KT news briefing, 29th March 2014

Oil

Former KRG official: KRG’s decision to export oil is a compromise

Dr Hama Jaza Salih, former deputy minister of Natural Resources Ministry, says that agreeing to export 100.000 barrels of oil through SOMO goes against the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) former claims for an independent economy. In an interview with ‘Weekly Awene’, a leading impartial outlet in the Kurdistan Region, Dr Jaza surprisingly says that he was not aware of the KRG’s oil contracts “Unfortunately, I was not aware of the oil contracts. When I asked [to see the contracts], they said ‘why do you need them, it is the higher council work’.” Regarding the KRG’s initiative to export 100.000 bpd, Dr Jaza underscored that “it is a very clear compromise” if it has been accepted without any gains in return. “But if it has been accept for dissolving the conditions within the Iraq’s budget which have been made against KRG’s wishes, it will be an average solution. This should have been accepted in response for paying the oil firms’ wages and giving the Peshmerge forces’ budget from Iraq’s budget, not KRG’s 17% share.”

Allawi: The Kurdish officer should be punished

Ayad Allawi, former Iraqi Prime Minister and head of Al Iraqia Fraction in Iraqi Parliament, condemned the killing of Muhammed Bdewi by a member of the republican guard who is ethnically Kurdish. On his Facebook account, Allawi announced that the security forces and the bodyguards of Iraqi officials have violated civilian rights many times without punishment. Regarding Bdwei’s case, Allay said that the Kurdish officer should be punished for his “crime.” The Bdewi case seems to be unifying Arabs against Kurds and poses a threat to “coexistence” in Iraq.  (KT) 

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