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Shahristani in Parliament

Oil Minister summoned by Parliament as differences intensify in Iraq.

By Ben Lando of Iraq Oil Report
Published May 19, 2009

By SAMUEL CISZUK
IHS Global Insight

Iraq's oil minister, Hussein al-Shahristani, has been summoned by parliament to answer criticisms of his perceived failure to launch development and arrest the decline in export levels in Iraq, while he continues to brand all Iraqi Kurdistan oil and gas deals "illegal".

Iraqi Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani talks to reporters, December 2008. (Photo: Ben Lando)

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