Iraqi court suspends landmark Baghdad-KRG legal battle
Chief justice says case is indefinitely delayed until the prime minister personally endorses Baghdad’s complaint against the KRG’s independent oil policy.
Iraq's Federal Supreme Court at the Aug. 14, 2018, hearing of a lawsuit by the federal Oil Ministry against Kurdistan's oil sector. (Source: Federal Supreme Court media office)
BAGHDAD - Iraq’s Federal Supreme Court has indefinitely suspended a landmark case challenging the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) independent oil policy — a further sign that Prime Minister Adil Abd al-Mahdi is trying to create space for a political resolution of long-standing disputes.
Chief Justice Midhat Mahmoud said the court would not schedule any new hearing unless Abd al-Mahdi provides a signed statement affirming that he endorses the federal government’s legal action, which is a procedural step he has so far declined to take.
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