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Monday, February 13, 2012 12:41
Kurdistan: the region over decades of legal status of oil contracts
BAGHDAD / Baghdadiya News / .. A member of the Kurdistan Alliance MP Qassem Mohammed, said the oil contracts concluded by the Kurdistan Regional Government is the most legal contracts entered into by the central government
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Said Mohammed / the Baghdadi News / "The Deputy Prime Minister for Energy has a position of decades, the province is not a new position, but we call him to stay away from statements convulsive that may damage the public interest, especially we are on the threshold of the National Congress to resolve the political crisis taking place currently in the country."
He noted that "the oil contracts Mu France's Total are legal contracts that the parliament would reduce the moment did not pass the law, oil and gas, which would regulate the oil contracts in Iraq, so Decades of Kurdistan and the absence of that law is a very legal"
The deputy prime minister for energy Hussain al-Shahristani has said he is not entitled to France's Total signed oil deals with Kurdistan region without the approval of the central government and the company will bear the French giant would other companies "full consequences" if it did so.
Total was said on Friday it is studying possible investments in the semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan after a similar move by Exxon Mobil. The central government has already rejected Exxon's agreement with the Kurds.
Shahristani said, speaking in the oil hub of Basra in Iraq for Reuters when asked about a possible deal between Total and Kurdistan, the Iraqi government's position will not change is that it is not entitled to any company sign a contract without the consent of the central government.
He added that any such agreement will not be recognized by the Iraqi government will not be entitled to these companies to work on Iraqi territory and that it would bear the full consequences of that. / Finished
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Kurdistan: the region over decades of legal status of oil contracts
BAGHDAD / Baghdadiya News / .. A member of the Kurdistan Alliance MP Qassem Mohammed, said the oil contracts concluded by the Kurdistan Regional Government is the most legal contracts entered into by the central government
.
Said Mohammed / the Baghdadi News / "The Deputy Prime Minister for Energy has a position of decades, the province is not a new position, but we call him to stay away from statements convulsive that may damage the public interest, especially we are on the threshold of the National Congress to resolve the political crisis taking place currently in the country."
He noted that "the oil contracts Mu France's Total are legal contracts that the parliament would reduce the moment did not pass the law, oil and gas, which would regulate the oil contracts in Iraq, so Decades of Kurdistan and the absence of that law is a very legal"
The deputy prime minister for energy Hussain al-Shahristani has said he is not entitled to France's Total signed oil deals with Kurdistan region without the approval of the central government and the company will bear the French giant would other companies "full consequences" if it did so.
Total was said on Friday it is studying possible investments in the semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan after a similar move by Exxon Mobil. The central government has already rejected Exxon's agreement with the Kurds.
Shahristani said, speaking in the oil hub of Basra in Iraq for Reuters when asked about a possible deal between Total and Kurdistan, the Iraqi government's position will not change is that it is not entitled to any company sign a contract without the consent of the central government.
He added that any such agreement will not be recognized by the Iraqi government will not be entitled to these companies to work on Iraqi territory and that it would bear the full consequences of that. / Finished
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