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Committee: No draft oil law agreed to be submitted to a vote in the next legislative term
BAGHDAD / Center Brief for the Iraqi Media Network – The Commission on oil and energy parliamentary drafts that oil and gas law in three different Council upon by all political parties, indicating that it is not possible to vote on any of them in the next legislative term.
He said the Commission’s decision Qasim Muhammad’s (Center Brief for the Iraqi Media Network) that “in his committee three drafts of projects, oil and gas law, but all of these drafts are not acceptable to the political parties in parliament, adding that the draft, which has the support of the Kurdistan Alliance, with notes by the National Alliance and vice is true. “
Mohamed said that “the latest draft for 2011 presented by the government of the objections by the Kurdistan Alliance and the most prominent of these objections centered on the Board of Oil and gas federal and adopt the principle of majority and minority in the distribution of quotas and the issue of contracts concluded before the legislation law, both in the region or center.”
Since approval of the Iraqi constitution, such as oil and gas law the most outstanding issues between Baghdad and Erbil, the House of Representatives did not succeed the former and current to find consensus on a common formula for the oil and gas law.
The dispute is between Arbil and Baghdad on 41 oil contracts signed by the provincial government since 2007 until now and Baghdad described the absence of transparency in the signature.
The Iraqi government says that the Constitution requires that the central management of oil wealth in coordination with local governments and the regions and the decades of the Kurdistan region is devoid of legal status to be considered concluded, without return to the federal government.
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