6/11/2015
Minister of Natural Resources in the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq drastically
Said Minister of Natural Resources in the Kurdistan Regional Government drastically, said on Wednesday that the region can not pay the Peshmerga forces' salaries until the launch of Baghdad dues own oil money the region, pointing out that the government will seek to find another method to implement the agreement if it has not fulfilled Baghdad, including obligations , while expected to exceed the production capacity of the oil fields of Kurdistan rate of one million barrels per day, Iraqi oil marketing company confirmed (SOMO), that there is a misinterpretation and understanding of the financial side of the agreement and on the Erbil to sit down with Baghdad to resolve those problems.
Hawrami said, in a press statement quoted by Reuters news agency, and I followed (range Press), on the sidelines of his presence in the Iraqi oil conference, which was held in the British capital London, he said that "the provincial government can not pay employees of the Peshmerga forces fighting organization Daash until the payment of Baghdad dues money salaries Oil for the Kurdistan Regional Government, "pointing out that" the amounts that the Iraqi government is currently reimbursed is not enough even to cover the expenses of the civil service which also includes the financing of the Kurdish army. "
He Hawrami, that "fighting against Daash extends across the combat front stretching for a few thousand kilometers is what needs to be economic aspects to sustain this effort," stressing that "the Peshmerga have not received salaries since almost three months, making it the perpetuation of the fight against the organization difficult."
Hawrami stressed, "We can not continue to say to the region for oil companies operating in the region: They gave us another month, and therefore, what we have achieved will collapse around us, so we need more money."
He Hawrami, "The provincial government will seek to find another method to implement the agreement if Baghdad failed to meet its obligations," adding that "it is expected that the production capacity of the Kurdistan oil fields more than one million barrels per day rate."
For his part, Director General of the Iraqi oil marketing company SOMO, Falah al-Amiri, that "there is a misinterpretation and understanding of the financial side of the agreement, and this requires of the Kurdistan Regional Government to sit with the central government to solve this problem."
The President of the Kurdistan region, Massoud Barzani, confirmed, in (the 11th of May current), the need to send the federal government the region's share of the general budget to be able to pay its debts, and stressed that the Kurdistan region the ability to export oil by about independent if not received its share .
It agreed the Kurdistan Regional Government and the Parliament of the region, in the first of March 2015, to continue efforts to divert the region's share of the budget, and coordination of the formulation of a strategy to tackle the financial crisis and the provision of staff salaries, and publish weekly information on the proportion of the production and export of oil, and the processing of all files and the current problems in the Kurdistan region in The legal framework.
The Ministry of Finance in the government of the Kurdistan region of Iraq announced, in (the sixth of May 2015), to send the federal government 543 billion dinars for the account of the Kurdistan region, stressing that the amount is transferred in exchange for oil exported from the region during the last April.
The federal and Kurdish governments have agreed in the (second from December 2014 the past), the allocation of part of the federal allocations of Iraqi ground forces to the Peshmerga forces, and delivery of the Kurdistan Regional Government, 250 thousand barrels of oil per day in addition to the export of Iraq 300 thousand barrels per day of Kirkuk oil.
The agreement also included the granting trillion and 200 billion dinars for the Peshmerga forces and the allocation of a percentage of the budget of the Ministry of Defense them
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