The Legal Consequences of The Unconstitutionality of the KHOR ABDULLAH Convention

Abstract

The Khor Abdullah Convention is a border political Convention between Iraq and Kuwait that came to regulate maritime navigation, and was among many concessions made by Iraq to get out of the sanctions of Chapter Seven of the United Nations Charter.

The Convention was concluded between Iraq and Kuwait in 2013, and the Convention stipulated in its terms that terminating or amending the Convention could not be done except by Convention of both parties. However, as a result of one of the appeals submitted before the Federal Supreme Court regarding the Convention’s ratification law, the Federal Supreme Court ruled that the ratification law, which is Law No. 42 of 2013, was unconstitutional..