Barzani confirms the full commitment to work with Abdul Mahdi to resolve the outstanding issues

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Al-Nasr responds to Jabouri's remarks: You changed the budget of the Abbadi government and gave Kurdistan 100 billion

Political | 06:05 - 03/06/2019

 

 

 

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - 
The parliamentary coalition of the opposition, Monday, confirmed the statement of the head of the Finance Committee Haitham al-Jubouri on the payment of salaries in the Kurdistan region, noting that the current government has changed the share of the region by 50% from the version sent by the previous government headed by Haider al-Abadi.
The bloc said in a statement received by Mawazine News, that "in response to what was stated in the interview (MP Haitham Jubouri), the Chairman of the Finance Committee in the Iraqi parliament, in one of the television programs regarding the payment of salaries in the Kurdistan region and financial allocations, The truth is not accurate, it knows the magnitude of the disaster and waste caused by the budget of 2019, which was part of agreements relating to personal and partisan interests serve some parties not the public good, and here we express our condemnation of such statements would like to show the facts as we are and we will work (The mass of victory) to serve Iraq and did not and will not infringe the rights of our people To serve personal interests as some do, but we have maintained and will maintain the covenant with God and the sons of Iraq, and we will continue to work and spare no effort through our national project, which would promote the work of the state and its various institutions.
She added: "We would like to refer to the clarifications that came in the words of MP Haitham al-Jubouri, and the remarks about increasing the share of the region's salaries during the current government," The payment of salaries of the region in March of 2018 (and not the first month) by 282 billion dinars Monthly, which is a total of ten months is 3 trillion dinars, even if the value of oil issued by the province on the basis of calculating prices at that time with 3 trillion paid by the government salaries for the region, to approximate almost the share of the province in the federal budget, and any minor difference should have been modified, The last two months of the year were added 35 billion d R of the province's share of the Peshmerga according to the text of the budget law. "
She pointed out that "the government made by the end of 2018 pay salaries for two additional months to the region on the basis that it was for the first two months and not paid by the government of Abbadi, without recalculating the share of the region to keep the quantities of oil issued by the region and oil prices and without taking into account the general considerations, Increasing the salaries of the province in the budget of 2019 by (50%) from 282 billion dinars per month to 450 billion dinars per month, after they changed the budget version sent by the government of Abbadi to parliament and increased the share of the region knowingly and informed MP Haitham Jubouri in agreement with the Minister of Finance and passed it to parliament. Salaries yen, which was approved by the government of al-Abadi was the result of a government committee of specialists visited the region several times and checked the documents delivered by the province and raised its recommendations to Abadi, an accurate account of the salaries of the province, which was 282 billion dinars per month. "
The bloc said that "the claim that there is an agreement between the region and the government of Abadi to increase the share of the region hundred billion dinars per month, the facts and documents are lied to him because the version sent by the government of Abbadi to parliament in the tenth month of 2018 does not have the increase claimed by MP Haitham Jubouri, This is clear, because he is aware of the figures for his presence in the Finance Committee in the previous session, and the public criticism of Abadi increase is evidence of the lack of agreement.
She pointed out that "talk about an agreement in the last period of the previous government is not accurate absolute, but what is happened is the progress of the region by the proposal to increase the share of the federal government of oil exported from the region in exchange for an increase share of salaries of the region by 100 billion dinars, and said that this profit for the parties, Any decision is taken on the proposal by the government of Abbadi evidence that the share of the region was not amended in the budget law of the year 2019, sent by the government of Abbadi to Parliament in the last days of his mandate.
"All the Iraqi people know very well that relations have been tense recently, especially after the entry of security forces to impose security in Kirkuk," he said. And what happened in the crisis over the former governor of Kirkuk, how can there be an agreement with the government of Mr. Abbadi, and she was working firmly and seriously with and in any part of the land requires the extension of security and safety in it. "

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Iraq’s Ambitious Oil Plan Faces One Major Problem

By Simon Watkins - Jun 03, 2019, 5:00 PM CDT

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The Federal Government of Iraq (FGI) in Baghdad moved swiftly when the U.S. re-imposed sanctions against Iran, ordering its Oil Ministry to breach part of the supply gap by increasing its targets for crude oil production to 6.2 million barrels per day (bpd) by end-2020 and 9 million bpd by end-2023. These targets include oil output from the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan in the country’s north – an area under the leadership of the KRG. Crucially, the KRG also controls a key pipeline in Iraq’s northern export route to Europe via the Turkish port of Ceyhan. All of this is under threat over a row involving budget payments from the FGI to the KRG in exchange for Kurdistan’s co-operation on oil transfers and exports.

