Parliamentary Wealth: Oil and Gas Law Stalled in Government Halls

Deputy Chairman of the Oil, Gas and Natural Resources Committee, Nehru Rawandozi, revealed today, Wednesday, the latest developments related to the legislation of the oil and gas law according to the political agreement between Baghdad and Erbil.
Rawandozi told / Al-Maalouma / agency, “The legislation of the law was part of the political agreement paper on the basis of which the current government was formed, but the issue of its legislation still faces many differences.”
He added that “the committees formed by the government have not completed their work in full, which hinders sending the draft of the oil and gas law to the Council of Representatives.”
He pointed out that “there are political differences over the draft of the oil and gas law between the center, the region and the oil-producing provinces, noting that there is a government committee formed by the Prime Minister consisting of representatives of the three main components in Iraq: Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds.”
He pointed out that “the committee tasked with preparing the draft law has not completed its work in full so far, which hinders sending the draft law to the Council of Representatives.”

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