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Kirkuk, Kurdistan
(Iraq), May 11, -- Kirkuk Governor Abdul-Rahman
Mostafa has discussed building an oil refinery and
housing complexes in the northern Iraqi Kurdish city
of Kirkuk with a U.S. official, a provincial source
said on Thursday.
The Governor met Tim Picks, U.S. embassy coordinator
and the head of the American reconstruction team in
the city, on Wednesday “to discuss the problems
facing the city in the fields of services and
projects it needs,”
Mostafa said the top priorities of Kirkuk included a
sewage system and an oil refinery.
He also stressed that housing projects were much
needed as the original residents of the city were
deprived of the right to own properties over the
past decades.
Kirkuk is the center of Iraq’s oil industry in
Kurdistan (Northern Iraq). It has two small oil
refineries but their output does not meet the local
needs and it relies on supplies from Baiji oil
complex.
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