Iraq calls for Arab countries to ratify the United Nations Convention of 1997

Iraq calls for Arab countries to ratify the United Nations Convention of 1997


1/30/2014 0:00


Handed over the presidency of the Executive Office to Qatar
Cairo Isra Khalifa ladder Iraq in the Arab League headquarters in Cairo on Wednesday, the presidency of the Executive Council of Ministers of Water Resources Arabs to the State of Qatar. headed Iraq the previous session of the Eighth Council and others like it in the meeting, a delegation headed by Advisor to the Minister of Water Resources Bakhtiar Abdul Rahman Abdul Karim , who said "morning" at the end of the meeting that Iraq has made ​​many achievements during his chairmanship of the previous session of the most important boost joint Arab action in the field of water resources, where he held the first meeting of the Council in Iraq in 2013 and came out with a number of important results that contribute to the solution of various issues of interest to the Arab countries. added Abdul Rahman said Iraq has created a strategic Arab to protect Arab water security to meet the challenges and requirements of sustainable development in addition to the emphasis in all the meetings, chaired by Iraq, the need to authenticate the Arab countries on the United Nations Convention of 1997 on the use of sewage international purposes is navigational support arguments negotiating with the countries of the common rivers which Iraq aims to ratification by all States until it reaches the number of endorsers to 35 countries in order to apply to countries with which we share in the rivers because Iraq is suffering from this problem because it shares with Turkey and Iran in the water and that the ratification of this agreement is very important for him because he suffers from a scarcity of water, noting that the number of authenticated this Convention of the Arab countries are 8 and we are 22 countries if endorsed the agreement was a window right now and we are taking our rights of water full of States participating with us. Abdul Rahman said that the terms of the meeting held Arab Water Ministers included the preparation of the Conference of the Arab Water scheduled in Doha May 28 next, stressing the importance of this conference, which will be preceded by another meeting of the Executive Bureau of the Council of Arab Water Ministers to prepare it and the preparation of the draft recommendations of its own, adding that he expected to discuss water issues in the region and enhance security Arab water and come up with solutions on the current water issues in order to avoid future wars in this regard and said that he discussed the new composition of the Executive Office of the Ministerial Council of the Arab Water where he was elected president of the Qatar office of the Vice-President of Tunisia.

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