***** Kurdish delegation to Baghdad early next week to discuss the dispute over the oil export

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Fri Feb 14 2014 05:33 | (Voice of Iraq) - Add a comment -
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Friday, February 14th, 2014




Announced bloc «Kurdistan Alliance» in the Iraqi parliament that the Kurdish delegation will hold high-level talks early next week with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to resolve the disputes over oil contracts and the federal budget.

And the heads of parliamentary blocs yesterday closed-door meeting, attended by Speaker Osama Najafi, and the Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Hussain al-Shahristani, and representatives of the Kurdistan region, without reaching to the results of the adoption of the federal budget, which provides for one of its provisions to deduct part of the region's share if not committed to export 400 thousand barrels a day through the company «Sumo» state-owned, and this is rejected by the Government of the Territory.

The MP said the Kurdish independent Mahmoud Othman told «life» that «the meeting of heads of the blocks today (yesterday) came against the backdrop send KRG President Barzani in response to the message included the Notes was sent by al-Shahristani, to the region», pointing out that «the debate revolved around the differences between the center and the region, which caused a delay approval of the federal budget, and this meeting is a prelude to another meeting directly early next week, in the presence of a delegation from the Kurdistan Regional Government, headed by Barzani, in order to reach a final settlement ».

Shahristani announced Wednesday received a response from the region on the proposals made by the federal government «Three weeks ago», expressing welcome Baghdad to export oil through the territory of Turkey to a new tube, «condition attached Iraqi Oil Marketing Company (SOMO) sales management exclusively».

And the content of the response region on the observations of Baghdad, Osman said that «the root of the problem in Iraq is the lack of transparency, everything is going on behind the scenes, and this is unfortunate, Vamadmon correspondence between the two sides is not known», However, «but the differences the main focus on the issue of oil marketing, and the insistence of each party to be under his supervision, and who will be the deposit of oil imports », pointing out that« the postponement of the parliamentary session today (yesterday), is the result of the failure of the Baghdad and Erbil agreement, if it raised the budget, the Kurds are boycotting, and otherwise the boycotting MPs of state law, block Challengers essentially retiring from the sessions, and I think that both sides are expecting the results of the next meeting, hoping to reach an agreement, including the liquidity crisis taking place in the region ».

The Presidency of the Council of Representatives postponed the hearing yesterday for not «quorum», because of the continued differences between the coalition «rule of law», headed by al-Maliki, and »Kurdistan Alliance» about the federal budget.

On the other hand, announced Deputy Minister of Finance Fadel Prophet (Kurdish), it «has submitted his resignation three days ago to the Deputy Prime Minister Ruz Nuri Shaways, following the government's refusal to exchange the region's share of the budget for the month of February of this, despite the approval of the Cabinet in At a recent meeting ».

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