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Sep 22, 2023
New York [US], September 22: Representative of HH the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Al-Nawaf Al-Sabah, received Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia Al-Sudani at his residence in New York on Wednesday. The meeting, held on the sidelines of the 78th UN General Assembly session, dealt with the impacts of the recent verdict of the Iraqi federal court rescinding the agreement on maritime navigation in Khor Abdullah. The agreement, signed by both countries in 2012, was endorsed and lodged at the United Nations in the following year.
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