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Iraq Weekly
Status Report
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Table of Contents
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SECTION
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Highlights
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1.0 Neutralize the Insurgents
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2.0 Ensure Legitimate Elections
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3.0 Create Jobs and Provide Essential Services
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4.0 Establish Foundations for a Strong Economy
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5.0 Establish Good Governance, Rule of Law
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6.0 Maintain International Engagement & Support
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7.0 General Information
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2.0 Ensure Legitimate Elections
• Out of Country voting registration began on January 17 in 14 countries.
• Elections-related security measures have been announced, including the
closing of borders, restriction of movement between provinces, and extended
nighttime curfews for the period of time surrounding elections.
• Voter registration in Kirkuk has been extended. KDP and PUK have agreed to
fully participate.
• 7,785 candidates representing 111 entities including political parties, coalitions,
and individual candidates are on the ballot for the 275-seat National Assembly.
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• 18,900 candidates are registered to compete in the national, provincial and
Kurdistan regional elections.
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3.0 Create Jobs and Provide Essential Services
• The fuel situation is tenuous, particularly in Baghdad, but improved slightly this
week. The Ministry is rebuilding stocks, while also trying to generate as much
electrical power as possible. The hours of power national average was 8.5
hours last week. Fuel shortages due to pipeline interdictions and insecure
trucking routes continue to plague the electricity sector; at the end of the week,
388 MW were offline due to lack of fuel.
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4.0 Establish Foundations for a Strong Economy
• The Iraqi Interim National Council approved the Iraqi Interim Government’s
2005 National Budget without amendment on January 12, concluding the final
step in the 2005 budget process.
5.0 Establish Good Governance, Rule of Law
• A refugee agency is conducting a survey of some 4,500 people to assess the
needs and intentions of the displaced persons of Fallujah.
6.0 Maintain International Engagement and Support
• Egypt hosted the first consultative meeting of the follow-up mechanism
decided on at the first Sharm el-Sheikh conference last November.
Participants reiterated the importance of supporting elections in Iraq.
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[1.0] Neutralize the Insurgents – Iraqi Security Forces Update
Iraqi Security Forces
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Trained/On Hand
Required
55,059
135,000
2,862
4,920
205
270
14,786
28,360
Highway Patrol
354
6,300
Bureau of Dignitary Protection
484
500
7,598
24,425
36, 827
61,904
5,884
6,360
Police
Civil Intervention Force
Emergency Response Unit
Border Enforcement
Army
National Guard
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Intervention Force
Special Operations Force
674
1,967
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Air Force
145
453
Navy*
495
582
*125,373
*271,041
Total
• The military forces continue to receive advanced unit training.
• *The Iraqi Coastal Defense Force has been renamed the Iraqi Navy
Data as of 19 January 2005
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[2.0] Ensure Legitimate Elections – Developments
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Election Planning continues:
• IECI announced that the total number of voting centers will be 5,220 and the
number of total voting stations 29,084.
• 7,785 candidates representing 111 entities including political parties,
coalitions, and individual candidates are on the ballot for the 275-seat National
Assembly.
• 18,900 candidates are registered to compete in the national, provincial and
Kurdistan regional elections.
• The International Organization for Migration (IOM) began voter registration for
Out of Country Voting (OCV) on January 17 in all 14 countries that have
agreed to host OCV. A total of 18,104 expatriate Iraqis registered on the first
day of registration.
• The exhibition and challenge period for voter lists will now begin on January
20 as opposed to the previously scheduled January 15 start date.
• IECI will allow Iraqis in the Anbar and Ninewa provinces to register to vote on
election day at any voting center within their respective provinces.
• Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from Anbar province will be allowed to
vote in Baghdad.
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Elections Monitoring:
• IECI has begun to process applications for elections monitors.
• The International Mission for Iraqi Elections (IMIE) was established on
December 20, 2004, as a result of the Iraq Election Monitoring Forum (Ottawa,
December 18–20, 2004). Comprised mainly of independent electoral
management bodies, the IMIE is focusing on the election process in Iraq, as
well as the registration and voting process outside Iraq.
• US-supported training continues for 8,000 domestic elections monitors.
Look Ahead: Transitional National Assembly (TNA):
• Once elected, the TNA will:
- Serve as Iraq's national legislature until the election of a new government
under a permanent constitution.
