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Kuwait (news) .. ends the day the Iraqi parliamentary delegation headed by President of the Iraqi Council of Representatives Osama Nujaifi visit as a success to the State of Kuwait continued for three days. After an agreement to set up committees to discuss the outstanding problems between the two countries.

A member of the delegation, Dr. Salim Abdullah al-Jubouri, the Chairman of the Commission on Human Rights Council in close communication with him conducted by the Agency (news) today, said that the delegation will end the day visit to Kuwait that lasted for three days, calling the visit a success.

And that there are joint committees between the two countries will begin their work in the twenty-eighth of this month to resolve outstanding problems between them and the most important issue of debt owed by the Kuwaiti invasion by Iraq in August of 1990.

Jubouri said that this visit has been a success exists in many of the aspects that were discussed between the two sides, pointing out that there is a presence of good faith of the parties in Kuwait resolve the outstanding problems between the two countries.

The Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Mohammad Al-Sabah visited the Iraqi capital of Baghdad last January, which was labeled as historic and extraordinary, and announced the formation of a joint committee in order to resolve all outstanding problems between the two countries.

The Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari in a timely manner was to address the unfortunate incident in the territorial waters was agreed to investigate the subject as an isolated and accidental, not essential and will not affect the friendly relations between the two sides.

For his part, Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed Al-Salem Al-Sabah said Kuwait has the blessing of Iraq’s success in proving the democratic process and the issuance of a series of resolutions declare the exit Iraq from Chapter VII, and assured help our brothers out of the threat of sanctions completely.

He stressed that the visit is very important, do not include the protocol but also to discuss issues, and we took the decision to remove the obstacles.

He said the Kuwaiti minister there are many issues considered by the Committee, we have a genuine desire to build bridges, not dams.

He concluded by stressing participation of the Emir of Kuwait at the Arab summit scheduled to be held in Baghdad next May.

For his part, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, his country’s keenness to develop relations with Kuwait, said during a meeting with his Kuwaiti counterpart that Iraq is in the political process, no longer a country of one man, in the same nation, and class, adding that Iraq today is a unified country, and its resolution uniform, and has its institutions and services in various critical areas, and Iraq today is not like Iraq at the time of the previous dictatorship, does not risk its security and Aiatdi on others.

He stressed that after the completion of security, we want to solve all the problems left behind by the previous regime, particularly with regard to relations with the brotherly countries, namely the State of Kuwait, it is not in our interest to the survival of these problems, we want to finish this, because we are brothers and neighbors, and we must end all outstanding matters, It is now on the way to a solution, and there is a joint committee of specialists will begin to solve these problems as soon as possible.

For his part, Kuwaiti Prime Minister said that the previous phase is over, and we are now in a new phase of bilateral relations between the two brotherly countries and neighbors, and if there were difficulties we face, we have to solve it through peaceful means, and the Joint Committee will be competent to find solutions as soon as possible.

He said Sheikh Nasser Al-Iraq congratulate the lifting of international sanctions, and we stress the importance of leaving under (lifting) Chapter VII, and start joint-venture relations in border areas and oil and other economic fields.

And promised to visit in a timely manner is the first of its kind for senior Kuwaiti official since the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait during the era of former president Saddam Hussein in 1990, it is also the first at this level since 1989 when the late Prime Minister Sheikh Saad Al Abdullah Al Sabah visited Baghdad.

Has urged Kuwait during December of last year’s Iraq on the need to comply with UN resolutions to resolve the outstanding issues between them, and that after the cancellation of the UN Security Council recently imposed sanctions on Baghdad.