Iraq and Kuwait, An Agreement To Leave a Distance of 500 Meters Between the Sides of the Border

Iraq and Kuwait, an agreement to leave a distance of 500 meters between the sides of the border


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The manager of the Arab Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ambassador Jassim Mubaraki agreement for Iraq and Kuwait to leave a distance of 5 00 meters between the sides of the border between the two countries, that Kuwait is building no more than 50 homes of Iraqi citizens, homes are located on the border line.
He said Mubaraki in a statement to reporters yesterday evening, on the sidelines of his participation in the ceremony of the Lebanese Embassy in Kuwait on the occasion of National Day, the houses of Iraqis obscure border markers, and therefore requested Kuwait to migrate housing into Iraq, pointing out that Kuwait has pledged to outlive the houses to the Iraqis as well as schools and hospitals, and thus the region-free so as to facilitate border control.
And what if you specify a date for the maintenance of border signs, said that the date Mubaraki maintenance to the United Nations, we are us and our commitments, and this depends on cooperation, we cooperate, and we hope the Iraqi side to have the same spirit of cooperation.
He expressed the hope Mubaraki to work the next Iraqi government to resolve outstanding problems, adding that «I do not see a fundamental reason prevents below, By the end of it has to be there a cure».
Maliki
In Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri outgoing Nuri al-Maliki yesterday its readiness to resolve all outstanding problems with Kuwait, and especially the issue of missing persons, according to a government statement.
Maliki said during a meeting with Secretary General of the United Nations in Iraq, Ad Melkert, the Special Rapporteur to the issue of missing Kuwaitis Gennady Tarasov said «Iraq is fully prepared to do everything asked of it in this area and investigate any information that could lead to find the remains of missing persons». He said that «the search for them and a humanitarian and religious duty, regardless of being a commitment» with Kuwait.
He said during the meeting which was attended by the Minister of Human Rights and the heart that Mikhail «Iraq is committed to resolving all outstanding issues and overcome the effects of the brutal invasion by the former regime and as soon as», according to the statement.
Maliki called «the United Nations and the Security Council to play a more active role in the acceleration Butti this file to resolve all outstanding issues» between Iraq and Kuwait.
For his part, stressed the Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, the government's keenness to cooperate with the United Nations to end the file of missing Kuwaitis and Kuwaiti property, according to a statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

We are ready to cooperate
This came during a meeting with Zebari in his office coordinator of the Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on the affairs of the missing Kuwaiti property and Gennady Tarasov, where they discussed the outstanding issues with Kuwait and the Iraqi government's efforts in the search for remains of missing persons and Kuwaiti property.
He Zebari Tarasov as demonstrated by the Iraqi Foreign Ministry statement «the desire of the Government of Iraq to end this serious file», saying it «ready to cooperate and assist the Coordinator in achieving the objectives of his mission».
On the other hand, search Zebari, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of the British Alistair Burt and his accompanying delegation relations, Iraq - British and consular relations, asking him to support Britain to Iraq's efforts to get out of the provisions of Chapter VII, as well as the extension of the mandate and immunity to Iraqi funds in the Development Fund for Iraq.
During the meeting, according to a statement of the Foreign Relations discuss the Iraqi and Iraqi-British Consular Relations, particularly the British government's desire to transfer its office in Erbil to the consulate general.


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sounds like a plan = final? love it!

It Does sound like they are ready to play ball. This good be a very good thing.

Thanks DayDreamer!

Kuwait, Iraq 'Agree' New Border Deal

24/11/2010


KUWAIT CITY (AFP) – Iraq and Kuwait have agreed to create a 500-metre (yard) no-man's land on each side of the border and move Iraqi farmers to new homes, a Kuwaiti official said in comments published Wednesday.

Under the deal, Kuwait undertook to build up to 50 homes inside Iraq for the farmers living close to the frontier, the Al-Seyassah daily quoted foreign ministry Arab world department chief Jassem Al-Mubaraki as saying.

The agreement stipulates that the two Arab neighbours will each keep a 500-metre strip completely free of any activity except for border police, Mubaraki said.

"The deal was reached during a recent meeting of the Kuwait-Iraq commission headed by the foreign ministry undersecretaries," he said.

