Iraqi Official: The Outstanding Issues Between Kuwait and Iraq Will Be Closed Soon

April 22, 2010 · Posted in NEWS
2010/04/22 – 4:52 pm

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Expected to a senior Iraqi official to close shortly pending between Iraq and Kuwait, which passed by nearly twenty years, dating back to the era of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990 and the consequences that occurred after that.

Said Mohammed al-Haj Hammoud, Undersecretary of the Iraqi Foreign Ministry said in an interview of the island revealed that “the Iraqi government attaches special importance for the files pending between the two countries, which ended the Iraqi side of processing all the information and documentation for these files in preparation for the start of talks between the two sides.”

He pointed out that there are specialized committees examine each file separately, the first of the Boundary Commission, and the second is looking for compensation, and third is to discuss matters relating to missing persons and Archive Amiri.

Iraq keen

Hammoud stressed the keenness of the Iraqi side to close the files that remained outstanding between the two countries for nearly two decades, he expressed the hope that the specialized committees to deal from the Kuwaiti side to cooperate positively in the end these files.

He also asked the Arab League’s role in facilitating the work of these committees on the road to clear the air in a broad and deep between Iraq and Kuwait.
It is noteworthy that many of the files have not been resolved after the 1991 Gulf War, and continued to demand the return of the Kuwaiti prisoners and missing persons and Archive Amiri.

The U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, the higher the pace and move the Kuwaiti and met many of the Iraqi and Kuwaiti officials for the past seven years, but has not resolved the outstanding issues between the two countries, with Iraq still continue to pay compensation to the Kuwaiti side.

Role of the university

And the role of the Arab League in resolving these files, “said Ali Garooc Deputy Secretary-General of the League of Arab States of the island revealed that” the subject file is missing and the subject of the Kuwaiti archives, addressed the United Nations, has participated the Arab League on several occasions in the issue, with Iraq has returned a set of missing Kuwaiti under the auspices of the United Nations and Arab League. ”
He pointed out that the largest group of missing persons were handed over to the Kuwaiti government in the Safwan region in the presence of the Arab League and the Iraqi government to hand over groups of the Kuwaiti archives.

He added that the Kuwaiti authorities considered these quantities are insufficient, and indeed the Iraqi Foreign Ministry published advertisements in the media urging people to make their knowledge and he who has something to do with Kuwaiti property to take the initiative to hand him over.

With regard to prisoners of war and missing Kuwaitis say Garooc “As you know, Kuwait submitted a file containing the full 605 names, but later corrected that figure to 597 after adjusting for the number of files missing.”

The Garooc it has been found more than 300 remains of the missing names were fixed after confirmation by the Kuwaiti authorities, including where they were conducting DNA testing, their files were closed, and remained less than 300 missing is still being sought for them.

The Secretary-General Amr Moussa, sent a letter to Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, to urge him to facilitate the task of searching for more to close this humanitarian issue, “and to my knowledge it has not been reached to the whereabouts of the remains of the remaining number of missing Kuwaitis.”
The Garooc that officials in the Iraqi government offered all facilities to end these files. And expressed the readiness of the Arab League “to make any effort required by our brothers in Iraq and Kuwait to end and resolve these files, especially that there is a convergence of views between the two countries.”

The Secretary-General on the Keywords of the Iraqi Council of Ministers has confirmed in a press statement, that the Iraqi side had completed all the procedures for files with Kuwait as compensation and missing Kuwaiti and Iraqi debt and archive the Amir, the demarcation of the border.

Keywords pointed out that the Boundary Commission which was formed some time ago, quite a few are still confronted with some technical constraints when working on the ground. The Iraqi ambassador to the United Nations, Hamid al-Bayati, has called for reduction of damages Kuwait or Iraq, including an exemption.