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Foreign Affairs confirms that there is damage to Iraq from the port of Mubarak
On: Sun 08/01/2012 9:19
Baghdad / Iyad al-Tamimi
Devt Foreign Relations Committee in the House yesterday the technical committee responsible for monitoring the port Mubarak of Kuwait under the chairmanship of the advisers in the Council of Ministers and Chairman of the Committee entrusted to negotiate with the Kuwaiti side, said a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, told the (range), "During the View the final report of the meeting if we know that the Technical Committee did not do any negotiations with Kuwait to stand on as far as the effects of its port on the navigation of Iraq. "
He said Abdul-Jabbar "when reading the report also shows that the Commission has relied on the attention of the Kuwaiti side of the technical aspects of the port in general and about the Khor Al-Abdullah Al-turned doubts about its exposure to damages in the case of construction of the port on the stage four and the reason that the Kuwaiti side holds a technical justification either the Iraqi side is missing those justifications because there are more than one had expressed their views on the dimensions and damage successor Port Mubarak, "noted Abdul-Jabbar" will build the port in three phases which will be at the zero point on the common border and thus would not affect the Iraqi side, especially since the The report may indicate that the Kuwaiti side does not intend to build a breakwater, making the Commission is satisfied. "
said Abdul-Jabbar, including that "there is no technical report is clear from the Iraqi side, and parliament will form a committee of the Foreign Relations headed by First Deputy Qusay al-Suhail to go to the Kuwaiti parliament and learn from near the port of Mubarak in order to prepare a technical report to be parallel with the report submitted by the Kuwaiti side, which is clear that the Port Mubarak did not succeed the damage in case of build it in three stages,
and considered by the Committee of Foreign Affairs that "the problem is not the construction of the port of Kuwait, but that there Iraqi problem where there is no specific position between the specialized ministries, "and urged that there be guarantees by the Kuwaiti side of this report is a formal, and noted Abdul-Jabbar to the observations made by the meeting will be submitted in the form of recommendations to the Presidency of the Parliament to put forward formally in a meeting House of Representatives.
and the port of Faw said Abdul-Jabbar said the host committee, which went to Kuwait did not discuss the issue of building the port of Faw fact that the problem lies in the completion of the issue of Mubarak and then go to the port of FAO and to find mechanisms that are good and beneficial, adding that the port of FAO figures jurisdiction can be hosted and discussed closely.
The Kuwait began, the sixth of April, the establishment of the port of Mubarak the Great on the island of Bubiyan near the Iraqi coast, after exactly a year to develop Iraq's transport ministry foundation stone for the construction of the port of Faw, causing outbreak of a crisis between the two countries, at a time when there Kuwaitis that Mainahm will have the results of economic and strategic task, confirms officials and Iraqi experts that the port of Kuwait will reduce the importance of Iraqi ports, 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 no value. and declared Kuwait, on the same day, rejected Iraq's request to stop construction of a port Mubarak, saying that Iraq's request in this regard is not based on any legal basis, and with renewed emphasis on it is located within the Kuwaiti border, she noted that the port does not impede navigation in the Khawr Abd Allah.
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