Tuesday, July 26, 2011

The Iraqi government called the Government of Kuwait to stop working port Mubarak, until we know the final results of the joint committees ...


Tuesday 07/26/2011

The Iraqi government calls on Kuwait to officially stop work port Mubarak .. for fear of its impact on trade Iraq's water, and the work of Iraqi ports

Baghdad, The Iraqi government called the Government of Kuwait to stop working port Mubarak, until we know the final results of the joint committees.

A senior source at the Council of Ministers (of the Agency news) said on Tuesday that the government prompted the Kuwaiti government officially stop working port Mubarak, while to the joint committees final report has declared Kuwait continued to build the port of Mubarak, The Iraq and Kuwait form the Commission a common port.

The source added: that the Cabinet discussed his meeting held on Tuesday evening, the subject of the port of Mubarak, and he gathered as the government's concern construction of the port, for fear of its impact on trade Iraq's water, and the work of Iraqi ports.

The source noted that the government would amount to the Kuwaiti side officially on Wednesday the need to stop work at the port and the concern of it.

this has been denied Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki last Friday that Kuwait seen Baghdad during the talks two held recently on a project to build the port, "Mubarak Al-Kabeer" which demands that Iraq stop it.

Maliki said in a statement distributed by his press office, "We deny raising the issue of port Mubarak in these discussions, either closely or from afar."

He added that the Kuwaiti side has put the project "for the discussions that took place even with the ministerial and technical committees charged with resolving the outstanding issues between the two countries."

The statement by Maliki's response to the remarks quoted by the San Kuwaiti Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammad al-Sabah, and which he had to see al-Maliki on the project during his visit to Kuwait last February.

A statement by the Iraqi prime minister today, "as stated in the part of these statements from the detailed explanation of the matters relating to navigation in the Khawr Abd Allah as a waterway shared by both countries and is managed jointly by not feature in which any aspect on the other side."

but he stressed that Iraq is not brief Mubarak on the port project, "but from a third party."

And demanding Baghdad to stop the construction of the port, who arrived in the work rate of 14 percent, according to Transport Minister Hadi al-Ameri, the navigation channel as close to the ports of Iraq.