The dispute is not a transitory disagreement but dates back to the very formation of the new system of governance in Iraq in 2003, immediately after the fall of Saddam Hussein. At that time, it was broadly agreed that the KRG would export a certain volume of oil from its own fields and Kirkuk via Iraq’s State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) and would absolutely not independently sell oil from the fields on the international markets. In return, Baghdad would disburse a certain level of payments to the KRG from Iraq’s central budget. From 2003 to November 2014, there were constant accusations from both sides that the other had not met the terms of that understanding.

 

In November 2014, however, a deal was struck between the FGI and the KRG in which the KRG agreed to export up to 550,000 bpd of oil from its own fields and Kirkuk via SOMO and, in return, Baghdad would send 17% of the federal budget after sovereign expenses (around US$500 million at that time) per month in budget payments to the Kurds. This agreement – which again functioned properly only sporadically - was then superseded by an understanding reached between the KRG and the new Iraqi federal government formed in October 2018 centred on the 2019 national budget bill. This required the FGI to transfer sufficient funds from the budget to pay the salaries of KRG employees along with other financial compensation in exchange for the KRG handing over the export of at least 250,000 bpd of crude oil to SOMO. Since the beginning of this year, the FGI – nominally headed by Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi but controlled behind the scenes by radical cleric Moqtada a-Sadr - has delivered the funding for the salaries of the KRG employees on a monthly basis. The KRG, though, has not delivered the agreed upon volume of oil to SOMO

The key sticking point for the two sides is a fundamental disagreement over the amount of budget dispersals and oil transfers that should be involved in the deal on an ongoing basis – the same reason that the November 2014 deal did not survive intact for long. The situation was worsened by the ‘yes’ referendum vote for independence in Kurdistan in September 2017. Before this, Kurdistan had been hoping to raise oil exports above 1 million bpd, becoming one of the world’s fastest growing oil regions, and allowing for the full resumption of the November 2014 deal. After the ‘yes’ vote, the very basis of the deal became entirely null and void when FGI and Iranian forces took back control of the oilfields in Kurdistan, including the major sites around the oil city of Kirkuk.

The FGI argued that the Kirkuk fields had been occupied illegally in the first place, having been under Kurdish control only since 2014, when the Iraqi army collapsed in the face of Islamic State, and Kurdistan’s Peshmerga military force moved in to prevent the militants from seizing the region’s oilfields. From September onwards, the starting point of any negotiations for the FGI in Baghdad over budget disbursements to the KRG was that they should accord with the percentage share of the Kurdistan population in the overall population of Iraq. This, according to the FGI, is 12.67% - a long way from the 17% of the federal budget after sovereign expenses that had been the cornerstone assumption of the November 2014 deal.

The legal position relating to the Iraqi oil indus­try and the distribution of its revenue sharing between the KRG area and the rest of the coun­try has done little to clarify the ongoing impasse. Both sides have claimed - with some justifica­tion – a right to the revenues from the disputed oil flows. According to the KRG, it has authority under Articles 112 and 115 of the Iraq Constitution to man­age oil and gas in the Kurdistan Region extracted from fields that were not in production in 2005 - the year that the Constitution was adopted by referendum. SOMO, however, has argued that under Article 111 of the Constitution, oil and gas are under the ownership of all the people of Iraq in all the regions and governorates.

 

In addition, the KRG maintains that Article 115 states: “All powers not stipulated in the exclusive powers of the federal government belong to the authorities of the regions and governorates that are not organised in a region.” As such, the KRG maintains that, as relevant powers are not otherwise stipulated in the Constitution, it has the authority to sell and receive revenue from its oil and gas exports. Additionally, the Con­stitution provides that, should a dispute arise, priority shall be given to the law of the regions and governorates.

 

Since the ‘yes’ vote on independence, Russia has further complicated matters, regarding the growing schism between the FGI and the KRG as a significant opportunity to take control of the oil and gas assets of the Kurdistan region whilst also maintaining its foothold in the south. The Kremlin’s corporate oil proxy, Rosneft – which has now effectively taken over the ownership of Kurdistan’s export oil and gas pipelines, as part of an agreement to provide it with over US$2.1 billion in prepayment deals under the long-term supply contract, valid until 2020 – has made its own demands of the FGI through the KRG.  A senior oil and gas industry source who works closely with Iraq’s Oil Ministry told OilPrice.com that Moscow is insisting that Kurdistan oil flows would not restart until pipeline transit fees are paid to Rosneft, which now also has a 60% stake in the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline. Moscow also wants the FGI to look again at its decision to deem ‘invalid’ the assignment last October to Rosneft by the KRG of five exploration blocks in Kurdish territory.

