Iraq submits a request to challenge the decision of the Security Council on Khor Abdullah

Baghdad-INA  
The Ministry of Transport revealed today, Sunday, that it had made several communications with the concerned international authorities, through Iraqi diplomatic channels, to restore Iraq's sovereign rights in its maritime domains.
 
 
 
The Minister of Transport, Razak Muhibis Al-Saadawi, confirmed, in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA): "Several measures are taken to preserve Iraq's maritime boundaries, and to restore its sovereignty over the navigational channel in Khor Abdullah and the sea lanes in Khor al-Khafja and Khor al-Amiya."
 
Al-Saadawi added, "At a time when Iraq seeks to be a hub for international transit through its ports overlooking the Gulf, and invests huge amounts of money in port infrastructure and the maritime transport sector, we find that the strategic sea lanes in Khor Abdullah, Khor al-Khafja and Khor al-Amaya are in a state of continuous threat and abuse from the regional neighboring countries.
 
Al-Saadawi continued, "The ministry addressed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to complete the procedures for sending the map of Iraqi maritime areas to the Council of Ministers in order to vote on it."
 
 “The ministry sent a letter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs / Legal Department, requesting challenge against Security Council Resolution No. (833) of 1993, regarding Khor Abdullah, because of” the damage that occurred to Iraq, and depriving it of its sea view and its historical right to the navigational canal in Al-Khor," pointing out that "that decision was binding and recognized by the government before 2003, but now we are nationally and morally obligated to declare Iraq not to recognize the issue of resolving disputes that the UN Security Council practiced earlier, which caused the loss of an important part of Iraq's water and marine rights in Khor Abdullah.”
 
Al-Saadawi called on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to "complete the necessary procedures to send the map of Iraqi maritime areas that was approved by the two Diwani committees (123 and 110) for the year 2021 to the Council of Ministers for the purpose of voting on it and depositing it with the United Nations to be a legal document that protects Iraq's maritime boundaries."