Iraq and Kuwait~ Issue, Port of Mubarak, report will be presented to parliament in the coming days

Snip ~ "The Ministry of Transport and placed in April of last year, the foundation stone for the port of Faw, which indicates his designs the basic features the container terminal along the 39,000 meters, and a berth last a length of 2000 meters, as well as square container with an area of ​​more than one million m 2 and the field of multi-purpose an area of ​​600 thousand m 2, where the capacity of the port 99 million tonnes annually, while total cost for the establishment of four billion and 400 million euros, and it is hoped that the connection port line of the railway linking the Persian Gulf through Iraqi ports in northern Europe through Turkey, a project known as as the "dry canal""

Friday, June 17, 2011

Osman and criticizes the contradictory views between the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and transport around the port of Al-Mubarak

Criticized the leader of the Kurdistan Alliance, Mahmoud Othman, a Friday, and conflicting views between the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and transport around the port of Al-Mubarak, noting that the report of the committee formed by the government to discuss this topic will be presented to parliament in the coming days.

Osman said in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "the Ministers of Foreign Affairs Hoshyar Zebari and transport Hadi al-Amiri did not convince members of Parliament in Todahathma on the construction of the port of Al-Mubarak Kuwait during the parliamentary session the evening, which was held yesterday," noting that "Zebari and the delegation of experts accompanying him said the deputies that Kuwaiti side and light side of the Iraqi construction of the port will not affect the freedom of navigation, and that Kuwait is committed to international laws of freedom of international navigation and the right of Kuwait and regional construction of the port because it is within its territory and it does not affect the freedom of navigation in Iraq. "

Osman said "while the view of Transport Minister Hadi al-Amiri different and completely contradictory for an interview Zebari, who said that construction of the port will narrow waterways of Iraq, leading to suffocation navigation Iraqi Navy, which affect the Iraqi economy because of its dependence on imported food and other materials through the sea ​​lanes, "noting that" the Ameri student parliament and the government to apply to the Kuwaiti side to transfer the port to build the south side of the Khawr Abd Allah in the island to reduce the shipping restrictions for Iraq. "

Othman continued that "members of parliament also have had differing views on the subject," noting that "the Parliament agreed that there should be one point of view on the subject between the parliament and the government and the political blocs."

Osman said that "the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Transport explained that the government formed a committee headed by the chief adviser to the Minister Thamer Ghadban and others to discuss the implications of building the port of the blessed," explaining that "this committee will report to parliament in the coming days."

The House of Representatives discussed, on Thursday, the repercussions of the Kuwaiti port of Mubarak in the evening session closed after hosting Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, Minister of Transport Hadi al-Amiri.

And made the State of Kuwait, in the 25 of May, the past, its willingness to sign the treaty include assurances to the Iraqi side about the lack of impact of the draft Port of Mubarak the Great to build a port of Faw and waters of Iraq, regional firm spokesman Kuwaiti Ambassador in Baghdad after meeting with the Director Media of the Ministry of State for Foreign Affairs of Iraq Laos Tamimi , that this project will bring economic benefit common to both countries.

Iraq was announced on 25 May, Kuwait's decision to build the port of Mubarak Al-Kabir near the Iraqi coast is a violation of the UN resolution by the Security Council No. 833, threatening to Kuwait in the event of continuing to build the port would leave Iraq "in solution" of Security Council resolution.

And began Kuwait establishment Port Mubarak the Great, the sixth of April, after exactly a year of the Declaration on the development and the Iraqi transport ministry foundation stone for the establishment of the port of Faw Iraq, and draws the Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs and Development Minister Sheikh Ahmad Fahd said the project, contracted to create a company Korea's Hyundai, "has big goals, and achieve the hopes and aspirations of the Kuwaiti people, which has long wished to build the port of this strategic location and efficient, which will make Kuwait's financial and trading center on the regional and global levels," officials believe the Iraqi experts that the port of Kuwait will reduce the importance of ports Iraqi and restrict navigation in the Khawr Abd Allah channel leading to the ports of Umm Qasr and Khor Al-Zubair, and make the draft port of Faw worthless.

The Ministry of Transport and placed in April of last year, the foundation stone for the port of Faw, which indicates his designs the basic features the container terminal along the 39,000 meters, and a berth last a length of 2000 meters, as well as square container with an area of ​​more than one million m 2 and the field of multi-purpose an area of ​​600 thousand m 2, where the capacity of the port 99 million tonnes annually, while total cost for the establishment of four billion and 400 million euros, and it is hoped that the connection port line of the railway linking the Persian Gulf through Iraqi ports in northern Europe through Turkey, a project known as as the "dry canal".

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