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The judiciary in Erbil postpones the lawsuits of the Federal Ministry of Oil regarding companies
 

  

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A source in the Ministry of Natural Resources announced on Monday that the investigation court in Erbil decided to postpone a number of civil lawsuits brought by the Minister of Oil in the Federal Government against international companies (IOCs) working in the oil and gas fields in the Kurdistan region.  

  

 

  

  

The source added to the media affiliated with the Presidency of the Regional Government, (6 June 2022), that "on May 19, 2022, the Commercial Court (Al-Karkh) in Baghdad summoned international companies operating within the borders of the Kurdistan Region at the request of the Minister of Oil in the Federal Government, including companies: Addax, DNO, Genel, Gulf keystone, HKN, Shamaran, Westernzagros".  

  

"According to Iraqi law, a civil trial cannot take place while a relevant criminal investigation is being conducted," the source added.  

  

The head of the Kurdistan Regional Judicial Council issued a statement two days ago supporting the constitutionality of the draft oil and gas law for the Kurdistan region (No. 22 of 2007), which the Federal Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional in mid-February 2022.  

  

In his statement, the head of the Region's Judicial Council stressed that the Federal Court in Baghdad "does not have the constitutional authority to do so, because it was not established in accordance with Article 92, Paragraph (Second) of the Federal Constitution."  

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Pictures: A delegation from the regional government leaves Erbil to Baghdad to discuss the oil file
 

  

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On Monday, a delegation of the Kurdistan Regional Government headed to Baghdad to discuss with the federal government the oil file and some outstanding issues.  

 

  

A statement by the media department of the regional government, a copy of which was received by "Nass", stated (June 6, 2022), that "the visit aims to continue discussions between the Kurdistan Regional Government and the federal government in Baghdad."  

  

The delegation consists of Khaled Shwani, Minister of the Region for Negotiations with the Federal Government, Head of the Cabinet of the Region's Council of Ministers and Head of the Coordination and Follow-up Department in the Regional Government.  

  

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Parliamentary Energy threatens the region with a law to restore oil revenues and port imports
  
{Political: Al Furat News} The Parliamentary Energy Committee vowed today, Sunday, to legislate a law obligating the Kurdistan region to receive oil revenues and imports from border crossings.
 

Committee member Suhaila al-Sultani told Al Furat News that: "The regional government often deals recklessly with the decisions of the central government, and we expected this response from the region after the decision of the Federal Court."
"The regional government does not fulfill its obligations towards the central government, as is the case with other provinces," she added.
Al-Sultani confirmed, "The committee is seeking to legislate a law obligating the region to pay oil revenues and border crossings, or cancel their percentage in the federal budget, which amounts to 17%."
Last February, the Federal Supreme Court ruled that the Oil and Gas Law of the Kurdistan Regional Government, issued in 2007, was unconstitutional for violating the provisions of constitutional articles, as well as obligating the region to hand over oil production to the federal government.

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Shafaq News/ A source in the Ministry of Natural Resources stated that the Erbil Investigation Court decided, on June 5, 2022, to postpone a number of civil complaints filed by the Federal Minister of Oil against international oil and gas companies operating in the Kurdistan Region.

On May 19, 2022, the Commercial Court (Karkh) in Baghdad, at the request of the Minister of Oil in the Federal Government, summoned international companies operating in the Kurdistan Region, including Addax, DNO, Genel, Gulf Keystone, HKN, Shamran , Western Zagros.

The source in the ministry said in an interview with Shafaq News Agency, "According to Iraqi law, a civil trial cannot be held while a related criminal investigation is being conducted, and therefore the complaint should be postponed."

And the Federal Supreme Court announced on February 15 that the oil and gas law of the Kurdistan Regional Government was unconstitutional and abolished, and obligating the region’s government to hand over all oil production from oil fields in the region and other areas from which the Ministry of Natural Resources in the Kurdistan Government extracted oil and handed it over to the federal government represented by the Ministry of Oil Federal.

However, the head of the Kurdistan Region Judicial Council said that the Baghdad court had no constitutional authority to do so, because the Baghdad court was not established under Article 92, paragraph 2 of the federal constitution, and the basis for the decision is unconstitutional. These complaints have no constitutional or legal basis.

