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Iraq, KRG reach deal to resume oil exports: Kurdish official

Iraqi workers are seen at an oil refinery near the village of Taq Taq, in the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) on May 31, 2009 [Ali al-Saadi/AFP]

Iraq’s federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) have reached an initial agreement to resume northern oil exports this week, a KRG spokesman has said.

“Following several meetings between the KRG and federal government, an initial agreement has been reached to resume oil exports jointly through Ceyhan [in Turkey] this week,” Lawk Ghafuri, head of foreign media affairs for the KRG, wrote in a Twitter post.

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