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Despite of his involvement in the illegal
deal, Iraqi Kurdistan to reappoint energy minister
Ashti Hawrami
28.10.2009
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Despite of his involvement in the illegal deal of
selling some of the shares of the Norway’s DNO oil
firm, Iraqi Kurdistan to reappoint energy
minister Ashti Hawrami. Hawrami is accused of buying
stocks worth $35 million in DNO International ASA.
October
28, 2009
ERBIL-Hewlêr,
Kurdistan region 'Iraq', — Iraqi Kurdistan's natural
resources minister Ashti Hawrami will be reappointed
the official responsible for energy when the
semi-autonomous enclave announces a new government
on Wednesday, officials said. |
Dr Ashti Hawrami, Kurdistan Regional Government
minister of natural resources, is accused of buying
stocks worth $35 million in DNO International ASA. |
Hawrami has been embroiled in a controversy over a
stock deal that has left some outsiders raising
questions about doing business in a relatively
stable corner of Iraq.
He has denied any
wrongdoing in deals that gave financial assistance
to two foreign companies, including Norway's DNO
International, working in the region's Tawke
oilfield.
"Ashti Hawrami will keep his position as minister
for natural resources in the new government in
Kurdistan that will be announced ," said Mohammed
Qaradaghi,www.ekurd.netcabinet
secretary of the Kurdistan Regional Government .
A top official in Kurdish regional president Massoud
Barzani's office, Fouad Hussein, confirmed the
information.
After Kurdish parliamentary elections in July that
kept the region's two major parties in power,
Kurdish lawmakers picked Iraq's former deputy prime
minister, Barham Salih, to head the new government.
Analysts say the move may bring a more cordial tone
to tense ties between Kurds and majority Arabs in
Baghdad.
At the heart of that dispute is the oil-producing
region of Kirkuk, which Kurds see as their ancestral
homeland. Baghdad and the KRG also disagree over the
legality of deals between Kurdish authorities and
foreign oil firms to develop crude fields.
Hawrami has been in the job since 2006 and has
presided over Kurdistan's emergence onto the world
stage as a potentially significant oil and gas
producer.
Some critics argue his strident critiques of Iraqi
Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani's management of
the country's vast oil resources have inflamed
Kurd-Arab tensions and helped to hold up passage of
long-delayed energy legislation.
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Reuters
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