Thamer Ghadban: lack of trust between the Regional Government and the Centre the reason for not applying the law of oil and gas.
Translated by Iraqdirectory.com - [12/20/2011]
The economies chief advisers of the Prime Minister Thamer Ghadban revealed the reasons not to apply the law of oil and gas due to the lack of trust between the federal government and the Kurdistan region.
The Anger in a seminar discussion organized by the Iraqi Institute for economic reform under the theme "Challenges of the development of oil industry, extractive" that the main reason for not applying the law of oil and gas due to the lack of trust between the KRG and the federal government as a result of injustice inherited from previous governments, which he called "the rejection of the past is the key to the future", calling for: the need to encourage the Kurdistan Regional Government this draft, they do not harm the region.
The Anger: to highlight the differences located between the Federal Government and the Government of the Territory is "different visions reflect the different interests," indicating: that the Kurdistan Regional Government wants to have all the powers and to give consent on the part of it, and delegated to the federal government, either the federal government believes that it deserves that be the owner and give consent for part of it, and delegated to the territorial government.
The Chairman of the advisory board economies of the Council of Ministers to referred to the current draft law of oil and gas was good, and they prepared specialized people in the economy, particularly oil, ensuring the law that all the policies, plans, petroleum and contract forms and instructions for the rehabilitation of companies, under the federal government, while management of all the oil fields under the national company, but he also said that the criticism dispatched by people who originally rejected the law and refusing the federal policy.
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