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KT News:
Following the visit by a Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) delegation to Baghdad – headed by KRG natural resources minister Ashti Hawrami and under the supervision of Iraqi deputy prime minister Roz Nuri Shaways – Baghdad and Hawler have reached a preliminary agreement, due to be ratified by their respective cabinets, on the main points of contention in their oil and gas dispute.
Following this visit, Xebat – the website of the ruling Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) – reports that the Baghdad government is to pay the KRG $900 million owed to oil companies currently operating in Kurdistan.
The head of the Iraqi Parliament Committee for Oil and Gas, Dr Kasim Mohammed, told Xebat: “This agreement means that the Iraqi government recognises these foreign companies in Kurdistan as legitimate companies that have agreements with the KRG”.
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Hawrami said on the 24:th September KRG would start paying the oil companies during “next week”. Almost 2 more weeks late no payments have been made! We know all Baghdad is not to trust, but is KRG? I must now sadly ay I doubt you can trust anyone in Iraq.