31/05/2011
Invitations to the adoption of bilateral agreements and international conventions to resolve disputes with neighboring countries
Internationalization last resort and must be on Kuwait and Baghdad, Ankara support
BAGHDAD - The Rashid Shaimaa
Stressed political importance of the adoption of the diplomatic dialogue to discuss all outstanding issues with neighboring countries. He stressed politicians told the "morning", "the need to contract and the adoption of international conventions approved by all parties in order to maintain the interest of the country, calling for non-internationalization of these issues, But after reaching a dead end in peaceful dialogue.
Dialogue safest solution
A member of the state law Mohammed Mhkour that "the dialogue according to the methods of diplomacy is the safest solution on the whole, which must be followed because it gives each party the right, while the reactions are not given as a result."
Mhkour said: "We do not want to Iraq in this period that the interests are of the damage .. Because we want the country's interest above all, if we used a diplomatic solution did not come When the outcome of that could escalate the matter to third parties such as the UN for example."
It is said that there are several problematic between Iraq and a number of neighboring countries such as Turkey in regards to the water, and Kuwait as compensation file and the port of Mubarak, and with Iran on the border demarcation and water drainage, with concentrated dilemmas with Saudi Arabia on the Iraqi detainees in the Kingdom.
He Mhkour: "We are with diplomatic dialogue to resolve our problems with neighboring countries, there are three agreements with Kuwait, held in Iraq for a long time and can not the State of Kuwait violated, as well as Turkey, which exist between us and them good relations and covenants that the water is a natural right, not from Turkey's right to cut off water for the Iraqi people."
He said a member of the state of law that "Iraq after the fall of the former regime and foreign entry has become a coveted many because he possessed many of the natural wealth of the land is fertile and major oil reserves, making it a coveted all countries that exploit the political situation in order to climb on his shoulder and the development of their people economically .. We aspire to solve all problems diplomatically to this country and its people."
The government is moving in the best way
For his part, MP for the Kurdistan Alliance, Sheriff Soliman, "The former regime was the cause of the deterioration of Iraq's relations with neighboring countries, where the policy is not unrelated to the diplomatic and political engagement based on good relations and good neighborliness."
Sulaiman said: "After the liberation must change the transaction with Iraq's neighbors, should the current government to deal well with the neighboring countries and the holding of conventions that guarantee the right of all parties."
He continued: "Recently seen a relationship between Iraq and some neighboring countries, some of the decline and reached a stage (the warning), and this was not in the interest of Iraq .. We need to calm dialogue based on good neighborliness and the holding of international conventions approved by all parties, must be adopted diplomatic dialogue because it is the only way to ensure good neighborliness.
"Said Solomon," we at this stage we need a dialogue based on international conventions, and that dealing with these countries On this basis, to ensure Iraq's right to the right of all other countries because these countries have suffered as Iraq suffered from the former regime, but on the other hand we must not leave the right of Iraq and Kuwait, for example not to raise the sensitivity of Iraq on the issue of the Port Mubarak, as well as Turkey also on the water issue, particularly that these countries had reached a rate of conviction with dealing with the new Iraq and are beneficiaries of that, Turkey has many participants investment and trade with us and also other countries that their interests must be built on the basis of common interest, not dependence on single-interest ".
Solomon said that "the government is now moving in the best way to build good relations with these countries and which had a negative reaction from the former regime, and hope that they (neighbors) have to deal with Iraq on the basis of mutual understanding and good Algeor.
Conventions for the protection of the rights of Iraq
The MP from the Iraqi List, the appearance of al-Janabi, he said that "Iraq has extensive trade relations with most neighboring countries, totaling more than $ 30 billion, and there should be agreements to protect the rights of Iraq." He said al-Janabi, he "must be the position of Iraq's unity, because the diplomatic dialogue not the only way, but the common position of command that must be taken by the state. "
He said al-Janabi, "It is with the departure of U.S. forces will be the end of 2011 the Iraqi government a kind of sovereignty in order to solve this Alashkalayat relationship with neighboring countries."
The Minister of State, the government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said last week: "The suspension of Iraq work of the Convention strategy with Turkey is not a pressure on it, but in order to preserve the interests of Iraq strategy, particularly the water," noting that "the House of Representatives called for by refusing to ratify the Convention Turkey to force release of Iraq's share of water."
He called Iraq, Turkey yesterday to sign an agreement to ensure its quota of water from the Tigris and Euphrates, where the Speaker confirmed Osama Nujaifi during his meeting with Turkish President Abdullah Gul in Istanbul yesterday, the importance of relations between Iraq and Turkey and its development to serve the interests of both countries.
Iraq's share of water
Indicated that the parliamentarians pointed out that "the failure to ratify the Council of Representatives to the Convention strategy with Turkey, aims to commit the launch of Iraq's share of the water, urging the government to deal the same way to preserve the interests of Iraq. The MP said Habib Terminal:" It is essential that the Iraqi government mechanisms pressure to Turkey, including failure to sign the Convention on the strategy with Turkey until Ankara signed an agreement for water between the two sides ", calling for" reciprocity with all the regional neighboring countries to Iraq. "
He said the terminal was quoted by the agency Alsumaria News, said that "such action by the House will thus safeguarding the interests of Iraq and their legitimate rights," stressing the "Do not allow any way to waive it."
For her part, Rep. Nahida Daini "The Turkish side has benefited greatly from inside Iraq by Turkish companies, however, surprised that the intervention of Iraq's water by distillation, as they Iqtrunha dropper to Iraq," as saying.
It is said that the cabinet had formed last April of a committee to study the legal aspects of international conventions on water to determine the shares of riparian States on the Tigris and Euphrates, where he said the Secretary-General of the Council of Ministers on the Keywords in the statement singled out the ..
The water issue was of exceptional concern during meetings with The Turkish side, noting that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki put this file on the table directly during a meeting with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan during his recent visit to Baghdad, along with discussion of dam projects currently being implemented both in Turkish territory or Iraqi and aspects of its influence in Iraq's share of water.
He added that Erdogan vowed to examine the file seriously, so as to achieve common interests and maintain the level of trade exchange between the two countries, pointing at the same time that the government had several options to deal with this issue, including the use of factors of trade and economic leverage on the riparian States, as He noted that the signing of an agreement with the Turkish side, the strategy depends on resolving the water issue and to respond to Iraq's request in this case.
Joint Political Declaration
The Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced during his visit to Baghdad in July 2008, and his meeting with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki signed an agreement called the "Joint Political Declaration", which included one of its clauses to form the Supreme Council for the strategic cooperation joint working to regulate the relationship between them, This Council will be chaired by the prime ministers of both countries should meet once a year.
One of the functions of the Supreme Council for the strategic cooperation joint working on many issues, including political and economic cooperation, energy, water, culture, security and military cooperation.
The agreement the culmination of a memorandum of understanding signed between Maliki and Erdogan on the seventh of August in 2007, and a visit by President Jalal Talabani to Ankara in March the same year, where they signed a bilateral agreement between Iraq and Turkey to form the Supreme Council for the strategic cooperation with a view of closer bilateral relations and to support political and economic relations and security between them, and coordinate their positions and their efforts to achieve regional peace and stability in the region, and as such is committed to the Governments of Iraq and Turkey to develop a long-term strategic partnership aimed at strengthening the solidarity between the two peoples.
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