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Barzani denies the withdrawal of oil companies from the region and confirms: one assumes them to pay employees' salaries
2/16/15
Denied the President of the Kurdistan Regional Government Nechirvan Barzani, on Monday, the withdrawal of any foreign oil companies working in the region, as he emphasized that the Government of the Territory borrowed from those companies to divert employees' salaries.
The head of the Government of the Territory Barzani during a joint press conference with Minister of Electricity Salahuddin Babacar in the Prime Minister's building and attended (range Press), he was "not any oil company to withdraw from work in the region did not stop working."
Barzani said that "the government has to borrow from those companies to divert employees' salaries," stressing that "will repay those loans through oil exports."
The head of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Barzani revealed on Monday, for the Baghdad to pay salaries to its employees every 40 days, and confirmed that the central government "bankrupt" and undergoing a financial crisis, and threatened to cut off oil exports in the event of non-receipt of the agreed allocations, as pointed out that the agreement states to send more than one trillion dinars from Baghdad to Arbil.
The President of the Iraqi Council of Ministers Haider al-Abadi, on Monday, that Iraq faces many challenges including the decline in oil prices and their impact on the budget and the security challenge, and stressed the need for concerted efforts to liberate the city of Mosul and the rest areas in coordination between Baghdad and Erbil, and as pointed out that the government is committed to resolving the problems with the Kurdistan region in accordance with the Constitution, the President of the Kurdistan Regional Government Nechirvan Barzani stressed the keenness of the region to communicate with Baghdad to solve all the problems.
And Iraq's cabinet agreed on Tuesday (December 2, 2014), to agree on a solution to the problems between the central and Kurdistan governments in the presence of Haider al-Abadi and Nechirvan Barzani, while ensuring the agreement to determine the percentage of allocations of federal land forces of the Iraqi army to the Peshmerga forces according to population ratio being a part of the Iraqi security system, in addition to solving the problem of the export of oil.
The Presidency of the Kurdistan Regional Government, described on Tuesday (December 2, 2014), that the meetings of the region delegation with the federal government as "positive", while confirming that he is expected to reach final results today.
The Minister of Oil, Adel Abdul Mahdi, in (November 13, 2014), agreed with the President of the Kurdistan Regional Government on the federal government to transfer $ 500 million to the region, and among the agreement to ensure that the Government of the Territory put 150 thousand barrels of crude oil per day at the disposal of the government Federal, regional president stressed that the government will visit Baghdad at the head of a delegation to develop a "comprehensive" and constitutional solutions to resolve outstanding issues.
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