He also said that the 2007 Oil and Gas Law is in effect and the contracts entered into by the Kurdistan Regional Government under this law will remain in effect.

And the Kurdistan Region began to sell its oil in isolation from the federal government, after a stifling financial crisis as a result of the collapse of oil prices during the ISIS invasion of areas in Iraq, in addition to the disputes with Baghdad that prompted the latter to stop paying the salaries of the region’s employees.

Baghdad says its national oil company, SOMO, is the only one authorized to sell Iraqi crude oil, but each side claims the constitution is on its side. Since the Iraqi oil and gas law remained imprisoned in the drafting stage due to differences, there was room for maneuver.

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Baghdad is besieging Erbil, and the latter raises the banner of negotiation

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Today, the Kurdistan Regional Government announced that it has decided to send a negotiating delegation to Baghdad to maintain dialogues with the federal government in order to guarantee the constitutional rights of the region.

A statement by the Government Information and Information Department stated that with the aim of perpetuating the dialogues between the Kurdistan Regional Government and the federal government and in order to guarantee the constitutional rights of the people of the region, a delegation from the regional government will go to Baghdad, today, Monday, which includes both the Minister of the Region for Negotiations with the Federal Government, Khaled Shwani and the President of the Kurdistan Region. The Office of the Council of Ministers of the Region, Omid Sabah, the head of the Coordination and Follow-up Department, Abdul Hakim Khosrow, and the head of the Office of Financial Supervision in the region, Khal Hadi Jawishli.

This comes a short time after the regional government confirmed that the federal government had reduced its financial obligations to the region on a monthly basis.

Baghdad used to pay 453 billion Iraqi dinars per month (about $380 million) as salaries to the employees of the Kurdistan region, but it stopped them after the region conducted the independence referendum on its part, and because of what Baghdad said that the region was not committed to handing over its oil in accordance with the terms of the federal budget.

After several rounds of political negotiations, the region was obligated, according to an agreement with the government in Baghdad, to hand over 250 thousand crude barrels per day of crude oil produced from its fields to the state-owned SOMO Company, and hand over the revenues to the federal public treasury.

But the oil and financial dispute returned to the scene of the outstanding issues between Baghdad and Erbil, after the Federal Supreme Court declared on February 15 that the oil and gas law of the Kurdistan Regional Government was unconstitutional and abolished, and obligating the regional government to hand over all oil production from oil fields in the region and other regions that the Ministry of The natural resources in the Kurdistan government by extracting oil from them and handing them over to the federal government represented by the Federal Ministry of Oil.

The Kurdistan region described the decision as "unconstitutional" and was based on a law dating back to the time of the previous regime, and the regional government stressed that "such an unconstitutional decision cannot be accepted."

And the Kurdistan region began to sell its oil in isolation from the federal government, after a stifling financial crisis as a result of the collapse of oil prices during the ISIS invasion of areas in Iraq, in addition to the disputes with Baghdad that prompted the latter to stop paying the salaries of the region’s employees.

Baghdad says its national oil company, SOMO, is the only entity authorized to sell Iraqi crude oil

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The region defies the constitution and order

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Written by: Zaid Al-Mohammadawi

We know that everyone against whom an arrest warrant is issued turns to the region, and also that whoever is issued an arrest warrant while he is in the region, this means that he is safe from the hand of justice. These orders are implemented as if it were a neighboring country, not by virtue of its condition that it is a region affiliated with a central government and it is obligated to implement federal laws and regulations.

The strange thing is that the matter comes to attacking the pillar and basis of the political process in Iraq, which is the constitution. (94) stipulates that the decisions of the court are final, binding and not subject to appeal, and there is no room for them to be implemented or to separate from Iraq in order for them to be outside the powers of the Federal Court, as well as according to Resolution No. 30 of 2005 Article 5-Second and Article No. 17 of Resolution No. 25 of 2021.

The authority in the northern region is challenging the Iraqi constitution issued in 2005 and challenging Resolution No. 30 of 5005 and challenging Resolution No. 25 of 2021 in its rejection of the Federal Court's decision. This means that it is not convinced of the entire political process, although they voted for the constitution and those decisions, but what comes against their interests they do not accept. .

