Iraq and Kuwait signed on Tuesday two memorandums of understanding on the arrangements for the maintenance of the physical process of the border and finance the construction of a residential complex in the area of Umm Qasr {}.
The news agency quoted a Kuwaiti official KUNA a statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kuwait today that “the two Memoranda of Understanding signed by the Kuwaiti Deputy Prime Minister Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Sabah and the Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said after a luncheon action brought by Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid in the Cabinet of the Ministry Foreign Affairs on the occasion of his official visit to the country. “
The Foreign Ministry announced the arrival of the Iraqi and its minister Hoshyar Zebari to Kuwait at the head of a high-level delegation on Monday to discuss bilateral files between the two countries, and the latest developments in the Arab and regional arenas.
He added, “During the banquet, official talks dealt with the overall bilateral relations and the positive developments were also discussed reviewing areas of future cooperation between the two brotherly countries and ways to achieve them, in addition to the current political browse files on all levels of regional, Arab and international.”
The banquet was attended by the official lunch and festive signing ceremony at the Amiri Diwan each of Mohammed Abdullah Abu Hassan, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Khalid Sulaiman Al-Jarallah and a number of departments, managers and officials in the ministry and members of the visiting delegation and the ambassadors of the two countries.
The Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari signed last Sunday with Martin Kobler Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Iraq, the Convention on the delivery of the amount of damages assessed by the Security Council to compensate Iraqi farmers, as part of the process of maintaining marks the border between Iraq and Kuwait.
The Foreign Ministry said that “the minister, signed the agreement to hand over the amount of damages assessed by the Security Council in its resolution No. {899 in 1994}, to compensate Iraqi farmers, who have been affected farms result of the demarcation of the border between Iraq and Kuwait, during the period 1991-1994.”
The statement noted that “the agreement will be followed by direct another step to build a modern residential city of Umm Qasr, for housing the Iraqi families affected for the same reason.”
Iraq seeks to resolve his problems with Kuwait, represented by the “demarcation of maritime and land borders, and the missing file, and compensation for those affected by demarcation, and one Iraqi Airways was paid U.S. $ 500 million, as a result of the work of the former regime.
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