Kuwait's prime minister arrived in Baghdad on Wednesday in the first such visit since Saddam Hussein's forces invaded the oil-rich emirate in 1990, Iraqi officials and Kuwaiti state media said.
Iraq's deputy foreign minister, Labid Abbawi, told AFP that Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Mohammad al-Ahmad al-Sabah had arrived in the Iraqi capital, confirming a report by Kuwait's official KUNA news agency.
It is the first visit by a Kuwaiti premier to Iraq since Sheikh Saad al-Abdullah Al-Sabah in 1989, and the first since the late dictator Saddam ordered his forces to invade Kuwait in August 1990.
The visit was "to congratulate Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on the new government, and to confirm the depth of the relations between the two countries," Abbawi said.
The visit also comes two days after a clash between Kuwaiti coast guards and Iraqi fishermen in which a Kuwaiti was killed and an Iraqi fishing boat sunk.
Iraq still pays five percent of revenues from its oil sales into a reparations fund for Kuwait, which is demanding that Baghdad pay another $22 billion. Kuwait has received about $13 billion in reparations.
Kuwait also demands that Iraq return property stolen during the occupation and explain the fate of hundreds of missing Kuwaitis.
Iraq's deputy foreign minister, Labid Abbawi, told AFP that Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Mohammad al-Ahmad al-Sabah had arrived in the Iraqi capital, confirming a report by Kuwait's official KUNA news agency.
It is the first visit by a Kuwaiti premier to Iraq since Sheikh Saad al-Abdullah Al-Sabah in 1989, and the first since the late dictator Saddam ordered his forces to invade Kuwait in August 1990.
The visit was "to congratulate Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on the new government, and to confirm the depth of the relations between the two countries," Abbawi said.
The visit also comes two days after a clash between Kuwaiti coast guards and Iraqi fishermen in which a Kuwaiti was killed and an Iraqi fishing boat sunk.
Iraq still pays five percent of revenues from its oil sales into a reparations fund for Kuwait, which is demanding that Baghdad pay another $22 billion. Kuwait has received about $13 billion in reparations.
Kuwait also demands that Iraq return property stolen during the occupation and explain the fate of hundreds of missing Kuwaitis.
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