Maliki warns Kurds of cuts in funding if the exported oil to Turkey without the approval of Baghdad

Maliki warns Kurds of cuts in funding if the exported oil to Turkey without the approval of Baghdad

12-01-2014 05:53 PM

Maliki warns Kurds of cuts in funding if the exported oil to Turkey without the approval of Baghdad Baghdad (news) .. threatened Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, on Sunday, to cut funding from the central government to the Kurdistan region of Iraq, if sought Kurds to export oil to Turkey without Baghdad’s approval. Maliki said in an interview with ‘Reuters': This’ violation constitutional ‘would not allow him never to the Kurdistan region nor the Turkish government.

And summoned the Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Hussain al-Shahristani, today, the Turkish charge d’affaires in Baghdad blight Gilan, and told him intercept the Iraqi government to allow the pumping of Iraqi oil from the Kurdistan region of Iraq to the Turkish port of Ceyhan for export purposes and without the consent of the Iraqi government.

He held the Turkish side Shahristani legal responsibility for this action, noting that the Iraqi government reserves the right to claim all the losses caused by it. / End

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