Kuwait - Saudi Arabia to demarcate of sea borders

Kuwait and Saudi Arabia on Sunday announced they will negotiate on Tuesday on demarcating their sea borders which provoked disputes in which Iran was involved, over a sea field rich in gas in the Arab Gulf.

In a statement to Journalists in Jeddah, the Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faysal said on Sunday that " al-Durra field is included within the negotiations which will be held with Kuwait on Tuesday."

He added "recently there was the Iranian oil explorer which provoked this matter ( al-Durra field). This issue ended and the oil explorer withdrew."

He said "the question of sea border between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait will settled in ways preserve the interests of the two countries and their remarkable relations."

Meantime, the Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah said that his government will tomorrow (Tuesday) will seek with Saudi Arabia to reach an agreement on demarcation of their sea borders.

Sheikh al-Sabah said that negotiations between the Kuwaiti Oil Minister Sheikh Saud Nasser al-Sabah and the Saudi Ali al-Nueimi aim at " laying a draft agreement on demarcating the borders of the sea continental rift." He added that "negotiations between the two countries will be part of the demarcation of land borders concluded between the two countries, two years earlier."