In a special Kurdistan Parliament session with members of Parliament, Kurdish Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani said that exporting and selling Kurdish oil is Kurd’s constitutional rights.

Barzani, who was at the Parliament to explain the KRG strategies regarding the region’s oil policies, said that they don’t want to separate from Iraq.

“Selling oil is our constitutional rights and we don’t look at it as a step toward independence,” he said at the Parliament.

Barzani also said that they have made the region’s people to be used to become government employees.

“On monthly basis we spent about 850 billion Iraqi Dinars just to provide government salaries in the region,” he revealed.

Furthermore, Barzani said that his government needs about $31 billion for construction and completion of the projects.

“Also the Kurdish Iraqi budget share is %17, however the Iraqi government only sends 10 percent of it,” added Barzani.

In the end he explained that they want to nationalize Kurdish oil sale and treated as a national matter.

Saed Abdullah