Report: Syria, Iraq agree to organize Euphrates' waters
Iraq-Syria, Economics, 4/13/1999

An Iraqi weekly has said that Syria and Iraq have agreed to organize the waters of the Euphrates river which springs from the Turkish territories and flows in the lands of the two states.

The Iraqi daily Nabd al-Shabab quoted the director general for the national program for irrigation Quteiba, Muhammad Hassan, who also leads the Iraqi delegation for discussions with Syrian officials in this regard, as saying that views and expertise were reviewed and exchanged between Iraq, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon and that the questions of waters was debated as well as the impact of this issue on relations with neighborly countries and international agreements in this regard.

He added that the specialists discussed water shares between each of Iraq, Syria and Turkey, and they reviewed the history of water agreements among these countries.

He went on that the treaty signed between Iraq and Turkey in 1946 stated that Iraq has the right to delegate specialists and engineers to Turkey in order to obtain information about water status and the river's length and width measures.

Several experts and officials from the water departments in Syria, Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon held a meeting in the middle of last week in Damascus to discuss these issues in light of the scarce rainfall for this season and in order to take practical measures in order to obtain the set water shares, the Chinese news agency Xinhua reported.

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