6/18/15
Twilight News / slab Kurdistan region of Iraq on Wednesday, the behavior of "other legal ways" If the federal government continues to Baghdad in non-compliance with the current year's budget law.
This came during a meeting of the Regional Council for Oil and Gas with five Kurdish parties in the Kurdistan Regional Government, according to a statement of the prime minister responded to Twilight News.
The meeting discussed the latest developments about the problems relating to oil between the Kurdistan Regional Government and the Iraqi government.
The participants confirmed that the Kurdistan Regional Government is fully committed to the Convention concluded between Baghdad and Arbil, and the law of the general budget for 2015, but the Iraqi government is not committed to do so.
The statement said that the meeting also stressed that the regional government of Kurdistan always want to solve all problems with Baghdad through dialogue and negotiation in the light of the Federal Budget Law No. 2 of 2015, the dialogue because it is in the interest of the Kurdistan Region and Iraq.
The participants confirmed also that in the event of continued Iraqi government of failing to honor the budget law, the Kurdistan Regional Government will be forced to embark on other legal ways to resolve the economic and financial crisis and to provide citizens requirements in the region, in the framework of Law No. 5 of 2013 issued by the Kurdistan Parliament.
The statement noted that the political parties confirmed their support for the provincial government in any decision to resolve the financial and economic crisis and to secure the lives and livelihoods of citizens in the region, especially that the war against terrorism and harboring such a large number of displaced persons and refugees added a heavy burden on the region.
The statement added that the provincial government had no intention of cutting communications with Baghdad because Iraq poses for the region geographically remote and socially, economically and politically.
Under the budget that the Kurdistan export of 550 000 barrels per day of oil from the Kirkuk fields and fields through the pipeline owned by the province for the benefit of the federal government in exchange for a share of the provincial budget, amounting to 17 percent.
Kurdish officials say the Baghdad send monthly payments much lower than their share of the budget despite the fact that the region currently is pumped up to the agreed amount of oil.
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