Kurdish Prime Minister attacks Iraq’s ‘failed’ oil policy

The prime minister of northern Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region on Wednesday blasted the Iraqi petroleum minister for his “failed” policies. Speaking to reporters at the airport in the northern Iraqi city of Arbil on Wednesday on his return from Baghdad, Nechirvan Barzani, prime minister of the semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan Region, said Iraqi Petroleum Minister Hussein al-Shahristani’s “failed policies” were responsible for the problems in the Iraqi oil sector.

“Al-Shahristani’s policies are failed policies, and it is because of them that Iraq has lagged behind” in developing its oil production, Barzani said.

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