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	<title>Bashdar Pusho Ismaeel &#187; Oil Law</title>
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		<title>As oil deal with Baghdad threatens to unravel, Kurdistan must decide – is oil to be their curse or treasure?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2015 00:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The backdrop to a raging battle with the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq is a raging political battle for control of the vast oil wealth of the country. The billions of barrels of oil reserves under the Iraqi feet should be a real treasure and a divine gift but it has proven much more of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>A long-term oil law, the making or breaking of Iraq</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“This deal cannot solve all the problems currently but it is considered a good step,” Kurdish Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani One of the greatest items of contention in Iraq has been a formula to share its immense oil wealth amongst its distrusted and fragmented ethno-social mosaic. Since oil was discovered in Iraq almost a century [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>As the oil dispute heats up, time for Obama and the US to come off the fence in Iraq</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In many ways, the US adventure in Iraq was marked by failure. Billions of dollars, thousands of lives and countless years later, and the Iraq of day is not much different to that of 2003. The US had the painstaking task of stitching warring factions, striving for its elusive goal of national reconciliation and playing [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Latest disappointment with oil draft gives Kurds spur to break an already fragile coalition</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oil has unenviably proved as the paradoxical treasure and curse of the Mesopotamian plains. With the third largest oil reserves in the world, Iraq has the potential to become one of the most solid and prosperous economies in the world and bring with it a great standard of living for it people. However, the gift [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>DNO dispute places an avoidable cloud on the Kurdistan Region</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a time when the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is actively seeking foreign investment and the strengthening of its relationships with major international partners, the DNO fiasco serves as a major blow to the region. The KRG has worked tirelessly to attract direct interest and investment predominantly in its oil sector, much to the dismay [&#8230;]]]></description>
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