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Iraq: Oil

Volume 479: debated on Monday 21 July 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what reports he has received on (a) the provisions in the recent technical support contracts between oil multinational corporations and the government of Iraq and (b) preferences for future contracts involving oil extraction attached to the technical support contract; and if he will make a statement. (219737)

The Government are aware that the Government of Iraq and international oil companies are in the process of negotiating technical support contracts. Such contracts, and the details therein, are a sovereign issue for the Iraqi government.