Iraq Oil Law Talks Not Taking Place Now (contrary to previous news accounts)

Source: UPI

WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Negotiations are not taking place in Baghdad on the controversial oil law and other oil disputes, contrary to previous news accounts.

UPI confirmed that a top U.S. State Department official tasked with moving the oil law forward is in Washington, not Iraq.

A number of Iraqi media had reported that a delegation from the Kurdistan Regional Government was in Baghdad meeting with top national oil officials in an effort to find agreement on the stalled oil law.

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U.S. Undersecretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs Reuben Jeffery was dispatched "to work with the Iraqis on issues related to the hydrocarbon law," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said in a Nov. 30 news briefing. Media reports had mentioned Jeffery as a key facilitator of meetings on the oil issues, but UPI has confirmed he is not there.

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bomb the Kurds. Just declare them terrorists, kill them and not have to pay them any thing. After all all their oil 'R' belong to Mobil/Exxon, as my sig line states below.

Thank God he will be gone in less than one more excruciating year for all of us.