On: Wed, 06/16/2011 22:21
Baghdad (news) .. According to a member of the Foreign Relations Committee in the Iraqi parliament Hassan al-Hamdani Khudair Chuird MP / Iraqi List / host that the Ministers of Transport Hadi al-Amiri and Foreign Affairs Hoshyar Zebari has been an emphasis on the need to adhere to the limits of water between Iraq and Kuwait.
He said al-Hamdani told the reporter Agency (news) today, the number of deputies stressed the need for the application of international agreements between the two countries, noting that the meeting included the extreme to make it clear that the port of Mubarak the Great, who contemplate its establishment the State of Kuwait in the way of construction of a port of Faw in Iraq.
He was Alatvq to overcome all the difficulties facing the construction of a port of Faw, and the need to speed up a report on the impact of building the port of Mubarak Al-Kabeer on Iraq by the Committee which was formed in the Council of Ministers headed by Chief Advisor in the Office of the Prime Minister Dr. Thamer Ghadban.
The Foreign Relations Committee in the Iraqi Council of Representatives, has been considered that the construction of a new port of Kuwait, will directly affect the waterway for Iraq and create a real crisis, as confirmed that the area of the waterway under the project will not only left him only one kilometer, she noted that the dialogue with the Kuwaiti side in the case of failure, we will have the invocation to the Iraqi people.
A member of the Foreign Relations Committee in Parliament, Nada Jubouri, in a press statement, the Port of Mubarak Al-Kabeer will affect directly on the waterway, Iraq and create a real crisis if implemented, adding that the Foreign Relations Committee reviewed the maps and found that there will be only one kilometer from the area of the waterway, especially along the coast of Iraq that does not exceed 57 kilometers, while the Kuwaiti coast extends a length of 500 km.
They noted that the draft Jubouri create port of Faw, was approved by Kuwait's new port project by more than a year, adding that the delay in starting the Iraqi side project the FAO has encouraged the Kuwaiti side to speed up the draft Port Mubarak. / Finished / (5 Q. P)
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