U.S. State Department official, is not permissible for the region to export oil without the approval of Baghdad and offered a proposed settlement
U.S. State Department official, is not permissible for the region to export oil without the approval of Baghdad and offered a proposed settlement
Sunday, 25 May / May 2014 17:43
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Deputy Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for the Middle East and Iraq Makourk part, that he “may not be a response to the sale of oil without the approval of Baghdad, and should not be based Baghdad to cut the budget of the Kurdistan region.”
He Makourk in tweet him on the social networking site Twitter that “the United States does not support the export of oil from any area in Iraq without the approval of the federal government of Iraq,” adding, “We have informed all parties that any work of this kind creates a lot of problems.” .
He continued, but he also said “it is at the same time, this does not mean that we are interfering in Iraq’s internal affairs or support the party at the expense of another.”
He revealed the official in the State Department for “informed Baghdad that it must pay monthly dues of the Kurdistan region of the entire federal budget.”
Makourk said, “The United States had submitted to the Governments of the Kurdistan region and the federal proposal, requires that the region receives its share of Iraqi oil sales every month directly.”
It is said that Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Middle East and Iraq Bert Makourk expert in Iraqi affairs, and had played a mediating role between the Governments of the region and the center in the file of oil, and met several times with senior officials of the two parties for this purpose, to find a compromise between the two parties.
The foreign relations official in the Kurdistan Regional Government Falah Mustafa, had said Saturday on Washington’s position on the issue of the export of oil from the region, “with respect to the United States, but the decision of the Kurds in the hands of the Kurds, and we hope to understand America’s political problems, and that does not put itself in the conflict between Baghdad and Erbil, and to take the side of neutrality, if committed by the silence it best in our opinion, because Manfolh is in the interest of the people of Kurdistan and Kurdistan, we will not wait to know who informs us that we are on the right or who informs us that we are wrong. ”
The spokeswoman for the U.S. State Department Jane Sacchi said in a statement that “Washington’s position for a long time is the lack of support for the export of oil from the Kurdistan region without obtaining the approval of the Iraqi government federal,” expressing “concern about the potential impact of the continuation of the export of oil this way.” .
The Kurdistan Regional Government has confirmed last Friday news sold a load of crude oil extracted from the region through Turkey independently of the federal government in Baghdad, the amount of more than one million barrels through the Turkish port of Ceyhan towards Europe, “indicating that” This shipment is the beginning of a series of this type of oil sales issued through the pipeline newly prepared in the region for the purpose of export. ”
The Kurdistan Regional Government has indicated in its announcement to export oil in isolation from Baghdad, “the deposit of their export earnings in the account under the authority of the Kurdistan Regional Government in the Bank [Halkbank] in Turkey, and will be treated as part of the maturity of the budget of the Government of the region in the context of the distribution and sharing of Iraq’s revenues and distribution as defined under the Iraqi constitution of 2005, “asserting” it continues to export independently of Baghdad. ”
The Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz announced Thursday the start of the first shipment of crude oil to the Kurdistan region through the Turkish port of Ceyhan on the Mediterranean Sea to world markets abroad, “noting that” the first shipment of crude oil transported via pipeline and size of one million barrels, are loaded in the port of Ceyhan, where they were storing about 2.5 million barrels of crude oil from Kurdistan. “ended
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