Residents of Umm Qasr ' demonstrating ' the Kuwaiti border.They refused to implement the resolutions of the United Nations to evacuate their homes and farms
09-03-2013
After two decades on the UN Security Council resolution 833, the demarcation of the boundary between Iraq and Kuwait, the Iraqi town of Umm Qasr, South of Basra, fear of loss of 200 houses and a number of farms and areas by petroleum began to prove the border between the two pillars.
And dozens of city of Umm Qasr, one of the largest ports of Iraq bordering the Persian Gulf, near the pillars of demarcation to express their indignation, especially as they have large farms in this region, a local official revealed that the actions of the Iraqi Government to compensate those affected by a very slow process which may cause displacement of families who live near those pillars. The Director of the Umm Qasr Saleh Abdul Mahdi for «Middle East» that «the installation of border pillars and security pipeline has already started and that more than 200 houses and a number of farms and marine Boat Harbour was home to command the naval force and Iraqi oil covered areas in the demarcation process, stating that "the people of the region worry of taking their homes either for the Kuwaiti side or forbidden border zone came to 7 kilometers from the border before 1991. He said that "the Iraqi Government procedures to compensate area MPs officers located at the West end of the Centre area of Umm Qasr, the areas most affected by redistricting, too slow and not build a compound or material compensation, which may cause displacement.
The UN Security Council issued resolution 833 in 1993 under which the demarcation of the boundary between Kuwait and Iraq, and along some 216 km, the application of resolution partially under the former regime to carve out vast tracts of Iraqi territory in terms of Safwan and Umm Qasr to Kuwait.
And dozens of the Umm Qasr to protest a border demarcation process and subtract the lands of Iraq. He said to Jacob, owner of one of the houses threatened with demolition in the demarcation process, "Iraqi border guards informed us a few days ago to evacuate the houses for the purpose of security pipeline», stating that" the Government did not provide us with alternative and did not listen to our demands and failed in our land which we were born with. He said '' there are a lot of people in the region does not accept financial compensation and compromising, so will we elect representatives of Al-Maliki's Party in the next provincial elections, which did not respect our right to our land title».
, Said Ahmed Khafaji, a hacker within limits, that the process currently under way to install the tube divided my farm into two which makes me can't take advantage of them, stating that "the Government should compensate us so far despite earlier promises. Khafaji urged the Iraqi Government to stop compromising with more territory in the interest of Kuwait without taking into account the interest of its citizens.
In turn, the President warned a civil society organization in Basra that "demarcation step this way and that lead to the loss of Iraq's sovereign territory will turn into a time bomb which could explode at any time", adding that "the Iraqis already feel that they have rights in Kuwaiti territory so how would alienate their land?»The Kuwaiti Government and not to accept this Division so as not to create more Iraqi popular hostility to them and to reassure Iraqis and robbed their land».
Iraqi activist who asked not to be named saying: published why must apply strict Security Council resolutions on Iraq, while neglecting all over the world and especially Israel? And why Kuwait insists on Iraqi land usurpation is not entitled to know?», Warning "people have attacked FORAN Borderlands to reclaim Iraqi territory».
Mentioned that many Iraqi officials objected after 2003 to complete the demarcation of the land boundary between the two countries in accordance with resolution 833, as that decision imposed on Iraq under international pressure and in extraordinary circumstances, however, the Iraq-Kuwait rapprochement in recent years, prompting Baghdad to follow the principle of mutual agreement with Kuwait in order to get out of Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations, ending the files of Kuwaiti prisoners and missing persons, airlines and border pillars and compensation.
The Deputy Prime Minister and former Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr. Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah stressed the importance of the third report of the Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon issued in 2011 and on progress towards fulfilment of the responsibilities entrusted to the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI).
He Sheikh Dr. Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-statement (AGI) then ' that the report reflects the concern of the United Nations towards the application of Iraq with its obligations under the Security Council resolutions and Iraq's failures in this file add to highlight items that are at the core of the concerns of Kuwait and international organization.
Sheikh Dr. Mohammed Sabah, in this regard, the importance of the report lies in its focus on several things are first in Iraq not confirmed its willingness to carry out maintenance of the boundary between Kuwait and Iraq and its failure to pay its share of the project's Financial Secretary mention that he had addressed a letter to the Iraqi Government on this matter and has not received a response to date.
The «Second Secretary-General's emphasis on the importance of adhering to the Iraq question Iraqi farmers compensation under Security Council resolution No. 899, where the Iraqi Government is still stalling on supranational farms border clearance and payment amounts and credited to the United Nations since 1996.
He said Sheikh Dr. Mohammed Sabah to the third point of the report was a reminder the Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for the Iraqi Government to the importance of the evidence to the Security Council by tangible progress and fast on outstanding commitments related to Kuwait and specifically the issue of Kuwaiti missing persons and property and the maintenance of border markers and the question of compensation to Iraqi farmers.
In this context, Sheikh Dr. Mohammed Sabah stressed that "if Iraq out of the umbrella of Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations, the path to it is through the implementation of its commitments referred to those contained in the report of the Secretary-General this».
The Sheikh Dr. Mohammed Sabah before the issuance of the present report letter to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 11 July 2011 for the remaining obligations on Iraq in accordance with relevant Security Council resolutions under Chapter VII of the Charter under the item "the situation between Iraq and Kuwait, in particular resolutions 687, 1991 and 833, 1993, 1284, 1999, 1956-2010.
The letter included several topics including the issues of prisoners and the return of property and the national archives where they crossed Kuwait welcomed the Security Council resolution adopted in informal consultations held on 22 June, the extension of the mandate of the high-level Coordinator, Ambassador Gennady Tarasov to follow the missing file and file property and the national archives and which had not.
The letter also addressed the question of the maintenance of the boundary markers where count causes that impede the United Nations to continue the implementation of its tasks in this issue is the failure of Iraq to remove border barriers, including those that block vision between boundary markers in addition to Iraq's failure to pay its share of the costs of maintenance and $ 600,000 and a date for starting implementation of the last phase of the project.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said during a joint press conference with his counterpart Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Hamad Al-Sabah in Kuwait during his visit in February, ' that special committees under the supervision of the United Nations is currently working in Kuwait marking the border with Iraq.
Zebari stressed that the work of these committees is in accordance with Security Council resolution ', ' marking the border is ' doubt and interpretation ', pointing out that the Iraqi Government will compensate farmers affected by these boundary markers '.
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