Iraqi Airways to resume flights to Kuwait on Wednesday after a break of more than 23 years

Monday, February 25, 2013 10:55


{Baghdad: Euphrates News} Transport Minister Hadi al-Amiri for the resumption of the air route between Iraq and Kuwait after a hiatus of more than 23 years.

A statement by the Ministry of Transport received and Euphrates News Agency {} copy Monday for its minister Amiri as saying he "will be on 02.27.2013 next Wednesday opening the air route between Iraq and Kuwait will organize a trip by Iraqi Airways for the first time since more than 23 years , after that made ​​unremitting efforts by the concerned authorities in the two countries to resolve the problems inherited and the resolution of legal proceedings. "

He explained that "the delegation of the Ministry of Transport chaired by proxy Technical banks ريكاني and a number of officials and an expression of the importance of the event and the interest the Iraqi side by where he has been the Ministry of Transport invited a number of the members of the House of Representatives and the Kuwaiti ambassador in Baghdad to participate in the trip opening."

It is noteworthy that Iraq is subject since 1990 to Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations, which imposed after the invasion of the former regime of the State of Kuwait in August of the same year, this item allows the use of force against Iraq as a threat to international security, as well as freezing of large amounts of its assets financial in international banks to pay compensation to those affected by the invasion.

Kuwait demanded Iraq since the invasion in 1990 to pay $ 1.2 billion dollars in compensation for seizing 17 aircraft owned Kuwait Airways.

This led the file to the political problems between Iraq and Kuwait following the recent lawsuits against Iraqi Airways to freeze funds in Jordan and Britain early 2010, which led later to take the Iraqi cabinet decision in May of the same year, the liquidation and cancellation company and offered for sale to civil companies, and also decided to cancel all the associated administrative formations, while maintaining its staff after sold to a private company.

And witnessed Iraqi-Kuwaiti relations in the past year advanced in relation to solving some outstanding problems, as the parties agreed during the visit of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki last of Kuwait on the fourteenth of the month of March 2012, to end the issue of compensation for airline Kuwaiti and maintenance of border markers, following Kuwait announced, in the third of April 2012 its intention to re-opening of the line to fly with Baghdad in the coming days for the first time in more than 21 years, considered the culmination of the efforts of action between the two countries in order to strengthen relations ended



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