Iraq is looking to get out of Chapter VII following the evolution of its relationship with its neighbor, Kuwait
08/05/2012 13:24
Baghdad, May 8 (Rn) – I expected the Foreign Relations Committee in the Iraqi parliament, which hosted the ambassadors of Arab countries, including the Kuwaiti ambassador this week near the exit of Iraq from Chapter VII after the understandings held with neighboring Kuwait as likely to keep a file of actual land border Security Council resolution the international number (833) need to understandings extra.required Chapter VII Iraq to pay financial compensation to Kuwait are estimated at 5% of oil imports due to the damage done to them during the invasion of Saddam in the nineties of the last century as places of Iraq’s money under the tutelage of the Fund the DFI)) International. and ended for inter-ministerial committee Iraqi and Kuwaiti last week a meeting in Baghdad as part of a political agreement provides for examining the possibility of closing the outstanding issues between the two countries. and Iraqi Prime Minister has ended an official visit to Kuwait last month at the head of a ministerial delegation, calling the visit a success. Baghdad said after the visit that they had reached an agreement worth $ 500 million with Kuwait to settle the debt back to the Gulf War prevented Iraqi Airways of flights.said a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, the parliamentary Nada Jubouri told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) that “the Commission had planned see the details of the agreements which were held recently between Iraq and Kuwait in Baghdad, but the concern of the Committee to host the Arab ambassadors last discussed the issue (…) Kuwaiti Ambassador attended for the first time in the Foreign Relations Committee, expressed his country’s readiness to resolve all the files. “explained Jubouri that the “file Chapter VII can be closed soon, based on agreements the Iraq-Kuwait the last, the only file sets the boundaries of land and according to the UN Security Council resolution No. 833. ” she added Jubouri that “the Security Council resolution 833 required the parties Iraqi – Kuwaiti freedom of navigation and the presence of investment companies Iraqi Kuwaiti joint will ensure that parties do not exceed the port of Mubarak and the port of Faw on shipping.”and Kuwait announced earlier in the willingness to turn the page past and start a new page of its foreign relations with Iraq on the basis of mutual respect which the positions of Hatrha when Iraq is through the declaration of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. Kuwait rejected the withdrawal of Iraq from Chapter VII of the UN Security Council until the fulfillment of its obligations owed with respect to four files on the file of debt and missing persons and archives as well as the issue of border demarcation between the two countries. It is possible to affect the negotiations the two sides on the decision taken by the UN Security Council in June next on the possibility of the withdrawal of Iraq from Chapter VII. expressed Iraq and Kuwait recently their support to resolve the differences between the two countries, which extended since the nineties of the last century, during Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait. From: Raman Brosk, the Open: Peace Baghdadi
