SULAIMANI (ESTA) — A Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) delegation met with deputy speakers of Iraqi parliament in Baghdad on Wednesday, according to Iraqi media.
The KRG delegation led by Deputy Prime Minister Qubad Talabani discussed the Kurdistan Region’s share of the federal budget for 2021 during the meeting with Hassan Kaabi and Bashir Hadad.
The delegation has been in Baghdad since Sunday. It includes minister of finance and economy Awat Sheikh Janab, minister of planning Dara Rashid, minister of state Khalid Shwani and head of Kurdistan Region presidency’s diwan Omed Sabah.
It met with members of Iraqi parliament’s committee of finance on Monday. Spokesman of the KRG deputy premier Samir Hawrami said both sides had discussed oil revenue and expenditures in detail.
“All the necessary data and information of the Kurdistan Region were presented to the Iraqi parliament’s committee of finance,” Hawrami told Esta Media Network.
“Meetings will continue so as to fix the Dec. 12 agreement between the KRG and the federal government in the federal budget for 2021,” he said.
Talabani who led a high-level delegation to Baghdad said in December that Erbil and Baghdad had reached an agreement over the 2021 federal budget bill, approved by the Iraqi Council of Ministers in the same month.
The draft budget law commits the Kurdistan Region to export 250,000 bpd through Baghdad in exchange for the Region’s share of the federal budget, which is set at 12.67%.
Earlier on Wednesday, deputy speaker of Kurdistan parliament Hemin Hawrami said issues between Erbil and Baghdad was on article 11 of the draft federal budget law, which demands the Region to hand over oil to Baghdad.
