Obama’s Assistant for the Middle East pays tribute to Iraq’s efforts to normalize relations with Kuwait

5-31-13 Range Press / Baghdad:    Praised Coordinator House Alabadh for Middle East Affairs Philip Gordon, on Friday, the efforts of the Iraqi government to normalize relations with Kuwait and the significant progress achieved towards the exit from Chapter VII, as discussed with the Iraqi Foreign Multi activate coordination committees shared within the strategic agreement between the two countries and the developments of the Syrian crisis.

The Iraqi Foreign Ministry, in a statement received, (range Press), a copy of “Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari received today at the headquarters of the Office of the Ministry Special Assistant to the U.S. President for Middle East Affairs, Philip Gordon,” and showed that “Gordon praised the efforts of Iraq to normalize relations with Kuwait and the significant progress that has been achieved on the road out of Iraq from the provisions of Chapter VII. ”

The Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari likely in the May 30, 2013, the withdrawal of Iraq from the provisions of Chapter VII permanently in 2015, and stressed that the Iraqi government has achieved a great accomplishment to get out of most of the provisions of Chapter VII, and as pointed out that the issue of the demarcation of the border with Kuwait was shot down from its provisions, He stressed that Iraq is working to resolve the files of compensation and Kuwaiti archives and the remains of Kuwaitis during the coming period, and two days after the signing of memoranda of understanding with Kuwait concerning the arrangements for maintenance of the physical-border joint and finance the construction of a residential complex in Umm Qasr, indicating that the Kuwaiti side expressed its readiness to help Iraq out of the provisions of Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.

The statement added that “were discussed Iraqi-US relations and steps to activate the coordination committees shared within the strategic framework agreement, in addition to reviewing the latest developments of security and internal political and international and regional situations, and the developments of the Syrian crisis and international efforts to resolve the crisis and its repercussions on regional and international security and preparations for the international conference Geneva II” .
The Iraqi Foreign Ministry announced on Thursday the 30th of May 2013, the Iranian president discussed with Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, “ways to find a solution” to the crisis in Syria, confirmed that Zebari discussed with Iranian officials “issues of common interest”, during his participation in the “meeting International place in Tehran on Syria, “while calling on the same day officials in the opposition and the Syrian regime to active participation in the Geneva conference to find a peaceful solution to the crisis that hit the country, and confirmed that it has encouraged the Assad regime to engage seriously in the conference to resolve the crisis, while stressed the government’s refusal to the policy of intervention in the Syrian crisis.

He announced the Syrian foreign minister, Walid al-Moallem announced in May 26, 2013 during his visit to Iraq, the Syrian government has decided to exempt tourists Iraqis fee visa (visa), as of early June, and accused the countries of regional support “terrorism” in Iraq with “conspiracy “Syria, as he emphasized that the international conference in Geneva is a” favorable solution “to the crisis in Syria, noting that what is happening in Syria is a conspiracy of the regional countries, the same supporting terrorism in Iraq.”

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