Confirmations of imminent legislation of the oil and gas law and warnings of Kurdish schemes
Confirmations of imminent legislation of the oil and gas law and warnings of Kurdish schemes
1-2-2023
Information / Baghdad…
Controlling the oil and gas export file across the region has become an urgent necessity for Baghdad, which will resort to enacting a new law to ensure that oil is not smuggled and stolen and exported through Kurdistan. This law would guarantee the rights of the center and the region in terms of exports and imports, at a time when concerns arose The region put pressure on some political parties with the aim of imposing certain agendas to pass the aforementioned law and achieve gains for the benefit of the ruling authority in Kurdistan.
The representative of the Al-Fateh Alliance, Rafik Al-Salhi, told Al-Maalouma, “The agreement concluded within the State Administration Coalition provides for the legislation of many controversial laws, the most important of which is the legislation of the oil and gas law, which was delayed for more than one parliamentary session and will see the light due to its importance to the country and its economic situation, as the legislation of this law It will solve all the problems between Baghdad and Erbil over the oil file,” stressing that “the next legislative term will witness the presentation of the law for the first reading, provided that the law is legislated during the current parliamentary session.”
On the other hand, the representative of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Majid Shankali, confirmed that “everyone agrees on the oil and gas law, and it will be legislated during the coming period, as this law will solve one of the most important outstanding problems between Baghdad and Erbil, which is oil revenues.”
On the other hand, the head of the Summit Center for Strategic Studies, Haider al-Moussawi, told Al-Maalouma that “the movement of the Kurdish delegations from northern Iraq to Baghdad with the formation of any government or the imminence of approving the Iraqi budget represents an attempt to impose special agendas and put pressure on the Iraqi government to amend the oil and gas law and pass it according to What is consistent with what is related to Kurdistan.”
On a related level, the representative of the State of Law, Jassim Al-Musawi, explained to Al-Maalooma, that “Prime Minister Muhammad Shia’a Al-Sudani gave a period of six months to the leaders of the Kurdistan region in order to organize the export of oil through the national SOMO company exclusively,” noting that “the organization of export will take place.” By completing the legislation of the private oil and gas law in the Kurdistan region in order to control the export of Iraqi oil.
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