Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVIII

No 2

10-January-2005

Kurds To Demand At Least 20% Of Iraqi State Revenue

The Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government (Irbil), Nechirvan Barzani, has said that the Kurds will accept nothing less than 20% of Iraqs total revenue in a federal budget. In an interview published in the newspaper of the Iraqi Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), al-Taakhi, he declared that the regional government would categorically refuse the 17% share that has been...