Iraq revokes ratification of maritime agreement with Kuwait
The headquarters of the Supreme Judicial Council. Photo: Kurdistan24
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) – Iraq’s Federal Supreme Court annulled the ratification of the maritime navigation agreement with Kuwait by issuing a decision on Monday that the ratification law of the agreement regulating navigation in Khor Abdullah is unconstitutional.
The Federal Supreme Court clarified in a statement that the ratification of international treaties and agreements, according to the Iraqi constitution, should be regulated by a law enacted by a two-thirds majority in the Iraqi Parliament, the Iraqi News Agency (INA) reported.
The Khor Abdallah is an estuary located in southern Iraq and northern Kuwait.
The border between both countries divides the lower part of the estuary, but adjacent to the port of Umm Qasr, the estuary becomes entirely Iraqi.
The Iraqi Foreign Minister, Fuad Hussein, met last July with his Kuwaiti counterpart, Salem Al-Sabah, in Baghdad, where they emphasized the need to resolve border issues.
Both officials said that their countries will work towards reaching a definitive agreement on the demarcation of their land in addition to the contested maritime area of the Arabian Gulf.
Experts see that the two countries are trying to solve the decades-long issues that followed Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990.