Expectations to refer the law of oil to the meeting of political leaders

09/20/2012 12:00 am

Ghadban «morning»: oil differences between the center and the region on the way to solution
Baghdad, Omar Abdel Latif - Tariq al-Araji

Committee announced that oil and energy parliamentary postponement of the meeting, which was hoped to hold yesterday for reasons she described as "anonymous", refer a number of other members of the committee the reasons for postponement to convert file this law is important to the leaders of the political blocs clinching instead of mini Joint Committee between the committees of energy and legal Alniabaten.

This comes at a time when it confirmed the advisers in the Prime Minister's Office that the differences between oil Baghdad and the Kurdistan region on its way to being solved.

The Parliamentary Legal Committee had confirmed earlier this week that the atmosphere has become more suited to start serious discussions on the law of oil and gas and then settled during the next term, while confirmed to the Commission on oil and energy parliamentary dispute on this law between two copies of the 2007 and 2011 on Article VI thereof.

The decision of the Commission on oil and energy parliamentary Qasim Mohammad Qasim MP for the coalition of Kurdish blocs: "The committee received a book signed by House Speaker Osama Nujaifi during a meeting on Sunday it was decided to postpone the meeting until further notice ".
Kassem described the reasons for the postponement as "unknown" and did not inform us as members of the Committee, did not mention any details regarding this postponement.

He said in a statement singled out the "Brief Center for the Iraqi Media Network," "The atmosphere was a positive meeting of the Joint Committee after everyone began to realize the need for the enactment of the oil and gas, there was no party wants stalling or not enactment of this Act because of its being associated laws and important material, notably the formation of the National Oil Company and the Federal Oil Council, in addition to oil constitutes 95 percent of the general revenue of the state, saying this law is one of the most dangerous and most important laws.

Qassem stressed that both problems between the federal government and the province on oil contracts or between the center and other provinces can not be solved unless the enactment of this law because of its importance for the oil sector regulatory what makes each political bloc have visions The ideas other bloc match.

The Commission decision expected that if it were agreed that oil and gas law passed there would be a further positive steps between the center and the region contributes to purify the atmosphere of convulsions occurring in the situation in Iraq and remove all obstacles facing the political process in the country.

And decides to Article VI of the oil and gas law, which only became a cause for disagreement political blocs cooperation and consultation mechanism with producing regions and provinces in terms of implementation of the national oil company.

In turn, attributed committee member Bahaa Aldin MP for the National Alliance to postpone the meeting of the Joint Committee to resolve the law of oil and gas to the end of the parliamentary sessions, and the majority of the members went to their home provinces, as well as the arrival of the President of the Republic of his therapeutic and the sensitivity of this issue on the grounds that the law of oil and gas from the important laws which still inoperative, which became a place of contentious between the center and the province.

Jamaluddin expressed in a statement to "Brief Center for the Iraqi Media Network," the belief that these points of contention can not be resolved through the joint committee between the committees mini oil and energy and legal Alniabaten, expected to be finalized this law However, the leaders of the blocks.

He cautioned that the previous meeting of the joint committee to resolve the issue of this law has focused the discussions on the first two issues are many materials agreed to this law, and the second to focus on the points at issue, whether in terms of powers or the Council Federal oil or the national oil company and contracts that can be concluded, as well as the need to rely on the paragraphs of the Constitution to agree on the enactment of this Act.

Article (111) of the Constitution reads as follows: oil and gas is the property of all the Iraqi people in all the regions and provinces, while Article (112) as follows: First: The federal government will administer oil and gas extracted from current fields with the governments of the producing regions and provinces, to be distributed and imports fairly commensurate with the population distribution in all parts of the country.

In the meantime, announced the advisers in the Prime Minister's Office that the differences between oil Baghdad and the Kurdistan region on its way to being solved.

The head of the Engineer Thamer Ghadban (Brief Center for the Iraqi Media Network): "The Council of Ministers when he discussed the topic of relationship the province the federal government on oil product more than once in the past month and the current action is not taken certain this side and open the way through the formation of a committee to build on the view displayed Minister of oil in front of the Council of Ministers was in the light of the formation of a joint committee between the federal government and the province.

He added that the objective of the formation of the committee comes for two reasons, first: Work on continuing export of the region within the oil exports through the national grid, according to what was planned in the budget for the year 2012 in the sense that the province issued was $ 175 thousand barrels per day, while exports from the rest of Iraq, which is handled by the Ministry of Oil by 2.425 million barrels a day that the sum of the total export of 2.6 million barrels per day on the basis of which the budget has been prepared and the rate of $ 85 dollars per barrel.

Ghadban also noted that the province has stopped exports since the beginning of this year and exports fell and clashes occurred when a global decline in the price of a barrel, but recently we have seen a rise in oil prices from the new export price remained up to $ 100 This difference between the actual price for the sale of the barrel and the speculative price of $ 85 instead of the loss in exports caused by the failure of the province to deliver quantities of oil produced there.

Ghadhban that the obligations of the Federal Government and the provincial government, including the law and not proper to disturb them, regardless of the reasons along with the need to build trust both between parties within the country or in front of the world, as economic factors must be isolated from the political , noting that the economic agreements, whether contracts for delivery of energy supplies from one country to another should not be temporary and subject to political differences, and only the intervention of economic sanctions between the two sides of any party because it would undermine confidence and that this happened in the country because the stop export of the province of one party is a big mistake and should not be repeated and continue production and export operations away from political differences.

and on the special demands deduct amounts of oil exported from the region of Kurdistan's budget, he said Anger: "This matter was minus It واردا before the Council of Ministers then, when presented the memorandum by the Minister of oil which is not new among the resources that were deprived of federal budget due to stop and have been calculated in 2010 partially and 2011 and some months of the year 2012 and the amount was more than the $ 11 billion, but through dialogue within the Council of Ministers was probably give opinion topic more room and asked the Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs Rose Nuri Shaways contact with Province was the last meeting and there's tentative agreement to resolve the dilemma in the meeting and seems to be a practical solution.

"He continued by saying:" If there is agreement on dilemmas and to follow the latest agreement, it will open the horizons to other solutions that relate to the dilemma legislative, "expected to head the oil crisis between the federal government and the Kurdistan region to the solution.



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