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House of Representatives hosts Zebari and Ameri-Issawi and after tomorrow, Thursday
Alsumaria News / Baghdad
Revealed a parliamentary source, Tuesday, that the Iraqi Council of Representatives will host during its third year of the second legislative session on Thursday the mayor of Baghdad, Foreign Minister of Transport to discuss the issue of the establishment of the port of Kuwait Mubarak.
The source said in an interview with "Alsumaria News", "The Iraqi Council of Representatives will host during its third legislative term of the first year the second legislative session on Thursday, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs Hoshyar Zebari and transport Hadi al-Amiri," noting that "the members of the House of Representatives will discuss the two ministers on the the issue of construction of the port of Kuwait, Mubarak and the extent of its impact on Iraq."
The source, who asked not to be named "The meeting will also host the Mayor of Baghdad, Sabir al-Issawi to listen to the Secretariat highlighted the achievements and constraints faced by the projects before the service."
And raised the Presidency of the Council of Representatives, on Tuesday, the second parliamentary session of the second legislative year to the day after tomorrow, Thursday, in a parliamentary source said that the meeting saw the first reading to amend the Iraqi irrigation and the second reading of the legal anti-smoking and mayors.
The Iraqi government announced, on the ninth of June, its need for additional detailed information from the State of Kuwait on Port Mubarak, stressing that the Cabinet discussed the issue of setting up the port and its impact on the shipping lines that link the ports of Iraq.
And stressed the United Nations Mission to Iraq, the eighth of June, that the full normalization of relations between Iraq and Kuwait, is nearing completion, arguing that the dispute between Baghdad and Kuwait on Port Mubarak ordered for the two countries, as stressed Iraq's right to navigation in the Persian Gulf without obstruction according to the UN resolution adopted in 1993.
The Iraqi Transport Minister Hadi al-Amiri said, in 27 of last May, said that Kuwait's decision to build a port Mubarak Al-Kabir near the coast of Iraq's violation of UN resolution by the Security Council No. 833, As explained that the waterway, Iraq will be part of the port of Kuwait, confirmed that the construction of the port up water to the border drawn by resolution 833 and it a great injustice on Iraq.
While stressing the Kuwaiti embassy in Baghdad in a letter to the Ministry of State for Foreign Affairs of Iraq, on May 28 last, to build a port Mubarak will be in shallow waters and within the territorial waters of Kuwait, noting that it will be drilled channel qualifies smooth traffic without impeding the direction of Umm Qasr, With considered that the actions to be taken to build a port for the approval of UN resolution 833.
And proceeded to Kuwait to build the port of Mubarak the Great, the sixth of April, after exactly one year of the Declaration on the development and the Iraqi transport ministry the foundation stone for the construction of the port of Faw Iraq, and drew the Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs and Development Minister of Kuwait Ahmed Al-Fahd that the project, which is contracted to create Hyundai Korean, involves the big goals, and achieve the hopes and aspirations of the Kuwaiti people, and would turn Kuwait into a financial and commercial center at the regional and global levels, officials believe the Iraqi experts that the port of Kuwait will diminish the importance of Iraqi ports, and restrict navigation in the Canal Creek Abdullah, leading to the ports of Umm Qasr and Khor Al-Zubair, and make the draft port of Faw worthless.
The Ministry of Transport has developed, in April of last year 2010, the foundation stone for the port project Faw, who has by his designs the core container terminal length of 39 thousand meters, and a berth last a length of 2000 meters, as well as an arena for containers with an area of more than one million m 2, and another arena of multi-purpose area of 600 thousand m 2, with an absorptive capacity of the port 99 million tonnes annually, while total cost for the establishment of four billion and 400 million euros, it is hoped that the connection port line of the railway linking the Persian Gulf in northern Europe through the ports of Iraq and Turkey, a project which known as the "dry canal". Links ~ Iraq's Dry Canal, Links ~ Iraq port of Faw
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