Rosneft’s involvement not only threatens Iraq’s plans to meet its new in-house oil production targets but also its potential export routes for the new flows, given the Russian company’s involvement in the northern pipelines leading into Turkey’s Ceyhan port. The original Kirkuk to Ceyhan Pipeline - also called the Iraq-Turkey Pipeline (ITP) - consisted of two pipes, which had a nameplate capacity of 1.6 million bpd combined (1.1 million bpd for the 46 inch diameter pipe, and 0.5 million bpd for the 40 inch one).

Although subject to regular sabotage by militants of various descriptions, the FGI-controlled pipeline’s export capacity reached between 250,000 to 400,000 bpd when running normally, Richard Mallinson, senior oil and gas analyst for global energy consultancy, Energy Aspects, in London, told OilPrice.com. Meanwhile, the KRG, in response to the regular attacks on the FGI pipeline, completed its own single-side track Taq Taq field-Khurmala-Kirkuk/Ceyhan pipeline in the border town of Fishkhabur. This was part of its drive to raise oil exports above 1 million bpd.

Under the previous FGI administration of Haider al-Abadi, the signs were that some accommodation of the demands of Rosneft, and the KRG, might be in the offing, according to the Iraq source. “There had been some movement on the percentage basis for the budget compensation, up from just under 13%, in the early part of last year, and there had been a ratification of the idea that Baghdad would return to significant volumes of oil to Kurdistan for local refining and it had even been acknowledged that a pumping tariff might be paid to Rosneft,” he said.

“At that time, [Jabar] al-Luaibi [Iraq’s Oil Minister] even said that he was willing to accommodate Rosneft in the Kirkuk oil hub itself, highlighting that Baghdad did not want to close the doors in the face of anyone who wants to help,” he added. The only condition at that point was that Rosneft should work with BP (a company that owns a 19.75% stake in Rosneft), which does not appear to be an insurmountable requirement. “The view of the KRG is that al-Sadr will eventually go along with what had been agreed, as it [the KRG] thinks that he is more likely to do deals with Russia than with the US, which he hates with every fibre of his being,” he concluded.

By Simon Watkins for Oilprice.com

https://oilprice.com/Geopolitics/Middle-East/Iraqs-Ambitious-Oil-Plan-Faces-One-Major-Problem.html

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https://oilprice.com/Geopolitics/Middle-East/Iraqs-Ambitious-Oil-Plan-Faces-One-Major-Problem.html
 

Iraq’s Ambitious Oil Plan Faces One Major Problem

By Simon Watkins - Jun 03, 2019, 5:00 PM CDT

The Federal Government of Iraq (FGI) in Baghdad moved swiftly when the U.S. re-imposed sanctions against Iran, ordering its Oil Ministry to breach part of the supply gap by increasing its targets for crude oil production to 6.2 million barrels per day (bpd) by end-2020 and 9 million bpd by end-2023. These targets include oil output from the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan in the country’s north – an area under the leadership of the KRG. Crucially, the KRG also controls a key pipeline in Iraq’s northern export route to Europe via the Turkish port of Ceyhan. All of this is under threat over a row involving budget payments from the FGI to the KRG in exchange for Kurdistan’s co-operation on oil transfers and exports.

The dispute is not a transitory disagreement but dates back to the very formation of the new system of governance in Iraq in 2003, immediately after the fall of Saddam Hussein. At that time, it was broadly agreed that the KRG would export a certain volume of oil from its own fields and Kirkuk via Iraq’s State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) and would absolutely not independently sell oil from the fields on the international markets. In return, Baghdad would disburse a certain level of payments to the KRG from Iraq’s central budget. From 2003 to November 2014, there were constant accusations from both sides that the other had not met the terms of that understanding.

In November 2014, however, a deal was struck between the FGI and the KRG in which the KRG agreed to export up to 550,000 bpd of oil from its own fields and Kirkuk via SOMO and, in return, Baghdad would send 17% of the federal budget after sovereign expenses (around US$500 million at that time) per month in budget payments to the Kurds. This agreement – which again functioned properly only sporadically - was then superseded by an understanding reached between the KRG and the new Iraqi federal government formed in October 2018 centred on the 2019 national budget bill. This required the FGI to transfer sufficient funds from the budget to pay the salaries of KRG employees along with other financial compensation in exchange for the KRG handing over the export of at least 250,000 bpd of crude oil to SOMO. Since the beginning of this year, the FGI – nominally headed by Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi but controlled behind the scenes by radical cleric Moqtada a-Sadr - has delivered the funding for the salaries of the KRG employees on a monthly basis. The KRG, though, has not delivered the agreed upon volume of oil to SOMO. Related: Oil Set For Worst Monthly Drop Since November

The key sticking point for the two sides is a fundamental disagreement over the amount of budget dispersals and oil transfers that should be involved in the deal on an ongoing basis – the same reason that the November 2014 deal did not survive intact for long. The situation was worsened by the ‘yes’ referendum vote for independence in Kurdistan in September 2017. Before this, Kurdistan had been hoping to raise oil exports above 1 million bpd, becoming one of the world’s fastest growing oil regions, and allowing for the full resumption of the November 2014 deal. After the ‘yes’ vote, the very basis of the deal became entirely null and void when FGI and Iranian forces took back control of the oilfields in Kurdistan, including the major sites around the oil city of Kirkuk.

