Kurdish lawmaker: Baghdad still want to strongly administration file oil and gas centrally
Kurdish lawmaker: Baghdad still want to strongly administration file oil and gas centrally
Wednesday, August 21 / August 2013 07:29
[Baghdad – where]
Said Mahma Khalil, MP for the Kurdistan Democratic Party, which is headed by Prime the Kurdistan region Mas’uda Barzani that “there is a strong desire to remain with the federal government, management of energy and oil file in a central Iraq.”
And spins a dispute between Arbil and Baghdad on 41 contracts, oil and signed by the provincial government since 2007 until now, you see the central government in Baghdad that any oil contract must be done with their consent, and refused Kurdistan recent draft of the oil and gas law approved by the Iraqi government and sent to the House of Representatives for approval, has strongly opposed by the Kurdish bloc.
Said Khalil told all of Iraq [where] “There are several drafts of oil and gas law, including the introduction of the Oil and Energy Committee, and the draft Council of Ministers in 2007, and we are discussing all to find a comprehensive law, but regrettably there is still a desire centralized severe towards the management of this file by Baghdad, and this violates the Constitution and the new economic direction and see the need for approval, because foreign companies are reluctant to enter the work in Iraq, the absence of a law regulating the management of oil and gas. ”
He added that “dialogue between Baghdad and Erbil continuously all the outstanding issues after mutual visits of its officials were diagnostics files to be discussed and that you need to issue laws and then implement directly by governments that were of their interest to achieve this, and the interest of the political process as well, because they are constitutional rights.”
Kurdish lawmaker pointed out that “the enactment of the oil and gas will save the future of Iraq.”
The head of the Kurdistan region Massoud Barzani and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has declared in 10 of the month of June to agree on activating the joint committees to resolve problems and outstanding issues between Baghdad and Erbil after Maliki’s visit to Arbil and held a cabinet session there.
The Baghdad transactions between the oil companies and the illegal Kurdistan region, while provincial officials say the province has the right management of oil resources, including guaranteed by the Federal Constitution. 2 ended.
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