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Positive developments in Kuwait-Iraq relations – Stage set for Maliki visit
17 Jan 2012 -Deputy
Prime Minister and Foreign Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet
Affairs Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah and Information Minister Sheikh
Hamad Jaber Al-Ali Al-Sabah addressing the press conference
KUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister and
Foreign Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Sabah
Al-Khaled Al-Sabah announced yesterday that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri
Al-Maliki will visit Kuwait soon upon an invitation from His Highness
the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. “We hope
the visit would achieve the desired outcome and build on what was
achieved in last year’s visit,” Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled said in a seminar
on the sideline of the first Kuwaiti-Iraqi Media Forum held here and
attended by Information Minister Sheikh Hamad Jaber Al-Ali Al-Sabah.
He called for the continuation of the joint Kuwaiti-Iraqi meetings to
strengthen cooperation between the two countries in various fields.
“Kuwaiti-Iraqi relations witnessed great
positive developments in 2011, including reciprocal visits at the
highest levels. These visits and meetings resulted in several agreements
on bilateral cooperation,” Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled said.
The country’s top diplomat underlined
that the Kuwaiti leadership is eager to set a roadmap to help Iraq
fulfill the UN Security Council resolutions related to Saddam Hussein
regime’s occupation of Kuwait.
With regard to maintenance of border
markers between the two countries, Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled said Iraq had
“done a lot of work to repair border markers and we are ready to help it
complete this mission.”
He also unveiled that there is a Kuwaiti proposal for Iraq to invest compensations to Kuwait in projects in Iraq.
Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled added that Kuwait
would provide Iraq with modern equipment to help search for human
remains of missing Kuwaitis in a number of Iraqi areas, starting in
2012, noting that since 2004, the remains of 236 of Kuwaiti war
prisoners were discovered.
He pointed out that Iraq has formed a
committee to tackle the issue of the Kuwaiti archives stolen during
Saddam Hussein’s regime occupation of Kuwait in 1990.
For his part, Information Minister
Sheikh Hamad Jaber Al-Ali said media shoulders great responsibility for
promoting rapprochement and cooperation between nations.
He warned against “ill-intentioned”
media outlets who try to stir up discord between countries. Sheikh
Hamad, in this regard, proposed a code of honor to be adopted by Kuwaiti
and Iraqi media. He also stressed the importance of exchanging visits
to bridge the gap in viewpoints between the two sides.
Sheikh Hamad called for the organization
of cultural and artistic weeks in both nations to improve relations
between the two peoples. The First Kuwaiti-Iraqi Media Forum, organized
by the Arab Media Forum, kicked off here Sunday. The event is attended
by Kuwaiti Ambassador to Iraq Ali Al-Momen and Iraqi Ambassador to
Kuwait Mohammad Bahr Al-Uloom and a galaxy of Kuwaiti and Iraqi media
people, including newspaper editors and managers of satellite channels,
writers, journalists, poets and intellectuals.
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