2019/2/28 10:52
(Baghdad: Al Furat News) The Supreme Council of Oil and Gas in the Kurdistan region not to hand over the oil of the region to Baghdad and a committee was formed to visit Baghdad to agree on this issue.
The Supreme Council of Oil and Gas in the Kurdistan region held a meeting headed by Nechirvan Barzani yesterday, according toinformation, after clarifying the report of total oil production and expenses and revenues and the financial situation of the provincial government by the ministers of finance and natural resources, the Council decided not to commit to deliver 250 thousand barrels of oil per day to Baghdad.
"The meeting discussed that if the Kurdistan region delivered oil to Baghdad and that the federal government pay a trillion and 200 billion dinars per month and can comply with the provisions of the general budget for 2019, but the proposal if it does not succeed, the Kurdistan Regional Government Not ready to hand over oil. "
It is noteworthy that the draft federal budget for the year 2019 included the delivery of salaries in the Kurdistan region in exchange for handing over 250 thousand barrels of oil production.
The Federal Oil Minister Thamer Ghadhban said in a press statement last Sunday, "So far we have not received any quantities of oil in the region because of the adoption of the budget recently and we have a dialogue soon and there is a positive atmosphere and a good opportunity to apply the budget in 2019 to receive 250 thousand barrels of Kurdistan."
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