Thursday, June 13, 2013

Ban Ki-moon promises Maliki to exit Iraq from Chapter VII

altaltShafaq News / The Office of Prime Minister, Nuri al-Maliki announced on Thursday, that the latter received a phone call from the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki-moon as promised him on working to remove Iraq from Chapter VII.
“Al-Maliki received yesterday evening a telephone call from Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon welcomed the recent progress made in bilateral relations between Iraq and Kuwait,” The office said in a statement obtained by “Shafaq News”.
The Kuwaiti Prime Minister, Jaber Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah arrived to Baghdad on Wednesday on an official visit for one day, accompanied by a number of ministers and Kuwaiti officials.
Maliki said yesterday, in a statement reported for “Shafaq News” that “The Iraqi and Kuwaiti sides will notcontent with passing the crisis, but seek to open a “new era” in cooperation and the development of political and economic relations in investment, energy, transport and environment fields.
Maliki was speaking at a meeting held at the headquarters of the prime minister in Baghdad during the Iraqi-Kuwaiti talks and headed from the Kuwaiti side by his counterpart, Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah.
Foreign Minister , Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Hamad Al-Sabah announced during the meeting that Kuwait sent a letter to all members of the UN Security Council and to the United Nations to inform that Iraq met its obligations and what has remained from it can be solved within Chapter VI.
The Iraqi government announced yesterday that the UN Security Council will meet later this month and issue a decision that moves Iraq from provisions of Chapter VII to Chapter VI.
Kuwait along with other Gulf States was from the prominent supporters of the former Iraqi regime when it fought a war over a period of eight years with the eastern neighbor Iran in the eighties of the last century.
But that wasn’t enough and did not erase the idea believed by Iraqis that Kuwait originally belongs to Iraq, it was invaded by Saddam's regime in 1990 to join Iraq, but the international forces forced him to leave Kuwait there after few months.
The invasion repercussions have left many files between the two sides that did not end with the fall of Saddam's regime in 2003, although the new rulers of Iraq established diplomatic relations with Kuwait that was characterized by instability over the past ten years.

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