Baghdad and Erbil agree on the marketing of oil across the region, “Sumo”
Baghdad and Erbil agree on the marketing of oil across the region, “Sumo”
02.22.2014 (0:01 pm)
BAGHDAD / long-Presse
Counting the Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs, that the approval of the Kurdistan region to export crude oil through a pipeline state president of the Export and under the supervision of a marketing company National Oil (SOMO), constitutes “an important step” forward, noting that representatives of the federal government and Kurdish “did not agree” on the method of deposit Imports of oil export of Kurdistan, while the detection of sending and Federal Ministry of Finance “enough” money to cover the salaries of employees of the region to January last, said “the inability of” Government of the Territory of the payment of the expenses of February, the current and the coming months unless resume oil exports.
Shahristani said, in comments carried by satellite Iraq (semi-official), followed up (range Press), “The meetings lengthy between representatives of the federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government resulted in an agreement that will be to our brothers in the region represented in the SOMO, and that the export of oil through the port the only official in the country responsible for the export of oil. ”
and was president of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Barzani, has arrived in the capital Baghdad, on Monday, (the 17th of February 2014 present), at the head of a government delegation to discuss the differences between the two governments and federal Kurdistan, on file oil , and met upon his arrival, the prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, in his second visit in less than a month.
Shahristani said, that “the agreement is not on the desire of the region deposited imports oil export issued by the account of his own in the Development Fund for Iraq, DFI, wherein imports the sale of oil and is based in New York, United Nations, that the Federal Government shall be distributed later. ”
In the axis of the meeting, said al-Shahristani, that “the Federal Ministry of Finance was sent to the Kurdistan region of sufficient funds to cover the salaries of his government in January last,” pointing to “The Government of the Territory will face a liquidity crisis will not be able to pay the expenses of February, the current or coming months unless resumes the region of its oil exports.”
explained Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs, that “the Ministry of Finance stated that they will not be able to continue to pay the salaries of the staff of the region at a time to refrain the government for the export of oil, “returned that” the only solution to this problem is to initiate the region to export oil. ”
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