######UN urges Iraq to remove all obstacles that hinder the maintenance of border pillars with Kuwait

Thursday, March 14 / March 2013 09:34



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Urged the Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon] Iraq on the need to remove all obstacles to the completion of the maintenance project marks the border between Iraq and Kuwait on time by the end of this month and to fulfill all outstanding obligations without delay.

The secretary general of the United Nations in a written report sent to the Security Council on the work of the United Nations Mission to help Iraq [UNAMI] "It is important to complete the Iraqi government to immediately remove all obstacles between the boundary pillars for the completion of the maintenance project marks the border between Iraq and Kuwait in time appropriate. "

He added, "We strongly encourage the governments of Iraq and Kuwait for the speedy establishment of a bilateral mechanism for the maintenance of the border to take over the responsibility of the United Nations in accordance with Security Council resolution 833 of 1993."

"I appealed to the Iraqi government to approve the proposal of the United Nations to transfer the funds to compensate Iraqi citizens, according to Security Council resolution 899 of 1994 as soon as possible.

The Ban Ki-moon that "both sides committed themselves to take the necessary steps to ensure the completion of the work before the deadline specified in 31 of March current until the writing of this report, the work is going according to schedule and Government of Iraq started removing the obstacles between the columns border the notable exception of residential facilities in the border area of Umm Qasr. "

And welcomed Ban Ki-moon in his progress Almstm "towards full normalization of relations between Iraq and Kuwait, said," Mazal see a historic opportunity in this regard, I call upon the Government of Iraq to fulfill all its obligations under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations without further delay. "

He also expressed his hope that "contribute to positive developments in relations between Iraq and Kuwait to resolve the issue of the return of Kuwaiti and third-country nationals and Kuwaiti property in a timely manner and that the Security Council consider in Iraq would emerge from its obligations under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations."

With regard to the crisis in Syria said Secretary General of the United Nations, "he was still with the crisis of political influence and security and humanitarian seriously on Iraq" and expressed his "gratitude to the Iraqi government for its generosity and hospitality of Ajian Syrians the estimated 96,270 refugees who have been registered or are waiting for protection in Iraq calling Member States of the United Nations to provide financial commitment to allow for dealing with the crisis. "

The city of Umm Qasr in Basra province, on the border with Kuwait Monday demonstration by activists and the people of the city to protest the demarcation of the border with Kuwait and has evolved into the Iraqi police fired shots in the air to disperse the crowds stones at Trhgaha protest on border demarcation

The Iraqi security source said in a press statement that "crowds gathered in the Iraqi city of Umm Qasr border to protest against the development of border and protesters threw stones at police and one of the activists were injured."

For its part, Kuwait has presented a memorandum to the United Nations expressed its displeasure to the actions of some Iraqis on the common border between the two countries.

The agent said the Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry Khaled Al-Jarallah said that "Kuwait submitted a memorandum to the United Nations and to the Iraqi government will deliver through our ambassador in Iraq and the Iraqi ambassador to Kuwait expressed its displeasure for his number of Iraqis on the common border between the two countries," adding, "We issued a statement where we expressed our dissatisfaction to this irresponsible act which work not in accordance with the nature of the brotherly relations between Kuwait and Iraq does not serve also directed the brothers in Iraq to close this file maintenance of border markers. "

The demarcation of the border between Iraq and Kuwait from the outstanding issues between the two countries since the end of the invasion of the former regime of Kuwait in 1990 and a decision by the Security Council determines these limits are under Iraqis reject has held several meetings on border demarcation, including those made ​​during the visit of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to Kuwait last March 2012 and then visit, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah to Iraq at the end of last April to participate in the meeting of the Joint Coordinating Committee between the two countries, which discussed the issue of the border within a number of files without reaching a conclusion. ended.


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Iraqis in Umm Qasr: do not object to the demarcation of the border with Kuwait .. But in their own way


14-03-2013 | (Voice of Iraq) - Add a comment -
Basra: Fares Sharifi
Saw the Iraqi border - Kuwaiti yesterday, for the second day in a row, challenging issue after security events in the border between the two countries in the Iraqi city of Umm Qasr and the Iraqi citizens to erect a tent and trying to impede the process of demarcation of the border in the region.

While accusing Kuwait of Iraqi citizens disability process maintenance of border signs ongoing under the auspices of the United Nations, and threw patrols belonging to the Border Security Force Kuwaiti stones, accused the people of Umm Qasr area Kuwaiti army opened fire on them in an attempt to disperse them, while a student member of the Iraqi parliament to stop the demarcation process in the region until compensate those affected.

Kassem said Back, 40, owner of one of the houses affected by the demarcation process «Middle East» that «the incident occurred after that we tried to defend our land and our homes to prevent the development pipeline security between pillars border 104 and 105», indicating that «border guards Kuwait has we shot which led to the injury of one of the region's population, and added that «the new demarcation threatens to remove the house where she was born in 1973 and which is located within 200 homes threatened with removal, and this is what we do not accept it.

To that student Ahmed Ghazzi, 50, the Iraqi government the need to find alternative when evacuation zone of the population, indicating that «the people of the area, mostly from poor families that can not provide adequate housing when evacuate the area», and added that «the region Hht remove 150 houses, schools and kindergartens without the presence of a variant of the Iraqi government. The UN Security Council issued in 1993 Resolution No. 833 which provides for the demarcation of the border between Kuwait and Iraq, and the extended length of about 216 km, and led the implementation of resolution partially under the previous regime to deduct large swathes of Iraqi territory in my part of Safwan and Umm Qasr and annexed to Kuwaiti territory.

For his part, the student member of the Iraqi parliament for the province of Basra Hussein demanded a halt to the process of demarcation of the border until a replacement is found for the families affected by the process and compensation. The student said that «the fact the problem lies in the area between the pillars border No. 104 and 105, Valonbob deducted three Iraqi homes», and added that «families in the region has no alternative, and the central government to find appropriate solutions such as building a residential complex for them, and must cease operation demarcation to then », pointing out that« the objection is not to the border demarcation process, but on the situation and how they were practical, so we must be dealing with Iraqi families in Umm Qasr by Iraqi forces, and not from the border guards Kuwait so as not to friction and contact; which could lead to accidents in the region.

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