***** The formation of a parliamentary committee to discuss the oil dispute between Baghdad and Erbil, the region's share of the budget

Wednesday, February 11, 2014 16:02


[Baghdad - where]

A parliamentary source said the formation of a parliamentary committee headed by the Presidency of the Council of Representatives and the membership of heads of parliamentary blocs to discuss the differences on the budget for fiscal 2014.

The source told all of Iraq [where] he was the formation of a parliamentary committee miniature at the meeting held today between the Presidency of the Council of Representatives and the heads of parliamentary blocs to discuss the differences between Baghdad and Erbil on the financial budget. "

"The parliamentary committee will be held on Wednesday, mini-meeting with the ministers of finance and oil to find a solution on the dispute in the region's oil exports and revenues, and 17% allocated to Kurdistan in the federal budget."

The federal government has required the provincial government to export 400 000 barrels per day and bear the expenses of foreign oil companies contracting with them against the Kurdistan keep share of the public budget by 17%.

The dispute dates back between Baghdad and Erbil to recent contract with foreign companies without the consent of the center in addition to the establishment of an oil pipeline with Turkey and its intention to export without the supervision of the federal government, which angered the recent promised unconstitutional and warned of the feet of the province to export.

And held a series of meetings and negotiations at the highest levels between the Governments of the center and the province, but did not reach a final agreement remained attitudes and interactions going on, the latest threat and the Federal Oil Minister Abdul Karim and coffee, which he said "it is not possible to allow the province to export oil without the company of the Iraqi National Sumo , "noting that" the negotiations are not to make concessions, but rather to illustrate the lack of legal and constitutional export oil without the supervision of the federal government and that the solution to the problem lies in the commitment of the Kurdish party in the export of oil company under the supervision of Sumo. "

The Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Hussain al-Shahristani, who is scheduled to visit Arbil soon to resolve the dispute, "it was some progress in talks aimed at resolving the dispute with the Kurdistan region," without specifying the nature of this progress.


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