7/11/15
BAGHDAD
Committee announced its oil and parliamentary power, on Friday, sending a request "urgent" to House Speaker to convene a meeting between officials from the Kurdistan Regional Government and the federal government in the presence of representatives of the Parliamentarians parties to activate the oil agreement between the two sides, indicating that the region did not deliver oil since early July of the current company Iraqi Marketing Organisation (SOMO), while the Kurdistan Alliance welcomed the proposal, stressing the need for dialogue to resolve the issue.
A member of the Committee, Ibrahim Bahr al-Ulum, said in an interview to the (long-Presse), said that "for the Oil and Energy Committee in the Parliament met three days ago to discuss the crisis between the federal government and the Kurdistan region," adding that "the region has stopped oil deliveries to SOMO since the first of July present, which means breach of the agreement with the federal government. "
He Bahr al-Ulum, that "the Commission sent an urgent request to the President of the House of Representatives, Saleem al-Jubouri, a meeting attended by all of the ministers of oil and finance federal, as well as their counterparts in the region, with the presence of a third party to monitor the agreement of the committees of the oil and energy in the federal and Kurdistan parliaments," expected "The meeting takes place ahead of the Eid al-Fitr, which solves the end of next week."
For his part, he praised the Kurdistan Alliance proposal to the Commission on oil and energy, stressing the need to solve the subject in the context of dialogue between the two sides.
The MP said the coalition, Muhsin al-Sadoun, said in an interview to the (long-Presse), "The oil dispute between Baghdad and Erbil should be resolved, particularly the head of the territorial Government, Nechirvan Barzani, stressed the need to find a new formula the oil agreement with Baghdad," he returned to " parties need for continued dialogue to resolve the dispute. "
And it saw Sadoun, that "the proposal to the Commission on oil and energy good," stressing that "the Constitution allowed for the provinces is associated with the province, the export of oil requirement of understandings".
He said the Kurdistan Alliance MP, that "the demands of a region that includes settling accounts with the federal government every four months because of technical issues, but the latter gives the region much as the oil money issued by and is willing to be settling accounts a month."
The government of the Kurdistan region, confirmed yesterday that the oil export to the world market directly would be "a priority" to counter the financial crisis, showed that international oil companies have shown a serious attitude to cooperate with them in this regard.
The head of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Nechirvan Barzani, yesterday warned of a major economic collapse may occur in the region because of the fighting against (Daash) and the presence of more than 1.0007 million thousand displaced people on its territory, while between that region submitted a proposal for a new agreement oil between the two parties, he stressed The current agreement between the parties "not suitable" for Kurdistan.
The National Alliance decided, in (the seventh of July of this), the formation of specialized committees with the government to follow the "setback" suffered by the oil agreement between Baghdad and Erbil scarcity of water releases in the country, as he emphasized the need to follow up these issues of importance and gravity, he noted the importance of accelerating the implementation of contracts signed with international bodies for the Liberation of the occupied organization "Daash" areas.
Baghdad accuses Arbil, not to apply the terms of the oil agreement between the two sides and the failure to provide the full budget of the province with the sale of oil directly without recourse to the Federal Government, with assurances from the center the need to apply the Convention between the capital region and threats.
The official spokesman for the Kurdistan Regional Government, Sven Mohsen Dzia, said Wednesday, (the eighth of July of this), that Baghdad sent a very small amount of the financial dues of the Kurdistan region, with 250 billion dinars began to reach 500 billion, while the region was carried out agreement oil completely, especially in April and May last two, but that Baghdad did not send more than 30 to 40 percent of the dues region.
He Dzia, that the region if it had been displayed the amount of oil delivered by the Iraqi government in the global markets, it would have revenues exceeded 800 million dollars, but Baghdad did not send him more than 350 to 400 million dollars a month, indicating that the rate of what his mission of Baghdad to the Government of the province of dues financial, since the beginning of 2015 until last May, nearly a billion and reached $ 800 million while the real benefits for the region, according to the Convention, amounting to more than five billion dollars, which led to a crisis in the financial situation in the region and delayed the distribution of the employees' salaries.
The federal and Kurdish governments have agreed in the (second from December 2014), 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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