KRG’s Hawrami pans Iraq oil law movement

News of the Iraq oil law being sent to Parliament may be a little too optimistic.

"Two weeks ago (Kurdistan Regional Government President) Massoud Barzani was in Baghdad for talks with (Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri) al-Maliki," KRG Natural Resources Minister Ashti Hawrami told the Middle East Economic Survey (MEES). "They agreed all outstanding issues, including the oil law, be dealt with by a high-level committee and be decided in line with the constitution. All these reports of the oil law going to Parliament are nonsense. There is no basis for this. None of it will succeed without the agreement of this committee."