Kurdistan Parliament: Baghdad's goal is to control two fields in the region, and for Erbil to start

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[size=52]Kurdistan Parliament: Baghdad's goal is to control two fields in the region, and for Erbil to start talks[/size]

[size=45]On Saturday, a member of the Parliament of the Kurdistan Region, Ali Hama Saleh, said that the federal government's goal is not to seize all the oil fields in the region, but that its only goal is currently the "Khormala and Kormore" fields, calling for the need to resume talks between Erbil and Baghdad within the framework of the Federal Court's decision. .[/size]
[size=45]Hama Saleh said in a post on the communication sites, that if the federal government controls these two fields, the region will lose 42 percent of its oil, and will also lose from its total electricity and gas,” adding, “If the federal government does that, it will leave the rest of the region’s oil fields, and with this The KRG will not be able to pay half the salaries” to employees and workers in the public sector.[/size]
[size=45]He added, "If the Iraqi government takes over the region's total oil, it will be responsible for (providing salaries), but if it takes control of the two fields, it will not have anything to do with it."[/size]
[size=45]Hama Saleh continued, "It is necessary to press for the resumption of dialogues between the region and Baghdad within the framework of the Federal Court's decision."[/size]
[size=45]On February 15, the Federal Supreme Court declared the unconstitutionality of the oil and gas law of the Kurdistan Regional Government and its abolition, and obligating the regional government to hand over all oil production from the oil fields in the region and other areas from which the Ministry of Natural Resources in the Kurdistan Government extracted oil and handed it over to the federal government, which is represented Federal Ministry of Oil.[/size]
[size=45]And the Kurdistan Region began to sell its oil in isolation from the federal government, after a stifling financial crisis as a result of the collapse of oil prices during the ISIS invasion of areas in Iraq, in addition to the disputes with Baghdad that prompted the latter to stop paying the salaries of the region’s employees.[/size]
[size=45]Baghdad says its national oil company, SOMO, is the only one authorized to sell Iraqi crude oil, but each side claims the constitution is on its side. Since the Iraqi oil and gas law remained imprisoned in the drafting stage due to differences, there was room for maneuver.[/size]
[size=45]The oil file is one of the most prominent outstanding issues between Baghdad and Erbil.[/size]
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