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Kuwait, in a letter to Ban Ki-moon: Iraq's compliance with its international obligations will strengthen relations between the two countries
By: Basvoice
on: Sat 16/07/2011 4:23
Sout Al Basra (KUNA) - The Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed Sabah Al Salem Al Sabah last night expressed confidence that Iraq's implementation of its international obligations towards the State of Kuwait will contribute to building trust between the two countries and strengthen relations between them.
He said in identical letters to both UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the current president of the UN Security Council Ambassador to Germany Peter Vig on Kuwait's desire "serious" in the promotion of good neighborly relations and willingness to "full" to help Iraq on the implementation of these commitments as soon as possible.
Sheikh Mohammed said, "We would like to reaffirm our earnest desire to improve bilateral relations on the level that serves the interests of the two countries and two peoples and promote good-neighborly relations."
He added: "We are confident that Iraq's implementation of its international obligations remaining under the umbrella of the United Nations and its respect to resolution 833 (of 1993) and its implementation on the ground will be an important input to build confidence between the two countries and the start of a wider horizon for a strong relationship be based on respect for international legitimacy and international law and the principle of non-interference in internal affairs. "
The new Sheikh Mohammed, "the State of Kuwait is ready to provide full support and assistance needed by Iraq to speed up the process of implementing the remaining obligations stipulated by Security Council resolutions relevant."
In his account of latest developments related to outstanding commitments in Iraq and with respect to the issues of prisoners and the return of property and the National Archives, Sheikh Mohammad said Kuwait "appreciates the constructive cooperation shown by the Iraqi government to end this humanitarian issue" in the framework of the Tripartite Commission and its Technical Committee under the chairmanship of the International Committee of the Red Cross to detect the fate of missing Kuwaitis and other nationals of third countries.
And that this cooperation resulted in the identification on the body of missing 236 out of 605, expressing regret that, since 2004, "there is no progress in revealing the fate of the rest of the missing."
He also expressed his hope that "continued and this cooperation will continue and be intensified" in the next phase of the implementation of action plans and programs that are agreed upon between the parties concerned in the framework of the Technical Committee.
The Sheikh Mohammad al-Sabah also welcomed the State of Kuwait to Security Council resolution adopted last month to extend the mandate of the high-level coordinator Ambassador Ginanda Tarasov to follow up the missing file and the file properties and the National Archives, which "not hardly changing" and support for the continuation of his mandate "to ensure the implementation of Council resolutions security-related. "
With regard to the maintenance of border signs between the two countries, said Sheikh Mohammed said the maintenance project "still pending", reminding that the United Nations has - in implementation of Security Council Resolution 833 - the preparations necessary to complete the project maintenance.
He added that the first and second phases relating to the preparations and the preparation and planning completed operations in more than four years and the remaining third and final phase of actual implementation because the international organization "has not yet been able to carry out its functions."
He said Sheikh Mohammed, said this was due to the failure of Iraq to implement the recommendations of United Nations technical team that visited the border area in February 2006 and requested the removal from Iraq abuses and barriers on the border, including those that prevent the vision of border markers.
As well as the lack of Iraq responded to repeated calls from Secretary-General and the many letters addressed to him by the Secretariat of the United Nations in that regard and, most recently last May and asked which of Iraq to pay its share of the remaining project costs of $ 600 thousand U.S. dollars and set a date to begin implementation.
He also pointed out that the two meetings held between Kuwait and Iraq under the auspices of the first United Nations in New York in June 2007 and the second in Kuwait in October 2008, expressing the hope that invites the United Nations to convene a third meeting of technicians from Kuwait and Iraq in order to follow up the implementation of the maintenance project and to inform the Security Council is in this regard.
With regard to the question of damages, Sheikh Mohammed pointed out that Iraq is continuing to implement its obligations stipulated by Security Council resolutions relevant to compensation of the affected Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990 and under the resolutions of the Council withheld a percentage of revenues and the sale of oil allocated to the Compensation Fund. He said that Kuwait and Iraq held a first round of talks in Amman in 2009 on the future of the remaining amount of compensation was agreed to hold another round of talks in implementation of the decision of the Board of Governors of the Compensation Fund.
