Sunday, February 12, 2012 20:01
{Baghdad, Euphrates News} warned a member of the Energy Commission, the parliamentary Bayazid Hassan, of the threat and the Ministry of Oil for Exxon Mobil does not serve the political process, warning that it will increase the differences between the center and the region and will have a negative impact on the political situation delicate through which the country.
Hassan said in a statement received by the agency {Euphrates News} a copy of "statement by the Iraqi Oil Ministry about the threat of Exxon Mobil oil to cancel their contracts of oil, which concluded with the Iraqi Oil Ministry in southern Iraq in the absence of cancellation of its contract with the Kurdistan region does not serve the political process in Iraq, especially at the moment through which the country. "
Hassan said that "Iraq is developing politically sensitive is not enviable," adding that "there are differences between the political blocs on how to manage the state and abide by the spirit of the philosophy of the Iraqi constitution, which emphasizes the distribution of powers in a federal Iraq, including the powers of oil between the center and the region and oil-producing provinces ".
And "I think the mentality of the central Ministry of Oil in the oil will increase the current situation and the complex will increase the differences between the center and the Kurdistan Regional Government, including a negative impact on the political situation in Iraq."
He said Hassan, "Ask the Iraqi Ministry of Oil Is that part of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, or a separate state?"
He said good-the illegality of the threat made by the Iraqi Ministry of Oil to Exxon Mobil, saying that "the threat of the Ministry of Oil for Exxon Mobil to cancel its contracts in southern Iraq in the event of continuing to contract with the region is illegal and contrary to Article 112 of the Iraqi Constitution, especially the first paragraph of which emphasizes the management of oil to be shared between the central government and the territorial Government and the oil-producing provinces. "
And the good "as it is known that the termination of the contract is either broken the contract by the company concerned or in the event of the company to commit violations of the contract."
Hassan stressed that "the repetition of these statements do not serve the political process, but must resort to the Constitution and the constitutional provisions on the management of oil and gas." Ended.
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