Khaberni - Kuwait has officially protested against an Iraqi map submitted by Baghdad to the United Nations; it places shared maritime areas within Iraqi borders.
The Kuwaiti Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated in a statement on Saturday evening that it handed the Iraqi Charge d'Affaires in Kuwait, Zaid Abbas Shanshol, an official protest note over "the claims contained in the Iraqi assertions submitted to the United Nations affecting the sovereignty of the State of Kuwait over its maritime areas, and its associated water elevations".
The ministry explained that the step came “in light of the Republic of Iraq submitting a list of coordinates and a map to the United Nations, containing claims about the Iraqi maritime fields.. and the coordinates and map included violations against the sovereignty of the State of Kuwait over its maritime areas and its stable and established aquatic elevations in relation to the Republic of Iraq”.
The ministry emphasized that areas like Fasht al-Aij and Fasht al-Qid, "have never been a subject of any dispute concerning the full sovereignty of the State of Kuwait over them".
The Kuwaiti Ministry of Foreign Affairs called on the Republic of Iraq to "take into account the course of the historical relations between the two brotherly countries and their people, and to engage seriously and responsibly according to the rules and principles of international law, and as stipulated by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 1982, and in accordance with the understandings and agreements, and bilateral memorandums of understanding concluded between the two countries".
It continued: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, represented by Ambassador Aziz Rahim Al-Dihani, Acting Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr., summoned the Charge d'Affaires of the Embassy of the Republic of Iraq to the State of Kuwait, to deliver an official protest note on the claims contained in the Iraqi assertions deposited at the United Nations affecting the sovereignty of the State of Kuwait over its maritime areas, and its associated aquatic elevations.
