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SULAIMANI —The
Judicial Council of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) said on Tuesday
(May 17) all of the KRG’s oil contracts meet the guidelines of the Iraqi
constitution enacted in 2005.
The head of the
council, Abdul-Jabbar Aziz Hassan, said in a statement that Resolution 22
(2007), which was issued by the Kurdistan Parliament covering the KRG’s sale of
oil and gas, was not contrary to the Iraqi constitution.
The council’s
statement comes in response to the Iraqi Federal Supreme Court’s verdict in
February against the KRG’s law on oil contracts, which ruled the contracts were
against the constitution.
The council’s statement
insisted that according to Iraqi law enacted in 2005, the federal government
was responsible only for oil fields that existed prior to that year. Therefore,
the law did not cover the Kurdistan Region’s oil fields, which were developed after
2005, according to the statement.
(NRT Digital Media)