Othman Karim Swara, a member of the Kurdistan Region Parliament from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), told Baghdad Al-Youm news site on Saturday afternoon, May 16, that Erbil had received positive signs from new Iraqi PM Mustafa Kadhimi over activating an oil agreement between the two governments of Erbil and Baghdad, in which Baghdad will pay Kurdistan region's employees and the region, in return, will supply the central government with 250.000 barbells of oil per day.
"We have received good signs from al-Kadhimi that the Kurdistan Regional employees are an essential part of Iraqi employees and that they cannot be left without salaries, the PUK representative continued to say.
"There are signs of a quick agreement. A technical committee from both sides is considering achieving a specific mechanism before it is presented to the prime minister is agree with it," the representative further said.
The parliament deputy concluded that the KRG will fulfill all its obligations to the central government and is ready to accept any method Baghdad sets for the issue of oil delivery.

It is worth mentioning that the secretariat of the cabinet of former Prime Minister, Adil Abdul Mahdi, sent an official letter to Minister of Finance Fouad Hussein's office a month ago to stop sending the salaries of the Kurdish people to Erbil due to the lack of commitment of the Kurdish region to the agreement between the two sides to deliver 250,000 barrels of oil per day to Baghdad.
The letter also stressed that since the Kurdish region was not committed to the oil agreement with the Iraqi central government, in last year and the first three months of the year to deliver 250,000 barrels of oil per day, all the funds delivered to Erbil should be returned to Baghdad in response to the region's violation of the budget law.
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