Al-Harki: One law can radically solve the Kurdistan oil problem
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Kurdish politician Ahmed Al-Herki confirmed on Sunday that the lack of legislation of the oil and gas law makes the oil differences between Baghdad and Erbil and opens the door to foreign interventions.
Al-Herki said in an interview with Al-Ma’ina agency, that “the sharp differences and mutual accusations about the Kurdistan Region oil file are caused by the basis of the lack of a constitutional framework regulating the relationship between the center and the region and the lack of legislation of the oil and gas law,” noting that “the contracts concluded by the regional government with oil companies included a large amount for the production of a barrel and a level of 26 barrels per dollar, and later it was reduced to 16 barrels as a compromise solution after Baghdad’s objection, and this can be addressed with new rounds of licenses.”
He added that “this problem greatly harms the Iraqi people and affects their living standards and salaries, and the absence of solutions makes international parties intervene and press for one party against another,” blading “the Kurdistan Regional Governments and the federal government responsible and they must find a radical solution and not promactive solutions.”
He pointed out that “the legislation of the oil and gas law, the termination of settlement, the establishment of a realistic mechanism for the issue of oil and non-oil imports of the Kurdistan Region, and the activation of control are the radical solutions to this problem, and whenever these solutions are absent, the crisis will continue and we will remain in the first box.”
It is noteworthy that political forces and deputies confirmed the existence of oil smuggling activities from the Kurdistan Region with the assistance and intervention of international and regional parties, while Baghdad confirms for years that the regional government has denied the delivery of oil and non-oil imports to the center in exchange for receiving its share of the public financial budget. Ended 25 with
