Baghdad/Iraq News-Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki threatened to cut Central Government funding to the region of Kurdistan if the Kurds sought to export oil to Turkey without the consent of Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government announced Thursday that it would issue million barrels of crude oil to Turkey through a pipeline that extends between the end of the month, Al-Maliki said in a press statement today: "this is a constitutional violation would not export allowed never to Kurdistan and the Turkish Government," Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs Hussein Al-Shahristani was in his Office this afternoon, the Turkish charge d'affaires in Baghdad [scourge of Gilan] and told him the Iraqi Government objected to allowing the pumping of Iraqi oil from Kurdistan Iraq to the Turkish port of Ceyhan for export purposes without the consent of the Government of Iraq. "Al-Shahristani said in a statement during his meeting with Turkish official library," the Iraq Government noted that the Turkish side to prevent representatives of the Iraqi Ministry of oil on port aTo export Turkish do their duty as provided for in the Convention and is supervising the measurement of quantities of oil delivered and exported, "adding that" the Iraqi Government holds the legal responsibility for this action and reserves the right to claim any losses resulting therefrom. "the Ministry of oil had a KRG statement described the flow of crude oil to world markets via a new pipeline to the Turkish port of Ceyhan," p.Write the history of him to the Iraqi Constitution, "and threatened to prosecute those responsible for what it called" smuggling. "the Prime Minister of the regional government nechirvan Barzani visited Baghdad in 25 of the last month for talks with the Federal Government on outstanding issues between the two sides, including the budget and oil exports from the northern pipeline to Turkey, during which he announced the agreement to export oil territory by a company [Sumo] according to pricing mechanisms and the export of Iraqi oil, to deposit the income in Iraq Development Fund, distributed through the annual budget, a statement Government.
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