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Baghdad _ ((eighth day)) The Oil Ministry announced on Friday that Iraq is losing billion a month and $ 200 million since last March because of Iraqi exports through the Kirkuk-stop tube - Ceyhan, as shown that this money was supposed to enter into the financial budget for 2014 revenues. He said ministry spokesman Assem Jihad said that "Iraq is losing daily export rates between 300 to 400 000 barrels of Iraqi exports stopped because of a tube through the Kirkuk-Ceyhan line since the beginning of the month of March of this year," explaining that "export operations through this tube in the previous was achieved revenues of one billion and 200 million dollars per month. " Jihad, adding that "this tube stopped working because of repeatedly targeted by terrorist gangs", adding that "realized from the tube this money who was supposed to enter Iraq to the financial revenues and the budget for 2014". A spokesman for the oil ministry said that "terrorist groups and after control of some northern provinces after the tenth of June had vandalized some facilities and theft of oil in those provinces fields and smuggled across the border," pointing out that "these actions cause considerable damage to the Iraqi economy." President carrier oil pipeline from the northern fields to Turkey and subjected to bombing and sabotage operations continuously, causing interruption of exports and lower general export rates for the oil ministry.
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