The extent of Iraq’s right to nullify the Khor Abdullah Agreement in accordance with international law

Abstract

The research deals with the extent of Iraq's right to nullify the Khor Abdullah Agreement signed between Iraq and Kuwait, which has long caused widespread controversy among many segments of Iraqi society, between supporters and opponents, especially after the issuance of the decision of the Iraqi Federal Supreme Court, which ruled that the law ratifying the agreement law was unconstitutional, which sparked Kuwait's objection to this procedure, which demanded that Iraq abide by the provisions of the agreement and respect its international obligations, which raises several questions about the fate of the aforementioned agreement and the extent of the impact of the court's decision on the issue of demarcating the Iraqi-Kuwaiti borders in accordance with the relevant UN Security Council resolutions, and the extent to which the Iraqi government is bound by the court's decision and the possibility of its adherence to nullifying the agreement in accordance with international law in general and the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties of 1969 in particular, and the mechanisms and solutions proposed in this regard in a way that achieves Iraq's supreme interests by shedding light on the provisions of the aforementioned agreement and the most important observations contained therein and the grounds for the decision of the Federal Supreme Court and the most important paragraphs contained therein and the reasons on which it was based, and the Security Council resolutions related to the demarcation of the borders between the two countries, in addition to the attitude of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties on nullification the treaty due to a violation of the provisions of the internal law and the necessary controls and conditions in this regard.