Kurdistan/Iraq: Iraq PM Offers Cash-Strapped Kurds Salaries for Oil

Feb 16, 2016 | Agence France-Presse
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Iraq’s federal government will pay the salaries of the cash-strapped Kurdish region’s employees if it halts its independent oil exports, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Monday. Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region, facing a financial crisis due to low oil prices, has announced its employees will be paid partial salaries until further notice and that months of unpaid wages will be considered loans to the government.