Iraq - Iran talks to settle border issues
Iraq-Iran, Politics, 2/19/2008

Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini on Sunday announced that Iran-Iraq joint border session is to be held in Tehran on February 19-20.

Talking to reporters during his weekly press briefing, he said the meeting will be attended by the two countries deputy foreign ministers.

He said the meeting is to be held in preparation for activating an accord signed by the two parties in Algiers in 1975. On January 9, Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the two nations signed the Accord in Baghdad on June 13, 1975 which dealt with border issues and good neighborly relations and three protocols were annexed to it in Algiers.

"Three other agreements in addition to the minutes of the meeting over comprehensive settlement of the issues and other documents were signed in Baghdad on December 26, 1975," it said. Following ratification of the Accord by parliaments of Iran and Iraq, the documents were exchanged in Tehran on June 22, 1976 and went into force, it said adding that all the documents have been registered with secretariat of the United Nations as per Article 102 of the UN Charter.

Iran believes that context of the accord is permanent and unchangeable and even basic changes in the circumstances cannot affect it and expects Iraq to respect the accord on border and good neighborly relations envisaged in the Articles 4 and 5 of the accord, the statement said adding, "Of course, the international law and practices of the two Iranian and Iraqi governments support validity of the accord."

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