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Adviser to Maliki: Iraq reached an agreement worth $ 500 million to settle the debt with Kuwait
2012-03-14 19:05:48
BAGHDAD (Iba) ... Said media adviser to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Wednesday that Iraq has reached an agreement worth $ 500 million with Kuwait to settle the debt back to the Gulf War prevented from Iraqi Airways flights to the West.
Reuters quoted Ali al-Moussawi from Kuwait, which is visiting Iraqi Prime Minister now, saying that Iraq would pay under the agreement $ 300 million in cash to Kuwait and will invest another $ 200 million in airline Kuwaiti-Iraqi operation.
He added that Kuwait in return will stop the legal proceedings against Iraqi Airways.
In 2010, Kuwaiti lawyers tried to detain an aircraft belonging to the Iraqi lines in the first flight to London. The theme of Iraqi Airways is part of the long-standing dispute between Iraq and Kuwait on the billions of dollars in damages for invasion of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein of Kuwait in 1990-1991.
Maliki arrived in Kuwait on Wednesday morning heading a delegation to discuss the outstanding issues between the two countries.
The debt on top of these files in addition to the demarcation of land borders and sea port and the issue of Mubarak, which created a kind of political tension between Baghdad and Kuwait during the past months.
But the visit comes after countries have recently expressed their support for the resolution of disputes dating back to the nineties of the last century, after Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait in 1990.
Kuwait announced earlier in the past its willingness to turn the page and start a new page of its foreign relations with Iraq on the basis of mutual respect which the positions of Hatrha when Iraq is through the declaration of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
Kuwait rejected the withdrawal of Iraq from Chapter VII of the UN Security Council to meet its obligations towards them, while with respect to three files is the issue of missing Kuwaitis and archives, as well as the issue of border demarcation between the two countries.
It is possible to affect the negotiations the two sides on the decision taken by the UN Security Council in June on the possibility of coming out of Iraq from Chapter VII. (End)
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