Iraq protests at the UN against Kuwait

The Iraqi government on Monday called on the UN to intervene in order to prevent Kuwaiti violations, represented in entering Iraqi territorial waters and attacking Iraqi fishermen, according to the Iraqi News Agency.

Iraqi Foreign Minister Muhammad Saeed al-Sahaf called on UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, in a message, to prevent Kuwaiti violations of Iraqi territorial waters. In his accusations, he condemned the acts and behaviors carried out by the Kuwaiti authorities against Iraqi navigators on April 25 inside the Iraqi territorial waters in Khour Abdullah area.

Al-Sahaf stated that Iraq keeps its complete and unwavering right guaranteed by the UN charter and the principles of the international law in taking necessary measures to defend the dignity and sovereignty of its lands and territorial waters as well as to demand compensate for the moral and material damages inflicted against it as a result of aggressive acts, according to the principle of international responsibility.

He stressed Iraq's protest against the behaviors carried out by the Kuwaiti authorities. He added that Iraq calls on the international organization to interfere to prevent these violations in Kuwait's entering Iraqi territorial waters and in carrying out such acts.

This is the second message sent by Iraq to the UN within one week. On last Friday, al-Sahaf called for interference to stop interrupting the Iraqi ships and boats in the Gulf.