- Name a Presidency Council, consisting of a president and two deputy
presidents, that will appoint a prime minister. The Prime Minister and his
Council of Ministers must receive a vote of confidence in the Assembly by a
simple majority.
- Draft Iraq's new Constitution which will be presented to the Iraqi people for
their approval in a national referendum by October 15, 2005.
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Public Affairs
• A voter education push featuring television commercials, print ads, and posters
produced by IECI and NGOs is focusing on explaining the process,
encouraging participation, and recruiting polling staff.
• IECI is setting up a media operations center to facilitate coverage of elections.
• Al Mada Newspaper in Baghdad released survey results indicating that twothirds of eligible voters in Baghdad plan to vote on January 30.
• Egpyt’s Grand Sheikh Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, an internationally revered
Sunni leader, called on all Iraqis to vote in the January 30 elections.
Capacity Building:
• Supported by USAID, the Civic Coalition for Free Elections (CCFE), a nonpartisan movement of 76 civic organizations from across Iraq, is continuing to
educate Iraqis about the upcoming elections through television messages, and
organizing town hall meetings and political debates.
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Registration began January 17 and will continue through January 23.
Voting will take place from January 28 – 30.
United States:
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Polling center locations in Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles, Nashville, & Washington, DC.
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Estimated 230,000 eligible voters in the United States.
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Voter Eligibility – according to CPA Order 96 – a person must:
– be deemed an Iraqi citizen, or
– be entitled to reclaim Iraqi citizenship,
– or be eligible for Iraqi citizenship (be born to an Iraqi father);
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– have been born on or before December 31, 1986; and
– be registered to vote according to procedures issued by the IECI.
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Out of Country voting information, including a certified list of political entities and
independent candidates, can be found at www.iraqocv.org.
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SEP
OCT
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Timeline
of Significant
Events
Phase I
Phase II
JAN
Phase III
Ramadan
National IECI Office
Established
FEB
Phase IV
Phase V
Hajj
1 Nov-15 Dec Voter
Registration
Governorate IECI
Offices Established
12 Oct
Elections
regulations
published
by IECI
1 Nov – 15 Dec Entity,
List Registration
16 Dec – 23 Jan
Campaigning
Mid-Nov Begin establishment of
450 IECI District Offices
30 Jan
Election Day
1 Dec Begin Recruitment of
Polling Station Staff
15 Dec Public
Information
Campaign on
Voting Begins
21 Oct Voter registration
materials distributed nationwide
to 21 food warehouses
20 Oct Information campaign on
voter registration begins
Declaration
20 Jan
Exhibition
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Challenge of
voter lists
TNA
Seated
1 Jan Begin process of distributing
ballots
Voter Education Campaign conducted by IECI and NGOs
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[3.0] Create Jobs and Provide Essential Services – Economy
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Oil Update:
• Crude Oil prices in world markets for the week ending January 14 closed with Kirkuk Crude
at $38.10/barrel, Basra Light at $35.20/barrel, and the OPEC basket at $40.45/barrel.
Employment Update:
• Number of Iraqis employed by USG-administered projects in each sector
Employing Organization
PCO (Project and Contracting Office)
USAID
AIRP (Accelerated Iraqi Reconstruction Program)
MILCON (Military Construction)
CERP (Commanders' Emergency Response Program
MNSTC-I
IRRF NON-CONSTRUCTION
Iraqis last Iraqis this % Increase
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19,263
17,076
-11.4%
56,734
44,612
-21.4%
9,066
6,900
-23.9%
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12,173
18,190
49.4%
6,202
7,271
17.2%
17,404
14,035
-19.4%
121,517
GRAND TOTAL
Data as of 19 January 2005
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108,762
-10.5%
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Water and Wastewater Treatment Plants:
• USAID projects to rehabilitate water and wastewater plants in Salah Din
Governorate are approximately 60 percent complete. Once finished, the
wastewater treatment plant will serve a rural town of 60,000 residents and the
water plant will produce approximately 3.8 million gallons per day of potable
drinking water.
• Last month, engineers completed work on the rehabilitation of a wastewater
treatment plant in Diwaniyah, a major city in Al Qadisiyah Governorate. This
plant was designed to treat raw sewage from 80,000 users, or about 20 percent
of the flow from the city sewers.
– Final inspections on the plant were completed last month. Temporarily, the
plant is operating at 50 percent of capacity to help save fuel in the midst of a
nationwide diesel fuel shortage. When this shortage is resolved, the plant will
resume processing flows at full capacity.
