Shahristani of Basra announce agreement on the export of oil of Kurdistan and the beginning of April talking about the self-sufficiency of wheat

03/29/2014 14:34



Long-Presse / Basra

Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Hussain al-Shahristani, on Saturday, the agreement with the KRG to export oil through the SOMO beginning next April, and said "if the oil produced in the province handed over to the Ministry of Oil was Iraqi production is higher than the product currently, as expected achieve self-sufficiency in wheat production during the current year of 2014, for the first time in the history of modern Iraq.

Said Hussein al-Shahristani, in his speech during the opening ceremony of the West Qurna field, (2) in the province of Basra and attended (range Press), that "if the oil producer in the Kurdistan region of Iraq handed over to the Ministry of Oil in order to be exported to the Iraqi production is higher than the current figure is significantly. "

He Shahristani, expressed hope that "resolved their differences and begin exporting oil producer in the region beginning next April, the same mechanisms adopted for the export of Iraqi oil and all fields of Iraq through the marketing company National (SOMO) and the same pricing mechanisms and deposit revenues in the Development Fund for Iraq, to ​​be distributed to all Iraqis through the federal budget, which recognizes the year. "

In another context, said Shahristani said that "Iraq's future in the coming years on the development of large industrial as well as agricultural development, which we are witnessing," expected to "up the production of wheat during the current year 2014 to four million tons, leading to self-sufficiency for the first time in the history of Iraq talk. "

Shahristani noted that "there are great efforts being made in various aspects of economic development in the country and all these things were not to get if not the determination of the Iraqis and their insistence on the building at the time of fighting terrorism and the indiscriminate killing of bear which is supported by some countries against the Iraqi people."

The Kurdistan Alliance has revealed, on Wednesday (26 March 2014), for receiving the provincial government signals from Baghdad to lift the paragraphs "punitive" in the budget by sending an extension of the Parliament amendments, while expressed his willingness to attend the parliament session next Sunday, some have accused of "trying to Living on the continuing crisis over the recent rejection of the initiative Barzani on the export of 100 thousand b / d over the SOMO, but the State of Law coalition, led by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, confirmed that the budget "would be passed by the political blocs."

It is noteworthy that the main paragraphs punitive contained in the budget, from the viewpoint of the Kurdistan region, one that empowers the Federal Minister of Finance deduction of the region's share of the budget if it did not in the ceiling of export oil set at 400 thousand barrels per day, and compel the Kurdistan Regional Government to use its territory and airspace and waters to extend optical and electrical cables, and only have the right to the Minister of Finance cut its share of the budget as well.

The head of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Nechirvan Barzani, suggested in (the 21 of March 2014 Current), the export of the region of 100 thousand b / d, about temporarily through the national system (SOMO), as a goodwill gesture, starting from the first of next April, until reaching a positive outcome in the negotiations with Baghdad, he did not put "preconditions" for the implementation of this proposal.

The Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Hussain al-Shahristani (21 March 2014), welcomed the decision of the Government of the Kurdistan region to export 100 thousand b / d of crude oil from the region via the Company (SOMO), indicating that this decision is the result of the first of the continuing negotiations between the delegations of the Federal Government and the region.

It is noteworthy that the file is one of the dilemmas of oil in chronic tradition between Baghdad and Erbil, and an obstacle "intractable until now" to prevent the adoption of the federal budget.


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