Dinar Iraq News
Media reports: Iraqi parliament speaker to visit Kuwait soon
Erbil, Sept. 21 (AKnews) – Iraq’s Parliament speaker Osama Nujaifi is expected to visit Kuwait for talks over pending issues.
Kuwait’s
al-Dar Newspaper reported that Nujaifi will visit several countries,
including Iran, but his main focus will be Kuwait. The newspaper did not
report when this trip is going to be.
There are several issues
lingering between Kuwait and Iraq that frequently spark tensions between
the two neighbors: shared oil fields, land and water border
demarcations, and the controversial Kuwaiti Mubarak Port which Iraqis
believe will take business away from their ports and effect fishermen
working in the Gulf.
Iraq is also criticizing Kuwait for its
support of the UN's Chapter 7 sanctions that were imposed on Iraq after
the Second Gulf War in 1991. Kuwait demands reparations for the Iraqi
invasion, disclosure of the fate of Kuwaiti MIAs and the return of the
remains of Kuwaitis POWs.
Without Kuwait’s approval, it is not likely that the United Nations Security Council lift the Chapter 7 sanctions.
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