Iraq: Maliki and KRG oil pipeline projectnote

Iraqi PM Nouri Al-Maliki is said to have been promised by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani not to approve any agreement between the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and Turkey on the KRG oil pipeline project if it is not first approved by the central government in Baghdad. The following 498-word report sheds light on the subject and tells what about Al-Maliki’s conditions to agree to the project and what he intends to do to contain this issue.