During Wednesday’s weekly meeting, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Council of Ministers confirmed that the tripartite oil export agreement remains in effect and underlined that Baghdad has to pay unpaid government salaries to the Kurdistan Region.

The KRG said the agreement was successfully implemented in the final three months of 2025, remains in effect, and has been renewed. In this context, KRG Minister of Natural Resources Kamal Mohammed presented data and necessary information on exported oil volumes and revenues generated from the sale of Kurdistan Region oil.

In September 2025, the Iraqi federal government, the KRG, and oil companies signed a tripartite deal that officially restarted oil exports from the Kurdistan Region, which were halted in March 2023.

This was part of an earlier agreement in July 2025 that the KRG would supply 230,000 barrels of oil per day and 120 billion Iraqi dinars in non-oil revenues to resume exports in exchange for government salaries.

The KRG underlined that the Kurdistan Region has successfully implemented the tripartite oil export agreement, delivering an average of 220,000 barrels of oil per day to the State Organization for Marketing of Oil for sale on international markets, with revenues deposited in cash into the Federal Ministry of Finance’s treasury as final income.

“This has been done in addition to transferring the federal treasury’s share of the region’s non-oil revenues and submitting monthly audit balance sheets to the Federal Ministry of Finance,” the KRG said.

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However, the KRG said that Baghdad still has not paid the November and December 2025 salaries, as well as some unpaid salaries from 2023 and 2024, which have been withheld without any legal or constitutional justification. 

“Salaries are a legal right and entitlement of the region’s employees, and the KRG and the people of Kurdistan will not relinquish this right,” the KRG concluded.