Oil for soil: Toward a Grand Bargain on Iraq and the Kurds

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Oil for soil: Toward a Grand Bargain on Iraq and the Kurds International Crisis Group Compte d'auteur A long-festering conflict over Kirkuk and other disputed territories is threatening to disrupt the current fragile relative peace in Iraq by blocking legislative progress and political accommodation. Two events in particular stand out: a two-month stalemate in July-September in negotiations over a provincial elections law in which Kirkuk's unresolved status was the principal obstacle and, during this period, a campaign by the Iraqi army in and around the Kurdish-controlled disputed district of Khanaqin. To avoid a breakdown over the issue of Kirkuk, the current piecemeal approach should be discarded in favour of a gland bargain involving all core issues: Kirkuk and other disputed territories, revenue sharing and the hydrocarbons ...


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Table of contents Executive summary and recommendations / i I. Introduction / 1 II. The disputed territories conundrum / 5 A. Territories in dispute / 5 B. A niw un role / 7 C. Responses to UNAMI's proposals / 11 III. Escalating conflict over oil / 14 A. Developing Kurdistan's oil wealth / 15 B. Oil in Kirkuk and other disputed territories / 19 C The battle over the hydrocarbons law / 23 IV. Possible compromise solutions /26 A. A territorial compromise / 26 B. A Grand bargain / 27 V. Conclusion / 32 Appendices A. Map of Inaq / 34 B. Map of disputed territories claimed by the KRG / 35 C. Map of oil and gas concessions in the Kurdistan region / 36 D. Map of oil and gas resources in the Kurdistan region and disputed territories / 37 E. Map of Governorates and districts / 38 F. About the international Crisis Group / 39 G. Crisis Group reports and briefings on the Middle East and North Africa / 40 H. Crisis Group Board of Trustees / 42