The FGI argued that the Kirkuk fields had been occupied illegally in the first place, having been under Kurdish control only since 2014, when the Iraqi army collapsed in the face of Islamic State, and Kurdistan’s Peshmerga military force moved in to prevent the militants from seizing the region’s oilfields. From September onwards, the starting point of any negotiations for the FGI in Baghdad over budget disbursements to the KRG was that they should accord with the percentage share of the Kurdistan population in the overall population of Iraq. This, according to the FGI, is 12.67% - a long way from the 17% of the federal budget after sovereign expenses that had been the cornerstone assumption of the November 2014 deal.

The legal position relating to the Iraqi oil indus try and the distribution of its revenue sharing between the KRG area and the rest of the coun try has done little to clarify the ongoing impasse. Both sides have claimed - with some justifica tion – a right to the revenues from the disputed oil flows. According to the KRG, it has authority under Articles 112 and 115 of the Iraq Constitution to man age oil and gas in the Kurdistan Region extracted from fields that were not in production in 2005 - the year that the Constitution was adopted by referendum. SOMO, however, has argued that under Article 111 of the Constitution, oil and gas are under the ownership of all the people of Iraq in all the regions and governorates.

In addition, the KRG maintains that Article 115 states: “All powers not stipulated in the exclusive powers of the federal government belong to the authorities of the regions and governorates that are not organised in a region.” As such, the KRG maintains that, as relevant powers are not otherwise stipulated in the Constitution, it has the authority to sell and receive revenue from its oil and gas exports. Additionally, the Con stitution provides that, should a dispute arise, priority shall be given to the law of the regions and governorates.

Since the ‘yes’ vote on independence, Russia has further complicated matters, regarding the growing schism between the FGI and the KRG as a significant opportunity to take control of the oil and gas assets of the Kurdistan region whilst also maintaining its foothold in the south. The Kremlin’s corporate oil proxy, Rosneft – which has now effectively taken over the ownership of Kurdistan’s export oil and gas pipelines, as part of an agreement to provide it with over US$2.1 billion in prepayment deals under the long-term supply contract, valid until 2020 – has made its own demands of the FGI through the KRG.  A senior oil and gas industry source who works closely with Iraq’s Oil Ministry told OilPrice.com that Moscow is insisting that Kurdistan oil flows would not restart until pipeline transit fees are paid to Rosneft, which now also has a 60% stake in the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline. Moscow also wants the FGI to look again at its decision to deem ‘invalid’ the assignment last October to Rosneft by the KRG of five exploration blocks in Kurdish territory.

Rosneft’s involvement not only threatens Iraq’s plans to meet its new in-house oil production targets but also its potential export routes for the new flows, given the Russian company’s involvement in the northern pipelines leading into Turkey’s Ceyhan port. The original Kirkuk to Ceyhan Pipeline - also called the Iraq-Turkey Pipeline (ITP) - consisted of two pipes, which had a nameplate capacity of 1.6 million bpd combined (1.1 million bpd for the 46 inch diameter pipe, and 0.5 million bpd for the 40 inch one). Related: OPEC Oil Output Set For Drop Despite Saudi Production Boost

Although subject to regular sabotage by militants of various descriptions, the FGI-controlled pipeline’s export capacity reached between 250,000 to 400,000 bpd when running normally, Richard Mallinson, senior oil and gas analyst for global energy consultancy, Energy Aspects, in London, told OilPrice.com. Meanwhile, the KRG, in response to the regular attacks on the FGI pipeline, completed its own single-side track Taq Taq field-Khurmala-Kirkuk/Ceyhan pipeline in the border town of Fishkhabur. This was part of its drive to raise oil exports above 1 million bpd.

Under the previous FGI administration of Haider al-Abadi, the signs were that some accommodation of the demands of Rosneft, and the KRG, might be in the offing, according to the Iraq source. “There had been some movement on the percentage basis for the budget compensation, up from just under 13%, in the early part of last year, and there had been a ratification of the idea that Baghdad would return to significant volumes of oil to Kurdistan for local refining and it had even been acknowledged that a pumping tariff might be paid to Rosneft,” he said.

