The federal government of Iraq and the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan pledged on Sunday to cooperate in resolving their differences in energy issues, hoping to turn “a new page” on energy-related matters. Iraqi Minister of Oil Ihsan Abdul Jabbar Ismaael met with Kamal Atroushi, Minister of Natural Resources of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), in Baghdad on Sunday to discuss a fresh start to the energy relations, Kurdistan 24 news outlet reports. The Iraqi oil minister “welcomed cooperation with the KRG ministry of natural resources and expressed his ministry’s readiness to remove all the technical and financial barriers,” Kurdistan 24 quoted a statement from the Iraqi Oil Ministry as saying. The ministers agreed to put national interest above other considerations and said transparency was important in the energy sector across Iraq. The KRG minister hopes that the relations with the federal government in Baghdad will improve and joint projects […]