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Kurds Reach New Oil Deals, Straining Ties With Baghdad
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Oct 03, 2007 10:06pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
| News Date | Friday, October 5, 2007 04:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.
Published: October 4, 2007
SULAIMANIYA, Iraq, Oct. 3 — The Kurdish regional government has reached four new oil-exploration deals, further straining relations with many Iraqi leaders in Baghdad, who want to maintain a more centralized control over the country’s enormous oil reserves.
The new deals are the latest in an effort by the Kurds to build their own oil industry while national oil legislation languishes in Parliament. A similar agreement reached last month with the Hunt Oil Company of Dallas was criticized as illegal by the Iraqi oil minister, Hussain al-Shahristani.
Kurdish officials, who have said they want to bring about a major increase in oil production, say the deals are consistent with the Iraqi Constitution.
But many in Parliament object to the Kurdish interpretation, and it is unclear how the Kurds’ own regional oil law, passed in August, will conform with whatever might ultimately be approved by the central government. |
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