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Baghdad sends oil delegation to KRG – UPDATE

Deputy oil ministers lead team in rapprochement with new Kurdish leadership in Erbil, ministry officially denies it’s a business trip.

By Ben Lando of Iraq Oil Report
Published November 16, 2009

Updated with quotes and more details

BAGHDAD – Two of Iraq’s three deputy oil ministers arrived Sunday in Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region, leading a delegation aimed at patching up a bitter, three-year feud over the control of oil deals and oil laws.

Ministry spokesman Assem Jihad denied the goal of the trip is to negotiate an overdue agreement on the country’s oil strategy. The visit also comes the day the Basra-based Fadhila Party announced it had laun...

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