Britain warns Iraq against opening oil pipeline to Syria

The Kuwaiti daily al-Anbaa issued on Friday said that Britain has warned Iraq against the consequences of opening the oil pipeline to Syria and considered this step as depriving the Iraqi people from humanitarian aids, especially if the exports process is made outside the framework of the oil for food agreement.

The paper added that the Iraqi oil minister had recently said that Baghdad is intending to reopen the oil pipelines which can transport 200,000 per day. A line which was closed since 1982 following the eruption of the Iraqi- Iranian war.

The paper said that according to the oil for food agreement Iraq can only export through two openings: al-Baker port on the Gulf and the Turkish Jeihan port.