Abadi withdraw from negotiations with the Kurdish delegation
Abadi withdraw from negotiations with the Kurdish delegation
01-12-2014 06:32 PM
BAGHDAD / Safaa Abdel-Hamid:
Stalled negotiations between Baghdad and Erbil, because of disagreements on the region’s share of the Kurdish and salaries and the sale of oil, prompting the head of government, Haider al-Abadi, to leave the meetings.
The delegation began the Kurdistan Regional Government and the broad talks upon his arrival to the capital, Baghdad, yesterday (Sunday), to put an end to chronic differences between the two parties.
The Kurdish leader, within the negotiating team in Baghdad, said that ‘negotiations attended by the central government with Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Hussain al-Shahristani, the oil minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi, and Planning Minister Salman Jumaili’, saying ‘the presence of al-Shahristani in itself a form of negotiations, because he was always hamper any steps to resolve the problems between Baghdad and Erbil, and continued to block it. ‘
He added that ‘the two sides disagreed on the region’s share, salaries and sale of oil’, pointing out that ‘Abadi left the meeting and went out, and we have another meeting this evening is likely to be held.’
He said he ‘was informed the President of Kurdistan, Massoud Barzani, on the path of negotiations and it enormously from resenting this path’, pointing out that it ‘has been creating delegation plane to cut the talks and a return to Irbil’.
The Kurdistan Regional Parliament, has authorized the government to negotiate with Baghdad, on the sale of oil without central government intervention in the event of failure to reach agreement.
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