Iraq plans to boycott Turkish companies and cancel all existing contracts due to the export of oil from Kurdistan territory

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[ltr]BAGHDAD / obelisk: Iraqi government Saturday threatened to boycott all Turkish companies operating in the country, and the establishment of a lawsuit against the government of Ankara on the back allowing the export of Iraqi oil from the Kurdistan region without the approval of Baghdad. 

Said Oil Minister Abdul Karim and coffee in a statement that "the government is taking a series of measures, including County all Turkish companies (oil, etc.) and cancel all existing contracts with them, the impact of allowing Turkey to export oil region of its territory." 

And began exporting oil from the Kurdistan region to the Turkish port of Ceyhan, according to said Turkish Energy Minister Yildiz Tanez in the second year. 

According to Yildiz, the sale of two million barrels of crude will be from now until the end of January and will be followed by other deliveries later. 

Baghdad has refused to sell its oil without returning the region to the central government and considered it a blatant violation of the Constitution and the smuggling of oil. 

He added Laibi "Turkey must consider clearly that this issue is a national issue seriously affect the independence and unity of Iraq." 

"It is not in their interest to intervene in this matter, and if allowed Turkey as if they interfere with the division of Iraq and Iraqis, for us this is a red line." 

He stressed that "our determination to unify the income and equitable distribution is to ensure the stability of this country, and that any defect in this system will impact on the stability of the country." 

The 2014 budget law, which the Iraqi government sent to parliament for approval provides for the deduction of the damage caused by the impact of the Kurdistan region of non-oil product delivered to the federal government. 

The share of the Kurdistan region of the state budget, 17 percent note that the value for this year is 140 billion dollars, but he refuses to hand over its oil product three years ago and sell it by way of Turkey and Iran, according to the Iraqi government. 

In addition, the Iraqi minister said that as a result of failure of the province for oil product delivery caused a deficit in the budget of the year 2013 amounting to 140 billion dollars. 

"We took legal action, whether in Baghdad or Ankara against the Turkish government and the companies and agencies that deal with this oil without the approval of the federal government, which considered it an escape." 

Said Asim Jihad, spokesman for Iraq's Oil Ministry on Saturday that "Iraq follows the style of transparency in Alsadarat Iraq in terms of the accuracy of the quantities exported, and also the revenue that goes into the Development Fund for Iraq (de ap any) where deducted five percent to the debt owed by Iraq." 

He explained that "there are UN resolutions oblige Iraq and commits all parties, including Turkey to respect those decisions." 

The contract of the Kurdistan region with foreign companies to extract oil from its territory and has built a network of export pipelines through Turkey without Baghdad's approval. 

And use the Kurds established in cooperation with the Turkish port of Ceyhan in Iraq to export oil to world markets, and founded the company "Komko" for this purpose along the lines of the company "Sumo" (Federal public company for the export of oil). 

Jihad said in this context that "Baghdad has signed agreement required Turkey not to use the facility in the Iraqi port of Ceyhan was any party without the approval of the federal government and is otherwise in violation of the agreement." 

He noted that "this agreement was concluded in 1976, was renovated in 2010 with some minor changes." 

Baghdad had last week summoned the Turkish charge d'affaires has on exports of oil and denounced the violation of the Iraqi constitution. 

The deputy prime minister responsible for energy affairs Hussain al-Shahristani said in a statement following the meeting that "Iraq is exporting oil through its international borders without the consent of the government, a violation." 

The Iraqi official accused the Turkish authorities that it prevented officials in the Iraqi Oil Ministry to monitor the quantities of crude exported from the Kurdistan region.






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