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Parliamentary committee: Foreign Ministry failed to resolve joint oil field issues
14/06/2011 14:38
Baghdad, June 14 (AKnews) – Iraq’s foreign ministry has failed in its negotiations with bordering states to demarcate borders on joint oil fields, says the parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs.
The committee’s Sami al-Askari told AKnews that the ministry’s failure on this point compromises Iraqi interests as oil continues to “leak” into other countries from these frontier oil fields.
Iraq has more than ten common oil fields with Syria, Iran and Kuwait.
Askari said that the committee will host Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari on Thursday and demand “a work plan to end this issue and end the interdependence between Iraq and other countries concerning the demarcation of administrative borders in general, and oil fields in particular.”
Disputes between Iraq and its neighboring states over the exploitation of the bordering oil fields occasionally flare up.
In the winter of 2009, Iran deployed a substantial military force at the disputed Fakkah oil field in Missan province, 320 km south of Baghdad. After two months the troops withdrew by their own volition having ignored Iraq’s repeated appeals to the UN Security Council to intervene.
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