As we said above that the decision of the Federal Court is now binding and not subject to appeal, but we have assumed that we have accepted what the judiciary mechanism in the region referred to when he referred to it, which are the following points:

First - The Oil and Gas Law No. (22) of 2007 issued by the Parliament of Kurdistan does not violate the provisions of the Constitution. Although Article 93 of the Constitution stipulates in (1) that its jurisdiction is to monitor the constitutionality of laws and regulations in force.

Then also in point (5) of the above article on (the settlement of disputes that occur between the governments of regions or provinces) and the court decided in a case in which the center and one of its regions differed, and this is the natural and constitutional thing, and therefore Law No. 22 of the region is:

A - Unconstitutional for violating the constitution

B - According to Federal Court Decision No. 121 Federal 2022

C - in violation of Resolution No. 30 of 2005, Article 5 - which clarifies the jurisdiction of the Federal Supreme Court.

Second: The oil and gas file was not included in the exclusive powers of the federal authorities stipulated in Article (110).

This is one of the most important points on which the region focuses in violating the decision of the Federal Court, but it forgot or forgot to refer to the rest of the articles referred to in the constitution, which are:

A - Article 106 of the Constitution, which stipulates that a public authority shall be established by law to monitor the allocation of federal revenues.

2 - Verify the optimal use and sharing of federal financial resources. That is, the file of selling oil outside the SOMO company (ie the federal government) means an explicit violation of this article because the money-sharing will be outside the supervision and distribution of the federal government.

3 - Ensuring transparency and justice when allocating funds to the governments of regions or governorates that are not organized in a region in accordance with the established percentages. Therefore, the sale of oil by the regional authority means that there is no transparency because the parliament in the region does not know anything about the sale of oil, and that words issued by representatives in the Federal Parliament and the parliament of the region refer to the sale of oil to Israel, and this is contrary to the laws in force, including the penalties in Article No. 201 that specified The death penalty for such a case, as well as the distribution of funds will be contrary to the Constitution because it indicated that the funds should be distributed according to population ratios.

B - Article 110 of the Constitution also referred to:

1 - That it be (drawing fiscal and customs policy, issuing currency, organizing trade policy across the borders of regions and governorates in Iraq, setting the state’s general budget, drawing monetary policy, establishing and managing a central bank). Everyone knows that customs in the region are not subject to the central government, and the region has many unofficial outlets. .
- In point No. 7 of Article 110, she referred to an exclusive authority, which is that investment projects are from the authority of the central government, and that the most important investment projects in the region, including oil projects, were implemented by the region without the knowledge of the central government, and therefore it is also a constitutional violation.

3 - In the eighth point of Article 110, it indicated that planning policies related to water resources from outside Iraq and ensuring the levels of water flow and its equitable distribution within Iraq. In accordance with international laws and norms, the region continues to build dams without the knowledge of the federal government, and this is also a constitutional violation.

Therefore, after what was clarified from Article 110 of the Constitution, the region comes and invokes this article, which the region violates, but most of its articles and wants to stick to one of them, if it is necessary, all articles in the constitution must be adhered to and forcing the region to respect the constitution.

Third: The statement of the judiciary in the region referred to Article 112 of the constitution (the federal government manages the oil and gas extracted from the current fields with the governments of the producing regions and governorates, provided that their imports are distributed in an equitable manner commensurate with the population distribution throughout the country, with specifying a share for a specific period for the regions which were unjustly deprived of them by the previous regime, and which were subsequently damaged in a manner that ensures balanced development for the different regions of the country, and this is regulated by law)

When discussing the article, we note the following violations:

A - The article stipulates the following (the federal government manages the oil and gas extracted from the current fields with the governments of the producing regions and governorates), meaning that the administration is joint with the region and the region rejects that outright.

B - The article referred to the word current, meaning that the areas discovered before 2005 are jointly managed, and everyone knows that all or most of the fields located in the region were discovered before 2005, including Khormore and Khurmala, and therefore there is no excuse for the region to interpret this article differently from what the Federal Court has gone through.

C - The fields controlled by the authority of the region, including Khormore and Khurmala, are outside the administrative boundaries of the region and therefore there is no authority in any way for the authority of the region over them and they must be returned to the full management of the federal government without any discussion or controversy.

