Kuwait declares its agreement to postpone the payment of compensation for Iraq to one year



Thursday 30-06-2016 | 12:07:27

Twilight News / confirmed the Kuwaiti ambassador to Baghdad, Ghassan Al-Zawawi on Thursday the issuance of financial guidance from his country to postpone the financial compensation owed by Iraq by the invasion of the former regime of Kuwait in the early nineties of the past century.

According to a statement issued by the Ministry of Finance, he said that "the Minister Hoshyar Zebari met on Thursday, Ambassador of Kuwait Ghassan Al-Zawawi, and discussed with him the results of the visit" fruitful "to the State of Kuwait and his meeting with Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and officials and their understanding of the current situation in Iraq and the stand of Kuwait government and the people with him in overcoming its crisis financial and economic as well as his war to fight and eradicate terrorism. "

The statement added that "the Kuwaiti ambassador stressed the issuance of financial guidance to agree to the postponement of the repayment period for a period of one year ending on the first of January 2018, out of brotherly firm relations between the two countries and the responsibilities of the State of Kuwait within aimed to help the brotherly Iraq international coalition to overcome the critical stage through which the Aldaasha the face of terrorism and the decline in world oil prices to be without prejudice to the provisions of the relevant Security Council resolutions.

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