“At that time, [Jabar] al-Luaibi [Iraq’s Oil Minister] even said that he was willing to accommodate Rosneft in the Kirkuk oil hub itself, highlighting that Baghdad did not want to close the doors in the face of anyone who wants to help,” he added. The only condition at that point was that Rosneft should work with BP (a company that owns a 19.75% stake in Rosneft), which does not appear to be an insurmountable requirement. “The view of the KRG is that al-Sadr will eventually go along with what had been agreed, as it [the KRG] thinks that he is more likely to do deals with Russia than with the US, which he hates with every fibre of his being,” he concluded.

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Deputy: the parties invested Kirkuk bombings politically and this is the best solution to the crises of the province

Political | 09:29 - 04/06/2019

 

 

 

BAGHDAD - Mawazine News 
MP Hassan Turan, on Tuesday, that some of the parties invested the Kirkuk bombings last politically, suggesting the optimal solution to the crises of the province. 
Turan said that "the bombings in Kirkuk is undoubtedly the manufacture of gangs and calling, which confirmed preliminary investigations, but the problem lies in the way of political investment by certain parties and parties in order to change the security equation in the province." 
He pointed out that "there is a weakness in the police forces up to the point of default." 
As for the optimal solution to Kirkuk's repeated security and political crises, Turan said, "Kirkuk's best solution is to form a 32 percent military contingent for each component. Kirkuk also needs to have a special management position through joint management rather than acquisition, "He said.
The province of Kirkuk a few days ago to a series of bombings with improvised explosive devices killed nearly 40 between a martyr and wounded.

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The Iraqi Turkmen Union comments on the abolition of the "employees" and demands the application of "justice" with Kurdistan

Economie

2019-06-04 05:09

 

 

 

Source:

Alsumaria News

 

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The Secretary-General of the Islamic Union of Iraqi Turkmen Jassim Mohammed Jaafar al-Bayati, on Tuesday, from the book issued by the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers on the direction of Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi to cancel the "allowances" granted by some ministries to its members, demanding Abdul Mahdi to apply "justice" with the Kurdistan region Also.

Al-Bayati said in a statement received by Alsumaria News, a copy of it, "We are surprised by a book issued by the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers, which requests the Prime Minister to restore the Eid, which was granted to employees in some ministries in the application of justice," noting "either for everyone or not for one, Public money and austerity project. "

 

Al-Bayati said, "We are with the Prime Minister in the application of justice and stand with him and support him, although the amount spent a little," stressing that "the government of the region prevented the payment of oil revenues of $ 2.625 billion dollars to the Iraqi government in the last five months according to the federal budget law, Oil, which may reach 600 thousand barrels per day and revenues that are twice that amount. " 

Al-Bayati called for "the implementation of justice with the region as well, which benefited the region's good relationship with the Prime Minister worse and exploited and did not take his state and the Ministry of Finance any position on it," adding that "justice and the application of the law spirit and the same modern government and we stand with him and support provided that be observed and apply equally to all Without overlooking the large amounts and asked for the return of small amounts of the number of employees. "
And published Alsumaria News, on Monday, a document issued by the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers , through which Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi, the abolition of the allowances granted by some ministries to its members.

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High delegation from the Kurdistan Region to visit Baghdad to develop "concrete"

 

 

 

 2019/06/04 04:18:42

 

The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives Bashir Haddad on Tuesday that a high delegation from the Kurdistan region will go to Baghdad to conduct negotiations, and the establishment of agreements ending the crises with Erbil.

Haddad said in a press statement after Eid prayers today in Arbil that "after the formation of the new government of Kurdistan will go a high delegation from the province to Baghdad to negotiate with the federal government."

"This time the negotiations and the resulting" concrete "agreements will be long-term and will not allow repeated crises between Erbil and Baghdad each year."

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Fatah: A large Kurdish delegation will arrive in Baghdad after the feast to discuss the Kurdistan oil exports

•  03 June 2019 - 12:26
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  Baghdad: Sumer News Alliance announced the opening, on Monday, the intention of the Territory to send a large delegation to Baghdad after Eid al-Fitr to meet with the government and the presidency of parliament and the Finance Committee to agree on oil exports in Kurdistan. The MP for the Fath Alliance Fadhil al-Fattalawi said in a press statement that "the Kurdistan region of the oil agreement in the budget despite the vote on it and repeat the scenario of previous budgets." He added that "the government and the parliament is a flaw and will be taking action after the Eid," adding that "Kurdistan will send a large delegation from the government and parliament of the province to Baghdad after the Eid." He explained that "the delegation will meet with the government and parliament and the Finance Committee in the presence of oil and finance ministers to put an end and agree on the points committed by Kurdistan on its oil exports." The Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi said, on Sunday, that the Kurdistan region government has not delivered the federal government one barrel of oil so far

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To form a regional government ... The Kurdistan Parliament Presidency calls for a meeting

 04/06/2019 02:01 PM | Number of readings:

http://alahadnews.net/index.php/permalink/159976.html

Al-Ahed News - Baghdad

The Presidency of the Parliament of the Kurdistan region, called the Kurdish political forces to a meeting to form a regional government.

