##### Saad: Parliament asked the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs to clarify the importance of the Convention on the Khor Abdullah

BAGHDAD / obelisk: According to the National Alliance MP Susan Saad, on Saturday, the House of Representatives Re Convention on the Regulation navigation in the port of Khor Abdullah, between Iraq and Kuwait and not read by the Council and asked the Foreign Relations Committee parliamentary بتوضيحها confirmation not to weaken the Iraqi side in the Convention concluded between Iraq and Kuwait, and that shows how important the Committee of this Convention.



Said Saad said in a statement released by her office got "obelisk", a copy of "The reading of the Convention within the House of Representatives gives legitimacy to Kuwait to intervene in the management of the channel, despite the lack of activity administrative mentions her hand Cree or raise Aguarq," indicating that "the Council Re Convention did not Ikroaha the lack of clarity of its provisions, in addition to that the Iraqi navigational channel. "



She added that "the decision of this agreement gives Kuwait the upper hand in non-compliance with them, either Iraq, it is obliged to implement them being located under Chapter VII," pointing out that "the House of Representatives called for the Foreign Relations Committee, the parliamentary, not to weaken the Iraqi side and that shows how important this Convention and come to the council members fully. "



The House of Representatives decided Thursday the ninth of May current, to postpone the first reading of the draft law on ratification of the Convention between the Government of the Republic of Iraq and Kuwait on the organization of maritime navigation in the Khawr Abd Allah, for the study of the Convention is wider, while the MP high Nassif, to collect 50 signatures from House of Representatives to raise the Convention Act from the agenda of the meeting.



Under the agreement not to raise any other flag for ships carrying the nationality of one of the contracting parties are not aware of their nationality during their passage in the territorial sea of the other party when exercising the right of maritime traffic.



As for foreign vessels, it will raise only aware of their nationality. And not to apply the provisions of this Convention on the passage of warships and Coast Guard for both parties where each party will work to prevent fishermen from being in fact part of the territorial sea of him from the fairway.

The parties will cooperate to preserve the marine environment from pollution risks whatsoever and work to combat and eliminate its effects.



According to the draft agreement, the waterway mentioned in the agreement is the waterway located from the point of confluence of the navigation channel in the Khawr Abd Allah international boundary between the two points border No. (156) and (157) southwards to the point (162) and then to the beginning of the entrance to the navigation channel at the entrance of Khawr Abd Allah.



It draws also said that the parties to the agreement will form the Management Committee jointly chaired by the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Transport on the Iraqi side and Undersecretary of Ministry of Transport for the Kuwaiti side and membership of an equal number of specialists from both sides, where will this committee tasks organize and coordinate the navigation on the waterway in the Khor Abdullah and develop a plan joint to ensure the safety of navigation in the waterway and the approval of maintenance work Kaltusah and deepening and the development of guidelines and hydrographic survey work and recovered Aguarq. And the costs of these works equally between the parties to the Convention.



The Iraqi government approved on 30 January last agreement with Kuwait concerning the organization of navigation in the Khawr Abd Allah, overlooking the Gulf, after a long political debate between the two lasted for more than two years.

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Document: navigation agreement with Kuwait no longer (Khawr Abd Allah) a purely Iraqi port



Published on Saturday, 11 May 2013 20:50

khoor BAGHDAD / obelisk: reveal a document obtained by "obelisk" Details of the agreement signed between the Government of the Republic of Iraq, and the Government of the State of Kuwait on 29 April 2012, on the organization of maritime navigation in the port of Khawr Abd Allah, which sparked controversy in political circles and the parliamentary and media in Iraq, where some considered "harmful" the interests of the country.



The focus of the document revolves around the use of mechanisms Khor Abdullah by Iraq, Kuwait, which was drilled by the Iraqi side only, in 1964.



While commending the official Iraqi document as a governing navigation on the waterway, which increases the volume of trade and strengthen the relationship between Iraq and the neighboring country of Kuwait and the rest of the world van, deputies, politicians and experts enemy (consensual), does not consider the Khawr Abd Allah "Port Iraqis pure as it is (common case) with Kuwait. "



According to those who criticize the agreement, its terms, written in a language indicates that the Khor Abdullah is a port (joint) and not a purely Iraqi port of Iraq where its own terms, if used by other countries, either Kuwait or other countries.



It is the Khawr Abd Allah in the northern Arabian Gulf between the islands of Bubiyan and Warba Alkwytetan and Faw peninsula Iraq and extends to the inside Iraqi territory forming Khor Al-Zubair, which is located by the port of Umm Qasr, and the Iraqi government 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 building Mubarak al-Kabir port on the Kuwaiti side in the West Bank to the Khor Abdullah.



The agreement includes "mode (a common plan) and not the (Iraqi) to ensure the safety of navigation in the Khawr Abd Allah, durability and implementation."