D - She also referred to the following (providing that its imports are distributed equitably in proportion to the population distribution throughout the country) where the oil imports are distributed in proportion to the population distribution and over all the country. Taking money from the federal general budget, which is the oil of the center and the south, is that the work to weaken the central government by the authority of the region has become clear injustice to the people of the center and the south.

E - She referred to “ensures balanced development for the different regions of the country.” We note that the region’s singling out the region’s authority with oil revenues from the region to three provinces is that the development has become dysfunctional, which is also in violation of the constitution.
Conclusion:

1 - Article 93 of the Constitution stipulates the powers that (to settle jurisdictional conflict between the federal judiciary and the judicial bodies of the regions and governorates that are not organized in a region), meaning that the jurisdiction of the Federal Court is a general jurisdiction over the judiciary in the region and governorates, and therefore there is no say in the judiciary of the region versus the Federal Supreme Court.

2 - Resolution No. 30 of 2005 amended, as well as Resolution No. 25 of 2021 enforceable in Article (4-eighth-a) stipulates the following (the settlement of jurisdictional conflict between the federal judiciary and the judicial bodies of regions and governorates not organized in a region) and therefore the last decision It is for the Federal Supreme Court, and there is no opinion of the judiciary in the region as opposed to the opinion of the Federal Supreme Court.

3 - The region's rejection of the constitution and the Federal Court means the destruction of the entire Iraqi state, because the constitution is the mainstay of the modern Iraqi state.

4 - The constitution should be amended by adding great powers to the constitution as well as the Federal Court to be able to issue penalties for those who violate the Iraqi constitution.

 

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Parliamentary: Federal Government Funds Go To Kurdish Leaders

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Mehdi Taqi al-Amrli, a member of the security and defense committee, said Monday that the abuse of Iraqi justice by the regional authorities is unacceptable and that everyone should respect its decisions, while he said that the funds given by the center's government to the region go to Kurdish leaders and not in projects that serve the Kurdish citizen.

"The failure of the Kurdistan judiciary to abide by the decisions of the Federal Court and the center's government gives a clear indication that the political decision in the region is exploited in the interests of the Kurdish leaders," al-Amrali told Al-Anf, adding that "everyone must respect the decisions of the Supreme Judicial Council because it represents the sovereignty of the country."

"The center's government gives a lot of money to the Kurdistan region and we have no problem in this regard, but unfortunately these huge amounts go to prominent Kurdish leaders in the Kurdish political scene and are not included or used in development projects that serve the Kurdish citizen," he said.

"The Kurdish people have run out of patience with the poor economic situation in the region," Kurdistan Regional Parliament member Diarri Anwar told Al-Malf, adding that "delaying the distribution of salaries, the presence of thousands of unemployed people and high poverty rates all portend major demonstrations against the poor conditions endured by the ruling power parties." Finished/ 25 and

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06/06/2022 09:52

After rejecting the federal decisions... the region's judiciary postpones the lawsuits of the Federal Ministry of Oil regarding companies

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After rejecting the federal decisions... the region's judiciary postpones the lawsuits of the Federal Ministry of Oil regarding companies (almasalah-com.translate.goog)

Baghdad / Obelisk: A source in the Ministry of Natural Resources announced on Monday that the Court of Investigation in Erbil decided to postpone a number of civil lawsuits brought by the Minister of Oil in the Federal Government against international companies (IOCs) working in the oil and gas fields in the Kurdistan Region.  

The source added to the media affiliated with the Presidency of the Regional Government, (6 June 2022), that "on May 19, 2022, the Commercial Court (Al-Karkh) in Baghdad summoned international companies operating within the borders of the Kurdistan Region at the request of the Minister of Oil in the Federal Government, including companies: Addax, DNO, Genel, Gulfkeystone, HKN, Shamaran, Westernzagros".  

"According to Iraqi law, a civil trial cannot take place while a relevant criminal investigation is being conducted," the source added.  

  The head of the Kurdistan Regional Judicial Council issued a statement two days ago supporting the constitutionality of the draft oil and gas law for the Kurdistan region (No. 22 of 2007), which the Federal Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional in mid-February 2022.  

