Parliamentary Power: 4 points of contention hinder voting on oil and gas law

9/26/2016 0:00

It confirmed that the approval cancels all previous agreements
BAGHDAD / Omar Abdel Latif

A commission on oil and energy and natural resources in the House of Representatives about the presence of four points of contention between the federal government and the Kurdistan region hinder the approval of oil and gas law. At the time the Commission confirmed that the approval will cancel all the agreements that came before him, including the oil agreement between the center and the region, it showed that the political blocs in the parliament failed to reach agreement on what came in the Constitution to Articles 111 and 112 of the Constitution's Republic of Iraq to control the oil wealth.

Committee Chairman Ares Abdullah, MP from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), in an interview for the "morning": that "the oil agreement between the center and temporary province until the approval of oil and federal gas law," stressing that "This agreement committed both sides need to be implemented during this phase, especially when inserted in one of the state budget items. "

He Abdullah expressed hope that "the House of Representatives could approve the federal oil and gas law to overcome all outstanding oil problems between the federal government on the one hand and the Kurdistan region and the oil-producing provinces on the other hand."

For his part, said a member of the Committee on the Badr parliamentary bloc Razak mheibes Saadawi, the "morning": that "four points of contention between the center and the region hindered approval of oil and gas law, as well as non-arrival of the government to the House of Representatives."

The Saadawi the intention of the Commission to "have its work during the remaining two years of the life of Parliament focused on the completion of important legislation," noting that "one of the most important laws that must acknowledge during the next phase of oil and gas law, the national oil company and the project minerals and natural resources other investment law is oil and gas in the country. "

And cross-Saadawi optimistic "the work of the new ministers, especially the oil minister," noting that "the Commission will be hosted for the purpose of drawing a map program and worked with him over the next couple of years."

He also said a committee member from the Kurdistan Democratic Party Tariq friend: that the political blocs in parliament, has not reached since 2007 until now, an agreement on what came to the Constitution in Articles 111 and 112, two special in dealing with natural resources.

Friend said in an interview for the "morning", "Some longer dealing in natural resources from within the competence of the federal government, while what came in the Constitution of the materials provided on the powers of the joint oil between the regions and governorates not organized province with the federal state control and this is the essence of disagreement. "

He continued, "During the second session of the age of the House bill was amended stating," pointing out that "after taking some of the views of the Committee returned the bill to the Council of Ministers, which did not agree to the amendments made by the Committee at that time."

He pointed out that "in the session that followed read the law twice and cranny on the shelves," noting that "during the current session of the old bill came as the Commission called for the activation of the bill based on the public interest and for resolving problems between the province and the federal government, but the last that with the beginning of the receipt Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi prime minister asked all the elves re-bills amounting to 97 a bill to study it again and formulated in line with the economic and security situation in Iraq. "

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