Parliamentarians: Adoption of the law of oil and gas sponsor the settlement of disputes between the center and the Alaqilm

Parliamentarians: Adoption of the law of oil and gas sponsor the settlement of disputes between the center and the Alaqilm
   

13/06/2013 12:00 AM

Baghdad morning Muhannad Abdul Wahab

Parliamentarians welcomed the convergence of views taking place between the province and the center on the law of oil and gas, especially after you put it on the agenda of the central government during the meeting held in Arbil recently.

A member of the Commission on oil and energy parliamentary and the Kurdistan Alliance MP Qassem Mohammad Qasim "that has become a very urgent need to approve oil and gas law, which would create a positive atmosphere in dire Maicon Iraq to in the present time.

He said Kassem in an interview for "morning" that approving the law of the important questions that can put Iraq on the right path, and enable it to double its imports of Finance, and is working to increase the rates stabilize it, as well as the ability of law in building system developed on oil production and marketed through border crossings smoothly while retaining the full rights of the provinces, including the province because it is part of Iraq.

He MP said that "the law of oil and gas was one of the points that got agree upon between the President of the Kurdistan Regional Government Barzani, and the Government of the center, during his visit to Baghdad, has been discussing it thoroughly in order to go out with positive results are for the benefit of the parties, noting that" the law can not be passes without a political consensus for it, because it is important laws, which Iraq depends heavily, especially since 93 percent of the general budget depends on oil revenues.

He Qasim to the existence of joint committees problem of the province and the center is working on reading the draft law and انضاجها a way that leads to get approved by everyone, and then sent to the House of Representatives for a vote, adding that "the meeting came out with positive results emphasized the need to work on the study of the draft The law, which committees will the problem انضاجه, and prepare a study that will help to approval.

According concerned that oil and gas law has become a prominent points of contention between the province and the center, stressing the need to speed up the adoption by, especially since it regulates the process of extracting and exporting oil, and helps to share oil revenues according to the law, and then who sees through the center that the process of awarding contracts in the region for companies foreign built incorrectly, showing the region that sharing contracts concluded by with those companies that can accrue to the oil industry has a number of benefits, which promised the government center, "an order is incorrect," arguing that service contracts are best suited for the development of fact, the oil, as well as Referring that the Constitution and confirmed what does not accept doubt that the oil wealth belongs to the people, not entitled to dispose of them except through the law.

For his part, a member of the Oil and Energy Committee, the National Alliance MP Ali Fayad, "that the two governments agreed that the law is included in the agenda of the meeting, which took place in Baghdad and then Arbil.

He explained in an interview for "morning" that the law three drafts, since 2007, but it is not mature yet, and expected to come out of the joint committees between the province and the center draft one agreed upon by all the political blocs, calling at the same time, "everyone to speed up agreement on out with positive results to approve the law and work in order to reach a common formats settle them all in order to rebuild Iraq and get out of the successive political crises. Fayad, confirmed the existence of a genuine desire for the government aimed at fueling an agreement on the law in order to send it to the House of Representatives for a vote, stressing that the current need everyone to come together in order to settle the differences that stand in the way of the political process in the country.

He pointed out that "the prime minister paid great attention to this subject, saying that the agreement on the law is part of the political stability of the country.

 In turn, said a member of the Committee on Energy and Oil and parliamentary National Alliance MP Furat al-Shara "that work to approve oil and gas law, transparency may lead to two, the first work on the order of the political atmosphere scattered and second hydration political atmosphere between the Governments of the center and the region.

He Shara during his speech for the "morning" that Iraq desperately need to approve such a law, especially since energy serves as the life of the country and without it can not continue the construction and development, surprising "of the increasing volume of domestic consumption at a time is which country's neediest What will be the development and construction.

He also called all the political blocs to speed up agreement on the adoption of the law and mature draft one to be sent to parliament for a vote, saying that such a move as a factor that can contribute mainly to political stability, noting that "the meeting, which took place between the two governments has led to positive results through the formation of committees that will follow up the developments of the meeting and resulted in about the oil and gas law, noting "that the Quartet mini-governmental organizations will establish a specific mechanism to enter into an agreement on the law."


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