Governmental Kurdish delegation arrives in Baghdad

Shafaq News / A high-ranking delegation of the regional government headed by Qubad Talabani, Deputy Prime Minister, arrived in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, on Tuesday morning, to resume discussions with the federal government to resolve the differences and outstanding issues between the two sides.

The regional government delegation had previously made several visits to the capital, after the previous federal government headed by Adel Abdul Mahdi stopped financing the salaries of employees and workers in the public sector in Kurdistan.

The differences and outstanding issues between Erbil and Baghdad are based on the region's share of the financial budgets, the entitlements of the Peshmerga forces, the export of oil, and the disputed areas covered by Article 140 of the Iraqi constitution.

On several occasions, the Kurdish Government has expressed its readiness to deliver 250 thousand barrels of crude oil per day in exchange for the Iraqi government funding of employees' salaries by 450 billion Iraqi dinars per month.