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Kurds must decide to stay or leave says Iraq oil minister
Posted: December 10, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
Tags: Baghdad, Exxon, ExxonMobil, Iraq, Iraqi Kurdistan, kurdistan, United States, West-Qurna
Baghdad: Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region must decide whether it wishes to remain part of the country or form its own independent state, Baghdad’s oil minister said in an interview published Friday.

Abdelkarim al-Luaybi’s strong comments come as Iraq aims to ramp up oil production despite not having passed a hydrocarbons law to regulate the distribution of lucrative revenues from crude sales.

“It’s up to the Kurdistan region to decide whether it has made a strategic decision to stay part of Iraq or it has made up its mind to establish its independent state,” Luaybi told the iraqoilforum.com website run by energy analyst Ruba Husari. Read the rest of this entry »