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Parliamentary understanding in the field of oil between Erbil and Baghdad
Abdul Hamid Zebari
09/02/2015
Signed Committees oil and energy in the Kurdistan Parliament and the House of Representatives a joint memorandum of understanding, to work on finding suitable to resolve the differences that exist between the federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government on the oil and energy sector in the country ground.
The parliamentary committee in the House of Representatives arrived Sunday to Arbil and met with President of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Barzani and discussed with him the problems of this sector recent agreement between Arbil and Baghdad regarding the export of oil from wells in the region through the oil pipeline, which connects the province of Kurdistan Turkish port of Ceyhan.
At a joint press conference committees held building Kurdistan Parliament Deputy Chairman of the Oil and Energy Committee in the House of Representatives Qubool Bahadli said that the two committees have agreed to strengthen cooperation and joint action in the control and follow-up legislation Aallazma laws to regulate the relations in the field of oil and gas and natural resources within the country, adding that the note contains the the following points: access, supervision and follow-up on the developments of the conventions and trivialities between the government Alathaah and the Kurdistan Regional Government in the field of oil and gas and work on sustainability and to identify the difficulties faced by the joint cooperation of the laws of the oil and gas and other laws relevant to the work of these committees and participate in the development programs in the field of oil, gas and energy and hold a joint meeting between the two committees and hearings own bills and other matters relating to the work of these committees.
For his part, the Oil and Energy Committee in the House of Representatives member Ibrahim Bahr al-Ulum that this agreement will pave the legislation of the oil and gas in Iraq, which has remained since 2007 in the process of deliberations and the differences between the political parties law, and added that there is a vision in harmony among the members of the Commission on oil and energy parliamentary in Iraq and cravings in order to communicate with its counterpart in the Kurdistan region of resolving these problems in order to see that the deciduous legislative oil and gas law and the law of distribution of financial resources.
Asked about not sending the federal government and public sector employees in the Kurdistan Regional Government salaries, Bahr al-Ulum expressed surprise and promised to investigate it and said: "We were surprised yesterday and told us by the finance minister of the Kurdistan region that the staff of the provincial salaries did not reach very far, and we listened to this complaint We will try to be discussed with the Finance Committee in the House of Representatives and Sntbages with the government, considering that there was a commitment by Mlges Iraqi parliament on the bill to pay the region's share amounting to 17%. "
On the sidelines of the press conference, I asked the Radio Free Iraq MP Ali Qubool for the reasons that the Iraqi government called on to claim the province to increase the production ceiling, despite the existence of an agreement between them at the end of last year to be 250 000 barrels, saying: "We have inquires and I'm an engineer oil and worked in the Ministry answered Iraqi oil for 25 years and I have information that there are additional quantities of oil over 250 000 and the Kurdistan region confessed and said it benefits foreign companies, but we say that these entitlements federal and likes to hand in one basket and then be distributed. "
As members of the Kurdistan Parliament believes that there is a lack of trust between the federal governments and the Kurdistan region on issues related to the energy sector, and this MOU may restore confidence to the parties, they said, and in this regard I talked Rioas ultra member of the Oil and Energy Committee in the Parliament of Kurdistan Radio Free Iraq, saying "We are a third party Kgan parliamentary are not a party in the existing between the federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government to the conflict and trying through this Memorandum of Understanding to be a link to the convergence of views between the parties and there are neutral institutions, professional should be audited information on when the two ministries of any of the Iraqi Oil Ministry and the Ministry of Natural Resources in Kurdistan to find confidence between the parties. "
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Abdul Hamid Zebari
09/02/2015
Signed Committees oil and energy in the Kurdistan Parliament and the House of Representatives a joint memorandum of understanding, to work on finding suitable to resolve the differences that exist between the federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government on the oil and energy sector in the country ground.
The parliamentary committee in the House of Representatives arrived Sunday to Arbil and met with President of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Barzani and discussed with him the problems of this sector recent agreement between Arbil and Baghdad regarding the export of oil from wells in the region through the oil pipeline, which connects the province of Kurdistan Turkish port of Ceyhan.
At a joint press conference committees held building Kurdistan Parliament Deputy Chairman of the Oil and Energy Committee in the House of Representatives Qubool Bahadli said that the two committees have agreed to strengthen cooperation and joint action in the control and follow-up legislation Aallazma laws to regulate the relations in the field of oil and gas and natural resources within the country, adding that the note contains the the following points: access, supervision and follow-up on the developments of the conventions and trivialities between the government Alathaah and the Kurdistan Regional Government in the field of oil and gas and work on sustainability and to identify the difficulties faced by the joint cooperation of the laws of the oil and gas and other laws relevant to the work of these committees and participate in the development programs in the field of oil, gas and energy and hold a joint meeting between the two committees and hearings own bills and other matters relating to the work of these committees.
For his part, the Oil and Energy Committee in the House of Representatives member Ibrahim Bahr al-Ulum that this agreement will pave the legislation of the oil and gas in Iraq, which has remained since 2007 in the process of deliberations and the differences between the political parties law, and added that there is a vision in harmony among the members of the Commission on oil and energy parliamentary in Iraq and cravings in order to communicate with its counterpart in the Kurdistan region of resolving these problems in order to see that the deciduous legislative oil and gas law and the law of distribution of financial resources.
Asked about not sending the federal government and public sector employees in the Kurdistan Regional Government salaries, Bahr al-Ulum expressed surprise and promised to investigate it and said: "We were surprised yesterday and told us by the finance minister of the Kurdistan region that the staff of the provincial salaries did not reach very far, and we listened to this complaint We will try to be discussed with the Finance Committee in the House of Representatives and Sntbages with the government, considering that there was a commitment by Mlges Iraqi parliament on the bill to pay the region's share amounting to 17%. "
On the sidelines of the press conference, I asked the Radio Free Iraq MP Ali Qubool for the reasons that the Iraqi government called on to claim the province to increase the production ceiling, despite the existence of an agreement between them at the end of last year to be 250 000 barrels, saying: "We have inquires and I'm an engineer oil and worked in the Ministry answered Iraqi oil for 25 years and I have information that there are additional quantities of oil over 250 000 and the Kurdistan region confessed and said it benefits foreign companies, but we say that these entitlements federal and likes to hand in one basket and then be distributed. "
As members of the Kurdistan Parliament believes that there is a lack of trust between the federal governments and the Kurdistan region on issues related to the energy sector, and this MOU may restore confidence to the parties, they said, and in this regard I talked Rioas ultra member of the Oil and Energy Committee in the Parliament of Kurdistan Radio Free Iraq, saying "We are a third party Kgan parliamentary are not a party in the existing between the federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government to the conflict and trying through this Memorandum of Understanding to be a link to the convergence of views between the parties and there are neutral institutions, professional should be audited information on when the two ministries of any of the Iraqi Oil Ministry and the Ministry of Natural Resources in Kurdistan to find confidence between the parties. "
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