Barzani: Türkiye has always expressed its readiness to cooperate on the issue of oil exports

INA-  BAGHDAD



President of the Kurdistan Region, Nechirvan Barzani, confirmed on Wednesday that Türkiye has expressed its readiness to cooperate in the issue of oil exports, while pointing out that the federal authorities in Baghdad have new prospects for working together.

Barzani said during a panel discussion on the sidelines of the third Erbil Forum on (the mounting concern about the future of the Middle East), which was attended by a reporter of the Iraqi News Agency (INA): “Negotiations are taking place in Erbil now to discuss the issue of forming the next government, and also to find an agreement that will be the basis for forming it,” noting that ”this process will be a responsibility for the two parties as they are the winners, and we must work hard to form the government.”

He added: “I thank the Prime Minister, Mohammed Shi'a al-Sudani, the Speaker of Parliament, the President of the Federal Court, the Supreme Judicial Council and the President of the Republic for helping us to accomplish and conduct successful elections in the region.”

“During the period of the strategic agreement, a great deal of construction and development took place in the region, and Erbil sees that Baghdad is dealing with it very centrally and there is no such thing in any federal world at all,” he said.

“Türkiye has always expressed its readiness to export oil, and from our point of view, oil is an economic substance that we do not view as a political substance,” he added.