Iraqi Foreign Ministry Announced the Formation of a Ministerial Committee to Resolve Outstanding Issues With Kuwait

Editor: SS | AA Wednesday, 12 K 2 2011
The foreign ministers of Iraq and Kuwait
Alsumaria News / Baghdad

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iraq, on Wednesday, the formation of a ministerial committee to resolve the outstanding issues between Iraq and Kuwait, according to international resolutions, while Kuwait confirmed its support of the Arab summit in Baghdad.

He said Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari told a news conference held with the Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem and attended “Alsumaria News”, “The Kuwaiti delegation visited Baghdad, today, came to offer congratulations on the occasion of the formation of the government,” noting that “the two sides discussed the strengthening relations between the two countries. ”
Zebari said that “will be the formation of a higher ministerial committee to resolve the outstanding issues between Iraq and Kuwait, according to international resolutions,” adding that “Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki assured the Kuwaiti side that the new Iraq with its obligations and meet its international obligations towards Kuwait.”
And on the incident detained five Iraqi fishermen by the Kuwaiti coast guard patrols Sunday, Zebari stressed that “Kuwait has pledged to open an investigation to determine the circumstances of the incident.”
Arrived in the Kuwaiti Prime Minister Nasser Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, this morning, with the delegation of a delegation composed of Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem and Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Hamad Al-Jarallah and the Ambassador of Kuwait, the Panel retired to the insured and the advisor Kuwait Abu Diwan, Baghdad, and draws upon his arrival to the building of the Prime Minister , to meet a number of Iraqi officials, to discuss common issues and congratulations to form a government.
For his part, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem during the conference, said,“This visit is important and do not include side Albertokoli only, but other issues,” noting that “there are attempts to remove any obstacles between the two countries, in order to maintain the protection of the area of foreign interference” .
Salem added that “Kuwait to support the forthcoming Arab Summit in Baghdad,” noting that “the presence of Prince of Kuwait in the summit is the biggest proof of that.”
The file border disputes and oil between Iraq and Kuwait, began after Britain decided in 1961 Granting of Independence to Kuwait, the rejection of the late Prime Minister Abdul Karim Qassem, recognition, and called for time to annex Kuwait to spend Basra, despite the recognition of the Iraqi government, dominated by the Party Baath Party in 1963 after dropping system Abd al-Karim Qasim, the independence of Kuwait deal, some historians it has for the Iraqi government to give money because of the deficit was experienced, but that President Saddam Hussein, who belongs to the same party decided on the second of August 1990 invasion Kuwait against the backdrop of problems on the border and Tsmha and conflict on some oil wells.
The UN Security Council issued resolution No. 833 of 1993 provides for the demarcation of the border between Iraq and Kuwait, which has a length of 216 km through the establishment of an international commission to demarcate the border between the two parties, which was rejected by the regime of President Saddam Hussein first, he agreed at the end of 1994 after international pressure , and Iraqi officials affirm that the demarcation of the border between the two countries was by force, and led to the deduction of Iraqi territory in terms of Safwan and Umm Qasr area, as well as reducing the area of Iraqi territorial waters, while urging the Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon, Iraq in November 16 of last year, to fulfill its obligations to Kuwait and, in particular Security Council resolution No. (833) on the demarcation of the border between the two out of the penalty provisions of Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.
He was President Jalal Talabani, said last November in a meeting with fronds Union of Iraq, that Iraq agreed to recognize the international borders of Kuwait, and the Kuwaiti side in turn, confirmed his agreement on this matter, and to exit Iraq from Chapter VII, in the event of Books of Iraq letter to The Security Council affirms its recognition of Kuwait’s borders – in Iraq.

The UN Security Council passed, mid-December last, three important decisions lift whereby the majority of the sanctions imposed on Iraq after the invasion of Kuwait in 1991, and approved in the third resolution to lift the ban on imports of Iraq’s nuclear for the implementation of a civilian nuclear program, setting a limit to ban a 19 years, under resolution 687 of 1991
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