In 1993, three years after Iraq invaded Kuwait, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 833 which demarcated the land border between the two nations and granted Kuwait some territory that had previously been held by Iraq.

The two oil-rich nations signed a similar deal in 2006 after Iraqi farmers halted construction of a 200-kilometre (125-mile) irrigation pipeline on the border when Kuwait charged it passed through its territory.

Under that deal, which was never implemented, Kuwait agreed to pay compensation for the Iraqi farmers and deposited the amount with the United Nations.

Mubaraki said the cost of building the replacement homes for the Iraqi farmers would be paid from the compensation.

Kuwait is also demanding the demarcation of maritime borders.

Iraq has been campaigning to be released from the sanctions imposed by the Security Council under Chapter Seven of the UN Charter after now executed dictator Saddam Hussein ordered his troops to invade Kuwait in August 1990.

Kuwait has consistently countered that before being released from the Chapter Seven sanctions, Iraq needs to settle the border issue and pay a further 25 billion dollars due in war reparations, among other demands.

The two nations have agreed in principle on rules for production from border oilfields that have been at the heart of the conflict between them, Kuwaiti Oil Minister Sheikh Ahmed Abdullah al-Sabah said in August.

A number of oilfields lie on the border between the two countries, including Iraq's giant Rumaila field, which extends into Kuwait where it is known as Ritqa.

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Iraqi President Pledges to End Pending Issues With Kuwait

Written by David E. Miller
Published Wednesday, November 24, 2010



But two decades after the First Gulf War mutual suspicions still prevail

Iraq and Kuwait have signed a border arrangement in a significant move aimed at freeing Baghdad from the UN imposed sanction regime in place since 1990.

Under the new deal, Iraq and Kuwait agreed to create a 500-meter buffer zone on each side of their common 240km border. Kuwait pledged to finance the removal of Iraqi farmers living along the frontier and build 50 homes for them inside Iraq.

The UN Security Council demarcated the territorial border between Iraq and Kuwait in 1993 and it is today patrolled only by border police.

Saddam Hussein's Iraq invaded Kuwait on August 2, 1990, claiming it was Iraq's 19th province torn away by British imperialism in 1932. Following Iraq's defeat in the First Gulf War, the UN Security Council slapped a sanction regime on Iraq. Under Chapter 7 of the UN Charter, it allowed the international body to take military and economic measures against countries it defines as "aggressive."

"For some time the Iraqis said they wanted to resolve the border issue, but never managed to do so," Dr. Yousef Ali, director of the Kuwait Center for Strategic and Future Studies, told The Media Line. "The UN should be the arbiter between Iraq and Kuwait regarding the border."

Meanwhile, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki this week pledged to resolve all pending political issues with Kuwait. In a meeting with two UN officials, he focused on the matter of 370 missing Kuwaiti war victims saying that retrieving their remains was "a humanitarian and religious duty."

Dr. Ali said that Kuwaitis regarded the war victim issue as secondary in the diplomatic relations with Iraq, since the victims are all surely dead.

Ali Al-Saffar, an expert on Iraq at the Economist Intelligence Unit, said that Iraq's recent overtures towards Kuwait were part of its attempt to end the 20-year-old UN sanction regime. He said that Iraq still owed Kuwait $25.5 billion for damages incurred during the war.

As Iraqi armies retreated from Kuwait in the waning days of the Gulf War in 1991, they set over 700 oil wells ablaze, consuming more than 1 billion barrels of oil over a period of seven months and causing an environmental disaster of huge proportions. Kuwait paid $1.5 billion to extinguish the fires, and billions more to the US to help pay the costs of liberating it.

The exact number of Kuwaitis killed in the war is unknown, but estimates run at 2,000-5,000.

"Land and sea borders can be agreed upon relatively easily by the leaders," he told The Media Line. "But Iraq's huge outstanding debt will require a strong diplomatic drive to resolve."

Al-Saffar said that Iraq regularly transfers 5% of its oil revenues to the UN as money earmarked for compensating Kuwait. Over the past 19 years Iraq has already paid Kuwait 17.5 billion dollars in compensation.

