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Kurdistan PM Nechirvan Barzani to visit
Iraqi Baghdad
6.2.2008
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February 6, 2008
Erbil-Hewler, Kurdistan Region 'Iraq',-- A
prominent member in the Kurdistan Coalition (KC)
said on Wednesday that a high-level Kurdish
delegation under Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani
will arrive in Baghdad in the coming two days.
"The delegation will include a number of Kurdish
ministers and members of the political bureau of the
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and the Kurdistan
Democratic Party (KDP) to discuss some technical
issues with the central government," Mahmoud Othman
said.
He ruled out discussing Kurdistan's share in the
2008 budget, asserting that "this issue will be
discussed in the parliament." |
Nechirvan Barzani, Prime
Minister of
Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) |
"The visit aims to solve
some pending issues and to continue talks Barzani
held with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki a month
ago," the MP noted Nechirvan Barzani had talks with
the central government in Baghdad in mid-December
2007 to discuss outstanding issues, including oil
contracts, but reached no concrete results.
"The delegation will discuss also Article 140 of the
Iraqi constitution and oil contracts signed with
some foreign companies as well as oil and gas draft
law," Othman explained.
The government of autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan signed
a contract with a global oil consortium led by South
Korea's national oil corporation KNOC,www.ekurd.net
by virtue of which the
latter received a concession to prospect for oil in
northern Iraq.
According to KNOC sources, South Korea imported 42
million barrels of oil from Iraq in November 2007,
three times the amount it imported from Iraq in a
whole year in 2006.Iraq is South Korea's largest oil
supplier.
The government of Iraqi Kurdistan had signed 15
contracts to take part in oil production with 20
foreign companies despite the central government's
objection and ahead of the Iraqi parliament's final
endorsement on the new oil draft law.
VOI
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