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Parliamentary committee: Can not pass a law of oil and gas without the Iraqi List

Baghdad, January 10 (Rn) – The Commission on oil and energy parliamentary Tuesday, it had postponed a debate on the draft law of oil and gas within the Commission because of the absent members of the Iraqi List of meetings, noting that this law, a compromise can not be voted on only the existence of all.

The Committee had revealed (01/03/2012) about the agreement in principle has recently been the province of Kurdistan and the federal government on a new formula to approve oil and gas law, explaining that she was currently working to translate the compatibility with a combination of law and the draft proposal.

And ended the three committees negotiating a joint between Baghdad and Arbil, the end of October / October negotiations in Baghdad on the outstanding issues, and raised the three reports to the Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.

Said committee member Susan Saad, told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) that “the Commission on oil and energy has left the debate on the draft law of oil and gas due to the absence of the Iraqi List,” saying that “this law is sensitive and needs to the presence of all members and with the absence of the Iraqi List, we can not continue to study the project” .

Saad explained that “these decisions need any decision in partnership all the political blocs and if it can not be disappeared Iraqi marginalized” and expressed the hope that the Iraqi part of future meetings in order to complete this draft law and submit to the Council for a vote.

She added that “there are claims of urgent legislation to this law,” indicating that “there are many crises occur between the Oil Ministry and the local councils and we need legislation of this law but the law is a compromise must be all the blocks have to vote it,” noting that “if it insisted the Iraqi List, not to attend will have to make decisions through the present. “

Since the adoption of the Constitution of Iraq, such as oil and gas law the most outstanding issues between Baghdad and Erbil, which is no less important for decision makers in the region on Article 140 of the Constitution on the disputed areas.

The dispute is between Arbil and Baghdad on 41 oil contracts signed by the provincial government since 2007 until now and Baghdad described the lack of transparency in the signature. The rejection of the Kurdistan region recently a draft law of oil and gas approved by the Iraqi government and sent to the House of Representatives for approval.

He says the region that the draft law, however, focus the powers of the Federal Government in the management of oil wealth at the expense of the region and the provinces, as it passed by the Council of Ministers, without due process of law.

The oil imports about 95% of Iraq’s budget, but so far nothing in the law regulating the affairs of the country after the failure of the House of Representatives to pass Bdorth previous oil and gas law, which was expected to rise oil situation if approved.

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