Foreign Affairs informed the parliamentary confirm the reports of committee meetings Iraqi - Kuwaiti Joint

16/06/2012 17:15

Baghdad, June 16 (Rn) - The Foreign Relations Committee, the parliamentary Saturday informed via the reports they received from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the agreements that take place during meetings of the Iraq - Kuwait, which holds the joint resolution of outstanding issues between the two sides.

A member of the Committee Youkhana Imad, told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) that his committee "looked steadily through the reports they received from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the outcome of the meetings of joint committees, Iraq - Kuwait on the outstanding issues ... there is cooperation between the Commission and the ministry in this area."

The members of the House of Representatives have warned of the consequences of the uniqueness of the government in one-sided agreements with Kuwait on file pending a return to the House of Representatives.

The member of the Committee that the "important issues outstanding between Iraq and Kuwait is the debt and file and the file of the border port of Mubarak ... do not believe there are secret agreements occur and harm the interest of Iraq because the Iraqi negotiating team is keen to Iraqi sovereignty."

The Iraqi prime minister has ended an official visit to Kuwait in March last March at the head of a ministerial delegation, calling the visit a success.

Baghdad said after the visit that they have reached an agreement worth $ 500 million with Kuwait to settle debts dating back to the Gulf War prevented the Iraqi Airways.

Kuwait rejected the withdrawal of Iraq from Chapter VII of the UN Security Council to meet its obligations towards them, while with respect to three files is the issue of missing Kuwaitis and archives, as well as the issue of border demarcation between the two countries.

 

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Ki-moon is not tangible progress in the issue of missing persons and Kuwaiti property in Iraq

 2012-06-16

BAGHDAD (Iba) was Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon expressed regret yesterday for lack of tangible progress in the issue of missing Kuwaitis and Kuwaiti property in Iraq.

He recommended Ki-moon in his semi-annual on these issues to the UN Security Council, to continue to fund the international coordinator Supreme Gennady Tarsov until the end of the year.

He said in his report that the increase in cooperation between Kuwait and Iraq and the efforts made ​​by the Iraqi authorities in the search for missing Kuwaitis and other countries in addition to Kuwaiti property «should be hailed and welcomed by».

He urged the Iraqi authorities to continue to take positive steps to implement its commitments to the international resolutions associated with these issues.

He also called on UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in his Iraq and Kuwait to explore other ways to promote cooperation between them.

The general secretary of the expeditions involved in Iraq that operate in the framework of the Technical Subcommittee of the Tripartite Commission and under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross «seem to have an appropriate mechanism and concrete to investigate the fate of missing Kuwaitis and nationals of third countries» in spite of the lack of progress in this area.

He said in a report that Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said last May in his country's commitment to resolve all outstanding issues with the State of Kuwait in order to achieve a rapid exit of Iraq from Chapter VII.

Detection and UN Secretary-General for Iraq not to oppose the forms of international intervention to achieve progress on these issues despite their preference to work bilaterally.

On the Kuwaiti property, Ban said there has been no tangible progress on the search for the Kuwaiti National Archives or the presence of reliable information about his fate, or where it is.

He welcomed the formation of Iraq's Committee aims to coordinate the search for Kuwaiti property, especially the National Archives of Kuwait looked forward to intensify these efforts by the Commission for access to the site of the National Archives of Kuwait.

He said although he has not so far to reach the archive Kuwait «But Iraq is proved by the discovery of some of the missing Kuwaiti property» that spawned his constructive positive results on this file.

He pointed out that the Iraqi authorities moved to Kuwait earlier this year and old documents of the Bank of Kuwait and coins, documents and keys to a private central bank coffers of Kuwait.

He added that the Iraqi authorities transferred 15 tapes (microfilm) containing the archive Kuwait News newspaper strip 136 (microfilm) contains the archive Kuwait newspaper today.

He welcomed the confidence-building measures and cooperation between Kuwait and Iraq, expressing the hope that it leads to positive results as soon as possible on these issues.

He recommended the UN Security Council, who will discuss this issue next Tuesday, the task of financing the extension of important international coordinator Supreme Gennady Tarsov until the end of this year to consolidate the progress achieved by Iraq to meet its international obligations on the issue of missing Kuwaitis and Kuwaiti property.

He urged Iraq and Kuwait to continue to work to strengthen the ongoing cooperation between them in order to search for missing Kuwaitis and Kuwaiti property.

He explained that the achievement of tangible progress in this humanitarian issue and to take necessary actions of Iraq before him on the outstanding obligations and for many of the international resolutions «will lay the foundations for good out of Iraq from Chapter VII».

The Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon that the Kuwait and Iraq to redouble efforts on issues that have not yet been resolved between them. (End)

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Maliki calls for change to make an urgent step to resolve the current political crisis

16/06/2012 9:58


He called for a mass change of the parliamentary spectrum Mustafa Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and his coalition to openness and to compromise claims and the achievement of the blocks and the application of the Arbil to resolve the current crisis.

Mustafa said that the matter reached between the politicians to the breaking point is no point in repeating meetings without melting the ice and end the crisis between the various factions, noting that "the meeting of the National inevitable, especially after difference of the masses, which met in Erbil, Najaf, with the state law and reached the dispute to the phase break" .

He pointed out that "the solutions are clear and simple lies in the openness and a waiver by the state law in achieving the demands of the blocks and make concessions to satisfy everyone."

And Mustafa, "The masses calling for the withdrawal of confidence say that al-Maliki and the rule of law and promised us in the Convention on Arbil, a number of promises which he promised the Sadrists law of general amnesty and promised the Kurdistan Alliance, the application demands of certain of its oil and gas law and solve the constitutional order of the Peshmerga forces and promised the Iraqi List, Council policies Alastrajah promised partnership and the development of the rules of procedure of the Council of Ministers named the security ministries, non-Recruitment Agency but all this did not materialize. "

"We must rebuild the trust is now a lack of trust leading to rupture and confidence-building of the new must take a step urgently through dialogue and should be the rule of law to take steps that could end the crisis, including the status of rules of procedure of the prime minister and that this system must be put to it If a constitutional and legally go back to that all Cabinet decisions null and void without setting the rules of procedure to him, like the House of Representatives, who works in a system where if neglected inner head of the House of Representatives rules of procedure and neglected by the work is that all the decisions of the House of Representatives is invalid. "

Iraq is gripped by political crisis lasted months, especially after the U.S. withdrawal end of the year 2011 due to the escalation of disputes between the political blocs on matters concerning the partnership in the state administration as well as other files, has resulted in the continuation of the crisis to the request of some political blocs to withdraw confidence from the Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki after he met several meetings in each of the governorates of Erbil and Najaf.

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Vice chest: In response to the paper al-Maliki signed the political blocs in Najaf and Erbil will reconsider his no-confidence

  Saturday 16/06/2012

Baghdad (news) .. most likely a member of the Liberal block of the Sadrist MP / National Alliance / Jawad Jibouri, that there be a meeting brings together Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and the leader of Sadr Muqtada al-Sadr, indicating that the response of al-Maliki to paper the political blocs signed in Najaf will re- of no-confidence with him.
Jubouri said in a statement (of the Agency news) on Saturday: The political blocs wish to have a response from Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to their demands, which took place in Najaf.

He added that Maliki's response to that paper will re-Sadr asked Maliki's confidence in consultation with the partners who signed the paper Erbil and Najaf.

The MP said the Liberal bloc to: a while ago there was a call from the cleric Moqtada al-Sadr al-Maliki to come to Najaf to resolve outstanding differences, but Maliki will not respond to them, likely al-Maliki to respond to that call now.

The Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's contact with the cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to discuss the political crisis in the country, without being to agree on termination, which revolves around the confidence of the Maliki government.

A statement by Sadr's office: that the next few days will witness a meeting between the leader of the Sadrist movement and the Prime Minister in order to start debates to end the crisis. While noting also that the place of the meeting has not yet been set, either to go chest to the Green Zone or to come Prime Minister to Najaf, to discuss the crisis. / Finished / 2. for. m /

 

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Close to him reveal the "news": Sadr al-Maliki will meet soon may be in the city of Najaf

  Saturday 16/06/2012

Baghdad (news) .. detect high-ranking source close to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a meeting will be held between the prospective leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
The source (of the Agency news) on Saturday: The preparations and arrangements for the meeting is over, except set a date and venue of the meeting, Marja that the Prime Minister to visit Moqtada al-Sadr in the holy city of Najaf.

He added: There is an agreement in principle to hold the meeting, but did not specify the following schedule, expecting to witness the meeting, discussions on all issues pertaining to the recent crisis.

The source noted: that the meeting could help to resolve 70% of the current crisis, without giving further details.

The cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has called on the Prime Minister for his visit to the holy city of Najaf, but al-Maliki did not meet the call for time, this has held al-Maliki and Sadr contact by telephone two days before, at the time is still al-Sadr is committed to signing with the political forces that met in Erbil and Najaf to change Maliki. / Finished / 4. n. r /

 

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