December 14th 2009 - 5:51PM ... Anders Tunold Kråkenes
Noori Al-Maliki, Prime Minister of Iraq has announced that Iraq will hold their EITI launch conference in Baghdad on 10-11 January 2010, with the intention of assisting the country to meet its EITI candidature requirements before the Oslo Board meeting in February.The conference agenda will include discussing and approving a Work Plan, governance of the multi-stakeholder group, and confirmation of the nomination of civil society representatives.Iraq announced that they intended to implement the EITI last year.