Iraqi Kurdistan Backing Rosneft Right On Kirkuk Oil Output In Talks With Baghdad- Official

Iraqi Kurdistan in talks with the federal government of Iraq continues to insist upon preserving rights of Russian energy giant Rosneft on oil production in the Kirkuk oil field in line with the previously reached agreements, Hoshawi Babakr, the Kurdistan Democratic Party's (KDP) representative in Russia, told Sputnik on Tuesday.

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 20th November, 2018) Iraqi Kurdistan in talks with the Federal government of Iraq continues to insist upon preserving rights of Russian energy giant Rosneft on oil production in the Kirkuk oil field in line with the previously reached agreements, Hoshawi Babakr, the Kurdistan Democratic Party's (KDP) representative in Russia, told Sputnik on Tuesday.

"The government of Kurdistan insists on preserving the rights of Rosneft, with which in 2017 an agreement was reached on oil production in Kirkuk. According to this agreement, the Russian company received a partial right to extract, export and manage oil and gas pipelines from Kirkuk to Turkey. And Kurdistan intends to adhere to this treaty. And in the coming years, Russia should start exporting gas from Kurdistan to Turkey," Babakr said.