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| Oil minister says Iraq to act to annul Kurdish oil deals |
| 2022-07-09 |
| [AlAhram] Iraq's oil minister said on Thursday the government will take steps to enforce a recent court decision to annul oil contracts the semiautonomous northern Iraqi Kurdish region made with international companies. The minister, Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar Ismail, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named the deals, which circumvent the government in Baghdad, are illegal and amount to oil smuggling. His remarks were the strongest yet by a senior government official since Iraq's Supreme Federal Court issued a landmark ruling in February against the northern region's independent oil sector. Ismail said in total 17 oil companies will be targeted for their dealings with the Iraqi Kurdish region. |
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