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December 19, 2020
BAGHDAD, Iraq
Iraq’s central government has reached an agreement with northern Iraq’s Kurdish Region Government (KRG) on the country’s 2021 budget, Baghdad’s finance minister announced on Saturday.
But in his announcement, Ali Allawi offered no details on the deal between Baghdad and Erbil, the KRG’s capital.
A KRG delegation headed by the region’s Finance Minister Awat Janab arrived in Baghdad on Dec. 3 to discuss the KRG’s share of the budget and the salaries of KRG employees.
The Iraqi federal government had cut the KRG employees’ salaries after it said the KRG had failed to abide by a 2019 agreement under which the KRG would deliver 250,000 barrels of crude oil a day to Baghdad, a claim the KRG denies.