Abadi Office: the coordinates of the border with Kuwait does not include a change in the reality

History of edits:: 1.25.2017 17:50

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announced the Office of the Prime Minister Haider al - Abadi, said the renovation Alhdhd coordinates the Iraqi - Kuwaiti does not include a change in reality.

A spokesman for the office , Saad al - Hadithi told all of Iraq [where], "The House of Representatives voted in the previous session to agree on 22 August 2013 on the ratification of maritime navigation in the Khawr Abd Allah waterway law between Iraq and Kuwait, and that the previous Council of Ministers approved in January 201 427 meeting on the Iraqi - Kuwaiti joint Higher Committee Minutes. "

He pointed out that "the current cabinet briefed yesterday on the report of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs related to updating the coordinates of the Iraqi - Kuwaiti border in accordance with international standards , or what is known as system [Geodetic] , a global system to regulate and modernize the border between the two countries."

The newborn, that "this update does not include a change in the reality of the current border between Iraq and Kuwait is just to complete the third session of the Iraqi - Kuwaiti Joint Committee, which took place in 2013".

He noted that " the face of yesterday 's Cabinet building on previous commitments to the Iraqi government to complete the engineering effort to update the coordinates according to the international standards of the Ministry of Transport allocations."

The high Nassif MP today said that " the cabinet voted yesterday to grant the Khor Abdullah channel of Kuwait and the betrayal of Iraq and its people." She said.

Iraqi - Kuwaiti Joint Higher Ministerial Committee held in the capital in 28 of the last month, and at the conclusion of the ministerial meeting of the signing of four agreements between the two countries in the fields of culture, industry, security and air transport ceremony.

He said Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sabah Khaled Al - Hamad Al- Sabah, who represented his country at the meeting of the Committee, " We must pay tribute to the estimated efforts exerted by the representatives of the two countries during the work of the organizing committee of navigation in the Khor Abdullah during the period from 11 to 13 December [last] and what has been achieved him by the agreement to start the implementation of the navigation channel development project starting from 2017 ".

And Khor Abdullah is Creek is located in the northern Gulf between the islands of Bubiyan and Warba Alkwytetan and semi - Iraqi Faw peninsula and extends to the creek inside Iraqi territory , forming Khor Al - Zubair , which is located by the port of Umm Qasr.

The Iraqi government had in 2010 laid the foundation stone for the construction of the port of Faw on the Iraqi side of the creek with the Kuwaiti government began construction of Mubarak Al Kabeer Port on the Kuwaiti side in the West Bank to the Khor Abdullah.

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