Kirkuk Council: not familiar with the oil file and Baghdad to pay the share of petrodollars

Kirkuk Council: not familiar with the oil file and Baghdad to pay the share of petrodollars

Dozens of projects unfinished due to funding shortage ...

2/22/2018 - 18:05 Economy / Kurdistan



A member of the Council of Kirkuk province, on Wednesday, that the members of the Council have no knowledge of how to export Kirkuk oil and its destination and sell, stressing that the Iraqi government does not pay the proportion of the province of petrodollar revenues.

"We, as members of the Kirkuk Provincial Council, have no knowledge of how to export Kirkuk oil, the quantity exported or the method of selling it, while the KRG was paying $ 10 million," Hassan said of the Islamic Union bloc. Per month for the province under the petrodollar program, before the events of 16 October last. "

"The Iraqi government is now exporting Kirkuk oil, but it does not pay any proportion of the revenues to the province," explained Joan Hassan. "The city's oil is sold without interest to its citizens."

And continued Hassan, saying that "the amount previously paid by the Kurdistan Regional Government was used in the completion of service projects good, but there are now many service projects incomplete and stalled due to lack of funding."

The spokesman of the Iraqi Ministry of Oil has revealed earlier in the day, in a statement to (Basneoz), close to reach an agreement between Baghdad and Erbil on the oil file.

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