Port of Mubarak and its impact on Iraq's right to maritime navigation

Section: RESEARCH
Published
Aug 4, 2025
Pages
177-210

Abstract

Planning boundaries between Iraq & Kuwait occupied large filed from shared history for two states. These problems started at 1913 with Kuwaiti attempts to independence from mother-state. Most of these problems related with maritime boundaries. Which even UNs commission for planning the boundaries was cannot able to founded solve to these problems. Mubarak Harbor in vague place in maritime boundaries line & there are no any agreements about it. Raising & renew these problems by Kuwait & threaten to maritime rights of Iraq and his economical interests. & it leads to contradiction with rules of International law, which ensure the rights of states, which has parallel shores. .

References

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