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Cabinet authorizes the State to negotiate with Iran over the border instead of the Convention on Algeria
Tuesday 16 December 2014 14:38
Alsumaria News / Baghdad
Authorized the Council of Ministers , on Tuesday, the Foreign Ministry to negotiate with Iran over the border instead of the Convention on Algeria .
A spokesman for the Prime Minister's Office tributary Jabouri in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "The Council of Ministers authorized during its meeting of 14, which was held today, the Foreign Ministry to continue to negotiate with Iran to find a comprehensive solution with regards to the border between the two countries, including the rivers and common deviation Shatt Arabs toward Iraq . "
He Jabouri that "guidance to be final and be an alternative to the Convention Algeria held between the two parties in 1975".
The Algiers Agreement, signed on March 6, 1975 between then-Vice President Saddam Hussein and the Shah of Iran , Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and under the supervision of the President of Algeria, then Houari Boumediene, redrew the borders of Iraq with Iran at the time and gave Iran the eastern half of the Shatt Al-Arab District, but the Iraqi president Saddam Hussein canceled this agreement in 1980 after the fall of the Shah and the arrival of Islamists to power, which sparked the first Gulf War, which spread to eight years.
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Tuesday 16 December 2014 14:38
Alsumaria News / Baghdad
Authorized the Council of Ministers , on Tuesday, the Foreign Ministry to negotiate with Iran over the border instead of the Convention on Algeria .
A spokesman for the Prime Minister's Office tributary Jabouri in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "The Council of Ministers authorized during its meeting of 14, which was held today, the Foreign Ministry to continue to negotiate with Iran to find a comprehensive solution with regards to the border between the two countries, including the rivers and common deviation Shatt Arabs toward Iraq . "
He Jabouri that "guidance to be final and be an alternative to the Convention Algeria held between the two parties in 1975".
The Algiers Agreement, signed on March 6, 1975 between then-Vice President Saddam Hussein and the Shah of Iran , Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and under the supervision of the President of Algeria, then Houari Boumediene, redrew the borders of Iraq with Iran at the time and gave Iran the eastern half of the Shatt Al-Arab District, but the Iraqi president Saddam Hussein canceled this agreement in 1980 after the fall of the Shah and the arrival of Islamists to power, which sparked the first Gulf War, which spread to eight years.
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