  In his statement, the head of the Region's Judicial Council stressed that the Federal Court in Baghdad "does not have the constitutional authority to do so, because it was not established in accordance with Article 92, Paragraph (Second) of the Federal Constitution."  

 

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IRAQI FINANCE MINISTER THREATENS KRG SHARE OF BUDGET OVER ERBIL-BAGHDAD OIL DISPUTE

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SULAIMANI — The Iraqi Minister of Finance, Ali Allawi said on Monday (June 6) if the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) does not reach an agreement with the federal government the ministry will have to cut the KRG’s percent of the share of income.

Allawi told Iraqi News Agency (INA) the Federal Supreme Court’s decision against the KRG’s oil contracts makes the Kurdistan Region’s oil sales illegal.

The supreme court ruled in February the KRG’s oil and gas law was against the Iraqi constitution and has challenged the Region’s contracts with international oil companies. 

He said if an agreement is not reached between Baghdad and Erbil then the Ministry will have to cut all financial support to the KRG. 

Allawi also stated all oil sales have to be carried out by Iraq Iraq's State Organization for Marketing Oil (SOMO).

The KRG has repeatedly rejected the court’s verdict, calling the ruling a political decision, and has insisted its oil and gas law does not violate the 2005 constitution while stating the Iraqi Federal Supreme Court is itself unconstitutional. 

(NRT Digital Media)

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hairman of the Kurdistan Region Relations Committee Rebwar Babki: The visit of the Kurdish delegation to Baghdad represents a new starting point

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SULAIMANI — A delegation from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) visited Baghdad on Monday (June 6) for talks on the oil dispute between the federal government and the KRG.

According to information NRT has received, the KRG delegation has asked the federal government to stop bringing oil-producing firms in the Kurdistan Region to court.

The supreme court ruled in February the KRG’s oil and gas law was against the Iraqi constitution and has challenged the Region’s contracts with international oil companies.

The delegation has also asked for Iraq's State Organization for Marketing Oil (SOMO) to amend internal procedures and for the company’s vice president in the Kurdistan Region to be KRG’s representative.

In addition, the delegation is requesting two other KRG representatives to be part of the company’s administration.

Representatives from the federal government and the KRG have also held other meetings and Baghdad has asked for a company in the Kurdistan Region to be established to run oil sales.

(NRT Digital Media)

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https://rasediraqi.com/193222/الاتحاد-الوطني-على-حكومة-بارزاني-التعقل-وتسليم-النفط-لبغدادThe Patriotic Union: The Barzani government must be prudent and hand over oil to Baghdad
The Patriotic Union: The Barzani government must be prudent and hand over oil to Baghdad
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Today, Monday, a member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Faiq Yazidi, confirmed that it is not possible to challenge the decisions of the Iraqi judiciary and bypass the Federal Court.

In an interview with (Baghdad Today), Yazidi said, "The safest for Kurdistan is to hand over oil to the federal government and to deal directly with Baghdad economically."
He added that "due to the wrong policy of the Democratic Party in managing the oil file, the price of a liter of fuel has reached 1250 dinars, and this is a dangerous precedent."
He stressed that "challenging the decisions of the judiciary will lead us to indispensable problems, and the one who bears the tax is the Kurdish citizen."

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17 minutes ago, 6ly410 said:

https://rasediraqi.com/193222/الاتحاد-الوطني-على-حكومة-بارزاني-التعقل-وتسليم-النفط-لبغدادThe Patriotic Union: The Barzani government must be prudent and hand over oil to Baghdad
The Patriotic Union: The Barzani government must be prudent and hand over oil to Baghdad
Baghdad today
17 hours ago
  
Today, Monday, a member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Faiq Yazidi, confirmed that it is not possible to challenge the decisions of the Iraqi judiciary and bypass the Federal Court.

In an interview with (Baghdad Today), Yazidi said, "The safest for Kurdistan is to hand over oil to the federal government and to deal directly with Baghdad economically."
He added that "due to the wrong policy of the Democratic Party in managing the oil file, the price of a liter of fuel has reached 1250 dinars, and this is a dangerous precedent."
He stressed that "challenging the decisions of the judiciary will lead us to indispensable problems, and the one who bears the tax is the Kurdish citizen."

