Maliki and Barzani agree to pass a law of oil and gas

Admin Sun Jul 07, 2013 8:49 pm

Posted: Monday, July 08, 2013

Huda Jassim, agencies (Union) - agreed to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki yesterday with the head of Iraq's Kurdistan region, Massoud Barzani, to work to resolve differences between the two sides.

Maliki said in a joint press conference in the fortified Green city center of the Iraqi capital Baghdad,[b style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px"]"our differences, and agreed to work to pass laws stalled in Parliament, especially the law of oil and gas."[/b]

In turn, Barzani said, "We agreed to cooperate and work together and address all threats to Iraq and the region," adding, "This is something we consider to be a national duty."

And Barzani arrived in Baghdad yesterday morning at the head of a high-level delegation, to discuss the outstanding issues between Baghdad and Erbil, in the first visit three years ago.

Barzani's visit to Baghdad, complementary to the visit of the President of the Government of the Territory Barzani recently carried out by the Iraqi capital, during which he discussed the outstanding issues between the two sides, as well as the budget law and the law of oil and gas and the Peshmerga and security in the disputed areas.

Maliki announced, after meeting with Barzani, that he agreed with the leader of the Kurdistan region to prevent the transmission of the ongoing unrest in the region to Iraq, as well as closer alliance with the Kurds.

He added that "the advent of Barzani today (yesterday) to Baghdad comes a continuation of my visit to the Kurdistan region, has had a meeting and it was positive, and our important files."

He added "We have confirmed that the conditions that surround the region need to immunity, so do not get affected and must solve our problems Internal Bokhuyh".

Maliki addressed the relationship with the Kurds, and stressed documented, noting that "the goal is to the interest of Iraq, and if interest require this the alliance ". He said that "What happened between us and the brothers the Kurds is a difference in views, not unlike".

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has met with the leaders of the Kurdistan region last month, when he visited Erbil and there held a meeting of his government after a rupture between the two sides lasted long months.

For his part, Barzani stressed that the outstanding issues between Baghdad and Erbil has moved to the stage of the problem between the two committees.

The Federal governments and the Kurdistan region has formed committees during the visit of Prime Minister Barzani's Kurdistan to Baghdad last month to resolve the outstanding issues.

Barzani said in a conference, "We agreed on the work of the committees on the ground that formed between the center and the region," explaining that "the problems will be resolved in accordance with the Constitution."

Oil accounted for differences and other focus of the talks between the two sides when they met for a joint committee on solving the outstanding problems between the two sides, Maliki also discussed privately with the President of the Kurdistan region Massoud Barzani on those files. In public statements, the two parties announced their agreement to activate the Committee to discuss about the final solutions for the oil and files conflict zones and the salaries of the Peshmerga and the others, but did not give any of the parties in the details of the agreements.