UN official in Kuwait Monday to follow up Iraq-Kuwait issues

Poliakov was appointed by
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon recently to temporarily follow up these
two humanitarian files until the Security Council decides by June on how
to proceed, after the High-Level Coordinator Gennady Tarasov left his
office in late December.

They were supposed to have decided back in December....Clearly by this temporary appointment they have taken a hands off approach understanding this missing persons and property issue is a long term matter and impossible to enforce under a sanction of eternity... Using Unami [established under the non-chapter VII resolution 1500]facilitating regional dialogue between Iraq and Kuwait is the choice of all three parties... I think everyone understands this by now.... This report mentions "By June" it doesn't say "In June" meaning they can deal with it way before that time.

yes this about the bodies and achrives ..bilatteral issues that will be addressed but will take some time as the previous aritcle had said !

So what y'all are saying is that 7 can and should be lifted before June and these two issues will roll into VI once 7 is lifted and they will meet on or by June on these two remaining issues?

mochasmom wrote:So what y'all are saying is that 7 can and should be lifted before June and these two issues will roll into VI once 7 is lifted and they will meet on or by June on these two remaining issues?

yes in our opinion thats what will happen !

duck2000 wrote:yes in our opinion thats what will happen !

i agree just cause iraq is coming out of chapter VII doensn't mean they will be free of UNSC they will still be meeting on matters that will move to chapter VI that will continue for years...but what matters to us is the release of Chapter VII after that they can have all the meetings they want which will be of no interest to me! :)

day dreamer wrote:

i agree just cause iraq is coming out of chapter VII doensn't mean they will be free of UNSC they will still be meeting on matters that will move to chapter VI that will continue for years...but what matters to us is the release of Chapter VII after that they can have all the meetings they want which will be of no interest to me! :)

Me too! I never thought I would know as much as I do about another country.

day dreamer wrote:

i agree just cause iraq is coming out of chapter VII doensn't mean they will be free of UNSC they will still be meeting on matters that will move to chapter VI that will continue for years...but what matters to us is the release of Chapter VII after that they can have all the meetings they want which will be of no interest to me! :)

Ditto!!! After 8 years for me and everyone else invested in Dinar Land...it's exciting to be looking forward to the next Chapter in Our Lives, instead of the one we've been chasing for soooooo long!!! :)

UN Official in Kuwait to follow up on situation prior to UNSC meeting in June; Iraq has a few months to prove it means business



03/03/2013 | 10:19 AM | Kuwait News

UNITED NATIONS, March 3 (KUNA) — UN official Victor Poliakov, who took care of the missing Kuwaitis and property files in the UN Secretariat since the eighties, will discuss the issues in Kuwait Monday with government officials, KUNA learned late Saturday.

Poliakov was appointed by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon recently to temporarily follow up these two humanitarian files until the Security Council decides by June on how to proceed, after the High-Level Coordinator Gennady Tarasov left his office in late December.

Ban offered the Council in a report last December a number of options to choose from on how to fill until June the vacuum created by Tarasov’s departure.

The options include replacing Tarasov with another full-time coordinator, appointing an interim coordinator, asking someone from the UN to assume the mandate until the files are closed, or allowing the UN Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) to take over the files.

When the council met in mid-December, it did not agree on any of the options, and therefore did not allow the mandate to be financed until a final decision is made.

While Russia wanted Tarasov to be replaced by another Russian, Western countries wanted the files to be handled by the UN Secretariat until the files are closed once and for all. Ban had personally wanted UNAMI to handle the files.

Since the council remained deadlocked on the way forward, Ban wrote to the council late last month informing its members that he has mandated Poliakov to “temporarily follow up the dossiers” until the council decides on how to proceed when it meets again on the issues next June.

A UN diplomat told KUNA that the recent improvement in the Kuwait-Iraq relations will definitely have an impact on the council’s decision in June.

He also said that the next few months will be a test for Iraq to prove to the international community that it means business and is serious about closing the files once and for all.

Iraqi Ambassador Hamid Al-Bayati told KUNA that some of the files, such as the maintenance of border posts and maritime navigation, will be dealt with bilaterally with Kuwait in the future, expressing satisfaction that the legal issues between Kuwait Airways and its Iraqi sister company have now been resolved.

“Both governments are determined to solve all outstanding issues and to open a new page in the relations between the two brotherly neighbors – Iraq and Kuwait,” he said.

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