The Presidency said in a congratulatory statement on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr, received by the Covenant, on Tuesday, that "all the forces and political parties that will participate in the government to hold a meeting as soon as possible."

The statement added that this meeting will be an understanding, and urged the steps to form the ninth cab of the province to serve the people of Kurdistan.

It is noteworthy that after the end of the Kurdistan regional elections in September last year, and the announcement of the final results seeking the first winner, the Kurdistan Democratic Party to form the new government of the province. End quote

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National Conference: Diyala and Kirkuk fertile environment for political and sectarian investment

Editorial date: 2019/6/4 15:35 • 104 times read

http://alforatnews.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=199922

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The governor of Diyala and Kirkuk are a fertile environment for political, sectarian and ethnic investment, the secretary-general of the Iraqi National Congress Party, MP Aras Habib Karim, said Tuesday.

"Diyala and Kirkuk are a fertile environment for political, sectarian and ethnic investment, which is contrary to the principles of coexistence and social peace," Karim said in a press statement. "What is happening in Diyala and Kirkuk is an expression of a crisis that disappears from time to time.
"The solution begins to diagnose the real causes behind what is going on and draw a road map for the solution, taking into account the principle of state sovereignty through the application of the law fairly and firmly."

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Well, of course AFTER the feast. Too busy rockin & rollin all night and partying all day.

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Haddad: Negotiations Kurdish delegation that will visit Baghdad will not allow repeated crises

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http://alahadnews.net/index.php/permalink/160013.html

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Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives Bashir Haddad that a high delegation from the Kurdistan region will visit Baghdad for negotiations and the establishment of agreements ending the crisis with Erbil.

Haddad said in a press statement that after the formation of the new government of Kurdistan will go a senior delegation from the region to Baghdad to negotiate with the federal government.

He added that this time will be the negotiations and the resulting agreements of concrete and long-term, and will not allow the recurrence of crises between Arbil and Baghdad each year.

Edited June 4, 2019 by 6ly410

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Tuesday، 04 June 2019 11:15 PM

Kurdish delegation to visit Baghdad to solve pending issues: MP

 

Cropped photo - Courtesy of the US Department of Defense - Petty Officer 2nd Class Dominique A. Pineiro

 

https://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/Story/41335/Kurdish-delegation-to-visit-Baghdad-to-solve-pending-issues-MP

 

A high-level delegation from Kurdistan is set to visit Baghdad to discuss agreements, in an effort to end the outstanding crises between the two sides, MP Bashir al-Haddad said.

This time the negotiations and the outcome of the talks will be "concrete" and will result in long-term agreements, Haddad said, adding that these agreements will not allow the recurrence of the crises between Erbil and Baghdad.

This comes only few days after Nechirvan Barzani, who served as Kurdistan's prime minister, assumed post as the president of the Kurdistan region. Barzani has always called for solving the outstanding problems with Baghdad.

 Iraq’s autonomous region of Kurdistan has endured a year of unrest with Baghdad since it backed independence in a referendum in 2017.

Edited June 4, 2019 by 6ly410

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On 6/2/2019 at 10:47 PM, pokerplayer said:

 

A rubber shoe ? Boy now those are fighting words !!

 

Wheres @Freedomwish ? I need a drink after this head banger !   

 

   pp

 

Sorry I've been away PP.....after still reading these articles and continue to hear some more wild rumors, I'll keep it peaceful and just pass a shoe:

 

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Haddad: Negotiations Kurdish delegation that will visit Baghdad will not allow repeated crises

By ahad5 View  Articles 04/06/2019 10:05 PM | Number of readings:

 

Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives Bashir Haddad that a high delegation from the Kurdistan region will visit Baghdad for negotiations and the establishment of agreements ending the crisis with Erbil. 

Haddad said in a press statement that after the formation of the new government of Kurdistan will go a senior delegation from the region to Baghdad to negotiate with the federal government.

He added that this time will be the negotiations and the resulting agreements of concrete and long-term, and will not allow the recurrence of crises between Arbil and Baghdad each year. 

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Hakim calls for the rights of the Kurdistan region and warns of the explosion of the situation between Arbil and Baghdad

 

PolicyAmmar al - HakimBaghdad ,ErbildifferencesConstitution

 2019/06/05 00:45:18

 

The leader of the National Wisdom Movement Ammar al-Hakim on Wednesday to the need to organize relations and resolve differences and outstanding issues between Arbil and Baghdad, warning at the same time of the explosion of those differences, which threatens the unity of Iraq.

