" The Dinar Daily ", Thursday, 18 July, 2013
Kurds renew claim to oust al-Shahristani
18-07-2013 | (Voice of Iraq)
BAGHDAD - Omar Star
Thursday, July 18, 2013
Demanded the bloc «Kurdistan Alliance» yesterday dismissal of Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs Hussain al-Shahristani after being accused of smuggling oil Kurds, and confirmed that «provokes the crisis to cover up the failure in the management of electricity.
It was al-Shahristani said in a press statement that «the oil contracts concluded by the Kurdistan region with foreign companies illegal. He pointed to «the existence of cases of oil smuggling across the borders of the region».
The leader of the bloc «Kurdistan Alliance» Farhad Atrushi during a press conference held in the parliament building yesterday: »there are statements launched a few days ago the Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs Hussain al-Shahristani on the smuggling of oil from the Kurdistan region», adding that «Iraq belongs to everyone and does not belong to national or The person Kurdistan and the Kurdish people are part of this country.
He explained that «the wealth of the country belongs to all the Iraqi people and there is no guardian of this country has the eligibility to dispose of this wealth, accusing al-Shahristani« fabricating crises to cover up its failure in the case of electricity, which has become intractable despite the disbursement of billions of dollars.
He asked: «If there is actually smuggling of oil from the Kurdistan region Why Shahristani traveled to the United States to persuade them to invest in the southern fields? And how to deal with the oil companies escape from the region?, Do you deal with the oil companies steal the Iraqi people? ».
The MP pointed out that «al-Shahristani wants to take us back to the central abhorrent that will never come back, we were hoping for him to handle the existing problems in the oil sector, including corruption and reduce production and the problems faced by the testimony of international experts fields.
He called Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to «unacceptable action against al-Shahristani, who failed more than seven years in solving the problem of electricity.
It is noteworthy that al-Shahristani promised on more than one occasion resolve the electricity crisis in this summer. The new Electricity Minister Karim Aftan Jumaili Monday pledge to overcome the energy crisis in the country in the next year.
Moreover, MP for the coalition Download «rule of law» Mansour al-Tamimi al-Shahristani and Electricity Minister Abdul Kareem Aftan responsibility for the deterioration in energy. He said in a statement that «al-Shahristani and Electricity Minister Abdul Kareem Aftan bear responsibility quotient corruption in the Ministry of Electricity.
He added that «the deterioration in the electric power and reluctance projects came because of their control to all contracts entered into by the ministry what caused a major crisis in energy, paid by the citizen.
Iraq suffers from a significant lack of power, despite the huge funds allocated for rehabilitation.
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Vest leading demonstrations Nasiriyah against al-Shahristani
18-07-2013 | (Voice of Iraq)
Dhi Qar (Iraq) / Ahmed Mohamed
Hundreds of residents of the city of Nasiriyah in Dhi Qar province in the small hours of Tuesday night to demonstrate in protest against the constant interruption of the power supply, stressing that the government has failed to provide power to the citizens. And carrying demonstrators Dhi Qar, Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs Hussain al-Shahristani responsibility for the deterioration of the reality of the power supply to maintain, as the Council approved the province of Dhi Qar recently the failure of all efforts to solve the electricity crisis in the province after the failure of departments and the Ministry of Electricity in the completion of projects solve the crisis.
Dozens of young activists in the province of Dhi Qar began organizing open-ended sit since last month in Habboubi Square in central Nasiriyah to demand the provision of electricity and improve the services and the release of one of their colleagues, who was arrested following a request to agree to sit.
The city of Nasiriyah still see the old Tour of Sheikh Abdul-Zahra Vest, which exceeded a 70-year-old, in the streets of Nasiriyah, a speaker pregnant repeating slogans denouncing corruption and the failure of the central and local governments in solving the problem of electricity for the tenth year in a row.
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