Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIII

No 29

19-Jul-2010

IRAQ

Smuggling Accusations Roil KRG-Baghdad Relations

Oil smuggling across the Kurdistan Regional Governments (KRG) border to Iran, highlighted by an 8 July New York Times article, has earned condemnation from Baghdad, threatening a recent thaw in oil relations between the two.

Nobody has the right to export Iraqi oil except the central government through [state oil marketer] SOMO, agencies reported Iraqi Minister of Oil Husain...