Border issues with Iran will be solved – MP

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Border issues with Iran will be solved within the coming months, Head of the Iraqi Parliament’s Foreign Relations Committee Sheikh Hammam Hammoudi said on Tuesday. “Joint Iraqi-Iranian committees are working on these issues,” Hammoudi told IraqiNews.com news agency. He said that the committees are working on a solution to demarcate both land and maritime borders between the two countries. During an emergency meeting on Dec. 18, 2009, Iraq’s National Security Council considered an Iranian force’s incursion into an oilfield as “violation of the country’s sovereignty,” demanding “the immediate withdrawal and removal of the Iranian flag from the well tower in the field,” according to the Iraqi government’s official spokesman. An official spokesperson said 11 Iranian soldiers had taken control of the Fakka oilfield in a remote desert area of southeastern Iraq, in a “violation of Iraqi sovereignty.” Iraq demanded an immediate withdrawal from well No. 4 and the Fakka oilfield, saying it was looking for a peaceful and diplomatic settlement to the issue. MH (P)/AmR 2