Thanks for the article 6ly410, finally found one sain person in the Kurdistan region….

that’s a start

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6 hours ago, 6ly410 said:

https://rasediraqi.com/193222/الاتحاد-الوطني-على-حكومة-بارزاني-التعقل-وتسليم-النفط-لبغدادThe Patriotic Union: The Barzani government must be prudent and hand over oil to Baghdad
The Patriotic Union: The Barzani government must be prudent and hand over oil to Baghdad
Baghdad today
17 hours ago
  
Today, Monday, a member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Faiq Yazidi, confirmed that it is not possible to challenge the decisions of the Iraqi judiciary and bypass the Federal Court.

In an interview with (Baghdad Today), Yazidi said, "The safest for Kurdistan is to hand over oil to the federal government and to deal directly with Baghdad economically."
He added that "due to the wrong policy of the Democratic Party in managing the oil file, the price of a liter of fuel has reached 1250 dinars, and this is a dangerous precedent."
He stressed that "challenging the decisions of the judiciary will lead us to indispensable problems, and the one who bears the tax is the Kurdish citizen."

The way out of this is obvious: both sides win more, with an oil law. Both sides have a vested interest, in trading their currencies. Both sides can win. Both sides get much much richer, with an oil law, trading their currency. The dumb way out of this is, one side loses, the other side wins. That's for fools. That doesn't help anyone. Having one "loser" in a deal and one "winner" destabilizes the deal. There is so much oil and money in Iraq, should be easy to make everyone a winner, if there is a will. Both sides must win, for a fair deal. 

 

Iraq does not lack the tools, to make the Kurds win in this deal, as well as the rest of the country.

 

Handing over the oil file for export is a concession, from the Kurds, if it goes through. Then it would be a time for the Iraqi Federal government to implement changes, where the Kurds win, as well as everyone in the deal wins. 

 

The alternative to win-lose is win win. If not? War, eventually. So it's far smarter to hope for peace and a deal. 

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Al-Fares: Parliamentary energy is proceeding with the legislation of the oil and gas law, and we have found more than one draft
  
{Politics: Al Furat News} A member of the Parliamentary Energy Committee, Ali Shaddad Al-Faris, announced today, Monday, that the committee has passed the legislation of the oil and gas law.



 Al-Fares said {to Al-Furat News} that: "After the statements of the Region's Judicial Council, the committee will shed light on the oil and gas project and seek to approve it."
He added, "The law is one of the solutions discussed by Parliament, specifically an oil committee, and we have asked the government to provide us with the last draft of the committee because it found more than one draft of the law."
Al-Fares promised, legislating the law "the only solution to regulate the relationship between the center and the region in this field."
Last February, the Federal Supreme Court ruled that the Oil and Gas Law of the Kurdistan Regional Government, issued in 2007, was unconstitutional for violating the provisions of constitutional articles, as well as obligating the region to hand over oil production to the federal government.
 And the Minister of Natural Resources {Kamal Atrushi} submitted his resignation from his position, which coincided with Baghdad’s pursuit of implementing the Federal Supreme Court’s decision issued last February that the region was unconstitutional for the region to sell oil extracted from the region’s lands outside the authority of the federal government.
On May 7, Oil Minister Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar said that "the ministry will start implementing the ruling of the Federal Court, which considered the legal foundations of the oil and gas sector in the Kurdistan region unconstitutional."
After that, Iraq asked the oil and gas companies operating in the Kurdistan region to sign new contracts with the state-owned marketing company {SOMO} instead of the regional government.
The Judicial Council in the Kurdistan Region responded to the Federal Supreme Court's decision to reject the decision, which sparked the condemnation of the political and social parties.
And he said in his statement, that the oil law in the region is still in force, rejecting the ruling of the Federal Supreme Court that the Kurdish authorities must hand over their supplies of crude to the central government.
The Regional Judicial Council considered that the actions of the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq regarding operations related to oil and gas are in accordance with the Iraqi constitution of 2005. The provisions of the Oil and Gas Law issued by the Parliament of the Kurdistan Region do not contradict the provisions of the Iraqi constitution.

