Acronyms
UN - United Nations News Centre
(press releases & meetings coverage)
http://www.un.org/news/

IMF - International Monetary Fund

GOI - Government of Iraq

CBI - Central Bank of Iraq http://www.cbi.iq/

MOP - Ministry of Planning
http://www.mop-iraq.org/mopdc/

MOF - Ministry of Finance

BSA - Board of Supreme Audits

DFI - Development Fund of Iraq

COFE - Iraqi Committee of Financial Experts

IFRS - International Financial Reporting Standards

IFMIS - Iraqi Financial Management Information
Systems

UNSC - United Nations Security Council
http://www.un.org/en/index.shtml

HCL - Hydrocarbon Law - Four laws that show how the
Ministry of Oil should be restructured.

NIL - National Investment Law

IAMB - International Advisory and Monitoring Board
(IAMB) is an audit oversight body for the
Development Fund of Iraq (DFI)
http://www.iamb.info/

COSIT - Central Organization for Statistics and Information
Technology
http://cosit.gov.iq/english/

ERM - Exchange Rate Mechanism

EITI – Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
http://eiti.org/node/335

WTO – World Trade Organization

WBO – World Bank http://www.worldbank.org/

OFAC - Office of Foreign Assets Control

BRU - Bank Reconsiliation unit

ROC- Restructuring Oversight Committee

EITI - Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

BSA - Board of Supreme Audit

NIR - Net international reserves

IBRD - International Bank for Reconstruction and Development

ISN - Interim Strategy Note

ITF - Iraq Trust Fund



SDR - Special Drawing Rights -

SDRs are assigned to the accounts of IMF members in proportion to their contributions to the fund. Each participating country agrees to accept them as exchangeable for reserve currencies in the settlement of international accounts. Deficit countries can use them to purchase stronger currencies, which then can be used to pay off balance-of-payments debts. Although denominated in US dollars, the nominal value of these costless assets is derived from a basket of currencies; in this case a fixed amount of Japanese Yen, US Dollars, British Pounds and Euros. The proportion of each of these four currencies contribute to the nominal value of a SDR and is reevaluated every five years.

GDDS - General Data Dissemination System - To guide member countries in the dissemination to the public of comprehensive, timely, accessible, and reliable economic, financial, and socio-demographic statistics.

http://dsbb.imf.org/Pages/GDDS/WhatIsGDDS.aspx

UNAMI - United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq

MDG - Millennium Development Goals

The Eight Millennium Development Goals are:

-Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
-Achieve universal primary education
-Promote gender equality and empower women,
-Reduce child mortality
-Improve maternal health
-Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
-Ensure environmental sustainability
-Global partnership for development.

SOFA - Status of Forces Agreement

"Agreement Between the United States of America and the Republic of Iraq On the Withdrawal of United States Forces from Iraq and the Organization of their activities during Their Temporary Presence in Iraq" is a status of forces agreement (SOFA) between Iraq and the United States. It establishes that U.S. combat forces will withdraw from Iraqi cities by June 30, 2009, and all U.S. forces will be completely out of Iraq by December 31, 2011, subject to possible further negotiations which could delay withdrawal and a referendum scheduled for mid-2009 in Iraq which may require U.S. forces to completely leave by the middle of 2010.[1][2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.%E2...rces_Agreement

SFA - Strategic Framework Agreement

In addition to the SOFA, the Bush administration negotiated a so-called strategic framework agreement with Baghdad, defining relations on economy, culture, science, technology, health and trade.
The second accord, referred to as a "strategic framework agreement," was broadly aimed at addressing issues not covered by the SOFA, including those outlined in a "declaration of principles" document signed by President Bush and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in November 2007.



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