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Iraq Urges Arab League to Stop Kuwaiti "Provocations"
Iraq on Tuesday urged the Arab League to stop the "provocative acts" of the Kuwaiti government toward Iraqi fishermen fishing in the Iraqi territorial waters.
In a letter to Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa, Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri Ahmed said that on September 15, four Kuwaiti soldiers, aboard a naval ship, harassed a number of Iraqi fishermen by tearing their official identifications.
The Iraqi fishermen were fishing in the Khor Al-Zobair District within Iraq's southern Basra Province when the incident happened, the official Iraqi News Agency (INA) quoted Ahmed as saying.
"The unjustified aggression of the Kuwaiti patrols is against the United Nations Charter and the International Law," he said, adding that Iraq has the right to demand compensation from Kuwait.
Iraq and Kuwait have been at odds since Iraq's invasion of the Gulf sheikhdom in August 1990. The Iraqi troops were driven out of Kuwait by multinational forces in the 1991 Gulf War.
Iraq has repeatedly accused Kuwait of playing host to U.S. and British warplanes enforcing a no-fly zone over southern Iraq, set up after the Gulf War by the U.S.-led Western allies to contain Iraq.
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