11.13.2011 | (Voice of Iraq) - Add comments - twilight News / Kurdistan Alliance bloc said on Sunday, that the continuation of the positions of Deputy Prime Minister for Energy, Hussain al-Shahristani against the Kurdistan Region reveal walking on "the pace of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship," stressing the legitimacy of the province's constitutional contracts to detect oil with international companies. A spokesman for a coalition of Kurdish blocs pro good for "Twilight News" that "Hussein al-Shahristani cause of provoking a crisis between the federal government and the Kurdistan Region in the previous parliamentary session on the back of the oil contracts concluded by the province with foreign companies, "adding that" today is due to return the ball to reveal walking in the footsteps of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship, the central targeting Kurds and Kurdistan. " said a source in the Iraqi Oil Ministry, the first Friday, officials in the Kurdistan Regional Government offered the Exxon Mobil work in the fields of the region and demanded that she take a decision within two days. He's nice to be "for the Kurdistan Region Law of the oil and gas started since 2007, according to this law enters into the region of its contracts and legal legitimacy with foreign companies." said Michael Howard, media adviser to the Minister of resources in the Kurdistan Region, yesterday Saturday, that the province was signed on 18 October Alaolalmadi, with Exxon Mobil Corp. a contract to work in the fields of the province. and the good "we are waiting for the ratification of the oil and gas federal which will give the right of the province of the conclusion of contracts." dismissed Deputy Prime Minister for Energy, Hussein al-Shahristani, to be had expressed approval of the Exxon Mobil currently operating in southern Iraq, drilling for oil in the Kurdistan Region. He said the Information Bureau of Shahristani in a statement Saturday, the Iraqi government will deal with any company violate the laws in this regard in the same way that dealt with other companies earlier. and stressed the good that "the Iraqi constitution gave the right of provinces to enter into contracts with oil foreign companies either may do so Shahristani is not pleased with, and the province Korstan the basis of return transportation never remarks and Cioasal conclude contracts with any global company." A source at the Ministry of Iraqi Oil said, earlier, said the company "Exxon Mobil" and the U.S. signed a contract for oil exploration with Kurdistan Region of Iraq as the Baghdad government does not allow any oil company Ptnfz work contracts in the Kurdistan Region without their consent.
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