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BAGHDAD, April 2 (Reuters) – Iraq’s autonomous northern
Kurdish region will not resume oil exports until an agreement
has been reached with Baghdad on payments for oil companies
working in the area, Kurdish Energy Minister Ashti Hawrami said
on Monday.
The Kurdistan Regional Government stopped oil exports on
Sunday, accusing the central government of failing to pay
producers in the north, the latest clash in a long-running feud
over control of oil in the north.
“Oil exports will not start again unless there is an
agreement on the payment policy,” Hawrami told Reuters in an
interview.
(Reporting by Serena Chaudhry; Editing by Anthony Barker)
