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2021-10-15 Iraq

Iraqi-Turkish water agreement has come into effect

[NPASYRIA] On Thursday, the Iraqi Ministry of Water Resources announced that the water agreement with ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
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...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
has come into effect after being ratified by the ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish President.

"The ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish president ratified the memorandum of understanding signed between Iraq and Turkey, and thus it entered into force, yesterday, on Wednesday," the Iraqi Minister of Water Resources, Mahdi al-Hamdani, said.

"We were officially informed by ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs about the ratification of the memorandum," al-Hamdani added.

He pointed out that one of the terms of the agreement includes releasing a fair and equitable share for Iraq through the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

Since last February, the ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish government has reduced the flow of the Euphrates River towards the Syrian and Iraqi territories, amid regional and global warnings of a health and agricultural disaster in the region.

"There has been a positive change in Turkey’s position regarding dealing with Iraq on the water issue, as the government succeeded, in a short period of time, in reaching understandings with Turkey that Iraq had not obtained for decades," the minister stated. # id) ?>

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1 UN Convention: That the rule of equitable utilization is required by customary international law is shown by the many treaties based on the concept, by international judicial and arbitral awards, and by the near-unanimous opinions of legal scholars. The UN General Assembly codified the rule of equitable utilization in Article 5 of its United Nations Convention on Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses. The Assembly approved the UN Convention on May 21, 1997, by a vote of 104–3. Article 5 requires watercourse nations to utilize an international watercourse in an equitable and reasonable manner with a view to attaining optimal and sustainable utilization and benefits consistent with adequate protection in the watercourse. See
http://www.waterencyclopedia.com/La-Mi/Law-International-Water.html#ixzz79MX8Tkib

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