Press reports
November 18, 2009
1- The United Nations is preparing a plan for reconciliation between Iraq and Kuwait (Union)
Head of UN Mission in Iraq (UNAMI), an international organization working to develop the main features of a plan to help Iraq in ending the dispute with Kuwait for compensation 19 years after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait., "Said Ad Melkert, UN special envoy to Baghdad at a meeting of the Security Council consisting the 15-nation on Iraq that the most important priorities, "the normalization of regional relations (Iraq), particularly with regard to Kuwait and thus to get out from under the penalty provisions of Title VII of the Charter."
Melkert said that the UN mission in Iraq will outline for a plan to achieve this. "We seek the consent of both parties to define an agenda given their consent to complete it resolved any issues that remain and lead to the normalization of the situation in Iraq within the United Nations."
Kuwait opposes ending the Iraq subject to the terms of Title VII, but diplomats in the Security Council said they might conduct a vote to lift restrictions on Iraq in the coming months it will pave the way for Iraq to re-negotiate the amount of compensation paid to Kuwait.
He said Melkert told reporters that the proposal would involve a range of subjects of dispute between Kuwait and Iraq. He said that in addition to compensation there is still a subject of the agreement on the land and maritime boundary between Iraq and Kuwait.
Kuwait, as demanded by its citizens with information about missing persons and the property of the Kuwaiti government says it was stolen during the occupation. At the end of July, Iraq was condemned for damages of approximately $ 25.5 billion, including $ 23 billion to Kuwait alone.
Melkert said that the agreement is likely to wait until the end of Iraq's parliamentary elections scheduled to take place in January.
The Iraqi ambassador to the United Nations, Hamid al-Bayati told reporters that his government is trying to locate 600 Kuwaitis, a process that could take a long time.
He said the operation to end the subordination of Iraq to section VII should not wait to be found on all missing persons or to identify their remains. Bayati said that there are differences over the demarcation of the Iraq-Kuwait border, but the two countries "are thinking the same way" and will be able to agree.
Melkert did not comment on the visit to Iraq this month by Oscar Fernandez Taranco Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations at the request of Baghdad to investigate his support for terrorists from foreign countries.
Bayati said that his government Taranco Fernandez's visit "a first step followed by next steps to uncover those behind the deadly bombings in Baghdad in August and October."
The two suicide bombings targeting government buildings in Baghdad last month killed more than 150 people and destroyed by truck bombs in August and the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Finance Ministries.
Iraq and cast the responsibility for the attacks on al Qaeda and supporters of the banned Baath party, and accused Syria of providing a safe haven for Baathists planned the attacks.
November 18, 2009
1- The United Nations is preparing a plan for reconciliation between Iraq and Kuwait (Union)
Head of UN Mission in Iraq (UNAMI), an international organization working to develop the main features of a plan to help Iraq in ending the dispute with Kuwait for compensation 19 years after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait., "Said Ad Melkert, UN special envoy to Baghdad at a meeting of the Security Council consisting the 15-nation on Iraq that the most important priorities, "the normalization of regional relations (Iraq), particularly with regard to Kuwait and thus to get out from under the penalty provisions of Title VII of the Charter."
Melkert said that the UN mission in Iraq will outline for a plan to achieve this. "We seek the consent of both parties to define an agenda given their consent to complete it resolved any issues that remain and lead to the normalization of the situation in Iraq within the United Nations."
Kuwait opposes ending the Iraq subject to the terms of Title VII, but diplomats in the Security Council said they might conduct a vote to lift restrictions on Iraq in the coming months it will pave the way for Iraq to re-negotiate the amount of compensation paid to Kuwait.
He said Melkert told reporters that the proposal would involve a range of subjects of dispute between Kuwait and Iraq. He said that in addition to compensation there is still a subject of the agreement on the land and maritime boundary between Iraq and Kuwait.
Kuwait, as demanded by its citizens with information about missing persons and the property of the Kuwaiti government says it was stolen during the occupation. At the end of July, Iraq was condemned for damages of approximately $ 25.5 billion, including $ 23 billion to Kuwait alone.
Melkert said that the agreement is likely to wait until the end of Iraq's parliamentary elections scheduled to take place in January.
The Iraqi ambassador to the United Nations, Hamid al-Bayati told reporters that his government is trying to locate 600 Kuwaitis, a process that could take a long time.
He said the operation to end the subordination of Iraq to section VII should not wait to be found on all missing persons or to identify their remains. Bayati said that there are differences over the demarcation of the Iraq-Kuwait border, but the two countries "are thinking the same way" and will be able to agree.
Melkert did not comment on the visit to Iraq this month by Oscar Fernandez Taranco Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations at the request of Baghdad to investigate his support for terrorists from foreign countries.
Bayati said that his government Taranco Fernandez's visit "a first step followed by next steps to uncover those behind the deadly bombings in Baghdad in August and October."
The two suicide bombings targeting government buildings in Baghdad last month killed more than 150 people and destroyed by truck bombs in August and the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Finance Ministries.
Iraq and cast the responsibility for the attacks on al Qaeda and supporters of the banned Baath party, and accused Syria of providing a safe haven for Baathists planned the attacks.