In the first meeting after the decision of the Paris Court, the Iraqi Oil Minister rejected the proposals of the Kurdistan Regional Government delegation, now the federal government is not dealing with the budget agreement, demanding the handover of oil to SOMO. The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) delegation will return to Baghdad in the next two days. 

A delegation from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) arrived in Baghdad on Sunday to discuss upcoming steps and mechanisms of exporting the Region’s oil with the Iraqi oil ministry, following a decision from an arbitration court against Erbil’s independent oil exports.

During the meeting the Iraqi Oil Ministry demands KRG to hand over oil to SOMO and they made it clear that "there must be compliance with the laws and the constitution, and the management of the oil topic must be in the hands of the federal government.”