* Iraq’s political crisis threates to further delay oil (HCL) law
Threaten the political crisis faced by the power-sharing government in Iraq with more delays in the draft oil law, the long-awaited five years after the introduction of the first copy of it to parliament.
Political tensions have increased after sought the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to the arrest of Sunni Vice President, and asked parliament to dismiss a deputy prime minister, sparking days of riots after the withdrawal of U.S. troops from another country in December.
And the various political blocs agreed on the first draft of the law of oil and gas in 2007, but approval has been disrupted by internal conflict between political groups Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish, raising fears of investors who are looking for more guarantees in the oil and gas industry.
And the worsening political deadlock due to the current crisis with the mass-backed Iraqi province of the year of the parliament, with some ministers to attend the meetings of the Council of Ministers, while al-Maliki threatened to have changed the power-sharing government.
Said Adel Berwari, an adviser to the Kurdish owners “under such chronic political differences do not see any possibility of the issuance of the oil law this year.
“If the ratio of differences of two or three percent, for example, I can say that the possibility of the issuance of the law, but the percentage is much higher.”
The oil law is necessary to resolve bitter disputes over oil reserves between the central government in Baghdad and the Kurdistan region of Iraq with the pursuit of a member of OPEC to increase production.
The Maliki government is a Shiite-led power-sharing arrangement allocated posts and ministries among Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds, but the political differences between these blocks often affect the work of the government.
The government amended last year to the original draft oil law, including Baghdad, gives more control over crude reserves, sparking a conflict with the Kurdistan region, which demands control of the oil.
The Kurdish authorities insist on her rights to the management of oil fields in the region and the signing of agreements with a private oil demand seen by Baghdad as undermining the central control of this vital sector.
The signing of Exxon Mobil, U.S. oil exploration agreement with the Kurdistan into the row after Baghdad threatened to take action against the U.S. company which had entered into an agreement with the central government to develop oil field in the south.
And prepared for the parliament’s energy commission draft law of oil and gas at the end of last year to pressure the government after being hit by the frustration of the delay in approving the law, but the majority of members of the Committee of the Shiites rejected the draft.
And became Almsodtan are proposed on the table waiting for further discussions in the parliament.
A senior politician close to Maliki, expressing the position of central government, “the Kurds want more control over oil resources by stripping the central government powers. They still have a fear that a strong government in Baghdad could make them turn against them in the day.”
And sent Ashti Hawrami, Minister of natural resources in the Kurdistan government in late December, a formal letter to the Minister of Oil in the central government of Abdul Karim coffee includes Kurdish demands for more amendments to the draft law of 2007.
In a document attached to the speech obtained by Reuters, “I do not agree the draft 2007 with the Constitution and see that there is an urgent need to modify it … as the current draft of the province stripped of his authority in favor of the central government.”
According to a letter Hawrami has sent the Kurdistan Regional Government’s proposed amendments to the Parliament and asked for coffee to raise the banner to Parliament directly. The committee, parliament’s energy proposals that it received only Kurdish was not yet received anything from the government.
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