ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – The Iraqi Council of Ministers voted on Tuesday to approve the disbursement of the Kurdistan Region’s civil servant salaries for the month of June; the decision, however, is contingent upon conditions.

“A short time ago, the Iraqi Council of Ministers unanimously voted to disburse the Kurdistan Region’s civil servant employees for the month of June,” a top source in the cabinet confirmed to The New Region, adding, however, that the decision is “subject to conditions.”

The Iraqi government’s finance ministry in May decided to suspend funding the Kurdistan Region’s civil servant salaries, arguing that the Region had already exhausted its share of the annual budget in May. The two governments have been engaged in numerous meetings to address their disagreements over oil exports and domestic revenue.

The Iraqi Oil Ministry and the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) Ministry of Natural Resources on Wednesday agreed on the terms to resume the export of the Kurdistan Region’s oil through the Iraqi State Organization for Marketing of Oil (SOMO), with 17 members of the Iraqi delegation and six members of the Kurdish delegation signing the draft.

“What remains to resume the Kurdistan Region’s oil exports is for the federal government to communicate with the Turkish government and implement the process,” said the KRG’s Ministry of Finance and Economy in a statement on Wednesday, regarding the agreement between the two governments to resume the Region’s oil exports.

The condition that the disbursal of June salaries, however, relates to the Kurdistan Region’s non-oil revenues, according to information acquired by The New Region’s Baghdad correspondent.

The New Region reported earlier in August that a negotiating delegation from the KRG told authorities in Baghdad that a previously agreed-upon sum of 120 billion dinars in non-oil revenues had been prepared to hand over to Baghdad in exchange for June’s public sector salaries, though demanding that the figure be reduced for the month of July.

The Region’s civil servant salaries for the month of May were disbursed in late July after months of deliberation between the two governments, with June and July salaries yet to be disbursed as of the time of writing this article.