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Washington intervention on the Turkish-Iraqi crisis line and Iraq's oil through Turkey instead of Hormuz
Date: Thursday, 07/02/2013 02:03 pm
Citizen - the follow-up called the United States on Wednesday, Turkey to settle its differences with the Iraqi government to ensure the continuation of direct exports of oil and gas in Iraq to the west through Turkish territory, and as warned failure to find a settlement will enhance opportunities division within Iraq, confirmed that it "very close "Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. He said the U.S. ambassador to Turkey Francis Ricardoe in a speech during a meeting with directors of the embassy offices in the Turkish capital Ankara, "Turkey and Iraq have no choice but to proceed with the strong relationships if they want to make optimum use of the resources of Iraq and exported via Turkey," calling the Turkish government to " dealing with Iraq as a whole and not only with the Kurdistan region of Iraq. " And witnessed Iraqi-Turkish relations deteriorated since last year after sharing the prime ministers of the two countries said "inflamed" fired the accusations sharp for each other, and Iraqi government took several steps "to reduce" trade cooperation with Turkey, which was estimated annually by more than ten billion dollars, to lead this large developments to sleep in Turkey's relations with the Kurdistan Region, who is running the other is a "clash" with the central government. And Ricardoe warned that "failure to invest economic relations between Baghdad and Ankara will lead to a more violent conflict in Iraq and enhance the opportunity of division in the country," he said, adding that "this will not be in the interest of the United States and Turkey and any other party in the region." He Ricardoe that "the United States is pleased to be Turkey major outlet for the export of oil and gas in Iraq through the pipe instead of the Strait of Hormuz," pointing out that "the settlement of disputes between Baghdad and Ankara is imperative to maintain the flow of oil and gas in Iraq to the west." He said the U.S. ambassador in Turkey, "We are very close to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, and we have very strong relations with the Kurdistan Regional Government, so the improvement of relations between Baghdad and Ankara will be beneficial to everyone." The statements of the U.S. ambassador in Turkey is the strongest of its kind issued by a U.S. official about the differences between Baghdad and Ankara, especially on the issue of recent deal with Iraq's Kurdistan region in cases of oil contracts. "
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