Tracking Number: 236898
Title: The United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Boundary Commission has finalized its report despite Iraq's refusal to participate in the July 15-24 final review process. UN Report.
(920727)
Date: 19920727
Text:
UNITED NATIONS REPORT, MONDAY, JULY 27
(Iraq/Kuwait border) (310) BOUNDARY COMMISSION FINALIZES IRAQ-KUWAIT BORDER The U.N. Security Council commission demarcating the land boundary between Iraq and Kuwait has finalized its report despite Iraq's refusal to participate in the July 15-24 final review process, a U.N. announcement said July 27.
The boundaries as delineated by the commission reaffirmed the situation as it existed before Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and the subsequent Persian Gulf war.
The oil wells in the fields between Safwan and the Batin, exploited in the past by Iraq, were already "in Kuwait according to the boundary shown on the British map referred to in Security Council Resolution 687," the commission said in a press release.
The demarcation "leaves Umm Qasr port complex, including all the warehouses, crane installations, deep-water anchorage and two wide berths as well as the whole of Umm Qasr village, the navy hospital and the sulfur works within Iraqi territory," the commission also said. "With the port and the Khowr Zhobeir in Iraq, the commission's decisions on this section of the land boundary affirm Iraq's access to the sea."
However, Iraq's refusal to participate in the work of the commission, as required by the cease-fire agreement (resolution 687) is of concern to the Security Council and influenced the council's decision to keep the wide-ranging sanctions against Baghdad in place.
The commission has repeatedly stressed that it is not reallocating territory between Kuwait and Iraq, but is simply demarcating the precise coordinates of the international boundary between Kuwait and Iraq for the first time.
To demarcate the northern section of the boundary the commission investigated the position of a notice board, which was accepted by both countries as demarcating the boundary to the south of Safwan between 1923-39.
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File Identification: 07/27/92, PO-107; 07/27/92, EP-122; 07/27/92, EU-102; 07/27/92, NE-103; 07/28/92, NA-205
Product Name: Wireless File
Product Code: WF
Keywords: UNITED NATIONS-IRAQ-KUWAIT BOUNDARY DEMARCATION COMMISSION; REPORTS & STUDIES; BORDER DISPUTES; PERSIAN GULF WAR; ARMISTICE
Thematic Codes: 1NE; 1UN
Target Areas: EA; EU; NE
PDQ Text Link: 236898
USIA Notes: *92072707.POL
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