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Oil sale to Israel a new problem between Erbil and Baghdad
August 31, 2015
Erbil
Added the sale of oil province of Kurdistan Iraq to Israel, among other problems existing between the central government in Baghdad and Erbil authorities after reports that talked about the Israeli market adoption of 75% of its oil needs on the oil exported from the region via Turkey.
It was two years ago, the region D pipeline through Turkey to link the oil wells in Iraq's Kurdistan Turkish port of Ceyhan, and oil export directly. And the Government of the Territory actually taken this step after that Baghdad declared the obligation to pay the financial dues of the territory within the general budget of the country.
It takes the Kurdistan region of 17% of the Iraqi general budget in accordance with the agreement signed between the Iraqi political parties since 2005, but the Baghdad began since the beginning of 2014 in non-compliance with this agreement and stopped paying dues region which insert it into the financial crisis, after Baghdad accused the region breach of agreements concluded between the two parties on the oil-exporting quantities of wells region.
Al Jazeera Net and tried to get a comment from the presidency of the regional government and the Ministry of Natural Resources, but they refused to comment on the subject.
Kurdistan Parliament
According to Chairman of the Committee on Natural Resources in the Kurdistan Parliament, Sherko Jawdat, the legislative institution conducted an investigation on this matter and has asked the Presidency of the Government of the Territory clarifications, Sherko said the government responded by saying, "We put forward this question to the Prime Minister and the Supreme Committee for Oil and Gas in the government of the region, and it was their response that they are selling to the oil companies, and these companies are selling to destinations nothing to do with it. "
Pipes for oil export port of Ceyhan, including the issue of Kurdistan crude to world markets (Reuters)
Observers believe that the differences between Baghdad and Erbil on the extraction of oil and sell it, and cut the region's budget by Baghdad, the Kurdistan government pay to search for buyers for the oil Irbil international markets.
The writer says Kurdish journalist Zarzis Cooley Zadeh "I do not think that there is economic cooperation between the Government of the Territory and the State of Israel, because such cooperation should be on the state level, but there must be diplomatic relations, and as the region is not a state, I think that Baghdad would not accept that the the region to sell oil directly to any country, not only to Israel. "
International relations
Zadeh believes that admonition directed to the Government of the Territory is misplaced, whether Iraqi or Arab, because these agreements, economic and runs through Turkey, which is a free government in the conclusion of the agreement with any country, adding that the Kurdistan oil passes through Turkish territory by companies recognized by Ankara.
She stressed the Iraqi Oil Ministry on Saturday that it had opened an investigation against the deployment of the region on the export of oil to Israel.
The issue of Iraqi Kurdistan is currently about 550 thousand barrels per day through the port of Ceyhan, and independently of Baghdad, to finance the region's budget
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August 31, 2015
Erbil
Added the sale of oil province of Kurdistan Iraq to Israel, among other problems existing between the central government in Baghdad and Erbil authorities after reports that talked about the Israeli market adoption of 75% of its oil needs on the oil exported from the region via Turkey.
It was two years ago, the region D pipeline through Turkey to link the oil wells in Iraq's Kurdistan Turkish port of Ceyhan, and oil export directly. And the Government of the Territory actually taken this step after that Baghdad declared the obligation to pay the financial dues of the territory within the general budget of the country.
It takes the Kurdistan region of 17% of the Iraqi general budget in accordance with the agreement signed between the Iraqi political parties since 2005, but the Baghdad began since the beginning of 2014 in non-compliance with this agreement and stopped paying dues region which insert it into the financial crisis, after Baghdad accused the region breach of agreements concluded between the two parties on the oil-exporting quantities of wells region.
Al Jazeera Net and tried to get a comment from the presidency of the regional government and the Ministry of Natural Resources, but they refused to comment on the subject.
Kurdistan Parliament
According to Chairman of the Committee on Natural Resources in the Kurdistan Parliament, Sherko Jawdat, the legislative institution conducted an investigation on this matter and has asked the Presidency of the Government of the Territory clarifications, Sherko said the government responded by saying, "We put forward this question to the Prime Minister and the Supreme Committee for Oil and Gas in the government of the region, and it was their response that they are selling to the oil companies, and these companies are selling to destinations nothing to do with it. "
Pipes for oil export port of Ceyhan, including the issue of Kurdistan crude to world markets (Reuters)
Observers believe that the differences between Baghdad and Erbil on the extraction of oil and sell it, and cut the region's budget by Baghdad, the Kurdistan government pay to search for buyers for the oil Irbil international markets.
The writer says Kurdish journalist Zarzis Cooley Zadeh "I do not think that there is economic cooperation between the Government of the Territory and the State of Israel, because such cooperation should be on the state level, but there must be diplomatic relations, and as the region is not a state, I think that Baghdad would not accept that the the region to sell oil directly to any country, not only to Israel. "
International relations
Zadeh believes that admonition directed to the Government of the Territory is misplaced, whether Iraqi or Arab, because these agreements, economic and runs through Turkey, which is a free government in the conclusion of the agreement with any country, adding that the Kurdistan oil passes through Turkish territory by companies recognized by Ankara.
She stressed the Iraqi Oil Ministry on Saturday that it had opened an investigation against the deployment of the region on the export of oil to Israel.
The issue of Iraqi Kurdistan is currently about 550 thousand barrels per day through the port of Ceyhan, and independently of Baghdad, to finance the region's budget
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