Barzani in Baghdad soon to discuss the outstanding issues
Barzani in Baghdad soon to discuss the outstanding issues
08-02-2015 02:04 PM
Congress Kurds announced that a new round of talks between Erbil and Baghdad would begin within the next two weeks to strengthen the oil agreement between them, on the one hand, and to discuss the outstanding issues, on the other hand.
The deputy chairman of the Committee on Natural Resources and Energy in the Parliament of Kurdistan, Dilshad Shaaban, in a press statement seen by (newsletter), that: ‘delegation headed by President of the Government of the Territory, Barzani, will visit Baghdad soon to discuss ways to strengthen the oil agreement between the two sides and ensure a greater commitment to its terms and the settlement of accumulated financial issues between the two sides’, adding that’ will not resolve these issues during one meeting but there is a need to hold several meetings’.
While Shaaban counting the oil agreement between Baghdad and Erbil now become legal after the ratification of the general budget for the 2015 law and to ensure that the region’s share amounting to 17 per cent of them and ensure that the Peshmerga rights, it attributed the non-arrival of the budget of the month in January to the region to ‘lack of liquidity in Baghdad now. “
His comments came Shaaban, in conjunction with the arrival of members of the Oil and Energy Committee in the House of Representatives to Erbil to meet with the President of the Government of the Territory and the Kurdistan Parliament and the Ministry of Natural Resources, to discuss oil issues between the two sides and how to reach agreement on legislation Oil and Gas Law.
The Chairman of the Committee, Ares Abdullah: ‘We will discuss the menu and how to solve them and rounding problems between the two sides, including the problem of the export of oil, for example, from a constitutional standpoint, the right to the territory of the export of oil and the conclusion of oil contracts, but should return revenue to the treasury of Iraq, the absence of a law on oil and gas in this country, we will explore ways to agree on this legislation, as well as the agreement on the export of oil from Kirkuk and the Kurdistan region until the enactment of this law, which will regulate the oil affairs in Iraq and defines the rights and duties of other oil provinces of the Kurdistan region. ‘
turn , explained the head of the Kurdish change in the House of Representatives, Rep. Hoshyar Abdullah, the region delegation will discuss during his visit to Baghdad ways to confront the fiscal deficit suffered by Iraq, and the issue of the Peshmerga and the arming and the issue of the displaced and Article 140 on the disputed areas.
He added that “Iraq is passing through the development of economic difficult and sensitive, so that the Government of the Territory can operate in coordination with the federal government in order to develop a plan to get out of this crisis and in the face of budget deficits. “
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