• Construction is moving forward on a sewage trunk line in large, poor districts of
eastern Baghdad. When complete, this project will divert sewage that often
collects in the street to a functioning sewage system.
– Recently, workers continued to install the gravity line, with approximately 110
meters installed in the last week. The project employs 85 Iraqis and is
expected to be complete by the end of 2005.
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[3.0] Create Jobs and Provide Essential Services – Food Security and
Health Care
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Public Distribution System (PDS):
• The Ministry of Trade will meet 100 percent of its January requirements for all of
the commodities in the food basket except rice. Current estimates indicate that
Iraq will meet 65 percent of its rice requirements this month.
Health Care:
• Currently, there are 87 Public Health Centers (PHC) under construction, and
there were no new starts this week.
• There are currently 17 hospitals under renovation.
• The Final Conceptual Design at the Ministry was conducted on January 13.
There will be a meeting in Amman, Jordan with Project Hope this week to work
on the donation of equipment for the hospital.
• Work continues on the Basrah Children’s Hospital which is designed to be a
referral center for acute care and to serve the health care needs of Iraqi children
in the southern region of the country.
– Initially, the hospital design will provide for a building of about 15,400 square
meters and will accommodate 50 in-patient beds, and may be expanded to
200 beds in the future.
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USAID’s Higher Education and Development (HEAD) Program:
• Under a USAID grant, Jackson State University, in partnership with the University of
Mosul (UM), the University of Dohuk (UD), and the Dohuk Technical Institute (DTI)
College of Nursing completed the following projects:
– A 240-seat medical auditorium furnished and equipped at UM.
– Laboratory and office equipment procured for UM; included sophisticated medical
equipment (not all equipment have been delivered and installed).
– The delivery of textbooks, journals, teaching materials provided for seven libraries
and 14 departments at UM, UD and DTI (more shipments still to arrive).
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• Total number of telephone subscribers in Iraq is now over 2,449,139 (including
982,561 landline subscribers 1,466,578 cell phone subscribers) – 181 percent above
pre-war levels.
Cell Phone Subscribers
Region
As of January 10, 2005
Eligible Subscribers* Cell phone users Penetration
North
4,147,300
620,072
14.95%
South Central – Baghdad
6,677,000
589,376
8.83%
South
4,501,000
257,131
5.71%
TOTAL:
1,466,578
*Source: IRMO Office of Communications as reported by cell phone companies
Iraqi Central Statistical Organization 1997 Census, (assuming 3 percent annual growth)
• As of January 10, there are 124,293 active Internet subscribers for the state-owned
Internet company. These statistics do not reflect the large number of unregulated
users of Internet cafes.
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Actual
7-day Average
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Fall maintenance of
generation equipment
(demand at seasonal low)
120,000
100,000
80,000
60,000
40,000
20,000
High numberof generators
offline and fuel shortages
15 Sep 04 attack on
Baiji oil pipeline
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12 Dec 04 fire at
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• The 7-day national average of load served (Jan 10 –Jan 16): 86,049 MWh.
• Fuel shortages (due to pipeline interdictions and insecure trucking routes) continues to be a problem, but the
situation has slightly improved since last week.
• Unplanned outages at the end of the week totaled 1117 MW. Outages due to maintenance were 740 MW.
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AVERAGE HOURS PER
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FOR THE 7-DAY PERIOD
Dahuk
109 MW
16 Hrs
Erbil
Ninawa
312 MW
7 Hrs
97 MW
11 Hrs
Tamim
104 MW
11 Hrs
128 MW
9 Hrs
9 to 15 Hrs = Amber
Salah Ad Din
190 MW
9 Hrs
Anbar
198 MW
16 Hrs
Diyala
≥ 16 Hrs = Green
104 MW
10 Hrs
Baghdad
971 MW
9 Hrs
No Report = White
Wasit
Babil
59 MW
5 Hrs
75 MW
6 Hrs
Qadisiyah
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Sulaymaniyah
An Najaf
41 MW
4 Hrs
Misan
Nasiriya
66 MW
6 Hrs
38 MW
5 Hrs
IRAQ National Average:
8.5 Hrs/Day
129 MW
11 Hrs
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Average Electrical Power Distribution per
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Jan 8 – 14
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Iraqi Interim National Council (INC) Approves Budget:
• The INC approved the Iraqi Interim Government’s 2005 National Budget without
amendment on January 12, thus concluding the final state in the 2005 budget
process.
