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Judicial Council: Kurdistan's oil operations "constitutional"

IRBIL, May 17 (KUNA) -- The Judicial Council of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq announced Tuesday that the region's government actions regarding the oil file and operations are in accordance with the Iraqi constitution of 2005.
This came in the wake of the Federal Supreme Court's announcement last March of a binding and final decision for all authorities in Iraq that the Kurdistan Regional Government "shouldn't sell oil" extracted from the region without Baghdad's approval, while Kurdistan announced its rejection of the decision and considered it "politicized." A statement signed by the head of the Judicial Council of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Judge Abduljabbar Aziz Hassan, stated that the provisions of the Oil and Gas Law No. (22) Of (2007) issued by the region parliament do not violate the provisions of the Iraqi constitution.
The statement said that given that Article (112) of the Iraqi constitution stipulates that the federal government shall manage the oil and gas extracted from the current fields with the governments of the producing regions and governorates if their imports are distributed in an equitable manner commensurate with the population distribution throughout the country. (end) sbr.aa