Signs of disagreements about the nature of the Iraqi Council of prospective oil and gas
Ghassan Ali
03.03.2012
Differences in the visions began to loom on the structure of the Federal Council of the oil and gas to be formed in Iraq, and the mechanism of which will determine who is responsible for appointing its members and supervising the work.
According to the Iraqi constitution, the Federal Council for Oil and Gas shall supervise the management of oil wealth in the country, and field development and supervision of the oil agreements, and preparation of draft laws, which will be concluded with foreign companies and then approval.
Spokesman for the mass of a coalition of state law in parliament on Alfalh stressed that the Federal Council for Oil and Gas is an executive, so the president and its members must be from the executive, stressing the need to be President of the Council is the same as Prime Minister in order to avoid any conflict.
However, the leader of the Kurdistan Alliance Mohsen Saadoun Alfalh disagrees with the view that the formation of the Federal Council of the oil and gas from the powers of the House of Representatives, adding that the Iraqi constitution, the text of the need to be running the oil sector in the country shared between the federal government, regions and provinces.
He said Sadoun in his interview with Radio Free Iraq that the resolution of the problems on the Federal Council for Oil and gas will be within a single package with the law of oil and gas because it is part of this law, noting that the trend now is that the composition of this Council through the House and not the Council of Ministers.
However, MP Ali Alfalh see that the formation of the Federal Council of the oil and gas away from the federal government of the Iraqi state would hurt more than benefit her, as it will lead to difficulty in resolving differences between the regions and oil-producing provinces if received in the future.
Refer to the file management of the oil sector in Iraq, in addition to the issue of the disputed areas of the main problems that have not found a solution so far between the federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government.
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Ghassan Ali
03.03.2012
Differences in the visions began to loom on the structure of the Federal Council of the oil and gas to be formed in Iraq, and the mechanism of which will determine who is responsible for appointing its members and supervising the work.
According to the Iraqi constitution, the Federal Council for Oil and Gas shall supervise the management of oil wealth in the country, and field development and supervision of the oil agreements, and preparation of draft laws, which will be concluded with foreign companies and then approval.
Spokesman for the mass of a coalition of state law in parliament on Alfalh stressed that the Federal Council for Oil and Gas is an executive, so the president and its members must be from the executive, stressing the need to be President of the Council is the same as Prime Minister in order to avoid any conflict.
However, the leader of the Kurdistan Alliance Mohsen Saadoun Alfalh disagrees with the view that the formation of the Federal Council of the oil and gas from the powers of the House of Representatives, adding that the Iraqi constitution, the text of the need to be running the oil sector in the country shared between the federal government, regions and provinces.
He said Sadoun in his interview with Radio Free Iraq that the resolution of the problems on the Federal Council for Oil and gas will be within a single package with the law of oil and gas because it is part of this law, noting that the trend now is that the composition of this Council through the House and not the Council of Ministers.
However, MP Ali Alfalh see that the formation of the Federal Council of the oil and gas away from the federal government of the Iraqi state would hurt more than benefit her, as it will lead to difficulty in resolving differences between the regions and oil-producing provinces if received in the future.
Refer to the file management of the oil sector in Iraq, in addition to the issue of the disputed areas of the main problems that have not found a solution so far between the federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government.
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