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Maliki's visit to Kuwait tomorrow amid optimism the initiative of Kuwait on the relations between the two countries


February 16, 2011

Maliki's visit to Kuwait tomorrow amid optimism the initiative of Kuwait on the relations between the two countries

Alsumaria News / Baghdad

A source in the Office of the Prime Minister, on Tuesday, said al-Maliki will travel to Kuwait tomorrow to visit a one-day, explaining that there are optimistic the Kuwaiti government to take a positive attitude to turn the page on the past and the development of relations between the two countries.

The source said in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki will leave Baghdad tomorrow, heading to Kuwait to visit the one-day talks with the Amir and the Prime Minister to discuss several outstanding issues between the two sides."

The source, who requested anonymity, said that "al-Maliki optimistic in making Kuwait a positive attitude will be announced during the visit on the start of a new page in relations between the two countries and turn the page on the past, especially with regard to debt arising from her owed by Iraq since 1990," noting that "discussions with the Kuwaiti side will focus on the invitation of the Emir of Kuwait to attend the Arab Summit in Baghdad at the end next March, as well as raising the profile of missing Kuwaitis and missing documentation. "

The source noted that "the visit comes after the call of Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, the Kuwaiti prime minister during his visit to Baghdad, which asked to be Kuwait's first country visited by al-Maliki," noting that "there is a delegation will be accompanied by al-Maliki is composed of Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, Minister of oil cream for coffee and Transport Minister Hadi al-Amiri and Human Rights Minister Mohamed Shia'a Sudanese Minister of State and the purity of net debt and the commander of naval power. "

The Kuwaiti prime minister visited Baghdad on January 12 last at the head of government delegation during which he met both Maliki and President Jalal Talabani and Parliament Speaker Osama Najafi and Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari and a number of Iraqi officials.

The UN Security Council passed at its meeting on 15 December, three special resolutions in Iraq, ending the first oil for food program, while calling the other to extend the immunity that protects Iraq from claims associated with an era of former President Saddam Hussein to the June 30, 2011 (six months) instead of and stopped in later that month as scheduled at the beginning, after Iraq said it would not request any further extensions of the work (the Development Fund for Iraq) which was the immunity from claims for compensation.

In the third resolution, approved by the UN Security Council to lift the ban on imports of Iraq's nuclear program to implement the civilian nuclear ending restrictions on weapons of mass destruction, missiles and so put an end to the ban lasted 19 years, under resolution 687 of 1991.

The Iraqi government is keen to ensure the extension of the work of the Fund which was established in 2003 after the fall of Saddam Hussein in order to protect revenues from sales of oil and natural gas in Iraq.

Iraq has been under since 1990 under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations, which imposed on him after the invasion of the regime of President Saddam Hussein of Kuwait in August of the same year, and this item allows the use of force against Iraq as a threat to international security, in addition to the freezing of large amounts of its assets financial in the international banks to pay compensation to those affected by the invasion of Kuwait

And consists of Chapter VII of the 13 articles, is resolution 678, issued in 1990 and calling for the ousting Iraq from Kuwait, by force of the provisions of this chapter, Iraq is still under Tailth, because the survival of the issue of the remains of Kuwaiti citizens and prisoners of war in Iraq and Kuwaiti property, including archives of the Amiri Diwan and the Crown Prince's Court and the question of environmental awards and oil, which is not only about the state of Kuwait and other Arab countries and companies still have some rights.

Kuwait had asked the UN Security Council, in July of 2009, before its to discuss Iraq's international obligations not to raise Iraq from the list of Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations before has met all its obligations, especially in the cases of compensation, prisoners and missing Kuwaitis and its emphasis on the need to respect Iraq of resolution 833 judge the demarcation of the border between Iraq and Kuwait.

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