7/17/2015
Baghdad (where) - Vice counting for the coalition of Kurdish blocs oil dispute between the Governments of the file of the center and the Kurdistan region as a "legal and administrative" at the same time calling on Baghdad to lack of pressure on the region and cut the salaries of its employees.
The crisis cell headed by Haider al-Abadi had Prime Minister Reviewed in its meeting last Wednesday put the Kurdistan region oil delivery quantities of oil and dues agreement and stressed "the need to adhere to its terms, according to the contents of the federal budget for 2015 and will be the law of the oil minister follow up this file in the coming days."
The MP said Ares Abdullah told all of Iraq [where] that "Iraq is a democratic country in which freedom of expression and a day we hear different views in the oil agreement and these views naturally within this system, are certainly serious and chronic problem but on the parties to agree on how to deal with this issue either go out or even put Tadelhaao good agreement guaranteeing rights center and the region. "
He expressed the hope "of the federal government that does not deal with the province, the treatment of revenge and exert pressure, such as non-payment of staff salaries and lack of support for the Peshmerga forces in its war against Daash because it leads to get away and deepen the crisis between the two sides and even among the components of the people, so we hope to sit at the negotiating table and agree on What the benefit of the Iraqi people. "
The Chairperson of the Commission on oil and energy parliamentary out that "oil revenues are to the Iraqi people and the people of Kurdistan part of it and that the Basra oil and the region is the property of all Iraqis and their revenues should be distributed to all classes of people in a just and we are with this trend, but there is a legal problem and administrative" he said. "We agree on the ownership of the oil wealth of legal and administrative problems can be solved. "
Abdullah said "we do not have a law that regulates the oil wealth So Lilja parties to the Constitution, especially Article 112 of it, and there are two explanations various upon by them. When we ask the provincial government on oil and export file says it works according to this article the oil file, as well as with Baghdad so we reach a a common formula to read the Constitution and the enactment of the oil and gas law, the agreement regulates the oil wealth management and explains the rights and duties of the oil-producing provinces and without these steps, the problem will remain unresolved and that the solutions put forward here and there. "
He added that "Iraq is suffering from the financial and security crises in the war on Daash and the region is part of this state and there are differences between Baghdad and Erbil, but say that the reluctance of the federal government to apply Article 140 and not the founding of the Federal Council and the formation of other regions and the lack of management restructuring legislation All of this leads to a kind of failure confidence between the parties and generates a kind of suspicion and mistrust between the two so the parties must agree on the solution of problems. "
The Ministry of Finance adviser Fadel prophet has revealed last Tuesday for a new proposal to resolve the oil dispute between Baghdad and Erbil.
"There is a proposal to sell its oil province independently, and to participate in the budget of the sovereign Iraq," he said. "On the other hand calls for Baghdad, the Kurdistan Regional Government to pay part of the Kirkuk budget because the latter sells oil to maintain as well."
The federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government has concluded an in 17 of the December 2014 agreement to export oil region 250 000 barrels of production with 300 000 barrels of the province of Kirkuk fields to pay in exchange for Baghdad Kurdistan's share of the federal budget by 17%.
And it faced the agreement difficulties since then where accused Baghdad Erbil transfer quantities of oil were lower than those agreed upon, while Erbil said that Baghdad pay less than half of the amounts due, but did not announce any of the parties after the termination of the work agreement, and continued exchange of blame between them weeks ago .
The navigation data, she noted that "the region sold nine million barrels of oil in eleven tanker from Turkish port of Ceyhan since the beginning of last June, compared with five million barrels allocated for Sumo in early month, then most of the shipments stopped after that."
June is the first month witnessed large independent sales since the agreement in December 2014
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