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Iraqi, Kuwaiti navies to police waterways together
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KUWAIT CITY - The Iraqi and Kuwaiti navies have agreed to patrol their common waterways together to guard against terrorism and smuggling in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. Navy said Tuesday.
Vice Adm. Bill Gortney of U.S. 5th Fleet, which also patrols the gulf, described the deal as the "first military-to-military protocol" between Iraq and a neighboring country.
The U.S. statement said Iraq's navy chief, Adm. Muhammad Jawad Kadham, and his Kuwaiti counterpart, Maj. Gen. Ahmad Yusef Al-Mulla, signed the protocol Nov. 11.
The document obliges both nations to report any criminal activity in the area, including smuggling and illicit fishing, and describes a detailed grid in which Kuwaiti and Iraqi vessels will operate.
Iraq's coastline is less than 60 miles long and its fledgling navy has about two dozen vessels based in Umm Qasr, Iraq's main port.
Iraq hopes the cooperation will improve security in Iraqi territorial waters, Col. Abdul Wahid Sahar of the Iraqi navy told The Associated Press.
"The Iraqi navy is young. Thus, we try to cooperate with the neighbors with whom we have a maritime borders, especially the Kuwaitis," he said.
The area is vital because Iraq's oil pipelines extend out from Umm Qasr to terminal platforms in the sea. A tiny waterway separates the Iraqi shore from the Kuwaiti island of Bubiyan and mainland Kuwait.
The waterway is part of the border demarcation made by the United Nations after the 1991 U.S.-led Gulf War that liberated Kuwait from a seven-month Iraqi occupation under Saddam Hussein. But for years, there were border shootings and incursions until the 2003 invasion of Iraq that toppled Saddam.
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