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Hot debate in Iraqi parliament on banning
Kurdistan oil contracts
30.11.2007
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November 30, 2007
BAGHDAD,-- Iraqi parliament's session on
Thursday saw hot debates on oil minister's decision
to ban production sharing contracts concluded by
Iraq's Kurdistan government with some foreign
companies.
Iraqi Oil Minister Hussain Shahristani announced, on
Saturday in an interview with Radio Monte Carlo, the
cancellation of the oil contracts singed by Iraq's
Kurdistan government with foreign companies, blaming
it for "impeding reaching an agreeable draft on oil
and gas law."
Legislators from the Kurdistan alliance, second
largest parliamentary bloc, criticized in today's
session Shahristani's decision to ban these oil
contracts, noting that "the revenues of these
contracts will streamline in the Federal Treasury."
"The oil minister has made no progress for its
ministry and further sought strength from Iraq's
neighbor countries on the issue of Kurdistan's oil
contracts," lawmaker Saadi Barazanji from the
Kurdistan alliance told the session in reference to Shahristani's
statement that "Kurdistan region would not be able
to transport its oil exports via Iran, Turkey and
Syria."
Kurdistan region government signed 15 production
sharing contracts with 20 foreign companies despite
that Baghdad government opposed these contracts
before the parliament would have been passed the oil
draft into law.
The Shiite Unified Iraqi Coalition (UIC), the
largest parliamentary bloc, refused Barzanji's
accusations against Shahristani, a UIC member,
leading Hadi al-Aameri,www.ekurd.net
a UIC prominent member, to say "the delay in
adopting the oil draft law is not related to the oil
minister rather it is related to some points of
disagreement between the major parliamentary blocs."
The disagreements among the major blocs of the Iraqi
parliament have made it difficult to reach an
agreeable formula without each party makes a certain
concession.
VOI
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