Al-Bujari: The Khor Abdullah agreements violated Iraq’s maritime sovereignty and lacked constitutional protection.

Engineer Zahra Al-Bajari, a member of parliament for the Sadiqoon and head of the parliamentary Transport and Communications Committee, confirmed on Friday that the agreements concluded regarding Khor Abdullah constitute a clear violation of Iraqi maritime sovereignty. She noted that they were signed without full constitutional consent, which constitutes a violation of Iraq’s strategic rights in its territorial waters.
Al-Bujari said in a press statement that “UN Security Council Resolution No. 833 of 1993 was issued to demarcate the land borders between Iraq and Kuwait after the invasion of Kuwait, and has no connection to the demarcation of the maritime borders.” She explained that the maritime demarcation must be carried out, according to international law, through bilateral negotiations and in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), and not through UN resolutions or external dictates.
She noted that subsequent encroachments on the Khor Abdullah area have restricted Iraqi freedom of navigation and narrowed the scope of national sovereignty, stressing that “silence regarding these violations cannot be considered a neutral position, but rather a dangerous concession of the fundamental foundations of the state”.
Al-Bujari stressed the need to subject any agreements that affect national sovereignty to constitutional and legal review, while not recognizing any understandings imposed on Iraq without genuine popular and institutional will.
Al-Bujari also called for a review of all relevant agreements and the launch of a comprehensive national dialogue to protect Iraqi interests, stressing that restoring maritime rights is “a matter of sovereignty and national security that is not negotiable”.