Breaking News - 25/09/2009 - 12:00 am
Kuwait is considering removing Iraq from Chapter VII
Kuwait said it is considering the offer, backed by the United Nations for compensation of the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait in 1990 to investment, and thus rid Iraq of international restrictions imposed on him.
The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon had said last July that he supports the idea of alternative solution reduce the compensation of Kuwait from Iraq, as well as conversion of the remaining payments to investment. The news agency quoted the Kuwaiti government, Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Salem Al-Sabah said that Kuwait "will seek all its means to assist Iraq to complete the implementation of the decisions" of the link between the two countries.
The Kuwaiti minister The proposal of the Secretary General of the United Nations to settle the issue of compensation or debts to Kuwait on Iraq through investments "is what we think, and we want to use these things to more overlap between the two economies for the benefit of Kuwaiti and Iraqi people."
He pointed out that "Kuwait does not want to complicate the things, and we want to accelerate the departure from Iraq of these obligations by making it easier to apply, and completion of maintenance of border signs between the two countries is the most important issue for Kuwait.
"It is said that the international resolutions imposed on Iraq to allocate five percent of oil revenues for compensation resulting from the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait The war that followed, most of them going to Kuwait.
Iraq still owes about $ 25 billion, of which 24 billion for Kuwait. succeeded Kuwait through its activities in the corridors of the United Nations to keep Iraq under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.
But UN diplomats say The countries concerned in the Security Council tend to vote in favor of removing Iraq from the restrictions imposed on Baghdad because of Chapter VII of the end of the year.'s debt consists of Kuwait to Iraq of the losses suffered by the oil sector in Kuwait, in addition to the losses suffered by government ministries and buildings during the Iraqi invasion.
Baghdad says that the continued subordination of Iraq to Chapter VII, "restricts the country and affect its independence."
