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Iraqi Kurdish Prime Minister Masrour Barzani met with Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and its Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar in Erbil, the government of the Kurdistan region said.
A dispute over oil has long strained relations between authorities in Baghdad, northern Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region and neighbouring Turkey.
The agreement, signed in Baghdad in the presence of Prime Minister Mohamed Shia Al-Sudani and Kurdish premier Masrour Barzani, was to be implemented 'today', a Kurdish regional government official said.
Iraq aims to establish a new oil company in the northern Kurdish region, months after a federal court ruling deemed the legal foundations of the Kurdistan region's oil and gas sector unconstitutional
![Iraq - Kurdistan oil dispute [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/large_16_9/public/media/images/F6EC602F-E6BE-4DAC-8CC6-4DFFCF0F1CA4.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=nVqvhAEN "Iraq - Kurdistan oil dispute [AFP]")
Iraq's oil ministry will begin implementing a federal court ruling that deemed the legal foundations of the Kurdistan region's oil and gas sector unconstitutional.
'We have an initial understanding [with the KRG], God willing we will reach a solution within the coming three days,' Iraq's oil minister said on Sunday.
The reopening of the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline, which has been shut for a decade, would provide a rival route to a pipeline from Iraq's Kurdistan region.
Photoblog: Horses, jockeys, gamblers and racing fans from across Iraq travel to Erbil for the region’s first professional horse race to offer cash betting. Photos by Claire Thomas.
Blog: While Kurdish militias are glorified in the media, press freedoms are suffering in Iraq's Kurdish autonomous region, writes Stephen Brent.
A suspension in Kurdistan oil exports abroad has halted debt repayments, worrying actors in the semi-autonomous region and Baghdad.