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    Renewed Tensions over Kuwait-Iraq Border

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    Post by jedi17 Wed 08 Feb 2017, 3:30 pm

    Renewed Tensions over Kuwait-Iraq Border

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    February 8, 2017 in [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.], [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.], [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.], [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

    By Sara al-Qaher for [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]. Any opinions expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News.
    Controversial canal again sparks dispute in Iraq

    Iraq is fighting a tide of dissent as its lawmakers accuse the government of handing over the Khor Abdullah border canal to Kuwait in an agreement concluded by the countries’ joint committees.
    The Cabinet’s decision sparked outrage Jan. 26, with some parliament members and [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] claiming the move was part of a [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] by which Iraq handed over Khor Abdullah as a [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.], resulting in a crisis that [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]have failed to end.
    An estuary, [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] is at the northern end of the Persian Gulf off the shores of the Kuwaiti islands of Bubiyan and Warbah and the Iraqi Al-Faw peninsula, extending to Khor al-Zubair in [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.].
    Disagreement over the rights to Bubiyan were a major reason Iraq invaded Kuwait.
    Following Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] in 1990, the UN Security Council in May 1993 [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.], demarcating the Iraq-Kuwait borders. A committee was formed of experts from 16 countries, including some former Soviet republics, the United States, the United Kingdom, Spain, Venezuela, Pakistan and Morocco. The committee was charged with technical implementation of border demarcation between [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.].
    According to [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.], that committee concluded that Khor Abdullah was a vital canal for both countries. Then a joint committee was formed to draft a bilateral agreement on the [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.], and in 2013 the Iraqi Cabinet ratified the agreement and delivered it to the UN.
    Over the past few years, Iraqi parliamentarians have strongly contested the Baghdad government’s approval of the agreement, which officially recognizes Kuwait’s right to establish [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] within the area shared by both nations, thus narrowing the [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.].
    “There’s a secret deal between the Iraqi and Kuwaiti governments concerning Khor Abdullah. The clarifications offered by the Iraqi government in this regard are not persuasive,” parliament member Aaliyah Nasif of the State of Law Coalition told Al-Monitor. She maintains Khor Abdullah was not included in Resolution 833, in legal or geographic terms.


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