Announcements
SISTANI ON KUWAIT SPAT, THE UIA
Over the past few weeks tensions have escalated between Iraq and Kuwait as the members of the respective parliaments have engaged in a war of words. Kuwait MPs have called on Iraq to pay back the large sums – 41 billion in total – that Kuwaitis believe Iraqis owe to them, and have said that Kuwait should pull its ambassador from Baghdad – just installed there last year – if Iraq does not commit to comply. Iraqis have demanded for years that other countries, especially Kuwait, cancel or dramatically reduce the debt totals in recognition that they were oppressed by the regime which took out the loans. Somewhat contradictorily, some Iraqi MPs have demanded that Kuwait compensate Iraq for enabling foreign troops to invade Iraq in 2003 and remove that regime!
