Iraqi prime minister reopens Kurdish airports to international flights
Airports in Iraq's Kurdish region were reopened to worldwide flights after federal authority was restored at the hubs, said Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi on Tuesday.
This prompted Baghdad to impose a raft of punitive sanctions on the KRG, including a ban on worldwide flights into and out of the Kurdish region.
The order by Abadi was announced on Twitter by an account of the government of Iraq.
He said airports in the Kurdish region will be under the command of the Federal Ministry of Interior.
"The opening of Kurdish airports to global flights is an important step", Kurdish Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani told a news conference according to Kurdish Rudaw TV."We hope more significant steps will be taken".
It also specified that a biometric system used in Kurdistan's airports will be linked with the federal system.
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Kurdistan Regional Government Interior Minister Karim Sinjari commended the decree.
Behind the scenes, several Western governments encouraged Baghdad to open the airports and sought a compromise between Erbil and Baghdad.
In a previous draft the KRG portion was set at 12.67 percent, which is how much of Iraq's population Baghdad says the provinces in Kurdistan make up.
It was not immediately clear whether the region would continue to maintain its independent visa system. After the closure, all flights were routed through Baghdad and the number of arrivals in the Kurdistan region declined from up to 50,000 a month to as few as 7,000 a month, according to reports.
The Kurds, however, are not willing to accept anything less than a 17-percent share, saying there has not been a census in Iraq since 1987.
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