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Kuwait: 370 missing in Iraq in addition to state archives
Date: Thursday, 05.03.2012 7:41
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revealed Kuwait yesterday they made a joint request with Iraq to the United Nations in order to determine the tripartite meeting to discuss the necessary procedures for installing and maintenance of border markers between the two countries, while confirming that it is still awaiting the fate of 370 missing in Iraq and the state archives, praised the Iraq's efforts in this area.
The Permanent Representative of Kuwait to the United Nations, Ambassador Mansour Ayyad Al-Otaibi told the Kuwait News Agency Official (KUNA), "The Joint Committee discussed during its recent meeting in Baghdad file of prisoners and missing persons and Kuwaiti property, and talks are continuing," asserting that "there are 370 missing, not unaccounted for after the addition to the archives of the Kuwaiti state. "
He Otaibi that "the topic humanitarian There is no disagreement about it, and Kuwait appreciates the efforts made by the Iraqi government is also aware that without Iraq's cooperation in these two cases will not be able to achieve real progress."
The agency that Al-Otaibi sent with his Iraqi counterpart, Hamid al-Bayati, a joint letter, on Tuesday, to the Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations for Political Affairs Lynn Pascoe to hold a tripartite meeting this week to consider taking the necessary steps to start a maintenance project marks the border between the two countries.
In this context, an ambassador of Kuwait's desire his country and Iraq that "the United Nations legal responsibility in the implementation of project maintenance of border markers in accordance with the Security Council resolution 833 on the demarcation of the border between the two countries." Otaibi was considered that "the implementation of resolution 833 would create the appropriate atmosphere to build confidence and push bilateral ties to a broader horizons reap the fruit people of two countries." The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kuwait Tuesday, that the meetings conducted by a few days ago in Baghdad with the Iraqi government resulted in an agreement on the demarcation of the border once and for all, in addition to the establishment of a joint committee between the two countries to oversee the implementation of the agreement. There were meetings of the Iraqi-Kuwaiti joint in Baghdad, in the 29 April 2012, and announced, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari after the completion of the signing of a protocol with Kuwait for the organization of navigation in the Khawr Abd Allah, confirming that it will sign more protocols during the visit of Prime Minister of Kuwait Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah to Iraq in the last quarter of this year.
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