An interim agreement to settle internal oil issues in Iraq was met with widespread praise, though the Kurdish government said it wasn’t ceding control. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki -moon congratulated the Iraqi central and semiautonomous Kurdish governments for finding an interim solution to oil budget and export stalemates brewing for roughly a decade. Federal and regional authorities are called on “to build on this important first step and to solve all remaining outstanding issues within the framework of the constitution,” he said in a Thursday statement. A constitution implemented in 2006 says the federal State Oil Marketing Organization has exclusive control over petroleum exports, with the semiautonomous Kurdistan Regional Government taking 17 percent of all oil revenues. There are disagreements, however, over what level of control KRG […]