It also provides another item to "establish rules and procedures related to pollution caused by maritime navigation and reduce them in accordance with international standards and requirements."



In another item, read "develop regulations regarding navigation in the Khawr Abd Allah on the basis of (equal rights) in accordance with the provisions of this Convention."



Another item that includes the "approval of the maintenance work for corridor the Kaltusah navigation and dredging on the basis of equality in law and in accordance with the provisions of this Convention."



The agreement also stipulates that "no fees to be charged for the services, either revenue from the guidance of ships or any other services as well as services rendered by any of the parties Vtstopy by the party who has been made ​​under the guidance of ships or provided services mentioned in the agreement."



According to the agreement signed by the Iraqi side and Transport Minister Hadi Farhan al-Amiri and the Kuwaiti party Salem الاذينة, the "Agreement remain in force for an indefinite period and may Per Fly P terminated by written notification from the other party for a period of six months to be termination (with the consent of the parties), as Agreement may be amended by agreement of the parties. "



The agreement also "not to raise any knowledge of another ship carrying nationality of one of the contracting parties are not aware of their nationality during their passage in the territorial waters of the other party when used channel, while foreign vessels Vmlzimh raise aware of her only, to apply the provisions of this Agreement to warships and the Coast Guard for both parties, and each Party shall endeavor to prevent fishermen from working in the other part of the maritime corridor. also requires the cooperation of the parties to preserve the marine environment from pollution risks whatsoever and work to combat and get rid of the effects. "



It also provides a draft agreement, as stated in the document to "determine the fairway from the meeting point in the Khor Abdullah channel international borders between border points (156) and (157) southwards to the point (162) and then to the beginning of the entrance to the creek" .



At the time, which it sees as an MP for the province of Basra Susan Saad in her statement to the media that this Convention "gives legitimacy to the Kuwaiti side of the Canal administration Khawr Abd Allah," the experts in favor of what I went to him MP Saad because Iraq is still under Chapter VII of the UN Charter United, which means that the approval of this Convention would give legitimacy to Kuwait to manage this channel, which is the Iraqi basically.



It is part of its agreement, the Kuwait flag on ships entering the Khor Abdullah channel without having the legal consequences, unlike Iraq because of the internationalist Chapter VII.



And according to the agreement, the ships passing through the channel down their flags in both Iraq and Kuwait will not raise any flag, but if you lifted a vessel in science Kuwait when entering the Kuwaiti side, it follows that any legal consequences in a while, if it was the opposite, Iraq will bear those consequences for being still under Chapter VII.



It should be mentioned, that the Khawr Abd Allah pass Iraqi sincere and still managed only from Iraq, where he worked over the past years on the updated and expanded



The Cree lift Aguarq and water area which, to be valid for the passage of ships, while not involved or the Kuwaiti side supports none of these works. "



And embarked Kuwait to build the port of Mubarak on the waters of the Gulf, which rejected Iraqis who see that will lead to the reduction of a large part of the territorial waters of the bay, which led to the occurrence of a political debate between the two countries.



He asked Iraq in July 27, 2011 officially from Kuwait to stop work temporarily Port Mubarak, to while making sure that the rights of Iraq in the shipping lines and sail free and safe in the shared water are not affected in the event of construction of the port, declared Kuwait on the same day, rejected Iraq's request, saying that it does not based on any legal basis, and with renewed emphasis on it is located within the Kuwaiti border, she pointed out that the port does not impede navigation in the Khawr Abd Allah.



And still the maritime border between Iraq and Kuwait did not draw so far, where the joint committees still held in this matter on a regular basis.



The Iraqi parliament failed to complete the first reading of the draft organization of maritime navigation between Iraq and Kuwait in the Khawr Abd Allah overlooking the Arabian Gulf, after the submission of the Iraqi bloc free request signed by 50 deputies to pull out of the project, amid accusations that the government and parliament to "acquiescence and complicity with Kuwait and the waiver of land Iraqi. "



And launched an MP for the Iraqi bloc free high Nassif, a scathing attack on foreign and Iraqi diplomacy, accusing it of "failure to maintain the interests of the country."



She said in statements to the media that the "Free Iraqi bloc demanded the lifting of the bill so as not to lend any legitimacy or legal parliamentary Committee on the demarcation of the border between Iraq and Kuwait." Arguing that "the Security Council Resolution No. 833 void and without any legal justification, but the weakness of the government's position and the Iraqi Parliamentary is the reason for the persistence of Kuwait lot."



And Iraq is still subject to international sanctions and Chapter VII of the UN Charter, which is obliged to pay 5 percent of its imports reparations to Kuwait and the countries affected by the invasion of the former regime of Saddam to Kuwait on the second of August of 1990.


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