America says it is working with the Kurdistan region of Iraq to stop the smuggling of oil Daash

America says it is working with the Kurdistan region of Iraq to stop the smuggling of oil Daash


THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1 / OKRUDOLF 30, 2014 12:42 J P
 
 
Twilight News / senior US official said the United States was working closely with the government of the Kurdistan region of Iraq to stop the smuggling of oil in an effort to cut important funding for the terrorist organization Daash source.
 
syriaoil1.jpgControlled terrorists Daash on refineries and oil fields in northern Iraq and the oil export through networks of smuggling as one of the sources of campaign funding.
Acting US envoy Amos Energy Hokestein Reuters and seen by "Twilight News", during a conference of oil "We are working with the regional government in Erbil to support their efforts to stop these shipments this and smuggling operations."
"It is extremely important for the United States and the international community and the Kurdistan Region itself to intensify efforts to stop the smuggling."
Hokestein said that the Iraqi Kurdistan government arrested a number of people on charges of smuggling.
US envoy meets with officials from Iraq and Syria, neighboring countries to discuss ways to prevent the smuggling of oil.
The Reuters had said in a report in July that al Daash sold oil through Turkish smugglers to traders cheaply while the amounts of refining crude oil and selling it in Syria Kbenzin in Mosul.
An adviser to the Ministry of Oil that Daash sold oil worth about one million dollars per day during the first two weeks of July.
He told the US envoy that the United States is working with the Iraqi Kurdistan to learn about the ways of oil smuggling, trucks and traders involved in the smuggling and prevent cross-border smuggling operations through the establishment of checkpoints and also dealing with the buyers.
Hokestein said "oil escapes from several ways to several countries. Therefore efforts must cover the whole chain to prevent the smuggling operations of the Islamic state."
But smuggling routes change as the air strikes led by the United States changed the pace of the flow of oil.
He Hokestein "Roads change and perhaps some passes through Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Kurdistan and possibly Jordan. Is not fixed and that it is difficult but I think that the efforts have succeeded in slowing down the process."
The Hokestein hoped that the new Iraqi government in Baghdad to reach agreement on the export of oil from Iraqi Kurdistan. Baghdad believes that the Kurdish illegal oil shipments.
Hokestein and said, "We believe that all parties would benefit if the export of oil from all parts of Iraq during the Agreement. This will grow over the cake and then proceeds to the whole people of Iraq."
"We also believe that this is the right time and it's an opportunity for both sides (Baghdad, Erbil) to sit together and reach this agreement."

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