A Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) representative said a Kurdish delegation will visit Baghdad to agree on oil exports and salaries.
A Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) representative said a Kurdish delegation will visit Baghdad to agree on oil exports and salaries.
2025-09-14 04:20
Shafaq News – Baghdad
MP Mahma Khalil, representing the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), confirmed on Sunday that the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has provided the federal government with all necessary information, and therefore must honor its promise to pay salaries. He also revealed that a delegation from the region will soon visit Baghdad to agree on a date for resuming oil exports.
Khalil told Shafaq News Agency, “Exporting oil from the Kurdistan Region is a gain for the Iraqi treasury and people, and maintains the global oil market strategy. The regional government has provided the federal government with data and fulfilled all commitments.”
He added, “Technical and political delegations from the Kurdistan Region have visited Baghdad over the past period, in addition to the agreements signed, and the amendment to the budget law is the best evidence of this. Therefore, the federal government must adhere to its promises and pay salaries and dues to the Kurdistan Region.”
He added, “A delegation from the regional government will visit Baghdad in the coming period to meet with federal government officials and agree on a date for exporting Kurdistan Region oil via the Turkish Ceyhan pipeline . ”
He explained that “the federal Ministry of Oil and the Ministry of Natural Resources in the Kurdistan Region have agreed on the quantity of oil that will be exported from the region . ”
The roots of the recent salary crisis between the federal government in Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) lie in ongoing disagreements over oil export mechanisms and the unification of public revenues. This is a long-standing crisis that resurfaces from time to time, but it has significantly worsened since May 2025, when the federal government refused to send salaries to KRG employees.
The Echo Iraq Observatory, which specializes in economic affairs, revealed a few days ago that the Kurdistan Region is losing $11.16 million per day due to the failure to export oil, holding the Iraqi parliament responsible for these losses .
The observatory said in a statement received by Shafaq News Agency, “The region was supposed to export approximately 230,000 barrels of crude oil daily, in addition to allocating approximately 50,000 barrels for local use. According to numerical calculations, the cost of extracting and transporting a barrel is approximately $16.” It noted that “the cost of delivering oil to the port of Ceyhan in Turkey is $1.5 per barrel .”
He pointed out that “the negotiating delegations of the federal and regional governments are closed to the media regarding the export situation,” holding the Iraqi parliament “responsible for this halt and the export chaos due to its failure to enact a law to manage and regulate oil and gas.”
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