Shahristani in Parliament
Oil Minister summoned by Parliament as differences intensify in Iraq.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".
Shahristani has been summoned to the Iraqi parliament through a petition signed by 140 parliamentarians—when 25 would have sufficed—levying criticism against him for his failure to unlock Iraqi development so far, although it is yet unclear what measures parliament will take.
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