In a speech at his office in Baghdad, al-Hakim called for "activating constitutional articles in the organization of the relationship between the Kurdistan region and the federal government and fair and constitutional dealings in the oil file and the disputed areas and other outstanding matters to ensure the rights of the center and the region."

Hakim stressed that "not neglecting this dangerous subject with its sensitivities may explode unreasonably and endanger the unity and stability of the country."

https://www.shafaaq.com/ar/سیاسة/الحكيم-يطالب-بحقوق-اقليم-كوردستان-ويحذر-من-انفجار-الاوضاع-بين-اربيل-وبغداد/

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Erbil-Baghdad Disputes Should be Resolved: Ammar al-Hakim

 

BasNews 05/06/2019 - 21:22 Published in Iraq

http://www.basnews.com/index.php/en/news/iraq/525248

ERBIL - Iraqi leader Ammar al-Hakim, head of Hikma Party, has called for the resolution of the remaining disputes between Erbil and Baghdad, warning that it may affect Iraq's unity if the issues are not addressed.

Hakim made the comments during a a speech on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr where he pointed out that the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and Iraqi government have to work on improving their relations.

He further warned of worse situation if the two sides don't jointly attempt to resolve the issues between Erbil and Baghdad.

Disagreements between the Kurdistan Region and Iraq began to arise in 2003, right after the former Iraqi Baath regime was toppled. The implementation of article 140 from the Iraqi Constitution has been a prolonged demand by Erbil.

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Hakim calls for activating the constitutional articles in the organization of the relationship between Baghdad and Kurdistan

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The President of the Coalition for Reform and Reconstruction, Mr. Ammar al-Hakim, called on Wednesday to activate the constitutional articles in the regulation of the relationship between the federal government and Kurdistan and the fair handling of the oil file and the disputed areas.

Al-Hakim stressed in the Eid prayer sermon in Baghdad that "the need to accelerate the passage of the provincial elections law after its amendment, which contributes to the cohesion of political forces and helps to form broad alliances and preserve the election of the candidate and achieve the principle of justice in distribution and selection." 

He stressed the importance of concluding a political and social contract signed by all political and tribal forces, according to which the state will be obliged to limit its arms to the state and not replace itself with authority and law. Freedom of expression should not be misused to harm the prestige of the state. Religious, cultural, media, academic and other. " 

"Combating corruption is a national priority that can not be tolerated," Hakim said. "We can not see a real development for the country's economy without accounting for the corrupt.

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Hakim calls for activating the constitutional articles in the organization of the relationship between Baghdad and Kurdistan

Wednesday, June 05

Baghdad - conscious

The head of the Coalition for Reform and Reconstruction, Mr. Ammar al-Hakim, on Wednesday, to activate the constitutional articles in the regulation of the relationship between the federal government and Kurdistan  and the fair handling of the oil file and disputed areas ..

Al-Hakim stressed in the Eid prayer sermon in Baghdad that "the need to accelerate the passage of the provincial elections law after its amendment, which contributes to the cohesion of political forces and helps to form broad alliances and preserve the election of the candidate and achieve the principle of justice in distribution and selection . "

He stressed the importance of concluding a political and social contract signed by all political and tribal forces, according to which the state will be obliged to limit its arms to the state and not replace itself with authority and law. Freedom of expression should not be misused to harm the prestige of the state. Religious, cultural, media, academic and other . "

"Combating corruption is a national priority that can not be tolerated," Hakim said. "We can not see a real development for the country's economy without accounting for the corrupt.

 

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Abdul Mahdi: I will continue to pay the salaries of employees of Kurdistan, despite the lack of commitment of their government to the oil agreement and the budget law !!

Last updated: 3 June 2019 - 11:02 p
 BAGHDAD / Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi, on Monday, that the Kurdistan region did not deliver Baghdad one barrel of oil. Abdul Mahdi said in his weekly conference, that "the Kurdistan region did not deliver the federal government one barrel of oil as stipulated in the budget items." He added that "the federal government will not cut the salaries of employees of the Kurdistan region." The member of the Committee on oil and energy parliamentary, Ali Aboudi, had vowed on Sunday (May 12, 2019), to open the file of the oil agreement with the Kurdistan region and find out the cause of the region's "non-compliance" with federal decisions, with regard to oil export or delivery of imports to the federal treasury."Paragraph (c) of Article 10 of the General Budget for 2019 states that when the Kurdistan Region does not pay the federal revenue obtained by exporting at least 250 thousand barrels per day of crude oil produced from its fields to be marketed through the company Sumo to the federal treasury, the Ministry of Finance to deduct the specified share and carry out the settlement of the calculation later, "noting that" the region has not complied with this agreement until the moment. " He pointed out that his committee "will work to host the oil minister within the Committee in the coming days, in order to raise questions about him regarding some violations in the ministry in addition to the oil agreement with Kurdistan." The Deputy Prime Minister for Energy and Minister of Oil Thamer Ghadhban, has said that the federal government may stop sending more money to the Kurdistan Regional Government, because of non-compliance with the terms of the budget."My expectations are that there will be no financial transfer to the province more than the benefits of the first four months of this year, because the provincial government did not deliver any barrels of oil to the federal government," Ghadhban said in a televised interview. "He added that" we are in front of the budget and is binding on the parties and voted by the Kurdish blocs, a federal law that binds everyone. "He explained that" the region and if not fulfill its commitments according to the operative provisions of the budget law will cut off money from the region. "

