03/08/2012
Erbil, 3 August / August (Rn) - The Kurdistan Alliance in the Iraqi Council of Representatives on Friday, the Iraqi government to pay dues to companies producing oil in the Kurdistan region following the decision to resume exporting oil from fields in Kurdistan.
He described the coalition spokesman supporter good in a statement the
decision of the territorial Government to resume oil exports as a
"wise", calling on the federal government to pay the dues of the oil
companies operating in the region in order to increase export capacity
to 200 thousand barrels per day, although it was due to the region to
export 175 thousand barrels per day. He said that the decision of the region as a goodwill gesture, saying that "This move is evidence that it is not the intention of the Kurdistan Regional Government monopolization or manipulation of natural resources in Kurdistan."
He pointed out that "the Government of the Territory when they stopped the export of oil were not designed to capture wealth or non damage or prejudice to the general budget, and begin to export oil is a good initiative and the Iraqi government should take a similar step."
He stressed the need to "be the natural wealth and resources away from political differences, and not to be used as leverage by any party against another party."
A good "There was an agreement before the public adoption of the budget that the Iraqi government to pay the dues for these companies to issue the region 175 thousand barrels per day, while the province says it will be 200 thousand barrels a day."
"The lack of response to this initiative will hurt all parties, and only the injured and the largest is the Iraqi people."
He called on the federal government to "stop making threats to oil companies operating in the Kurdistan region," adding that "these threats useless, and that these companies have not and will not be subject to such threats."
And by the Kurdistan Alliance, the hope that "the Iraqi government to respond to this initiative," adding that the move could "pave the way to reach agreements and resolve the crisis at all in matters of oil and gas production and reach agreements on all the points of difference."
The government of the Region have decided to resume exporting oil from fields ranging from the first week of this month in order to "promote confidence between the KRG and the federal government in Baghdad and address all problems related to file-oil."
However, Minister of Natural Resources in the Kurdistan Regional Government stressed that the province intends to discontinue the export again at the end of the month if the federal government did not pay all payments due for companies operating in the region.
The Kurdistan Regional Government has decided to stop its oil exports by the federal government in early April last April.