Shafaq News/ The Council of Basra province called, on Tuesday, for Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to resolve all the files and the outstanding problems between Basra and Kuwait during his upcoming visit, welcoming the latter approval to drop the debts owed by Iraq in return for investment.The vice president of the provincial council in Basra Ahmed Sulaiti said to "Shafaq  News", " We was informed so far on the participation of officials from the province of Basra in the delegation which  will accompany Prime Minister Maliki in his upcoming visit to Kuwait, and we ask the Prime Minister to resolve all outstanding problems between Basra and Kuwait ".The State of Law coalition revealed to "Shafaq  News", earlier, the Iraqi government is developing a mechanism to resolve outstanding issues with the State of Kuwait, adding that communication between the two sides with respect to this matter is ongoing .

"the province of Basra, has got  many problems with the Kuwaiti side by virtue of its geographical location, and Basra must have its word in solving these problems and files in the visit of Prime Minister to Kuwait." Sulaiti said

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki received a phone call by  the end of last year, from  the Prime Minister of Kuwait, Jabir Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah asking him to visit Kuwait, but Alsabah  told him to postpone his visit because of the preoccupation with the elections in Kuwait.

Sulaiti expressed his welcome for "the willingness of the Kuwaiti side to drop the remaining debt on Iraq in return for its investments in many fields, especially in the province of Basra."

"officials in the province of Basra welcome all foreign investments, including the Kuwaiti investments as being one of Arab countries  and a neighbor of Iraq." He stressed .

The file of Iraqi-Kuwaiti relations includes a lot of outstanding issues, notably the compensation paid for the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq in 1990, and the position of Kuwait from Iraq to be out of Chapter VII of the UN, as well as the demarcation of the border between the two countries and the remains of missing Kuwaitis.