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Iraq says Turkey rejects Kurd export pipelines - Yahoo! News

Iraq says Turkey rejects Kurd export pipelines
By Ahmed Rasheed | Reuters – 2 hrs 48 mins ago

Reuters/Reuters - Iraqi Kurdish Minister for Natural Resources Ashti Hawrami speaks during a news conference in Arbil, about 350 km (217 miles) north of Baghdad February 7, 2013.REUTERS/Azad Lashkari

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Turkey has told Iraq it will reject any extension of oil and gas pipelines from Kurdistan without the approval of the Baghdad government, Iraq's oil minister Abdul Kareem Luaibi was quoted as saying by the state media network on Monday.

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