Iraq

This file relates to relations between Kuwait and Iraq. It contains correspondence concerning:

• Visit of the President Abdul Rahman Arif of Iraq to Kuwait in December 1966
• Formation of the Joint Border Committee to examine the Kuwait-Iraq border; press reports of its progress; the visit of various delegations between the county; the commissioning of a survey of the border; a summary of the history and key points of the border issues; and enquiries about the border from the UK Ministry of Defence and the Kuwait Oil Company
• Visits of Kuwaiti delegations to Iraq to implement the Kuwait-Iraq Economic Cooperation Agreement
• Border incidents between Iraqi and Kuwaiti armed forces; subsequent mobilisations and alerts; media reports from both countries; Iraqi infringements of Kuwaiti airspace; and HMG’s efforts to establish through the Kuwait Liaison Team the events on the ground
• Visit of the Prime Minister of Iraq General Tahir Yahya to Kuwait in January 1968
• Visit of the former Prime Minister of Iraq Dr Abdul Rahman Bazzaz to Kuwait, and his extension of a reciprocal invite to Iraq to the Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah
• Visit of the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al Salem Al Sabah to Iraq
• Kuwaiti reaction to the coup in Iraq in July 1968