13/08/2011
An Iraqi technical delegation arrives Sunday to discuss a port Mubarak
Baghdad, Kuwaiti newspaper reported on Friday that an Iraqi technical delegation headed by the government consultant Thamer Ghadban, up next Sunday, to Kuwait to discuss the File Port of Mubarak the Great, in the official mission lasting more than two days.
The newspaper quoted sources as "responsible" that Kuwait is "ready to answer all questions the delegation and provide all documents that confirm the safety procedures Kuwaiti and non-impact on port traffic in the Khawr Abd Allah in addition to organize a field visit of the delegation to the construction site port in the presence of specialists from all parties concerned."
The newspaper pointed out that the sources of "renewed emphasis on the reception of Kuwait to Iraqi delegation for the second time in less than three months, where he was the first of 26 last May, aims to dispel the concerns of Iraq on port and cooperation in all transparency in terms of respect for international laws and resolutions of the movement navigation, "pointing out that the Iraqi delegation" comprising experts from the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Transport and the advisers and navigation and ports of Iraq."
Kuwait was announced, the sixth of April, on the Start-up Port Project Mubarak after years of Iraq's declaration intention to build a port of Faw. The Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs and Development Minister Sheikh Ahmad Fahd to the project, contracted to create the Hyundai Korean, would be a "friend of the environment," noting that he "has big goals and achieve the hopes and aspirations of the people of Kuwait, which has long wished to build the port of this strategic location and effective, in order to make Kuwait a financial center and a trade at the regional and global levels.
But Iraq has criticized the project strongly considered officials in the government and parliament, that the project would harm the interests of Iraq and choking the narrow waterway that leads to the ports of Iraq, Kuwait's claim to change the construction site of the port so as not to harm Iraqi interests.
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