***** Such as energy minister's visit to Iraq .. Turkey confirms: We signed an oil agreement with Erbil and Baghdad are waiting for approval to complete

Ali Aldhargam - 12/01/2013 AD - 10:55 | Hits: 84


Turkey announced officially concluded several agreements in the energy and oil with the Kurdistan Regional Government.

Ankara's announcement comes ahead of a visit to the agreement and its energy minister [Taner Yildiz] scheduled on Sunday to Baghdad to discuss with the federal government about its agreement with Erbil.

A spokesman for the Turkish Foreign Ministry Levent Goomrokj in a statement seen by agency pratha "that during the visit by Nechirvan Barzani, prime minister of the Kurdish region of Iraq to Ankara on November 27 last year, an agreement was reached providing for the conclusion of a number of trade agreements aimed at establishing Cooperation in the field of energy and commensurate with the Iraqi constitution. however, that the process on this subject has not been completed yet. therefore we want and we would prefer to be dealt with this matter within the framework of a tripartite, including Baghdad, in order to serve the interests and well-being of our peoples. "

He added that "Turkey hopes that this cooperation contributes to the development and promotion of mutual understanding between the central government and the region in the form that corresponds to the Iraqi constitution."

The spokesman for the Turkish Foreign Ministry to "It's the basis of this concept, expressing Turkey's desire is to find a quick solution to all matters and issues between the parties, through talks reciprocal based on good faith and on the basis of the unity of Iraqi territory."



The announcement comes on the Ankara agreement with Erbil after conflicting news about the two sides signed an agreement oil "secret" that includes oil export pipeline extending their isolation from the federal government in Baghdad.

For her part, the Iraqi government has not received official information from the Turkish side or from the Kurdish region from oil contracts between the parties, during the visit of Prime Minister of the Territory Nechirvan Barzani Ankara last week.



The United States announced on the lips of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, "it does not support any deal to export oil from any region of Iraq without the approval of Baghdad."

A spokeswoman for the U.S. State Department Jane Bsaki at a press conference in Washington last Wednesday after asked about the talks Erbil and Ankara in the pipeline for oil, "we have no change in our position on this issue and positions fixed, and we will continue to call on the central government in Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government to work for a constitutional resolve between themselves. "

It is known that the federal government in Baghdad opposed to this project as well as the rejection of the oil contracts concluded by the Erbil with foreign oil companies to drill in Kurdistan and promised "unconstitutional" unless any agreement by the federal government, which is rejected by the provincial government.



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