Saudi Arabia: Ownership of Natural Resources in the Divided Area Shared with Kuwait

On Tuesday, the Saudi news agency quoted a source from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stating that "the ownership of the natural resources in the divided submerged area, including the entire Durra field, is a shared ownership between the Kingdom and the State of Kuwait only." The agency added that Saudi Arabia "reiterates its previous calls to the Iranian side to commence negotiations to delineate the eastern border of the divided submerged area between the Kingdom and Kuwait as a unified negotiating party against the Iranian side, in accordance with international law."