Iraq’s Prime Minister Maliki to visit Kuwait Wednesday, official

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Iraq‘s Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, shall start an official visit for Kuwait on Wednesday, to discuss bilateral relations between the two countries, the Prime Minister’s Media Adviser, Ali al-Moussawi said on Tuesday. The dossier of Iraqi-Kuwait relations comprises a large number of suspended issues, most significant of which are related to the compensations Iraq is paying for Kuwait, due Kuwait‘s occupation in 1990 and Kuwait‘s attitude towards Iraq‘s exclusion from the UN Charter’s 7th Article, as well as the drawing of borders between the two countries, along with the issue of the remains of lost Kuwaitis in Iraq. The U.S. Vice-President, Joseph Biden, had told a UN Security Council session on 15/12/2010 that the Council had decided to cancel the penalties, issued against Iraq after its occupation of Kuwait in 1990, whilst Iraq‘s Foreign Minister, Hoshiar Zibary, told the same session that “Iraq had a long way to settle its suspended issues with Kuwait.” Iraq is under Article 7 of the UN Security Council Resolution No. 678 of 1990, taken after the entrance of the Iraqi Forces in Kuwait in August, 1990, in which the Council allowed the use of armed forces to force Iraq out of Kuwait. Kuwait‘s Prime Minister, Nasser al-Ahmed al-Subah, had paid an official visit to Baghdad on 12/1/2011,  during which he was received in Baghdad International Airport by Iraq‘s Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, and conferred with President Jalal Talabani and Parliament Speaker, Usama al-Nujeifi. SKH(ST)/SR 792