Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVII

No 24

14-June-2004

IRAQ

Iraqi Kurds Demand Right To Own And Manage Northern Oil Reserves

Iraqi Kurdish leaders have called on the US to support their plans to own and manage Kurdistans natural resources, and in particular our efforts to develop new petroleum resources in the Kurdistan region, where the previous regime sought to block all exploration and development that might benefit the Kurdish people. The demand was one of many set out in a letter signed by...