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Ban Ki-moon confirms Iraqi-Kuwaiti relations improved and calls for preservation
UN Secretary Ban Ki-moon, Friday, that the Iraqi-Kuwaiti relations have improved significantly, and urged them to preserve and the settlement of outstanding issues and normalize their relations completely, noting the commitment of the United Nations to provide the necessary support to facilitate the exit of Iraq from Chapter VII.
Ban Ki-moon said in a report to the Security Council last night on the work of the United Nations Mission to assist Iraq UNAMI, that "bilateral relations between Iraq and Kuwait have improved significantly during the last four months of the establishment of a Joint Committee to manage navigation on waterways in the Khawr Abd Allah during those months.
Ban Ki-moon said that "the parties agreed to take the necessary measures to maintain their common border and promoting common security," he said, adding that "Kuwait will open consulates in Basra and Erbil governorates.
Ban Ki-moon said that "both sides asking the United Nations to jointly start maintenance project maintenance tags between Kuwait and Iraq border by the 31 of October next, taking into account the parties to meet the basic requirements needed to begin the field maintenance, calling them" to "maintain this momentum and seize the opportunity to settle all outstanding issues and normalize their relations.
And entrust the Secretary-General of the United Nations "to continue to support the commendable efforts of the two sides regarding the maintenance project boundary markers in a fast and flexible," he said, adding that "the Security Council endorsed a recommendation by last June that Iraqi and Kuwaiti sides begin to explore other arrangements to promote and ensure the continuity of cooperation in the search for missing persons and property, including archives.
Meanwhile, Ban Ki-moon said that "the United Nations remains committed to providing all necessary support to facilitate the exit of Iraq of its obligations under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations, including the work of the high-level international coordinator for Kuwaiti prisoners of war and Kuwaiti property Gennady Tarassov.
And Iraq since 1990 is subject to Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations imposed after the invasion of the former regime of Saddam Hussein Kuwait State in August of the same year, this item allows the use of force against Iraq as a threat to international security, in addition to freeze large amounts of stock in the banks to pay compensation to those affected by the invasion.
Iraqi-Kuwaiti relations are positive developments, as Kuwait's Ambassador in Iraq on 30 April 2012, said his country will open consulates soon in the cities of Erbil and Basra as well as embassy offices in a number of provinces, and stressed that the Kuwaiti side that touches the seriousness of the Iraqi Government to close the files between the two countries since the 1990s.
The Iraqi-Kuwaiti joint ministerial Committee met in Baghdad on April 29, 2012 and Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari time to sign a protocol with Kuwait to regulate shipping in the Khawr Abdullah, adding that Iraq would sign several protocols with Kuwait by visiting Kuwaiti Prime Minister Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah to Iraq in the last quarter of this year, noting that the third session of the Joint Ministerial Committee to be held in Kuwait in March 2013.
The Ministerial Committee was formed in Kuwait 12 January 2011, to resolve outstanding issues between Iraq and Kuwait in accordance with UN resolutions, after the first meetings were held in the 27 March 2011, discussions in Kuwait to resolve the outstanding issues between the parties.
As a result of improved relations with Iraq Kuwait agreed to shed his favour Kuwait Airways to your March joint air is created the value of compensation amounting to about 300 million dollars, Kuwait also operate flights to Iraq, landed at Najaf (17 April 2012), the first Kuwaiti aircraft after 22 years on another trip to Iraq, with confirmed (airline) it will twice weekly to scalable airport, as well as other tours to other airports in The country.
Also visit Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to Kuwait on (14 March 2012) agreement by both parties on the maintenance of the boundary markers, and laid the foundations of common frameworks for the resolution of all files, within short time frames, with Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, who accompanied Al-Maliki's visit to what has been agreed is great progress with regard to exit Iraq from Chapter VII.
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