Resumption of flights between Kuwait and Iraq this week

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Resumption of flights between Kuwait and Iraq this week

by Zuzu Sat 23 Feb 2013, 10:07 am

22/02/2013

Resumption of flights between Kuwait and Iraq this week

Baghdad / term Press

Ministry of Transport revealed that this week will see the resumption of flights between Baghdad and Kuwait, noted that the re-run of flights between the two countries came after a lapse of 22 years.

An advisor to the Minister of Transport Karim Nouri said in an interview (range Press), "The flights between Iraq and Kuwait will be resumed this week again after a long break," noting that "next Thursday will see the first flight of Iraq and Kuwait."

Nouri said that "re-operate flights between the two countries comes after a hiatus of 22 years."

The announcement of the Ministry of Transport, for re flights between Iraq and Kuwait after only one day of landing the first Saudi aircraft on the ground at Baghdad International Airport after a lapse of 20 years in the wake of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait amid confirmation from the Ministry of Transport to cooperate air open the doors of economic cooperation between the two countries and contribute to resolving the political crisis between Baghdad and Riyadh, also comes five days after the announcement of Iraqi Airways flights to London after a break of more than 23 years and sold 200 tickets before the start of scheduled flights next month.

The Ministry of Transport confirmed the 11/16/2012 that Iraqi Airways began recovering from debt forgiveness Kuwaiti them.
The Iraqi Airways announced, in January 29, 2013, contract to buy 50 aircraft type Boeing 737 and Boeing Dreamliner 787 in addition to two Aabertin intercontinental making company Airbus, while The Ministry of Transport, said that Iraqi Airways will run trips lines additional to many countries of the world .

The Kuwaiti National Assembly approved, in the 22 of January 2013 the vast majority of the Convention on the liquidation of debts of Iraqi Airways, stressing that the Council referred the decree law of the Convention to the Government for approval. The Iraqi Airways has suspended flights to a large number of European countries after Kuwait filed a lawsuit for damages suffered by the aircraft as a result of the Iraqi invasion in 1990, and demanded payment of one billion and 200 million dollars for Kuwait Airways.

And witnessed Iraqi-Kuwaiti relations in recent progress in resolving some of the outstanding problems, as the parties agreed during the visit of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki last of Kuwait on the fourteenth of the month of March 2012, to end the issue of compensation for airline Kuwaiti and maintenance of border markers, as agreed common foundations and frameworks to resolve all the files within short time scales, with the exception of Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, who accompanied Maliki on the trip to what has been agreed upon is significant progress with regard to the exit of Iraq from Chapter VII.

As a result, Kuwait announced on the third of April 2012, its intention to re-opening of the line to fly with Baghdad in the coming days for the first time in more than 21 years, promised that action is the culmination of efforts between the two countries in order to strengthen relations.

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