"Many Iraqis aren't happy about this," he said. "They feel that the debts owed to Kuwait are odious and vindictive; incurred by a dictatorial regime they had no say over."

But although being on the receiving end of the deal, Kuwaitis too remain circumspect about Iraq.

"Many Kuwaitis feel threatened by Iraq," Dr. Ali of Kuwait said. "They feel that even though Saddam loyalists are no longer in power, they influence Iraqi society and may perpetrate terrorist activity in Kuwait."

Ali said that despite Prime Minister Al-Maliki's good will toward Kuwait, he does not represent all segments of Iraqi population.

"We can't trust Iraq, because they have no political stability," he said.

Diplomatic relations between Iraq and Kuwait improved dramatically since the fall of Saddam's regime in 2003. In July 2008 Kuwait appointed its first ambassador in Iraq since the First Gulf War. Nearly two years later, Iraq reciprocated by sending its ambassador to Kuwait in March 2010. Kuwait has donated money to the reconstruction of Iraq and the implementation of its new multi-party political system.

"Some Arabs still view Iraq the same way they did under Saddam," Nuri Al-Maliki told a visiting Kuwaiti delegation in 2009. "But we tell them Iraq today is built on a constitution and on democracy."
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Iraq, Kuwait To Create 500-M No-Man’s Land


November 25, 2010

KUWAIT CITY: Iraq and Kuwait have agreed to create a 500-metre no-man’s land on each side of the border and move Iraqi farmers to new homes, a Kuwaiti official said in comments published on Wednesday.

Under the deal, Kuwait undertook to build up to 50 homes inside Iraq for the farmers living close to the frontier, the Al Seyassah daily quoted foreign ministry Arab World department chief Jassem Al Mubaraki as saying.

The agreement stipulates that the two countries will each keep a 500-metre strip completely free of any activity except for border police, Mubaraki said.

“The deal was reached during a recent meeting of the Kuwait-Iraq commission headed by the foreign ministry undersecretaries,” he said.

In 1993, three years after Iraq invaded Kuwait, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 833 which demarcated the land border between the two nations and granted Kuwait some territory that had previously been held by Iraq.

The two countries signed a similar deal in 2006 after Iraqi farmers halted construction of a 200-kilometre irrigation pipeline on the border when Kuwait charged it passed through its territory.

Under that deal, which was never implemented, Kuwait agreed to pay compensation for the Iraqi farmers and deposited the amount with the United Nations.

Mubaraki said the cost of building the replacement homes for the Iraqi farmers would be paid from the compensation.

Kuwait is also demanding the demarcation of maritime borders.

Iraq has been campaigning to be released from the sanctions imposed by the Security Council under Chapter Seven of the UN Charter after Saddam Hussein ordered his troops to invade Kuwait in August 1990.

Kuwait has consistently countered that before being released from the Chapter Seven sanctions, Iraq needs to settle the border issue and pay a further $25 billion due in war reparations, among other demands.

The two sides have agreed in principle on rules for production from border oilfields that have been at the heart of the conflict between them, Kuwaiti Oil Minister Sheikh Ahmed Abdullah Al Sabah said in August.

A number of oilfields lie on the border between the two countries, including Iraq’s giant Rumaila field, which extends into Kuwait where it is known as Ritqa.


Agence France-

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That's over TEN football fields. FIVE on each side of the border. Why all the hate? Can't they all just get along.

Signs agreement Iraq - Kuwait to demarcate the border between the two countries and another for investment joint oil fields
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(Voice of Iraq) - Kuwait had reached to establish a wide buffer zone of 500 meters and the deportation of Iraqi farmers
Baghdad: «Middle East»
Kuwait confirmed that it reached a border agreement with Iraq that provides for a wide buffer zone of 500 meters on both sides of the border between them and the transfer of Iraqi farmers to new homes, in order to resolve one of the outstanding issues between the two countries since the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990. This came while the sources pointed to the possibility of a solution to the crisis by investing oil fields shared jointly between the two countries.

The Associated Press quoted French told Mubaraki Jassim, an official at the Kuwaiti Foreign published yesterday, that Iraq and Kuwait have agreed to establish a wide buffer zone of 500 meters on both sides of the border between them. The Mubaraki, Director of the Arab world in the Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry, told the «politics», that Kuwait has pledged under the agreement to build 50 houses a maximum inside Iraq to farmers living near the border.

