Iraq-Kuwait Committee approves 12 articles of suspended dossiers

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: The Joint Iraqi-Kuwaiti Committee’s first meeting to settle the suspended dossiers between the two countries have concluded its meetings in Kuwait on Monday with the approval of 12 of the articles, including those dossiers, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported on Tuesday. “The first meeting of the Joint Iraqi-Kuwaiti Committee to settle the suspended dossiers between the two countries, that started last Sunday, has concluded its works in Kuwait with the agreement on 12 of its articles,” Al-Watan newspaper reported. The Committee had started its works in Kuwait last Sunday to settle the suspended dossiers between both countries and Iraq was represented by its Foreign Minister, Hoshiar Zibary. The newspaper quoted Kuwait’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Sheikh Mohammed al-Subah, as saying that “Kuwait has no ambitions in Iraq’s fortunes, and all what it wants is a fruitful, stable and good neighborhood.” He pointed out to the existence of “a high degree of agreement on the majority of articles, including 12 articles, discussed in the meeting.” “The Kuwaiti and Iraqi discussions were carried out in a frank and direct way, and we had been clear towards what we wanted from each other,” he said, adding that “the meeting with H.E. the Emir (Prince) of Kuwait had been important, because it had reflected his true wish to build relations, stemmed from a new and democratic Iraq, that respects human rights, thing that we had been counting on.” The Iraq–Kuwait relations dossier includes a lot of suspended issues, most outstanding of which are compensations paid by Iraq to Kuwait, because of its occupation in 1990, Kuwait’s position towards Iraq’s exclusion from the UN Charter’s Article 7, along with the demarcation of joint borders and the remains of Kuwaitis lost in Iraq. The Kuwait newspaper, meanwhile, quoted Iraq’s Foreign Minister, Hoshiar Zibary, as saying that “the said meeting had been the most important meeting, held between both countries since Iraq’s liberation from the dictatorship of (Iraq’s former ruling President) Saddam Hussein.” “The talks had been vocational, technical and scientific, free from any social or diplomatic appeasements,” Zibary said, adding: “We have entered in the depth of issues and matters, related to the legitimate interests of both countries, most significant of which was Iraq’s commitment to UN Resolution 833, related to the sovereignty and safety of Kuwait’s borders, freedom of navigation, compensations, properties and border points.” U.S. Vice-President, Joe Biden, had said during the UN Security Council’s session on 15/12/2010, that the Council had decided to abolish the sanctions, imposed on Iraq after its occupation of Kuwait in 1990. SKH(RT)/SR 776