Concluded the Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, on Wednesday, his official visit to Kuwait, while Kuwait confirmed she would discuss the issue of debt owed by Iraq and will send a delegation to Baghdad in 13 of the next month to activate the joint committees, while the Foreign Minister of Iraq said the talks between the two sides was transparent .
The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kuwait Mohammed Sabah Al-Salem during a press conference with his Iraqi counterpart Hoshyar Zebari in the Bayan Palace in Kuwait and attended “Alsumaria News”, “The discussions that took place between the two sides discussed ways to strengthen bilateral relations and strengthen cooperation in various fields, including the interests of the two fraternal peoples. ”
The Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki arrived Wednesday morning, to Kuwait on an official visit a one-day meet with the Emir of Kuwait and the Prime Minister to discuss several outstanding issues between the two sides.
Salem added that “the two sides discussed the issue of debt owed by Iraq after the Gulf War,” noting that “This case will be submitted to the Kuwaiti National Assembly for discussion and action.”
On the issue of the common border, Foreign Minister of Kuwait said “Kuwait will be sent in the 13 of next month a delegation to Baghdad to activate the joint committees, especially regarding the border issue.”
For his part, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari during a press conference which was attended by “Alsumaria News”, “discussions that took place between the Iraqi and Kuwaiti characterized this time transparent.”
Zebari said that “the obligations on Iraq to Kuwait, Kuwait has been asked to help us get out of Chapter VII.”
The Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Al Khaimah in the princely palace statement Tuesday evening, held official talks with his Iraqi counterpart Nuri al-Maliki.
The talks were attended on the Kuwaiti side and Defense Minister Jaber Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, Minister of Interior Ahmed Hamoud Al-Sabah, Foreign Minister Mohammed Sabah Al Salem Al Sabah and officials of the Kuwaiti, and attended by the Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, transport Hadi al-Amiri, and human rights Mohammed Xiaa Sudanese, and adviser Maliki’s National Security Affairs Faleh Al-Fayad, and media advisor to Prime Minister Ali al-Moussawi, the Secretary of State purity of net debt, and the Force Commander Lieutenant General Ali Hussein marine al-Rubaie.
The Kuwaiti prime minister visited Baghdad on January 12 last, at the head of government delegation during which he met both Maliki and President Jalal Talabani and Parliament Speaker Osama Najafi and Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari and a number of Iraqi officials.
The visit of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to Kuwait is the first since assuming the presidency of the previous government in 2006.
The UN Security Council passed at its meeting on 15 December, three special resolutions in Iraq, ending the first oil for food program, while calling the other to extend the immunity that protects Iraq from claims associated with an era of former President Saddam Hussein to the June 30, 2011 (six months) instead of and stopped in later that month as scheduled at the beginning, after Iraq said it would not request any further extensions of the work (the Development Fund for Iraq) which was the immunity from claims for compensation.
In the third resolution, approved by the UN Security Council to lift the ban on imports of Iraq’s nuclear program to implement the civilian nuclear ending restrictions on weapons of mass destruction, missiles and so put an end to the ban lasted 19 years, under resolution 687 of 1991.
The Iraqi government is keen to ensure the extension of the work of the Fund which was established in 2003 after the fall of Saddam Hussein in order to protect revenues from sales of oil and natural gas in Iraq.
Iraq has been under since 1990 under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations, which imposed on him after the invasion of the regime of President Saddam Hussein of Kuwait in August of the same year, and this item allows the use of force against Iraq as a threat to international security, in addition to the freezing of large amounts of its assets financial in the international banks to pay compensation to those affected by the invasion of Kuwait.
And consists of Chapter VII of the 13 articles, is resolution 678, issued in 1990 and calling for the ousting Iraq from Kuwait, by force of the provisions of this chapter, Iraq is still under Tailth, because the survival of the issue of the remains of Kuwaiti citizens and prisoners of war in Iraq and Kuwaiti property, including archives of the Amiri Diwan and the Crown Prince’s Court and the question of environmental awards and oil, which is not only about the state of Kuwait and other Arab countries and companies still have some rights.
Kuwait had asked the UN Security Council, in July of 2009, before its to discuss Iraq’s international obligations not to raise Iraq from the list of Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations before has met all its obligations, especially in the cases of compensation, prisoners and missing Kuwaitis and its emphasis on the need to respect Iraq of resolution 833 judge the demarcation of the border between Iraq and Kuwait
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