• The budget authorizes NID 35,981 billion ($23.99 billion) in total expenditures,
including NID 1,941.8 billion ($1.33 billion) for the Ministry of Defense and NID
1,182.6 billion ($810 million) for the Ministry of Interior.
• Total revenue is estimated at NID 28,959 billion ($19.31 billion) of which 88
percent comes from crude oil exports.
• The fiscal deficit of NID 6832.8 billion ($4.68) billion is within an acceptable
range with respect to the terms of the IIG’s Emergency Post-Conflict Agreement
(EPCA) with the International Monetary Fund.
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Iraq Currency and Securities Exchanges:
• At the New Iraqi Dinar (NID) auction on January 18, the settlement price was
1,460 dinars per USD with a total of 15 banks trading. The following table shows
the purchase value of the top five banks:
Bank Name
Al-W arkaa Bank
United Bank
Iraq Bank
Agriculture Bank
Middle East Bank
Total
Quantity Sold (in thousands of dollars)
Percentage of Total Auction
7,000
33.16%
3,000
14.21%
1,880
8.91%
1,510
7.15%
1,430
6.77%
14,820
70.20%
• On January 12, the Iraqi Stock Exchange (ISX) traded a total of 159,065,883
shares with a value of NID 1,001,929,875 ($686,253) in 390 trades.
– The most active trading was in the Banking Sector with a total of four banks
trading 69,784,013 shares, for a total value of NID 418,143,478 ($286,400).
– The second most active trading was in the Industrial Sector with a total of 10
companies trading 50,487,676 shares for a total value of NID 237,881,546
($162,933).
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2.80
2.60
MOO Goal: 2.5 MBPD
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2.20
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10-16 January
• Post-War Peak: 2.67 MBPD
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Monthly Revenue (US$B)
2.500
$2.50
2.000
$2.00
1.679
1.524
1.541
1.537
1.500
1.406
1.380
1.382
1.148
1.149
1.381
1.351
$1.50
1.114
0.983
1.000
$1.00
$1.99
$1.61
$1.21
0.500
0.322
$0.36
$1.26
$1.26
$1.10
$1.75
$1.50
$1.36
$1.28
$1.44
$1.40
$1.24
$1.25
$0.50
$0.89
$0.73
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1.513
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$0.44
$0.20
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Jun-03
Jul-03 Aug-03 Sep-03 Oct-03 Nov-03 Dec-03 Jan-04 Feb-04 Mar-04 Apr-04 May-04 Jun-04 Jul-04 Aug-04 Sep-04 Oct-04 Nov-04 Dec-04 Jan-05
• 2003 Revenue:
$5,076.6M
• 2004 Revenue:
$17,012.3M
• 2005 Revenue:
$622.7M
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1.825
Millions of Barrels Per Day
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Production %
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140%
120%
Percentage of Monthly Target Reached This Week
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Import %
100%
94%
63%
80%
33%
60%
40%
14%
50%
20%
48%
52%
Benzene
LPG
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Note: This chart represents the percentage of target reached for the week of Jan 10 - 16
• Diesel: 14.5 ML of 17.5 ML
• Kerosene: 8.1 ML of 19.5 ML
• Benzene: 25.7 ML of 18 ML
• LPG: 4,967 tons of 4,300 tons
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Dec-04
Goal
30
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Days of Stocks
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Diesel
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Benzene
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• The goal is for all refined products to be over 15 days worth of stocks
at maximum consumption rates and does not represent seasonal
change. The numbers given above are monthly averages.
• Sabotage of feeder lines to refineries is lowering production and
impacting national stock levels.
