Kurdistan PM says oil minister shouldn’t make decisions alone

ARBIL / IraqiNews.com: Prime Minister of Iraq’s Kurdistan region Negervan al-Barzani on Tuesday said the minister oil has no right to make unilateral decisions about the oil contracts signed by the regional government, which he described as “constitutional.” “The oil contracts were made in accordance with the constitution and the Iraqi minister of oil is not entitled to make a unilateral decision about the matter,” Barzani said in his speech during the inauguration ceremony of the 60 th festival on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Arbil city. “A committee has been set up by the central and regional governments to examine the legitimacy of the contracts signed by the Kurdistan Regional Government Kurdistan RegionG),” Barzani added. Minister Hussein al-Shahrestani has criticized the regional government on several occasions for signing “illegal” contracts with foreign oil companies. SS (P) 1