Iraq: Shahristani and KRG-Turkey oil cooperation agreementnote

Iraqi Deputy PM for Energy Hussein Al-Shahristani is said to have proposed to keep the door open for dialogue with the Turkish Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources to convince it not to sign an oil cooperation agreement with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq. The following 423-word report sheds light on the subject and tells what about the reaction in Baghdad to an eventual KRG-Turkey oil cooperation agreement.