Iraqi Kurdistan threatened on Wednesday to take
legal action against buyers of the country's oil unless the auto**mous region is paid its share of revenue from any sales. The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) said
buyers of Iraqi oil were complicit in violating the constitution because the Baghdad central government has cut the region's 17 percent entitlement of the national budget. It is unclear whether the threat will influence major
buyers of Iraqi crude, but it nevertheless illustrates the KRG's increasingly assertive stance in a long-running dispute with Baghdad over control of its natural resources.
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