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Nazem Dabbagh the representative of Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq in Tehran in a talk with Fars Press concerning the arrest of Russian airplane in Soleimanieh airport said: Soleimanieh Airport and Office did not have any information about the Russian airplane and for this, they were not given permitted to land, and now in Baghdad the research is still being conducted.
About this I have no information but in general when such incident happen relating to weapons, some suspected as accused will be investigated to uncover the facts.
Concerning the relations between Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and Iran, Shargh Press had an interview with Nazem Dabbagh the representative of KRG of Iraq in Iran whose outlines follow:
About Mr. Larijani’s travel to the Region he said: Iran has proved that in tough situations it has been supporter and enthusiast of Iraq and the Region’s people and will still be. Mr. Larijani also in this travel insisted in strengthening the relations between Iran and the Region. That was why he came to Baghdad and then Soleimaniya and Erbil to express the development of relationship and alliance. He added after Saeidlu’s travel the former vice-president, Mr. Larijani’s travel to Erbil was the second important of an Iranian authority. Mr. Larijani is the senior authority of Iran visiting the Parliament of Kurdistan Region. All express the resistance, cooperation and support of Iran beside Kurdistan Region and Iraq as well as their high importance for Iran.
About Iran’s aids to the Region to confront ISIS he said that Iran has always delivered its contributions to the Region in a proper conditions. He also said: if we need any helps in the field of logistic and consultative they give us and as of a yet they have.
About the positions of the Region authorities about the separation of Iraq he said; the authorities have not announce yet that the region is to separate, instead we are obedient to the constitutton of Iraq. However the emergence of ISIS has caused Iraq automatically get separated, namely; the geographical region of ISIS is located between Iraq and Kurdistan Region. That was why ISIS itself got generated as a result of Iraq mismanagement. We said if you desire a unified Iraq you have to follow the constitution of Iraq. We always say this that if we want to dissolve the concerns we need to be obedient to the constitution. However when the central do not accept this what can we do?
Indeed Dabbagh specified that the root of how ISIS to emerge should be sought in the central government and the wrong policy of Maliki in political management.
About the concern of oil of Kurdistan Region and its policies concerning the oil Asia Press had an interview of which main points follow:
Relating how to commence the oil works Dabbagh said at the time of Saddam Hussein there was only one active oil center in Kurdistan and for some reasons he blocked all oil wells of Kurdistan Region by concrete. After his withdraw Kurdish activists reopened them by exploding the concrete and tried oil economy enjoyed good advances.
In a response to a question about being obedient of Kurdistan Region to Iraq codes while stating the ups and downs of the relations between KRG and central government. Dabbagh Said: we considered the constitution of Iraq according which we could provide the budget of the Region. When the Iraq government cut the budget of the Region, before that we have come to conclusion to export the oil through the present oil pipes stretching from Kurdistan to Turkey and this way the production of oil will reach 550 thousand barrels a day. Today the oil map of the world has laid on Kurdistan Region and Kurdistan of Iraq will draw this map. In addition dealing with the potentials of Iran to import oil from Kurdistan specially to export oil to Kermanshah and its being delivered in another place Dabbagh said they to export oil they are joined to Jeyhan port in Turkey and we export 200 thousand oil barrels through this way. He added; in my opinion the policy come from the oil pipelines and now if we could not export oil to the world we would not have this place. Presently we are observing the descendant of the oil price from $100 to $60 we witness that policy has entered it. There is no world war not export oil.
After explicitly stating that in oil policy we are obedient to the Region interests Dabbagh said: according to the constitution of Iraq we work, those cases I primarily mentioned relate to the Iraq government. According to this we decide and never interfere, therefore if we have an independent government we will talk then what policy should we take to Russia, USA or even Iran.
About the outcome of Erbil-Baghdad in recent days he said: we have come to an agreement to continue this bilateral negotiation. At the beginning we will export 250 thousand oil barrels from the Region as well as 350 thousand from Kirkuk. In addition $1 billion dollars from oil income has been assigned to Pishmerga forces to defend till devote one of its actions to preserve oil fields.
Tehran- IRNA- Nazem Dabbagh the representative of KRG of Iraq in Iran on the side of 20th of publications exhibition in Tehran deemed tribalism as generated by the west and said: Muslims must reform their religious thoughts to prevent from separation try not to be affected by unconstructive propaganda of the west. Insisting on changing the attitudes by Muslims and put aside minor differences he said: Shia, Sunni and Kurds all must defend the border of Iraq.
Appreciating I.R. of Iran’s helps and his good cooperation with Iraq in all fields including information transmission Dabbagh added: the representative of Iranian Medias in Erbil in the north of Iraq has close collaboration with Kurdistan Region.
He added: in Kurdistan of Iraq 21 newspapers are being published which all cover the invasion and the recent defeats of ISIS very well. He described the level of relations between Kurdsitan Region of Iraq and Iran as high and hopped this would go on in the future.
Mizan News Agency: the representative of KRG of Iraq in Iran deemed our country’s helps greatly influential and in time and said: the majority of these helps were logistical and consultative on the behalf of Sepah Pasdaran. Nazem Dabbagh in a talk with political reporter of Mizan relating to the role of the new government of Iraq about fighting ISIS stated: the new government of Iraq regarding the useful and on time moves in recent weeks has expressed its ability to solve the problems and concerns specially fighting ISIS.
He added: undoubtedly the formation of a comprehensive and cooperative government in Iraq is beneficial to all tribal and political groups in Iraq, and this can help all groups getting involved in fighting ISIS. He continued that: the government of authorities of Turkey has not got any definite and specific definition of ISIS, and as of a yet has not taken any stable and useful position about it.
Dabbagh added that the field changes in Kurdish regions of Kubani are getting better and said: in recent days up to 100 villages around Kubani have been swept out of terrorists which represents their weaknesses and withdraw from Kubani.
Nazem Dabbagh emphasized: this is only Iraqis that can construct their fortune and thus to form a coalition to fight terrorists in Iraq without them is nonsense. He considered former government’s mismanagement of Iraq in the field of policy and security as the current situation and added: presently more than one third of Iraq is taken under ISIS’s control representing the depth of the former government inefficiency. At last the representative of Kurdistan region of Iraq in Iran again deemed Iran’s role so decisive and on time and appreciated as mentioning other countries’ helps to Iraq to fight ISIS.
The News Pavilion of ILNA in Medias Exhibition hosted Nazem Omar Dabbagh the representative of KRG of Iraq in Iran. Visiting ILNA NEWS pavilion in Media Exhibition, Nazem Dabbagh in a talk with ILNA reporter stated the most recent details of Kurdistan region and the position of Pishmerga in Kubani. Mr Dabbagh also mentioned Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani’s phrases concerning extravagances of a number of Shia as one of the causes of ISIS to be formed.
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