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BAGHDAD: Baghdad does not want to create a new crisis with

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Patriotic Union of Kurdistan holds an emergency meeting in the presence of Barham Saleh

Editorial date: 2019/6/6 11:14 • 339 times read

(Baghdad: Al Furat News) The Political Bureau of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan held an emergency meeting on Thursday to discuss several issues related to the Kurdistan region and Iraq.

The website of the Union said the source said that the meeting will be held under the supervision of Kosrat Rasul Ali Deputy Secretary-General of the National Union, to discuss the latest steps on the formation of the new cab of the provincial government and the situation of disputed areas and relations between the Kurdistan region and Iraq. 
Barham Saleh, second deputy secretary-general of the National Union, now in Sulaymaniyah, is expected to take part in the meeting of the Political Bureau today

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Kurdish deputy: Baghdad will receive a formative delegation from the region

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2019-06-07 04:53

 

 

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A member of the House of Representatives on the block of the new generation opposition Sarkot Shams al-Din, Friday, the delegation of the region, which intends to visit Baghdad, "Shakli."

"The delegation of the province, which intends to visit Baghdad after the formation of the government there is only configurable," said Shams al-Din in a statement received, Alsumaria News, noting that "the announcement of the visit of this delegation came after the pressure by the large Kurdish street on officials to solve the problem of salaries Staff of the region in a serious and radical. "

 

He added that "the most important thing to be discussed by the delegation in the event of his coming to postpone the hearing of the Federal Court for the consideration of the appeal against the unconstitutionality of extracting the Kurdistan region oil from the region and export directly." 

He expressed his pessimism about the results of this visit, pointing to "the intention of the regional officials to keep imposing their authority on the oil sector there, which makes them continue to impose their control and their tactics and their wrong policies on the people oppressed and defeated over the past years and the coming "He said.

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The new generation: the visit of the Kurdish delegation to Baghdad formality and these goals

Release date: 2019/6/7 12:36 • 108 times read

The deputy of the Kurdish New Generation bloc, Sarkot Shams al-Din, Friday, increase the delegation of the Kurdistan region, which intends to visit the capital Baghdad, "formal", while revealing the objective of the visit.

"The delegation of the province, which intends to visit Baghdad after the formation of the government there is only configurable," said Shamsuddin, in a statement received by the {Euphrates News} copy, "noting that" the announcement of the visit of this delegation came after heavy pressure by the Kurdish street on officials to resolve the problem The salaries of the staff of the region in a serious and radical. " 
He added that "the most important thing that will be discussed by the delegation in the event of his arrival to postpone the hearing of the Federal Court for the consideration of the appeal against the unconstitutionality of extracting the Kurdistan region oil from the region and export directly," expressing "pessimism of the results that will result from this visit." 
He pointed out "the intention of the regional officials to keep imposing their authority on the oil sector there, which makes them continue to impose their control and their anger and their policies wrong on the people oppressed and missed his order over the past years and the coming."

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The new generation: the visit of the Kurdish delegation to Baghdad formality and these goals

Political | 12:10 - 07/06/2019

 

 

 

 

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MP on the block of the new generation Kurdish Sarkot Shams al-Din, Friday, increase the delegation of the province, which intends to visit Baghdad under "formal", while revealing the objective of the visit. 
"The delegation of the province, which intends to visit Baghdad after the formation of the government there is only configurable," said Shamsuddin, in a statement received by "Mawazine News", stating that "the announcement of the visit of this delegation came after heavy pressure by the Kurdish street on officials to resolve the problem The salaries of the staff of the region in a serious and radical. " 
He added that "the most important thing to be discussed by the delegation in the event of his arrival to postpone the hearing of the Federal Court for the consideration of the appeal against the unconstitutionality of extracting the Kurdistan region oil from the region and export directly," expressing "pessimism of the results that will result from this visit."
He pointed out that "the intention of the officials of the region to keep in imposing their power over the oil sector there, which makes them continue to impose their control and their anger and their policies wrong on the people oppressed and missed his order over the past years and the coming."