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Financials
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Financial Status-IRRF I & II
Committed
Obligated
Disbursed
Sector
2207
Report
Apportion
Last
Week
Current
Last
Week
Current
Last
Week
Current
Security and Law Enforcement
5045
5045
4438
4427
3264
3356
1208
1322
Electricity Sector
4350
3627
3319
3318
2677
2676
618
631
Oil Infrastructure
1701
1701
1397
1396
941
939
123
131
Justice, Public Safety, and Civil Society
1121
1120
878
922
600
595
132
140
832
832
696
696
606
606
191
191
Education, Refugees, Human Rights,
Governance
379
379
179
180
171
171
43
44
Roads, Bridges, and Construction
359
355
285
286
182
183
33
35
Health Care
786
786
710
758
476
506
27
28
Transportation and Communications
499
512
467
466
323
323
27
29
O
F
Water Resources and Sanitation
2311
1373
1283
1294
886
885
35
36
Private Sector Development
843
843
402
402
327
328
70
70
Admin Expense (USAID, State)
213
29
29
29
29
29
29
29
S
T
A
T
E
IRRF II SUBTOTAL
18439
16602
14082
14174
10482
10598
2536
2687
11306
9440
8555
8583
6380
6417
1307
1367
6301
6330
4831
4895
3496
3575
1038
1131
DEMOCRACY
832
832
696
696
606
606
191
191
IRFF I SUBTOTAL
2475
2475
2475
2475
2475
2475
1907
1907
GRAND TOTAL IRRF I & II
20914
19077
16557
16649
12957
13073
4443
4594
-Democracy
CONSTRUCTION
NON-CONSTRUCTION
No data received from OPIC or USIP this week
Changes driven by actions on obligations
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Data as of January 19, 2005
UNCLASSIFIED
UNCLASSIFIED
19 January 2005
[5.0] Establish Good Governance, Rule of Law – Refugees, Democracy
and Human Rights
D
E
P
A
R
T
M
E
N
T
O
F
S
T
A
T
E
Surveying Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) of Fallujah
• With the assistance of a NGO, a refugee agency is conducting a survey of some
4,500 people to assess the needs and intentions of the displaced persons of Fallujah.
Many of the IDPs say that they intend to stay in their current locations to see what will
happen after elections scheduled for January 30. Initial results indicate that some 17
percent of families in the surveyed group have purchased land in their new place of
residence.
UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) Continues Work in Iraq
• UNHCR continues to work on strengthening the capacity of local communities to
reintegrate refugees, by running shelter-building programs, water projects and
income-generating initiatives.
Tax Office Renovations
• LGP specialists continued supervision on the renovation of the Basrah Tax Office.
Work is expected to be completed by the end of January. The renovated office will
provide enhanced workspace and offices for 139 employees.
Local Governance Program (LGP)
• LGP will begin working with officials from the Basrah Treasury Department to help
establish software modules used to implement FMIS. The software training will include
instruction on expenditures, journal voucher entries, and account reconciliation.
25
UNCLASSIFIED
UNCLASSIFIED
19 January 2005
[6.0] Maintain Int’l Engagement & Support – Developments
D
E
P
A
R
T
M
E
N
T
O
F
• Egypt hosted a consultative meeting to follow-up on the first Sharm el-Sheikh
conference November 23. Participants reiterated the importance of supporting
elections in Iraq and adhering to the previous communiqué.
• 14 countries hosted the beginning of Out of Country voting as the registration
process initiated on January 17.
• France has offered to train up to 1500 Iraqi gendarmes over a period of 18
months.
• Albania, Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, Ghana, Yemen, Panama, Mexico,
Indonesia, and the UK have all agreed to send election monitors to Iraq with
the International Mission for Iraqi Elections (IMIE).
S
T
A
T
E
26
UNCLASSIFIED
UNCLASSIFIED
19 January 2005
[6.0] Maintain Int’l Engagement & Support – Stability Contributors
D
E
P
A
R
T
M
E
N
T
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Countries with forces in Iraq (in addition to US)
Albania
El Salvador
Latvia
Poland
Armenia
Estonia
Lithuania
Portugal
Australia
Georgia
Macedonia
Romania
Azerbaijan
Italy
Moldova
Slovakia
Bulgaria
Japan
Mongolia
Thailand
Czech Rep
Kazakhstan
Netherlands
Ukraine
Denmark
Korea
Norway
UK
O
F
S
T
A
T
E
TOTAL ~ 25,300 Forces
*Note: Fiji participating as a
part of the UN mission in Iraq
29 Countries and NATO
(including US)
Support Iraqi Stability Operations
Data as of January 13, 2005
27
UNCLASSIFIED
UNCLASSIFIED
19 January 2005
Iraq Weekly Status – General Information
D
E
P
A
R
T
M
E
N
T
• This brief draws from multiple sources. References are cited on the
respective pages in the “Notes Page” section (View Æ Notes Page).
• Please forward all questions and/or comments to (unclassified) NEA-IIPOG-DL@state.gov or (classified) NEA-I-IPOG-DL@state.sgov.gov
O
F
S
T
A
T
E
28
UNCLASSIFIED