A deputy warns: Selling Khor Abdullah to Kuwait will cost Iraq losses estimated at $1 trillion.
A deputy warns: Selling Khor Abdullah to Kuwait will cost Iraq losses estimated at $1 trillion.
6-22-2025
Al-Maalouma/Baghdad..
Member of Parliament Amer Abdul-Jabbar accused Kuwait on Sunday of exploiting the Khor Abdullah Agreement to achieve geographical ambitions within Iraqi territory, warning that this agreement could cost Iraq economic losses estimated at one trillion dollars.
Abdul-Jabbar said in a statement to Al-Maalouma Agency, “Kuwait has encroached on the Iraqi Fasht al-Aij area, which has shallow waters, with the aim of making it the last maritime point of contact with Iraq, which constitutes great pressure on our maritime borders and territorial sovereignty.”
He added, “Kuwait deliberately exploited the Khor Abdullah Agreement, which stipulates the demarcation of the maritime borders after the 162nd pillar, to manipulate Iraqi maritime geography, especially after the Federal Court’s decision in 2013,” indicating that “there is widespread controversy over the legitimacy of the agreement, which Parliament previously described as a (humiliating agreement).”
He stressed that “what is happening is a losing deal for Iraq, as giving up Khor Abdullah will cost the Iraqi economy losses estimated at a trillion dollars, in addition to being a clear violation of national rights and sovereignty.”
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