This document discusses the political and economic situation in Iraq. Politically, Iraq is a federal parliamentary republic experiencing an ongoing political crisis. The US withdrawal has left the government without real autonomy. Economically, Iraq relies heavily on oil exports, but the ongoing conflicts have disrupted oil production and exports, damaging the economy. The document proposes increased economic cooperation between Iraq and neighboring Iran as a solution to help stabilize Iraq's economy.

1. FINAL PROJECT
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2. COUNTRY: IRAK
 Is a country in Western Asia

3.  Invasion to Iraq,
 Multinational
 Conflicts:
 Violence
 Balance of power
 Economic
 Reservations of oil
 Most unstable second country.

4. Problematic
Situation
POLITICAL

5.  The federal government of Iraq:
 Islamic
 Democratic
 Federal parliamentary republic

6.  The United States have left any pretension to
simulate the existence of an autonomous
government, and also of a government of
integration.
 The war in Iraq is one of the decisive points of
the international politics; point whose meaning
and whose enormous insinuations till now have
not been understood very well.

7. ISTANBUL, 27 ABR. (EUROPA PRESS)
 The vice-minister of Exteriors of Turkey, Naci
Koru, it has affirmed this Thursday that he does
not believe that there is an escalation of the
tensions between the country and Iraq and has
assured that the Iraqi first minister, Nuri al
Maliki, will throw the conversations of
reconciliation with the rest of formations of the
country to put end to the political crisis.

8. SOLUTIONS
 Baghdad, April 28 (EFE)
 Several Iraqi political leaders met today in Erbil,
capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, and agreed that the
solution to the current crisis passes to revive the
agreement that allowed to form a government in
2010.
 According to an official statement, the Iraqi
President Jalal Talabani met today with the
influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, the leader
of the opposition alliance Iraqiya Al Ayad Allawi, the
head of Parliament, Osama al Nuyaifi, Kurdish
leader Massoud and Barzani.

9. SOLUTIONS
 The note, which quoted the head of cabinet of the
President Kurdish-Iraqi, Fuad Hussein, explains that
"participants in the meeting discussed the means to
ensure an end to the crisis, which is a constant threat
to the supreme interests of the country" .
 And stressed the need for the situation is resolved by
the agreement of Erbil, which allowed form an
Executive in December 2010 and the initiative of
eighteen points presented on Thursday by Al Sadr,
which is based on defending the unity of Iraq.

10. Problematic
Situation
ECONOMICAL

11.  Iraq's economy:
 Oil sector, provided about 95% of foreign exchange
earnings.
 In the 1980s financial problems caused by massive
expenditures in the eight-year war with Iran and damage to
oil export facilities by Iran led the government to
implement austerity measures.
 Iraq suffered economic losses from the war of at
least US$100 billion.

12.  Internal Gross output (PBI) (estimated year 2001):
59.000 million dollars.
 Rate of annual growth (year 2001): 5,7 %.
 GDP per capita (estimated year 2000): 33 2.500
dollars.
 Rate of inflation (year 2001): 60 %.
 Natural resources: oil, natural gas, phosphates,
sulphur, agricultural products.
 Agriculture (less than 6 % of the GDP) Products:
wheat, barley, rice, cotton, dates, birds of corral.
 Industry: (less than 13 % of the GDP) Types: oil,
petrochemical, material textiles, cement.
 Trade (year 2001) Exports: 15.800 billion dollars in
crude oil.
 Principal markets: Russia, France, Switzerland,
China.
 Imports: 11.000 million dollars in agricultural
products, medicines and machinery.
 Principal suppliers: Egypt, Russia, France

13.  Conflict:
 Flow of goods,
 Services and investments
 Production,
 Investors
 Consumers
The oil prices have increased several dollars for barrel. From
June, the North American markets of actions and of the
rest of the world have declined 20 per cent (evaluation in
dollars).

14. SOLUTIONS
TEHERAN, 22 abr (Xinhua) - The first vice-
president of Iran Mohammad - Says Rahimi he
asked today for narrower relations between Iran
and Iraq.
 The cooperation between both countries in the
areas of oil and traffic will help to promote the
cooperation in other economic areas, it
underlined.

15. SOLUTIONS
 In the previous year of the Iranian calendar that
he concluded on March 19, the value of the
economic bilateral relations between Iran and
Iraq promoted to 9.700 million dollars USA, an
increase of 50 per cent in comparison with the
numbers of the previous year, informed today the
official agency of news Iranian IRNA.
 There is foreseen that the value of the trade
between both neighboring countries comes to
12.000 million dollars in the current Iranian
year, he added.

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