Parliament rebuffs Cabinet oil law
The Parliament's oil and energy committee has voted against the Cabinet's draft oil law, reviving the debate over long-delayed, crucial legislation.
Adnan Janabi (R), the chairman of the Parliament's oil and energy committee, gives a press conference with Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Hussain al-Shahristani in February 2011. Janabi's committee voted on April 18, 2012 to set aside a draft oil law favored by Shahristani, and instead consider competing versions of that legislation. (BEN VAN HEUVELEN/Iraq Oil Report)
BAGHDAD - The Iraqi Parliament's oil and energy committee is resuming its efforts to push forward long-delayed oil legislation – and as a first step, it has voted to set aside a draft favored by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
On April 18 the committee voted on whether to move ahead with a draft oil law proposed by the Cabinet last summer, according to multiple committee members. By a vote of seven to six, with three abstentions, the committee decided to set that version aside.
Login to your account
Subscribe for news access
Annual News subscribers receive access to the full archive of Iraq Oil Report articles.
