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Iran seeks to resolve border disputes with Gulf neighbors ABU DHABI Iran and Kuwait have begun efforts to resolve their long- standing border dispute. Iran also has border disputes with Iraq, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. The UAE has accused Iran of occupying three islets in the northern Gulf and Teheran has rebuffed calls for arbitration. Kuwaiti officials said the dispute concerns the territorial waters of the two countries and has hampered coast guard missions and efforts to explore for crude oil and natural gas in the northern Gulf. The two countries discussed the need to demarcate their maritime borders during a meeting of Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Mohammed Al Sabah and his Iranian counterpart, Kamal Kharazi. Kuwait has been pressing for the conclusion of the demarcation effort and Iranian acknowledgement of the maritime borders. "Kuwait is a small country and worries about its borders," Mohammed said. "We worry about the border issue and hope that the Iranian brothers would try to resolve the issue within months." Kuwait has expressed concern over Iran's nuclear reactor project at Bushehr, located about 200 kilometers from the sheikdom. Iran and Kuwait have also signed security and military cooperation accords. -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
