ceremonial honours when he arrives at the Elysee palace later Monday for his first full state visit, talks with President Nicolas Sarkozy and a dinner in his honour. Iraq's red, white and black...
France 24 (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
France moved to raise its profile and it profits in Iraq on Monday, welcoming President Jalal Talabani to Paris with a series of trade and aid deals ready for signing. Talabani will be treated to full ceremonial honours when he arrives at the Elysee palace later Monday for his first full state visit, talks with President Nicolas Sarkozy and a dinner given in his honour. Iraq's red, white and black...
France 24 (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
France moved to raise both its profile and its profits in Iraq on Monday, welcoming President Jalal Talabani to Paris with a series of trade and aid deals ready for signing. Talabani will be treated to full ceremonial honours when he arrives at the Elysee palace later Monday for his first full state visit, talks with President Nicolas Sarkozy and a dinner given in his honour. Iraq's red, white and...
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