Prime Minister on the outstanding problems of Baghdad and Erbil: Need solutions according to the constitution

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Iraq to send $200 million to the Kurdistan Region within 10 days: KRG representative to Baghdad

“Erbil-Baghdad talks will resume next week,” Issa said. 

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Fars Issa, Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)’s representative to Baghdad speaking to Kurdistan 24 Jan. 6, 2023 (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Fars Issa, Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)’s representative to Baghdad, told Kurdistan 24 that more than $200 million (400 billion Iraqi dinars) is expected to be sent to the Kurdistan Region within the next 10 days.

“Erbil-Baghdad talks will resume next week,” Issa said.

He also noted that negotiations between Erbil and Baghdad to resolve outstanding issues are in the final stages. “Another KRG delegation will return to Baghdad this week,” he added.

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Laws passed and read during the first legislative term of Parliament

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 The laws passed and read during the first legislative term of Parliament (iraqakhbar-com.translate.goog)

 

 

News Source /Al-Sumaria Channel

Al-Battat said in an interview with Al-Sumaria News, "Many laws are being enacted in the current session, especially those that are mainly of interest to citizens."

 

He explained that "the number of laws that have read the first reading during this session so far amounted to 31 laws, while the number of laws that have read a second reading reached 10 laws and are ready to vote on them after finalization."

 

He added that "only two laws were voted on: the Emergency support Law for Food Security and Development and the Law on the Criminalization of Normalization."

With regard to the stalled laws, al-Battat pointed out that they "mainly need political understandings in order to approve them, especially the oil and gas law, which we hope will be approved as soon as possible, because it is capable of solving most of the outstanding problems between Baghdad and Erbil.”

On the slums law, he explained that "because it contains many observations that may cause harm to citizens by paying rent for the places they occupy, it was decided to withdraw it by the government, along with the laws of compulsory service and freedom of opinion." and demonstration, because they contain controversial paragraphs.

On Thursday, December 8, 2022, the House of Representatives began its legislative recess, and will res

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Parliamentary Oil: Oil and Gas Law Faces Political Difficulties

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• Parliamentary Oil: Oil and Gas Law Faces Political Difficulties - Al-Furat News (alforatnews.iq)

  

{Politics:Euphrates News} The oil and gas bill law is facing serious difficulties to legislate in the House of Representatives because it contains a political aspect. According to specialists

 

A member of the Parliamentary Oil and Gas Committee, Dergham al-Maliki told Al-Furat News that: "The oil and gas law is facing difficulties because it contains a political side," stressing "seeking to create the appropriate climate to solve some of the accumulated problems to proceed with the legislation of the law."
He added, "What hinders the legislation is not limited to the political side, but also to the financial side, and some of the accumulated amounts and the Sitsi side are deduced from this political side."
Al-Maliki stressed "the continuation of work to resolve these problems and put them on the table of parliament for the purpose of discussion."
For his part, the leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Ghiath Al-Surji, announced that there are no positive results in resolving the oil and gas law file.
A senior parliamentary source also ruled out the adoption of the oil and gas law, indicating that the Iraqi state since its establishment has not worked according to such a law.
The dispute between Baghdad and Erbil over the oil file remains unresolved for more than two decades.
Iraq's oil and gas law, which has been awaiting legislation in parliament since 2005, stipulates that responsibility for the management of the country's oil fields should be vested in a national oil company, overseen by a specialized federal council.
The Kurdistan Petroleum Law, which was repealed by a decision of the Federal Supreme Court, indicates that the KRG's Ministry of Oil or its authorized authority is responsible for "regulating and supervising oil operations, as well as all activities related to them, including oil marketing, as well as negotiating and concluding agreements and implementing all licenses, including oil contracts concluded by the KRG.

By: Raghad Daham