********** Meetings of committees oil between the center and the region

1/4/2015 0:00

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Baghdad, Omar Abdel-Latif

Begin during the month of January of this, the meetings of the technical committees between the center and the Kurdistan region to discuss the oil agreement and its reasons, according to the expectation of the Oil and Energy Committee in the House of Representatives by Kaveh Mohammad.

Said Mohammed, a Kurdish member of the mass change, "morning": that the agreement was between the two sides stressed that the 2015 budget include the export amounts, and on that basis, approved by the Council of Ministers in the federal government.

He disclosed the terms of the agreement include the existence of a joint technical committees between the two parties to resolve the problems and delve into the details, expected to begin this round of talks this month.

The federal government has agreed with the Kurdistan Regional Government in November of last year to settle oil outstanding issues between the two sides and is under agreement to export 250 000 barrels per day of oil province in addition to the 300 000 barrels per day of Kirkuk oil transnational oil marketing company SOMO that launches salaries provincial officials stalled since early last year and the inclusion of the Peshmerga to 17 percent of the Ministry of Defence allocations as part of the national defense system.

The official spokesman for the Oil Ministry, Assem Jihad, said that there are coming meetings between the center and the region to sign the final agreement in this regard, as it will discuss the committees will be formed to discuss this matter all the technical, administrative and financial problems outstanding and try to find solutions to them and submit its recommendations to the Council of Ministers, which in turn will be reviewed and the possibility of reaching a final agreement.

The Jihad in his "morning" hope to reach a final agreement to keep the oil wealth and shared equitably and identify the tasks and responsibilities of each party, especially since the central government and the Kurdistan Regional Government have agreed to resolve all the files and outstanding problems as stipulated by the Charter provided by the Government during the formation, with the development of national interest above all other considerations and not be the solution to calculate the party at the expense of the other party.

 In addition, head of the Iraqi Coalition for the Extractive Industries Transparency on grace, said the intentions of the parties disclosed their agreement when oil bode well, hoping that those intentions interpreted in a realistic and practical moves to the interests of the people by growing oil revenues.

 He criticized the grace in a statement singled out the "morning", Minister of Natural Resources in the province drastically for saying that "the production and exports of oil region is a red line," describing it as a raise "doubts in this Agreement," and wondered Does that these statements are true outlook for the region towards exports and production, or that there is a tendency to have different from these statements.


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