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Ashti Hawrami - Minister for Natural Resources, Kurdistan Regional Government

Ashti Hawrami - Minister for Natural Resources, Kurdistan Regional Government

The Interview vor 14 Jahren

Zeinab Badawi speaks to Kurdish minister Ashti Hawrami.

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Kurds in Iraq are growing restless and impatient over the
violence and open political rivalries in Baghdad, between Shias
and Sunnis.

Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region of four million is a haven of
relative stability and prosperity and what's more has its own oil
riches to exploit.

Zeinab Badawi speaks to Ashti Hawrami. For the last six years,
he's been Minister for Natural Resources in Kurdistan's regional
government.

Why are Kurds upsetting the central government by increasingly
seizing control of their oil resources and exports? Do they have
plans to breakaway?

(Image: Ashti Hawrami. Credit: AFP / Getty Images)