The effects of port Mubarak on the navigation will appear within weeks
Special session of parliament to take a position on the issue
Baghdad - Basra - Al Sabah
House of Representatives held a special meeting on June 13 to discuss the next file in the presence of the port of Mubarak and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Transport, while the company revealed that the effects of ports for the port of Kuwait on Iraq's navigational channel will begin in the coming weeks.
A parliamentary source said the "morning", said the meeting of the Council of Representatives on June 13 next will include research in a number of options to be taken, and examine the results of the visit of the Iraqi delegation formed by the government to the State of Kuwait.
The source said: "The decision will be taken during the parliamentary session, which will reveal maps and charts to show the extent of damage to Iraq due to the creation of this port."
He was Minister of Transport, Hadi al-Ameri said in a press conference held in Basra last week: "The Port Mubarak Kuwait impede navigation in the shared waters, and contrary to Security Council resolution 833, so, Iraq would not accept it, waving to resort to" the Security Council in the event of Kuwait's insistence on its construction. "to the detection of general manager of ports on the effects of the port of" blessed, "the Kuwaiti channel Iraq shipping will begin over the next few weeks.
The head of the company, Captain Salah al-Khadir Abboud said in a statement to the reporter (morning) in Basra Saad al-Samak that in If the continued establishment of the port on the Kuwaiti side, "Mubarak", the negative effects of the ports of Umm Qasr, North and South and the Khawr al-Zubayr and pavement liquid gas will appear during the next few weeks.
He added that the continuation of drilling operations, reclamation and the extension of the breakwater and pier service for the project Kuwait will convert part of the navigational channel of Iraq to the island, pointing out that San port Mubarak extends a length of 1800 meters away last point of which is about 300 meters from the navigation channel, which significantly affects the movement of ships and vessels entering the country.
He said Captain Abboud said the withdrawal of the construction site of the port, "Mubarak" a distance of five miles away from the navigational channel will solve the Iraqi crisis, and prove the goodwill of the Kuwaiti side, he said.
He pointed out that the technical delegation formed by the government to visit Kuwait, rejected the site chosen by Kuwait to set up the port for being threatened and restricted traffic and closes the passage Iraq Marine, warning that the Kuwaiti side, view maps of the site differ from the maps of reliable Italian set designs of the port of Faw.
And that The report, prepared by the delegation and includes aerial photographs unique to the "morning" published said that the San port of Kuwait would be an island located on the edges of final maritime boundary that was demarcated in 1991, stressing that this is contrary to resolution 833, which committed the parties to free navigation, as well as it would turn this island to new frontiers within the navigation channel of the territory of Kuwait.
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