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March 25, 2011The start of the first round of talks between Iraq and Kuwait
Scheduled to begin the first round of talks, the Iraq-Kuwait on Sunday, March 27, 2011 and continue for two days.
The Iraqi delegation will include ministers of finance, oil, transport and Deputy Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Interior, Transport and the commander of the Iraqi navy in addition to external managers in the transport and oil.
It is worth mentioning that he was agreed to form the Higher Ministerial Committee after the visit of Prime Minister mutual Kuwait to Baghdad and the Iraqi prime minister's visit to Kuwait last month.
And some informed sources said that the agenda of the Joint Commission includes discussions on the question of reparations and debt Kuwait in addition to other outstanding issues, including missing file Alkwyttin and land border demarcation and regulation of marine navigation in the Khawr Abd Allah and the issue of Iraqi farms.
The same sources pointed out that the Higher Committee will discuss other bilateral issues, including oil and file reached by the joint committees between the two countries in the field of cooperation in the oil field Ratqa and Safwan border.
In addition to the file of Iraqi Airways and start to regulate air services between the two countries. The sources said that the talks will discuss ways of activating the building at the Safwan border crossings as well as ways to activate trade exchange between the two countries.
The agenda will include discussion of ways to prevent abuses by the marine fishermen as well as discuss the legal status of the restoration of Kuwaiti property in Iraq.
And some informed sources indicate that the level of government participation on both sides reflects the desire of the parties in overcoming obstacles and finding solutions to outstanding issues and is considered the first of its kind over the past two decades.
This was received last week in Kuwait, an Iraqi parliamentary delegation headed by senior Osama Najafi, accompanied by deputies from different parliamentary blocs.
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