XXXXXX#####Council of Ministers to constitute a committee to compensate farmers contractors on land located on the border with Kuwait

| On 2013-03-31



BAGHDAD - electronic integrity

The General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers, on Thursday, the formation of a committee to compensate farmers contractors on land located within the border region between the Iraqi and Kuwaiti sides, confirmed that this procedure was for the purpose of compensating contractors from Iraqi farmers on this land.

The Secretariat said in a statement received by newspaper integrity copy of "The Public Service Commissions of the Secretariat of the Council of Ministers formed a committee to estimate the value of beneficial agricultural per acre of farm located within the border region between Iraq and Kuwait," noting that "this land became princely and procedure Iraqi came for the purpose of compensating contractors from Iraqi farmers on these lands. "

The statement added that "the Commission mentioned the problem under the command Diwani (23) for 2013, will be headed by Advisor to the Governor of Basra for Management and representatives from the Ministries (Agriculture and Foreign Affairs), as well as the relevant authorities in the province," stressing that "the Commission will raise its recommendations to the General Secretariat the Council of Ministers to take necessary action ".

The Iraqi Foreign Ministry announced on March 22, 2013, that Iraq will begin building a city made ​​up of 220 homes in Basra allocated to farmers area Safwan compensation for their homes, and drew that it was agreed with Kuwait to reduce the buffer zone of 500 meters to 50 meters, he noted that work to end the remaining files with Kuwait will be bilaterally away from the United Nations

The move comes the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers, in compensation to farmers who own land located between the Iraqi and Kuwaiti sides after tensions between residents of the Iraqi border with Kuwait because of the UN resolutions to give part of Iraqi territory to Kuwait as part of a border demarcation between the two countries.

The source familiar with border guards Iraqi revealed, on the seventh of March 2013, for a meeting Iraqi border guards and Kuwaiti Committee of the United Nations to study the implementation of agreements between the two governments to demarcate the new borders between them, saying that there was 250 houses inhabited by Iraqis in Umm Palace will be cleared of its inhabitants and turn the land to the sovereignty of Kuwait, according to those agreements, the local government of Basra expressed distaste for "forcing Iraq to give up its territory.

The area has seen the border between Iraq and Kuwait over the past two weeks, demonstrations carried out by residents of Umm Qasr to protest the construction tube separator between the two countries, and threatened with exposure to Kuwaitis in the event to continue its construction, as deputies asked Basra in the Iraqi parliament on 12 March current, the Governments of Iraq and Kuwait and the United Nations to stop new demarcation procedures and rejected annexation of the oil wells in the region to the Kuwaiti sovereignty until reaching a solution satisfactory to both parties and reconsider the agreement signed by the previous regime with Kuwait.

But to respond Kuwaiti these calls came on the same day, through a complaint filed by the Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry, the United Nations and the Government of Iraq expressed its "displeasure" of the demonstrations that came out of citizens and Iraqi officials near the border with Iraq, and stressed that she handed government Iraqi statement protesting the "irresponsible act" which witnessed the region, and demanded that the Iraqi government empowering the difference border from performing its service "for the benefit of Iraq", expressing willingness Kuwait to cooperate with the "neutral party" to assess the situation in the file ports Mubarak of Kuwait and FAO Iraqi.

It is noteworthy that the UN Security Council issued a year (1993) Resolution No. (833) which provides for the demarcation of the border between Kuwait and Iraq, and the extended length of approximately (216) km, and led the implementation of resolution partially under the previous regime to deduct large swathes of Iraqi territory and annexed to land Kuwaiti land included in the Safwan area and in the area of Umm Qasr has become since the mid-nineties the whole within the boundaries of the State of Kuwait.

Objected many Iraqi officials after the fall of the former regime in 2003 to complete the procedures of land border demarcation between the two countries in accordance with Resolution No. 833, considering that the decision imposed on Iraq under international pressure in unusual circumstances.

In 2005 he attacked dozens of residents of my part of Safwan and Umm Qasr foreign company was building a pipeline to the demarcation of the land border, has led those protests and the accompanying bombing follows mortar to stop working on the project before completion.


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