Iraqi MP: Southern provinces would halt oil exports if the region continues to export oil through Turkey

MP, of the state of law coalition, Adel al-Maliki warned that the insistence of Kurdistan region to export oil through Turkey and seize its revenues will push the provinces of the south to stop exporting oil from the southern ports.

He said on 12, Jan: “If the government and parliament do not address the issue of exporting oil from Kurdistan contrary to the constitution, the south provinces would stop exporting oil through the southern ports.”

Maliki added: “Exporting oil from the region through Turkey and seizing its revenues and sharing the southern oil revenues, cannot be tolerated.”

He explained: “Exporting oil without the knowledge of the federal government is a legal and constitutional violation.

He asked: “the House Speaker Osama al-Nujaifi to call the Kurdistan Regional Government to stop the export of oil, which belongs to all Iraqis, as he demanded the central government to implement the demands of the demonstrators”.