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I went back and the oil ministry, said on Friday, the decision of the Kurdistan region to export oil to Turkey later this month "unacceptable violation" of the agreements, and threatened to prosecute the perpetrators prosecuted, the fact that shipments are considered "contraband", while expressed its strong protest to the Turkish government to use system pipes Iraqi line - Turkish,
The oil in a statement received (range Press), a copy of the "Declaration of the Ministry of Water Resources in the Kurdistan region, their willingness to sell a shipment of crude oil, the amount of two million barrels at the end of January 2014, to increase thereafter to reach up to 10 to 12 a barrel during the month December 2014, using the Iraqi-Turkish-line system without the approval of the federal government, is a clear violation and unacceptable. "
The statement added that "the agreement, which happened in 25 of January 2013, between the Federal Government of Iraq and the Kurdistan Regional Government, which was based on the meetings of the technical committee, which included specialists from the two sides and that it was hoped her to develop mechanisms export of amounts allocated from the oils produced in the region mixed with the oil of Kirkuk crude from the Turkish port of Ceyhan and through standard contracts for Oil Marketing Company (SOMO), exclusively, "and stressed that" the ministry rejects strongly the export declared and included the role of the Oil Marketing Company (SOMO), is an observation only. "
The statement, "the companies and entities and persons involved in participating conclusion of contracts or agreements for the sale and purchase of crude oil or gas produced from fields in the Kurdistan region or from oil and gas fields other in Iraq with views is Oil Marketing Company (SOMO) all legal consequences and criminal implications of this," and threatened b "prosecuted on the grounds that those shipments had been sold smuggled Unlike the laws in force."
The statement expressed "protest ministry intense about grace and the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources of the Turkish company Botas using the system pipe-line Iraqi - Turkish pumping and storage of large quantities of crude oil produced in the Kurdistan region without getting the approval of the Federal Government of Iraq in violation of the tripartite agreement reached between the Turkish side and the side Iraq and the Kurdistan Regional Government, which has pledged to which the Turkish government not to allow the export of crude oil produced in the Kurdistan region through the pipe system only after obtaining the approval of the federal government of Iraq. "
The statement stressed that "the violation of the Turkish side extends to overturn the terms of the Joint Declaration signed between the two governments in Baghdad on 19 September 2010, which stated that the sovereignty and authorization in the export of hydrocarbon resources of the Iraqi Ikunan exclusively to the Ministry of the Federal Oil and Iraqi Oil Marketing Company (SOMO), as well as aside from the text of the article (2.4) of the Amendment to the Convention crude oil pipeline agreement signed between the two governments on the same date above, which confirms the content of the joint declaration said. "
The federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government, confirmed in (25 December 2013), the need to strengthen security coordination between the two sides because of the nature of "terrorist threats" against both Baghdad and Erbil, while the parties announced an agreement that meets the technical committees and experts to look at ways to address the issues contentious before approving the state budget.
Declared the presidency of Kurdistan Regional Government, earlier in the day, with the direction of the Prime Minister Barzani to Baghdad at the head of a delegation from the region, to discuss the differences with the federal government on the file of oil and the budget, indicating that the delegation includes both the Vice President of the Kurdistan government, Imad Ahmad, and a number of ministers, advisers and specialists, and among other things discussed by the pipeline between the KRG and Turkey.
The file is one of the oil threads "sticking" in the relationship with Baghdad, Ankara, against the backdrop of the recent relationship Arbil and facilitate the export of the region's oil through its territory, which opposes Baghdad along the line.
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