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2023-02-16T15:57:29.000000 Z Share fontEnable Reading ModeA-AA+Shafaq News/ Washington talks has yielded extremely positive results ,
spokesperson to the Iraqi federal government, Basim al-Awwadi, stated on Thursday as Deputy Prime Minister Fuad Hussein and his accompanying
delegation finishes up one-week check out to the United States capital
The Iraqi and American side concluded their talks today and the Iraqi delegation is heading back to Baghdad, al-Awwadi informed Shafaq News
Agency, the talks were far more than favorable
The US side was peculiarly more mindful to the guests when compared to previous delegations that went to Washington
The talks were direct and frank
The Iraqi delegation was divided into 2 technical and political teams, offered the political nature of the problems relevant to Iraq and its
ties with the US, he explained
The technical team was headed by the Iraqi central banks guv, the finance and planning ministries, and a group of political and financial
They held a series of conferences with the treasury department the federal reserve, congressmen, and other officeholders
The two established new systems to cooperate which will add to the increase of foreign currency to Iraq
They also agreed on a mechanism for the online platform, which will ultimately support the forex market back in Iraq, he concluded.A report
by the Washington-based Middle East institute stated that the Biden administration pressed the Iraqi delegation to reorient Iraqs energy
sector away from Iran and address allegations that Iraqs financial sector is helping the Iranian routine evade sanctions.The Biden
administration used the latest Strategic Framework Agreement meeting with high-level Iraqi officials, kept in Washington, on Feb
9, to push Iraq to lower its financial ties to Iran
The head of the visiting delegation, Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein, told reporters that this latest conference was the very first in
the series, introduced in 2009, to concentrate on financial problems
Ahead of his talks with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Hussein expressed hope that collaborations with the American government and
private companies would assist Iraq develop its economy
The American side was more pointed
Blinken openly prompted Iraq to end up being energy independent in electricity, therefore signaling that the federal government in Baghdad
ought to discover options to imports of Iranian energy for its flailing domestic power sector
He included that the United States would support efforts among Gulf nations and Jordan to incorporate Iraq into the regional economy
These remarks followed the Feb
2 phone call in between U.S
President Joe Biden, Jordanian King Abdullah II, and Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, in which Biden expressed American support
for joint Iraqi-Jordanian jobs, consisting of in the fields of electrical power transmission and an oil pipeline
An American group in Iraq last month likewise pressed the Iraqis to advance these local energy projects.From Baghdads point of view, the
most immediate issue for its delegation was the U.S
Federal Reserves action last November to restrain dollar transfers from the Iraqi federal governments oil earnings account at the New York
Federal Reserve bank to the Central Bank of Iraq
These limitations have reduced dollar circulations from the Central Bank to Iraqi business bank customers seeking to transfer dollars out of
Iraq, as the Federal Reserve now look at transfer receivers to ensure the dollar transfers do not break American sanctions on Iran and Syria
The minimized wire transfers have driven up demand for paper American dollars and rose the dollar currency exchange rate in Iraq
Resulting greater import rates produced a popular backlash versus Prime Minister al-Sudanis government.While in Washington last week as part
of his countrys checking out delegation, Central Bank Governor Ali al-Alaq promoted actions Baghdad is requiring to bring the Iraqi banking
sector into compliance with worldwide money-transfer practices
Al-Alaq and Foreign Minister Hussein likewise described how Baghdad intends to revalue the dinar upward while managing the issues of
counterfeit currency notes and weak border controls on paper dollars leaving Iraq
The Iraqi government had hoped that Hussein and Alaq might secure a moratorium on the Federal Reserves limitation of dollar transfers to
Iraq, but Washington made no such commitment in public
There is pressure inside the administration and from Congress to tighten up constraints on the dollar flows from Iraq that assist Iran evade
In turn, Baghdad has looked for to advise Washington about Iraqs tough position
12, Hussein specifically told the English-language media outlet Al-Monitor that Iraq would gain from lower stress between the U.S
