25/4/2010
A meeting between CMC and the U.S. embassy

The CMC held on Sunday 25.4.2010 a meeting with a legation of the U.S. embassy, and the meeting was attended by his Excellency the Director General of the Chief Executive officer of the CMC Dr. Burhan Shawi, the head of the Trustees Council Dr. Safaa Al-Din Rabe’a, and the members of the Council. As the U.S. embassy represented by Mr. John Disrodger Advisor of the U.S. ambassador for Economic Affairs, and Mr. Steven Miller first secretariat of the economic sector in the U.S. embassy and the Colonel Teresa Katyn the ICCE, and IT and Communications Consultant of the U.S. embassy.
The attendance had discussed a number of important issues which concerning the mechanism of the work and the developing of the Commission; the most prominent issue is the draft of the rules and regulations proposed by a group of competent international telecommunication organizations, which represent a project proposed for a draft of the law organizing communications work in Iraq.
In this regard the high management of the CMC had clarified that it will delay the issue of the decision on this draft until the well study by the competent entities of the Commission, and knowing the extent of the conformity and suitability to the Iraqi laws.
As also a discussion had performed on the joint cooperation in training the properties of the Commission and in all technical and administrative levels, and the two parties had agreed on determining the controls and mechanisms of the issue of such training as soon as possible.
On the other hand a subject had been raised in the meeting on organization’s report (Human Rights Watch) which it demand during it to freeze the regulations and controls for organizing the broadcasting and media work in Iraq which approved by the Commission, as the Commission told the representatives of the U.S. embassy its strong annoyance from that report, especially that the organization had accused the Commission that it’s restricting the freedoms and working on blackout the mass media, and this matter untrue, in this regard the representatives of the U.S. embassy promised that it will read this report, and take the necessary procedures to clarify this issue and resolve it soon.