From: Raghad Daham

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Parliamentary call for sanctions on Kurdistan

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Parliament member Madiha al-Musawi on Tuesday called on the federal government to impose sanctions on the Kurdistan region or a measure that would not extend to Iraq's highest judicial authority.

"The regional government and its judicial decisions underestimate the highest judicial authority in the country and this is a dangerous precedent and the government must stand directly to stop these provocations and not judicial implements," al-Musawi said, according to The Sumerian News.

“As representatives of the people, we will have a real position if the government continues to send money to the region without receiving oil exports through Somo,” she said.

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Parliamentary Energy: Resolving the crisis with the region by legislating the oil and gas law

Parliamentary Energy: Resolving the crisis with the region by legislating the oil and gas law - Iraq News Network (aliraqnews.com)

Parliamentary Energy: Resolving the crisis with the region by legislating the oil and gas law
Last Updated Jun 9, 2022 - 2:59 PM

Baghdad: The Parliamentary Oil and Energy Committee said Thursday that laws would be enacted requiring the region to pay oil revenues or be denied federal budget allocations. "If the oil and gas law is enacted, the crisis with the region will be resolved, but the recklessness of some and their failure to impose wills is very damaging to the interests of the state and the people," committee member Suhaila Al-Sultani told reporters.

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Parliamentary Energy: Resolving the crisis with the region by legislating the oil and gas law

Parliamentary Energy: Resolving the crisis with the region by legislating the oil and gas law - Iraq News Network (aliraqnews.com)

Parliamentary Energy: Resolving the crisis with the region by legislating the oil and gas law
Last Updated Jun 9, 2022 - 2:59 PM

Baghdad: The Parliamentary Oil and Energy Committee said Thursday that laws would be enacted requiring the region to pay oil revenues or be denied federal budget allocations. "If the oil and gas law is enacted, the crisis with the region will be resolved, but the recklessness of some and their failure to impose wills is very damaging to the interests of the state and the people," committee member Suhaila Al-Sultani told reporters.

 

:bravo:  I look forward to Sunday then! Barzani himself said that the issues with the region wouldn't exist if Bagdad had an HCL

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Details of the lawsuit filed by the Kurdistan government against the Federal Oil Minister
 

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The "Iraq Oil Report" website revealed the details of the lawsuit filed by the Kurdistan Regional Government against the Federal Oil Minister, Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar.  

  

  

And the website said in its report, which was reviewed by "Nass" (June 10, 2022), that "the legal battles over the oil sector in the Kurdistan region entered a new complex phase this week, as the regional government filed a lawsuit against the Minister of Oil in the federal government, while the court decided The commercial office in Baghdad postponed a hearing for foreign companies operating in Kurdistan after a lawsuit to appear before the judiciary based on a request submitted by the Iraqi Oil Minister.   

  

And the website quoted Judge Muhammad Ali Mahmoud, judge of the Karkh Commercial Court in Baghdad, as saying that “the lawsuit filed by the Federal Ministry of Oil against seven international oil companies operating in Kurdistan will be postponed until June 20, in order to submit similar summons to all companies and prepare the necessary documents for that.” and sending legal and authorized representatives of the companies.   

  

But in a separate case, the KRG filed a lawsuit against the Federal Government's Oil Minister, Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar Ismail, in the Criminal Investigation Court in Erbil, according to KRG officials and a lawyer familiar with the procedures, according to the site.   

  

And he continued, "While the officials refused to disclose the contents of the lawsuit filed against the Oil Minister, the well-informed lawyer speculated that the case was a criminal case, as the regional government alleges that the Iraqi Oil Minister had put pressure on foreign companies to get them to suspend their business in the region to avoid being blacklisted." The international oil companies or the Kurdistan Regional Government as a third party will ask the Commercial Court in Baghdad to suspend their case until the criminal investigation case is completed."   

  

He continued, "In addition to the lawsuit filed with the Commercial Court, the Federal Ministry of Oil, through the Director General of the Iraqi Oil Marketing Company (SOMO), Alaa Al-Yasiri, said before Parliament last week that the Ministry of Oil will not only proceed with international legal procedures against international oil companies, but even Against buyers of crude oil exported from Kurdistan, and banks affiliated with the Kurdistan Regional Government that conduct financial transactions related to the issue of oil.    

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