14/02/2011
Maliki to Kuwait on Wednesday to discuss several pending files
BAGHDAD, The Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Wednesday after a visit to Kuwait for talks with the emir and Prime Minister on activating bilateral relations and discuss the problems of the border and get out of debt and the consequences of Iraq's Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.
It is expected to meet al-Maliki during his visit to Kuwait, which has a one-day and is the first of its kind abroad since the formation of his new government late last year with the emir, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah and Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah to discuss a number of outstanding issues of debt, limitations and compensation invasion of Iraqi forces of Kuwait in 1990 and out of Iraq from the consequences of Chapter VII of the UN Charter, which resulted from the invasion in addition to enlarge the contribution of Kuwaiti companies in the reconstruction of Iraq.
The Kuwaiti Prime Minister Nasser al-Ahmad al-Sabah, visited Baghdad on 21 December last, where he in talks with al-Maliki said his country would help Iraq to implement United Nations resolutions on the relationships of the two countries to exit from the consequences of Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations in the two countries agreed to form a a high joint committee to resolve the outstanding issues of compensation and the demarcation of the border and the possibility of conversion of debt to Iraq on the Kuwaiti investments in this country.The visit to Sheikh Al-Sabah to the recent Baghdad, the first of its kind in this high-level official by the official Kuwait to Baghdad for more than 20 years.
The visit of the morning to Baghdad two days after the incident, an exchange of fire between Iraqi seamen and Kuwaiti coastguard patrol, killing one man and arrested four Iraqi seamen were released later, which called on Iraq yesterday to emphasize that this incident underscores the need for joint action with the State of Kuwait, "to set the border and not to allow these unfortunate incidents that affect the good relations between Iraq and Kuwait to ensure the security of the brotherly and safety of the two countries. "
Al-Maliki said in remarks to the press recently that the Kuwaiti greed old Iraqi in the territory of Kuwait, "it will never be finished," emphasizing the Kuwait as "an independent sovereign State and the limits of science."
He said that Iraq today is not Iraq yesterday, and the current Iraq policy based on strengthening bilateral relations and common interests with other countries, especially neighboring and full cooperation and non-aggression.
Following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990 are still several differences exist between the two countries, especially the issue of demarcation of the common border as defined by UN Resolution 833 in 1993 and a length of 216 km. ورغم استعداد العراق على الاعتراف بحدود الكويت البرية الا انه يعتبر ان البحرية يعطل
Despite the willingness of Iraq to recognize Kuwait's borders wild, but he is considered to be the demarcation of maritime borders disrupt its port on the Gulf is vital to its economy.
Book and the Kuwaiti authorities regularly Iraqi fishing boats and fishermen arrested for entering Iraqi territorial waters illegally In the latest incident, authorities arrested a Kuwaiti Coast Guard in October last 13 Iraqi fishermen.
The Iraqi government announced last November from the agreement with Kuwait to establish a wide buffer zone of 500 meters on both sides of the border between them to be region-free completely from any activity with the exception of border police and the transfer of farmers to the Iraqis to new homes paid for by Kuwait as compensation to them .
And the recently canceled three UN Security Council resolutions and thereby putting an end to the sanctions imposed on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and oil for food program.
But these three resolutions voted on by the Council, which allows for cancellation of the sanctions adopted under Chapter VII of the UN Charter did not abolish the compensation paid by Iraq to Kuwait, which the army occupied the summer of 1990.
The Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon that will lift all remaining sanctions on the condition that Iraq reached an agreement on the demarcation of the border with Kuwait as well as pay compensation to them.
Baghdad continues to pay 5% of its oil revenues for Kuwait compensation fund, which demand 22 billion dollars after it got a 13 billion so far.
Kuwait is also expecting her to return what was stolen Baghdad during the seven-month occupation, and reveal her fate of hundreds of prisoners of war who were declared missing.
Iraq had been subjected to international sanctions under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations after the invasion of Saddam's regime Alkubt the beginning of the month of August 1990 involving a total ban him, which negatively impacted on the political status of the Economic and Social Council, but the UN Security Council voted late last year and unanimously the resolution states to remove Iraq from Chapter VII of money and end the mandate of the multinational forces and the protection of Iraqi assets and money from legal claims that have accumulated since the era of the former regime for a period of six months.
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