BAGHDAD / Mohammad Sabah
Revealed the Kurdistan Alliance bloc that the Kurdistan region suggested the federal government to form a joint committee to oversee the national oil company "Sumo" or agreement in accordance with the constitutional framework for the management of oil wealth in the region, denying the charges against the province exported oil during the last year, as requested by the Kurdistan Regional Discounts the issue of the salaries of the Peshmerga, while the parliamentary Finance Committee said that the parliament sessions would be deferred pending the outcome of the visit of Prime Kurdistan Regional Government Nechirvan Barzani to Baghdad today.
The vice president of the Kurdistan Alliance bloc Mohsen al-Sadoun said in an interview with the "long" that "the Constitution grants the right to the region with the participation of the provinces and the federal government in setting oil policy, export and production of oil and deposit their imports of Finance in a safe state and federal."
He added that "the President of the Kurdistan Regional Government Nechirvan Barzani will meet on Sunday with officials of the federal government to discuss all the problems facing the adoption of the federal budget for the year 2014", pointing out that the Kurdistan with a specific mechanism to resolve the problems of the budget. "
And on the answers sent by the Kurdistan Regional Government to the Federal Government about the problems of oil, explained Sadoun that "answers the Kurdistan Regional Government is the need to establish a joint committee of Arbil and Baghdad to oversee the work and performance of the company" Sumo "for the export of oil and production of the region."
He continued that "in the event of refusal of the central government setting up a joint committee on the SOMO to oversee the work we will resort to put the agreement in accordance with the constitutional mechanism between the federal government and the Kurdistan region to export and production of oil in order to ensure an equitable distribution of imports of oil and natural resources, noting that the file of oil reached its final stages and will be decided in meeting on Sunday between Erbil and Baghdad which will accelerate the adoption of the budget in general. "
And demand that the government of the province of an inventory of oil exported in the last year, said al-Sadoun said the Kurdistan region did not issue any barrels of oil to date and say the opposite is true, and who claims to be true by providing evidence, "pointing out that the issue of the export of oil and quantities will be agreed upon ".
He pointed out that among the responses sent to the government the issue of the salaries of the Peshmerga and the need to exchange their dues and equipping appliances because they are affiliated to the Ministry of Defense, Federal.
He said Sadoun Nnigervan Barzani's visit to Turkey unrelated to his visit to Baghdad, which is concentrated in the research budget problem.
So said a member of the parliamentary Finance Committee Abdul-Hussein al-Yasiri in a statement to the "long" yesterday to delay adoption of the budget will hurt the Iraqi economy largely by delaying projects. "
He explained that the Kurdish demands with the participation of the government in Baghdad to export oil, as well as payments to the oil companies operating in the region and the salaries of the Peshmerga, noting that the federal government does not stand in these demands, but custody of the way that must be carried out through them, such as providing federal government Bossullac legal illustrate dues oil companies and other outstanding issues of oil.
He said the government demanded the Kurdistan to export 400 000 barrels per day and inventory quantities of oil exported last year to see the production of the Kurdistan region.
For his part, another member of the parliamentary Finance Committee to hold a hearing if the House of Representatives and the inclusion of the budget law depends on the success of the meeting on Sunday between the Governments of the federal and Kurdistan.
The MP said Hassan al-Bayati, "long" if the political blocs is not serious in passing the federal budget for 2014, pointing out that the National Alliance is currently busy in the preparations for the elections and mass united still the intersection of sessions, and Iraq is losing a day because of delays in legislation the budget. "
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