Oil Ministry spokesman Asim Jihad said the draft calls for a federal committee headed by the prime minister to oversee all contracts. It would also have the power to review existing deals signed under Saddam Hussein or by the Kurdish regional government.
Jihad said the bill would go to the cabinet next week for consideration.
(Reuters)
Sharing Iraq's Oil
THE FUTURE OF THE ECONOMY. The uneven distribution of Iraq's oil resources has long been a source of tension among the country's ethnic and sectarian groups. Since the fall of Saddam Hussein, the tangled quest to find an equitable way to share oil revenues has been a major stumbling block on the road to national unity.
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