But he expressed regret that Iraq "and to date not responded to repeated messages from the secretariat of the Compensation Commission to hold a second round."
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By: Basvoice
on: Sat 16/07/2011 4:23
Sout Al Basra (KUNA) - The Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed Sabah Al Salem Al Sabah last night expressed confidence that Iraq's implementation of its international obligations towards the State of Kuwait will contribute to building trust between the two countries and strengthen relations between them.
He said in identical letters to both UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the current president of the UN Security Council Ambassador to Germany Peter Vig on Kuwait's desire "serious" in the promotion of good neighborly relations and willingness to "full" to help Iraq on the implementation of these commitments as soon as possible.
Sheikh Mohammed said, "We would like to reaffirm our earnest desire to improve bilateral relations on the level that serves the interests of the two countries and two peoples and promote good-neighborly relations."
He added: "We are confident that Iraq's implementation of its international obligations remaining under the umbrella of the United Nations and its respect to resolution 833 (of 1993) and its implementation on the ground will be an important input to build confidence between the two countries and the start of a wider horizon for a strong relationship be based on respect for international legitimacy and international law and the principle of non-interference in internal affairs. "
The new Sheikh Mohammed, "the State of Kuwait is ready to provide full support and assistance needed by Iraq to speed up the process of implementing the remaining obligations stipulated by Security Council resolutions relevant."
In his account of latest developments related to outstanding commitments in Iraq and with respect to the issues of prisoners and the return of property and the National Archives, Sheikh Mohammad said Kuwait "appreciates the constructive cooperation shown by the Iraqi government to end this humanitarian issue" in the framework of the Tripartite Commission and its Technical Committee under the chairmanship of the International Committee of the Red Cross to detect the fate of missing Kuwaitis and other nationals of third countries.
And that this cooperation resulted in the identification on the body of missing 236 out of 605, expressing regret that, since 2004, "there is no progress in revealing the fate of the rest of the missing."
He also expressed his hope that "continued and this cooperation will continue and be intensified" in the next phase of the implementation of action plans and programs that are agreed upon between the parties concerned in the framework of the Technical Committee.
The Sheikh Mohammad al-Sabah also welcomed the State of Kuwait to Security Council resolution adopted last month to extend the mandate of the high-level coordinator Ambassador Ginanda Tarasov to follow up the missing file and the file properties and the National Archives, which "not hardly changing" and support for the continuation of his mandate "to ensure the implementation of Council resolutions security-related. "
With regard to the maintenance of border signs between the two countries, said Sheikh Mohammed said the maintenance project "still pending", reminding that the United Nations has - in implementation of Security Council Resolution 833 - the preparations necessary to complete the project maintenance.
He added that the first and second phases relating to the preparations and the preparation and planning completed operations in more than four years and the remaining third and final phase of actual implementation because the international organization "has not yet been able to carry out its functions."
He said Sheikh Mohammed, said this was due to the failure of Iraq to implement the recommendations of United Nations technical team that visited the border area in February 2006 and requested the removal from Iraq abuses and barriers on the border, including those that prevent the vision of border markers.
As well as the lack of Iraq responded to repeated calls from Secretary-General and the many letters addressed to him by the Secretariat of the United Nations in that regard and, most recently last May and asked which of Iraq to pay its share of the remaining project costs of $ 600 thousand U.S. dollars and set a date to begin implementation.
He also pointed out that the two meetings held between Kuwait and Iraq under the auspices of the first United Nations in New York in June 2007 and the second in Kuwait in October 2008, expressing the hope that invites the United Nations to convene a third meeting of technicians from Kuwait and Iraq in order to follow up the implementation of the maintenance project and to inform the Security Council is in this regard.
With regard to the question of damages, Sheikh Mohammed pointed out that Iraq is continuing to implement its obligations stipulated by Security Council resolutions relevant to compensation of the affected Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990 and under the resolutions of the Council withheld a percentage of revenues and the sale of oil allocated to the Compensation Fund. He said that Kuwait and Iraq held a first round of talks in Amman in 2009 on the future of the remaining amount of compensation was agreed to hold another round of talks in implementation of the decision of the Board of Governors of the Compensation Fund.
But he expressed regret that Iraq "and to date not responded to repeated messages from the secretariat of the Compensation Commission to hold a second round."
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