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The Iraqi Government threatens to cut off part of the budget for the Kurdistan region
Oil Ministry official warned the Iraqi Government to sever part of Kurdistan share from the State budget of $ 17 per cent owing to the lack of local Government's commitment to its export of 175,000 barrels of oil a day through the tanker to Iraqi Airways, Turkish ports in the Kurdish source in Parliament opposed the measure saying «cut any part of the budget will lead to acute crises in the region» living.
Informational sources quoted the Iraqi oil Ministry official as saying «that the Iraqi Government charged the territorial Government with regard to its obligations to export 175,000 barrels of oil per day, and they would be calculated amounts resulting from day to day, as oil prices globally, and will go a whole of Kurdistan share from the State budget and Deputy», in the Iraqi Parliament, such action would be contrary to the Constitution and the law on budget. Najib said Risalat MP Iraqi Kurdish Alliance and a member of the Finance Committee of the House «that there is no a legal permit for the Iraqi Government to make part of the territory's budget, as there is no provision of law also authorizes the budget unless the Government of the territory returns to the Centre», saying the Iraqi Government actions in this regard are part of the problem and the political crisis affecting the relations of the Centre and the Government of the territory.
But another Member of the Iraqi Parliament Kurdish MP's opinion and contravenes said in an interview for «Middle East» anonymity «that during discussions on the current year's budget law was there a paragraph indicating that if the territorial Government has been unable to fulfill its obligations to export 175,000 barrels of Iraqi oil per day across the lines and returns to the State Treasury deposit, the Iraqi Government should cut the ratio of share of territory, but in Kurdish blocs and when budget law To vote and then authenticate objected, and it was agreed at that time to another formula, they authorize the Ministry of Finance of the Iraqi Government to make a settlement with the Government of the territory in the event of natural resources Ministry failed to bkordstan on the export of such quantity for technical reasons, since the Government of the territory currently exports stopped without any barriers or technical problems with the export, this paragraph allows to some extent for the Iraqi Government to submit to this procedure».
Media adviser said of the Kurdistan Parliament in a statement for the sarmmi Gibraltar «Middle East» to «stop exporting oil amounts pledged by the Government of the territory responsibility the Iraqi Government because they refrain from payment to companies operating in the oil sector in the region and continued «as» agreements signed with the Iraqi Government is obliged to pay companies operating oil fields and oil bkordstan from the region due mainly to the efforts of those global companies, without pay their dues, legal firms, of course, action will be taken Pressing, and the Government of the territory and under the pressure of demands that companies and legal demands to halt oil exports had, and therefore the Iraqi Government bore the responsibility for this aspect because it did not adhere to the agreements and commitments which launched more than once».
He sarmmi his statement by saying «that returns of each export operation in what quantity they will ultimately to Iraqi Treasury, we don't receive only constitutional and legal share of 17 per cent, and a large part of that share goes to salaries and operating projects, and any prejudice or cutoff part thereof directly affect the living conditions of citizens in the territory, and this arbitrary that happened, especially that the Iraqi Government is refusing to settle this problem outstanding oil between the territory and the Baghdad».
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