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A Kurdish parliamentarian reveals a problem hindering the agreement between Baghdad and Erbil

17:36 - 12/21/2020https://www.almaalomah.com/2020/12/21/511304/

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Osman Karim, a member of the Kurdistan Regional Parliament for the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, revealed that there is a problem impeding the agreement between Baghdad and Erbil.

"The federal government wants the Kurdistan region to deliver the oil completely to SOMO, while the regional government wants to hand over the financial value of the exported oil," Karim told Al-Maaloumah.

He added that "the region has contracted with specialized companies that extract and export oil and cannot cancel these agreements because it will have legal and financial problems."

He pointed out that "there are signs of reaching an agreement regarding the region in the 2021 budget, but the problem of oil delivery is the major obstacle."

The Minister of Finance, Ali Allawi, had confirmed that the federal government had reached an agreement with the Kurdistan Regional Government regarding the region's share of the 2021 budget.