Economist: the regional government seeks to obstruct the passage of the oil and gas law
Economist: the regional government seeks to obstruct the passage of the oil and gas law
6-19-2023
Information / Baghdad..
Oil expert Hamza Al-Jawahiri confirmed Sunday, that the Kurdistan Regional Government is seeking to obstruct the passage of the oil and gas bill in the Iraqi parliament.
Al-Jawahiri said in an interview with Al-Maalouma, that “the issue of approving the oil and gas law went through several attempts, the last of which was in 2011, when a proposal for the law was submitted and it was obstructed by the Kurdistan Regional Government.”
He added, “The approval of the oil and gas law is governed by Iraqi political will par excellence, and there is nothing to do with the outside in preventing its passage,” noting that “three failed attempts were made during the previous years to pass the law.”
And that “the approval of the oil and gas law is governed by the Iraqi political will par excellence, and there is nothing to do with the outside to prevent its approval, and there are no external pressures that work not to approve the law.”
Al-Jawahiri pointed out, “The Kurdistan region wants to separate the law according to its will, which serves the interest of the region at the expense of other Iraqi provinces.”
He pointed out that “after the decision of the International Court in Paris and the decision of the Federal Court regarding the production, export and marketing of the region’s oil, and followed recently by articles in the budget law for the current year that governed the relationship between the region and the center, where the government of the region was put in an awkward position, and therefore its approval became easier than it was in previous attempts.” “.
It is noteworthy that the suspended oil and gas law in parliament since its first session, in 2005, is one of the most prominent points on which a preliminary agreement was reached between the governments of Baghdad and the region, but the law faces many obstacles, despite the fact that it helps to resolve the differences between the governments of Baghdad and the region.
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