Kurdistan receives April budget payment
After the KRG helped facilitate a record month for Iraqi exports, Baghdad has transferred $445 million.
U.S. President Barack Obama drops by Vice President Joe Biden's meeting with KRG President Masoud Barzani in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on May 5, 2015. (PETE SOUZA/White House)
ERBIL - The autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has received a payment of 543 billion Iraqi dinars ($445 million) from Baghdad for the month of April, as the two sides continue their attempts to implement a tenuous oil export and revenue sharing deal.
Ahmed Abdulrahman, the spokesman for the KRG Ministry of Finance, said the money will be used to pay the overdue March salaries of government employees.
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