Parliamentarian: A delegation from Kurdistan will visit Baghdad soon to mature the oil and gas law
Parliamentarian: A delegation from Kurdistan will visit Baghdad soon to mature the oil and gas law
2023-08-26 02:52
Shafaq News/ The spokeswoman for the Kurdistan Democratic Party bloc in Parliament, Vian Dakhil, revealed today, Saturday, that a delegation from the Kurdistan Regional Government is expected to visit Baghdad to contribute to the maturation of the oil and gas law with the aim of enacting it.
Dakhil told Shafaq News agency, “There are exchanged delegations between the region and Baghdad, and there is a delegation from the Kurdistan Regional Government that will visit Baghdad to complete the discussion of issues about the oil and gas law in order to ripen it, approve it in the Council of Ministers, and then send it to Parliament with the aim of legislating it.”
She added, “The most prominent disputes over the law are related to export and oil fields, and we are proceeding under the roof of the Iraqi constitution.”
A spokeswoman for the Kurdistan Democratic Bloc stated, “The differences are currently technical, and will be resolved between the joint committees and delegations, and the oil and gas law will be approved in the Council of Ministers after the completion of resolving the points of contention between the center and the region.”
On August 17, 2023, the Ministry of Oil organized a meeting for the working group tasked with preparing a draft oil and gas law, headed by the Ministry’s advisor for administrative, legal and oversight affairs, Hamdan Awijel, and it included a number of officials in the oil companies and departments of the ministry’s center. Oil and Gas Law, and work to crystallize a professional national vision that achieves the objectives of optimal investment of oil wealth to serve the public interest.
In early August, Prime Minister Muhammad Shia’ al-Sudani directed the formation of a ministerial committee to supervise technical dialogues between the Federal Ministry of Oil and the Ministry of Natural Resources in the region, as well as inviting the governors of the oil-producing provinces of Basra, Maysan, Kirkuk and Dhi Qar, and the directors The two years of government oil companies for the ongoing technical dialogues regarding the draft oil and gas law, provided that these dialogues are followed by the completion of the political dialogue to agree to present the draft law.
The oil and gas law is one of the most important differences between the federal government and the Kurdistan Region, and the parties did not reach a settlement on it throughout the past four parliamentary sessions.
During the current parliamentary session, the political blocs are counting on reaching solutions to the existing differences and pushing for understandings that satisfy all parties to pass the law.
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