Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Ban Ki-moon calls for the lifting of all sanctions imposed on Iraq because of the invasion of Kuwait

19/06/2013




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BAGHDAD (Iba) .. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to move forward "to lift all the sanctions imposed on Iraq under Chapter VII about 23 years ago, after the invasion of Kuwait in 1990."

And recommended that it be dealing with the remaining issues between Iraq and Kuwait on missing Kuwaitis and Kuwaiti property damages, under Chapter VI of the UN Charter, which urges States to resolve conflicts by peaceful means.

And Ban Ki-moon said in his report, which was published Tuesday, "if the Security Council agreed to my recommendations, Iraq will emerge from Chapter VII with respect to this file and will approach a step to restore international stature. A goal sought by long lead this country after the overthrow of the regime of Saddam Hussein. "

For his part, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said that if the Security Council approved the recommendations of Ban Ki-moon, the only commitment from the rest of Iraq under Chapter VII is to pay the amount of $ 11 billion owed to Kuwait from the rest of the amount of compensation.

The Kuwaiti delegation was headed by Prime Minister Jaber Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah visited Iraq last week and signed several agreements and memoranda of understanding. The two sides stressed their keenness to complete the remainder of the outstanding issues. (End)

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Kubler passes in Basra from Kuwait confirms: Alakoyat will raise about Iraq before the end of June


19/06/2013



Announced the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Iraq, Martin Kobler, on Wednesday, that the international sanctions imposed on Iraq will be filed before the end of June, the current, and stressed the most important issue was to prevent that is the issue of the demarcation of the border, "and now has been settled in full," While expressed the new Council of Basra optimism that contribute to open a new horizon of cooperation with Kuwait, observers warn that the missing file and the documents will remain politically mines for Iraq.

The representative said internationalist in Iraq, Martin Kobler during a joint press conference with the head of the provincial council in Basra, Khalaf Abdul Samad in the building of the provincial council in Basra, which has had this afternoon after the conclusion of his visit to Kuwait, and attended (range Press), "The United Nations will Bouktoadtha the end of June this to raise the seventh item on Iraq because the most important issue in this item is the demarcation of the border has been fully agreed upon. "

He Kubler that "there is a step should be to talk about the development of economic relations between Iraq and Kuwait in the post-Chapter VII," pointing to "the existence of specialized committees to continue the search for missing Kuwaitis, as well as resolve the file Kuwaiti documents and returned to Kuwait."

For his part, the head of the provincial council in Basra, Khalaf Abdul Samad said that "Iraq has been helpful in resolving a border with Kuwait for the lifting of sanctions," pointing out that "Basra will be allocated a large part of the investment funds in the agreement between the two sides of Iraq and Kuwait, which requires an investment of money Kuwaiti private debt owed by Iraq in the establishment of investment projects, "he said.

Abdul Samad pointed out that "the Basra Governorate Council would be the Department of Foreign Relations means for activating international relations with neighboring countries and activation of the twinning between Basra and the global economic cities."

For his part, said political analyst Haider Saad said in an interview to (Presse term) "The file demarcation of the border between Iraq and Kuwait had settled but this file is not likely to resolve the issue of the lifting of international sanctions on Iraq to the presence of other files relating to the Kuwaiti missing persons and documents."

He Saad to "My missing Kuwaiti documents are mines politically through which Kuwait object to remove Iraq from Chapter VII," noting that "Iraq was helpful dramatically and negotiated the Kuwaiti side of the logic of the weakest and this may open the door to the other party to dictate to his opponent what he wants. "

Promised Saad that "Iraq بمفاوضاته about the lifting of sanctions it lost both materially and morally," noting that "countries fighting for a few meters, but Iraq has lost hundreds of kilometers of territorial negotiations as well as the loss of oil wells and part of the port and its sovereignty over the corridors navigation."

The Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon recommended in a report on Tuesday to the UN Security Council remove Iraq from Chapter VII after fuller lot of obligations political obligations to Kuwait, also recommended that referred to the remaining issues of a humanitarian nature between Iraq and Kuwait relating to missing persons and Kuwaiti property to the provisions of Chapter VI of the UN resolution, which urges countries to resolve their disputes through peaceful means.

The coordinated foreign policy in the European Union Catherine Ashton praised after meeting Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, in Baghdad, on Monday, June 17, 2013, the "success" of Iraq to improve relations with Kuwait.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on June 13, 2013, that representatives of Iraq and Kuwait handed UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sent a joint letter from the Governments of the two countries, including Iraq's commitment to international resolutions to get out of Chapter VII, in what was described Ki-moon, the agreement between the two countries as "historic moment."

The delivery joint letter to Ban Ki-moon, a day after Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, Wednesday, June 12, 2013.

And signed both Iraq and Kuwait (May 28, 2013) memoranda of understanding concerning the arrangements for maintenance of the physical-border joint and finance the construction of a residential complex in Umm Qasr, indicating that the Kuwaiti side expressed its readiness to help Iraq out of the provisions of Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced in (the 26th of May 2013), signed by Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari with Martin Kobler Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations and head of UNAMI in Iraq, the extradition agreement the amount of damages assessed by the Security Council in its resolution No. 899 of 1994 to compensate farmers Iraqis who have been affected by their farms as a result of the demarcation of the border between Iraq and Kuwait during the period between 1991 - 1994 ", set out will be followed soon another step to build a modern residential city of Umm Qasr to accommodate Iraqi families affected by the same reason.

The Iraqi Council of Ministers announced in (the seventh of April 2013), the decision to compensate the victims of the demarcation of the border with Kuwait in the province of Basra, 240 million Iraqi dinars, the disposal of the emergency budget for the current year 2013.

The source revealed border guards of Iraq, in (the seventh of March 2013), about a meeting between Iraqi border guards and Kuwaiti Committee of the United Nations to study the implementation of the agreements between the governments of the two countries to demarcate the new borders between them, stressing that there are 250 houses inhabited by Iraqis in Umm Qasr will be cleared of its population and turn the territory to Kuwait's sovereignty, according to those agreements, while the local government of Basra expressed displeasure "to force Iraq to give up its territory.

The UN Security Council issued a year (1993) Resolution No. (833) which provides for the demarcation of the border between Kuwait and Iraq, and the extended length (about 216 km), and the application of the decision in part by the former regime to the deduction of large swathes of Iraqi territory and annexed to land Kuwaiti territory included in the Safwan area and in Umm Qasr area since the mid-nineties became a whole within the limits of the State of Kuwait.

He objected to a lot of Iraqi officials after the fall of the former regime in 2003 to complete the procedures for the demarcation of the land border between the two countries in accordance with Resolution No. 833, considering that the decision imposed on Iraq under international pressure and in unusual circumstances.

The area has seen the border between Iraq and Kuwait early March 2013, demonstrations carried out by residents of Umm Qasr in protest against the construction of the separation wall between the two countries, and threatened with exposure to Kuwaitis in the event of continuing built, also called on Congress Basra in the Iraqi parliament (12 March 2013), the Governments of Iraq and Kuwait and the United Nations to stop the new demarcation of the border procedures and rejected annexation of the oil wells in the region to the Kuwaiti sovereignty until reaching a solution satisfactory to both parties and reconsider the agreement signed by the previous regime with Kuwait.

Iraq has been under since the year (1990) under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations, which imposed after the invasion of the regime of former 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 large amounts of frozen its assets in the financial global banks to pay compensation to those affected by the invasion.

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