The agreement stipulates that both countries keep a border strip introduced the 500 meters will be completely free of any activity with the exception of border police. According to the sources, the agreement was reached during a recent meeting of the Kuwaiti Committee - the Iraqi border, which is chaired by the secretaries of the two foreign ministries.

But, however, Abawi, Undersecretary of the Iraqi Foreign Ministry, told «Middle East»: «No information is currently available with (the Ministry) on this matter at the present time, and must secure the information from official sources in order to permit on file Iraqi-Kuwaiti border being one of the files most sensitive requires the availability of accurate information about it ».

The Security Council was adopted in 1993, after 3 years of the invasion of Kuwait, Resolution 833, which defined the border between the two countries and grant the territory of Kuwait was under Iraqi control in the past.

The two countries signed a similar agreement in 2006, after farmers stopped the Iraqis build a pipeline to irrigate a length of 200 km on the border! The Kuwait confirmed that the pipeline passes through its territory. Under the agreement, which was never executed, and Kuwait agreed to compensate the Iraqi farmers and the amount deposited for this purpose to the United Nations. The Mubaraki that Kuwait will pay for building new homes for Iraqi farmers as compensation for them.

Iraq seeks to get out of sanctions adopted against him under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations because of its invasion of Kuwait during the regime of Saddam Hussein in 1990. Kuwait has confirmed that this endeavor should be to resolve the Iraq border problems and other demands.

Were announced by the Kuwaiti Oil Minister Sheikh Ahmad Abdullah Al-Sabah in August (August) last that Kuwait and Iraq reached a tentative agreement governing the production of oil fields in the border that have already caused a dispute between the two countries.

This is also confirmed by a spokesman for the Iraqi Oil Ministry, Assem Jihad, yesterday, as he told the «Middle East» to a tentative agreement with Kuwait to regulate the production of oil between the two countries and that a third party began to work actively to conduct surveys on the ground and the earth and to make proposals thereon and the two agencies entrusted to study the file will hold a meeting between them to study the findings of the third party, and then determine the mechanism of the signing of the Convention. There are a number of oil fields between the two countries, including Iraq's giant Rumaila, which extends into Kuwaiti territory where it is known as field Ratqa.

Most of Iraq's current production of oil comes from the Rumaila, by one million barrels per day out of 2.5 million barrels, while production from the field Ratqa does not exceed 50 thousand barrels. Saddam Hussein had accused Kuwait of stealing oil Rumaila when its forces occupied Kuwait in August 1990.

The Iraqi Prime Minister outgoing Nuri al-Maliki through the first of its willingness yesterday to resolve all outstanding issues with Kuwait, and especially the issue of missing persons.

Maliki said during a meeting with Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Iraq, Ad Melkert, the Special Rapporteur to the issue of missing Kuwaitis Gennady Tarasov said that «Iraq is fully prepared to do everything asked of it in this area and investigate any information that could lead to find the remains of missing persons». He added that «Find them, and humanitarian and religious duty, regardless of being a commitment» with Kuwait. He stressed that «Iraq is committed to resolving all outstanding issues and overcome the effects of the brutal invasion by the former regime and as soon as possible».

The Security Council has forced Iraq to pay 5% of its oil revenues to the Fund of the United Nations for compensation. The Fund has received requests for compensation of $ 368 billion dollars! However, he acknowledged only $ 52 billion, including 39 billion for the State of Kuwait, according to figures from Kuwait and from the Fund. The total value of compensation paid to Kuwait, the Government and the private sector, to 30.15 billion dollars. And the value of the remaining amount of approximately $ 22.3 billion. In addition to the payment of compensation, sanctions include the return of property of Kuwait and the demarcation of the border between the two countries and reveal the fate of Kuwaiti prisoners of war.

The International Committee of the Red Cross announced that the meetings include representatives from Iraq and Kuwait to uncover the fate of persons who went missing during the Second Gulf War (1990-1991).

And established the Tripartite Commission and Technical Subcommittee of the years 1991 and 1994, respectively! To reveal the fate of the missing in this war.

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