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• 2 • Information and liaison bulletin n° 272 • November 2007 Condoleezza Rice, had promised to redouble her country’s efforts to help Turkey to overcome the PKK problem, while urging the Turkish Army not to enter Iraq. She stressed that the United States was under an “obligation” to contribute to the struggle against the PKK and reaffirmed that the organisation, considered to be terrorist by the United States, was as much “the enemy” of Washington and Baghdad as of Turkey. “This will require perseverance. It is a very difficult problem (…) eradicating terrorism is tough”, she added, nevertheless. At the ends of his discussions with Mr. Erdogan at the White House, Mr. Bush announced a strengthening of military cooperation between the two countries and a new partnership between the United States, Turkey and Iraq to improve the sharing of Intelligence. “Errors of intelligence mean that we cannot resolve the problem. Good intelligence, accurate and delivered in real time using modern technology, would enable” the struggle “to be made much easier”, stressed Mr. Bush. The US President also indicated that the US was ready “to go further” on the issue of the struggle against the PKK, particularly on “questions of airport transit” and “questions of money”. Shortly before the meeting between Messrs. Bush and Erdogan, some 300 to 400 Kurds demonstrated in front of the White House, the men in traditional dress, the women and children carrying flags of Kurdistan called “Stop the Turkish invasion!”. “We want to sent President Bush a clear message that he must not give the green light to a Turkish invasion of Iraqi Kurdistan”, pointed out Isa Shalky, spokesman of the Tennessee Kurdish Community Council, who had come from Nashville. Other Kurds came from Pennsylvania, Michigan and New York respectively. The Turkish Prime Minister left Washington relieved and said that he was happy after his discussions with Mr. Bush at the White House. “Praise God, we have secured what we wanted”, stated Mr. Erdogan. “No one told us not to carry out (military) operations”, he stated to journalists at his hotel, seeming to see an implicit support for targeted strikes in the PKK hideouts in Mr. Bush’s remarks. “We have decided to carry out some operations (…) We will use this authorisation, the armed forces will decide their form”, he stressed. The Turkish press of 6 November saw in these remarks the sign of coming Turkish attacks on the PKK in Iraqi Kurdistan. “A green light for an operation”, headlined the daily Radikal. “It seems that here will be no going back regarding the decision to proceed with military operations”, commented Rusen Cakir, a journalist on the daily paper Vatan. “Ankara should, in a few days time, carry out concrete measures part of which will be supported by Washington and others carried out without its knowledge or even against its wishes”, Ms Cakir considered. Still with the idea of discussing the situation on the Iraqi Kurdistan borders, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Rome on 6 November to meek the Head of State, Giorgio Napolitano, and then the Prime Minister, Romano Prodi. On 5 November Mr. Erdogan had stated in press interviews that “if the Iraqi Government takes urgent and permanent measures against the PKK on Iraqi territory, the Turkish government might not use this authorisation”. Pope Benedict XVI had, on 4 November, expressed his “anxiety” over the tension on the Kurdish borders, calling for a “peaceful solution” to the problems between Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan. Mr. Erdogan returned to Turkey on 8 November at the end of his visit to Italy
n° 272 • November 2007 Information and liaison bulletin • 3 • IRBIL: PRIME MINISTER NECHIRVAN BARZANI STATES THAT THE OIL CONTRACTS SIGNED WITH FOREIGN COMPANIES WILL BE CARRIED OUT O N 25 November, the Kurdistan Prime Minister, Nechirvan Barzani, declared that Kurdistan “implement” the companies (…) these statements remind us of the period before 9 April 2003” he added, alluding to the date of the overthrow of Saddam oil contracts signed with foreign Hussein’s regime. Jamal Abdullah companies, despite the opposition pointed out that the Kurds were of the central government in Bagh- not seeking to export oil but had dad. “The oil contracts signed by the signed exploration contracts with Kurdistan government will be imple- foreign companies in promising mented. No one can cancel contracts signed by Kurdistan”, affirmed Mr. looking areas in their region. Barzani. “In the event of problems, Reacting to previous remarks by Iraq has a Federal Court to which Mr. Mr. Shahristani during the 15 Shahristani can apply”, he added November summit of the Organi- simply. In an interview on a Midsation of Oil Exporting Countries, dle East radio station on 23 a communiqué from the Kurdistan November, the Iraqi Oil Minister, Regional Government dated 21 Hussein Shahristani had stated November stressed that: “for sever- that he had cancelled about fifteen al years now, Mr. Shahristani has oil contracts signed by the Iraqi shown himself incapable of carrying Kurdistan authorities. “The Iraqi through any oil project successfully. government has warned these compa- He is now trying to dissuade others nies of the consequences of the signing from doing something for the good of of these contracts, and the conse- the country. (…) We will not accept quences are that they will no longer be any kind of threat, sanctions or pun- able to work in Iraq”, the Minister ishment from our partners in the stated in his radio interview. He Baghdad coalition government”. Iraqi assured Iraq’s neighbours that Iraq Kurdistan “is a partner in Iraq, not a would not let Kurdistan export oil region that must be threatened or pun- with out the agreement of the cenished because it has exercised its Contral State. To which Jamal Abdulstitutional rights and wished to conlah, spokesman for the Kurdistan tribute to the country’s (…) stability”, regional government retorted: the Kurdish authorities had “There is an agreement between remarked, describing Mr. Shahris- Teheran, Ankara, Damascus and tani’s reaction as “stupefying”. “We Baghdad (…) He has exceeded his believe that the period of threats authority (…) his statement will not against the Kurds of Iraq is long past. affect out contracts with the foreign It is disappointing to see that Mr. Shahristani has chosen the camp of the anti-Kurdish elements of the Saddam Hussein period (…) We are not impressed (…) Experience has shown that most of the oil companies are now ignoring these declarations (by the Oil Minister) Our contracts are constitutional and legal, as defined by the Kurdish oil and gas laws. Empty chattering and senseless threats will not last”, concluded the Kurdish government. Kurdistan’s future oil production “will benefit all the Iraqis”, insisted the Kurdish Government. Amongst the recently signed contracts is one for collecting and refining natural gas intended to supply electric power stations so as to cure the region’s problem of frequent power cuts. In a communiqué dated 7 November, the Kurdish Minister of Natural Resources, Dr Ashti Hawrami, announced that the Kurdish Government had signed “seven new oil production sharing contracts”. Seven blocks, spread out between Irbil and Dohuk Provinces, have been allocated to the following companies: OMV Aktiengessellschaft, MOL Hungarian Oil and Gas PLC, Gulf Keystone Petroleum International Limited, Kalegran Limited and Reliance Energy Ltd or to their subsidiaries. “With these new contracts there are about twenty international oil companies that will now be operating in Iraqi Kurdistan”, declared Dr. Hawrami with pleasure. These companies will receive 15% of the income from the oil production and “85% will go to Iraq”.
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