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Baghdad, April 14 (Rn) – The number of experts in the field of oil and the economy on the need to develop a road map to get rid of the outstanding problems and the separation of the political differences for the economic differences between Baghdad and Erbil.
The former Minister of Planning Mahdi Al-Hafiz at a seminar hosted by the Economic Development Institute in Baghdad, on Saturday, said that “the solution to the problems between Baghdad and Erbil must be done through constructive dialogue,” noting “the need to separate the political differences and economic differences for oil.”
“The economic problems will remain unresolved, as if not separated from the political problems and that the best solution is to adopt the Constitution with respect to the distribution of powers in the management of file-oil.”
And returned the crisis between Baghdad and Erbil to the fore recently against the backdrop of recent decision to stop exporting oil through the Turkish port of Ceyhan due to non-payment of dues of the federal government to foreign companies operating in the region.
He pointed out that the keeper “convulsive attitudes do not work the economic situation in the country and cause major problems at the level of economic development activities and the reality of oil.”
He announced the Kurdistan region in earlier to stop all oil exports from the first beginning of this April to protest non-payment of dues Baghdad to foreign companies operating in the oil region.
For his part, said oil expert and teaching at the Institute for Development Economic entire Mahdi, “The Erbil 48 signed a contract post was most recently a contract with the stricken company Muebl, and this is not done by the Baghdad government entered into service contracts.”
He added that “a road map to resolve disputes away from the political problems and internal conflicts between the political forces is the best solution and to accelerate the passage of the law of oil and gas.”
In turn, the oil expert Mohammad Al Kaabi (Rn) that “the governments of Arbil and Baghdad do not have the serious negotiations to resolve differences oil between them, and that a large part of the differences, most notably the issue of payment of wages and benefits the oil companies can be resolved through genuine dialogue and serious away from political motives.”
He explained that “the best solution for the Kurdistan region to form a permanent committee discussions and continuous play as well as the Iraqi government and refrain from pushing the political conflicts by political differences between Baghdad and Erbil.”
The dispute is between Arbil and Baghdad on 41 oil contracts signed by the Government of the Territory since 2007 and now Baghdad says it has concluded in the absence of transparency and described as “false.”
And press the federal government to be the direction of all oil contracts signed by them by the Iraqi Oil Ministry, while demanding the region’s largest powers in this regard so that it is has the right to sign contracts without reference to Baghdad.
The Iraqi cabinet approved a draft law of oil and gas in 2007 but faced a Kurdish objection, observers see that he represents the differences between Arbil and Baghdad on oil revenue sharing and control of some fields in northern Iraq and the Kurdistan region.
The Kurdistan region has oil reserves of 45 billion barrels and the Government of the Territory began in 2003 after subtracting the oil fields to foreign investment.
Iraq is seeking to increase its oil production in the coming years to reach 12 million barrels a day.
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