Baghdad and KRG deadlocked over exports, payments
After failing to jump-start their stalled oil deal, Iraqi leaders are trading recriminations over unfulfilled export and revenue-sharing expectations.
KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani at a press conference in Erbil on May 1, 2013. (SOURCE: krg.org)
SULAIMANIYA - Iraqi leaders have failed to jump-start a stalled oil export and revenue-sharing deal between the federal government and the autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).
KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani led a delegation to Baghdad on Sunday for talks aimed at reviving their cooperation. But neither side has met the terms of the deal, which is embedded in the 2015 budget law, and officials from both governments indicated the agreement is still essentially on hold.
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