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Said Oil Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi, on Friday, that the agreement between Baghdad and Erbil does not constitute a "final solution" to the outstanding issues, but is the "beginning" of the broad comprehensive, just and constitutional between the two solutions, and as he emphasized that the agreement if it has been applied and developed will ensure the restoration of tens of billions of dollars defeat by Iraq during the 2014 to the Treasury, confirmed that the logic of "mutual profit" will double the value of profits "unforeseen and direct" and will increase the benefits of shared benefits flowing in the interest of the whole country.
Said Oil Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi said in a statement about the recent agreement with the Kurdistan Regional Government received (long-Presse) a copy of it, "After extensive consultations, and in implementation of paragraph 17 of the government curriculum, which requires resolving the outstanding differences between the federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government and necessitated by the mutual obligations , it was agreed with the Government of the Territory to start by first steps to rebuild confidence and resolve differences in a comprehensive, just and constitutional. "
Abdul-Mahdi said that "the crisis constituted a threat to the economic, security and political and national unity of interests, and this has been agreed by the federal government transferred $ 500 million to the Government of the Territory with the Government of the Territory put 150 thousand barrels of crude oil per day at the disposal of the Federal Government."
Abdul-Mahdi said that "the federal government and the Government of the Territory had been reached in 2014 and the years before that, in many times, the agreements did not find their way to the application, or applied for a short time and then stopped."
The Minister of Oil, "Perhaps another attempts what was agreed upon at a joint meeting between the two sides in the Minutes (21 April 2014) requires" direct pumping oil produced from the region by 50 thousand barrels through the Iraqi-Turkish line and (50) A. barrel through the production system in the Zab region. "
And between Abdul-Mahdi said that "the correspondence continued between the parties in this regard, and almost up to the result, but high uncertainty, and the accumulation of requirements and accounts unilateralism, led to the stoppage permanently in the (8 July 2014), according to the official books," he said, adding that "the difference in the 2014 led to the Iraqi treasury loss of oil production and exports from the region and to the loss of territory to collect the dues from the general budget in addition to the loss of production from Kirkuk, starting in March 2014 ".
However, Abdul-Mahdi, saying, "It is here necessary to restore an atmosphere of trust and mutual cooperation building came, which resulted in the final agreement," adding, "The 500 million dollars, which will be transferred to the Government of the Territory, and 150 thousand barrels per day, which will be handed over the federal government does not constitute a final solution, not to the issue of mutual benefits, not to the issue of exports and production, but also opens the way for the start of the development of a comprehensive, just and constitutional solutions to all outstanding matters. "
And Abdel-Mahdi said that "the development of respect for the agreement and development, especially during the visit of Prime Minister of the Territory Government Nechirvan Barzani to Baghdad in the coming days, will ensure re-exports nearly a million barrels of oil per day from Kurdistan and the rights of Kirkuk, north of any of tens of billions of dollars that we lost during the year 2014 (more than US $ 30 billion). "
Abdul-Mahdi, and pointed out that "these funds we need it the most, especially with the drop in oil prices and the prospect of continuing to decline through 2015," pointing out that "no matter what the excuses or arguments here or there, but we should appreciate our responsibilities well."
Iraq's oil minister said that "the logic of mutual profit adds to unforeseen and direct profits profits unforeseen and indirectly make a million barrels of additional oil per day is not just only the number, but system numbers will double the benefits of shared benefits indirect and invisible to all, which will be channeled to all in the interest of the country and the people Iraq as a whole. "
The oil minister, Adel Abdul-Mahdi, announced on Thursday (November 13, 2014), agreed with the President of the Kurdistan Regional Government to the Federal Government to transfer $ 500 million for the region, and among the agreement to ensure that the Government of the Territory put 150 thousand barrels of crude oil a day under the disposal of the federal government, confirmed that the President of the Government of the region will visit Baghdad at the head of a delegation to develop a "comprehensive" and constitutional solutions to resolve outstanding issues.
The head of the Kurdistan Regional Government Nechirvan Barzani, Wednesday, (November 12, 2014), that the door is open a dialogue with the central government to reach an agreement and a mechanism for the non-recurrence of cutting the budget and salaries November Territory staff, as expressed optimism forthcoming visit to the oil minister, Adel Abdul-Mahdi to Erbil.
The Council of Ministers of Iraq's Kurdistan region honest, Wednesday, (November 12, 2014), on the legal Kurdistan company for exploration and production of oil and fund oil and gas revenues in the region, and in what was described Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani hosted by the deputy Qubad Talabani in the region's parliament session as "positive and fruitful." , pointed out that he has reviewed the Ministry of Natural Resources plan to find a solution to the current financial crisis and the budget and staff salaries by oil revenues.
It is noteworthy that the former prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, instructed to cut the budget of the Kurdistan region since the beginning of the current year 2014, including staff salaries, against the backdrop of the crisis between Baghdad and Erbil.
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