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House of Representatives Discusses the Implications of the Kuwaiti Port of Mubarak in the Evening Session Closed
Thursday, 16 2011
Alsumaria News / Baghdad
A source at the House of Representatives, Thursday, that the Iraqi Foreign Minister, hosted a request that the evening session of parliament closed for the day to discuss the issue of the Kuwaiti port of Mubarak.
The source said in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari asked the Presidency of the Council of Representatives to be a meeting of the Council of Representatives this evening closed the day in order to discuss the implications of the subject of the Kuwaiti port of Mubarak."
The source, who asked not to be named, said "the Presidency of the Council of Representatives agreed to the request made by Zebari."
Iraq had declared, on 25 May last, that Kuwait's decision to build the port of Mubarak Al-Kabir near the Iraqi coast is a violation of the UN resolution adopted by the Security Council No. 833, threatening to Kuwait in the event of continuing to build the port would leave Iraq "in solution" of Security Council resolution.
And proceeded to Kuwait, the establishment of the port of Mubarak the Great, the sixth of April, after exactly one year of the Declaration on the development and the Iraqi transport ministry foundation stone for the establishment of the port of Faw Iraq, and draw the Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs and Development Minister of Kuwait Ahmed Al-Fahd said that the project which is contracted to create a company Korea's Hyundai, "involves the big goals, and achieve the hopes and aspirations of the Kuwaiti people, which has long wished to build a port in this strategic location and effective, which will make Kuwait's financial and trading center on the regional and global levels," officials believe the Iraqi experts that the port of Kuwait will diminish the importance of ports Iraq, and restrict shipping in the Khawr Abd Allah channel leading to the ports of Umm Qasr and Khor Al-Zubair, and make the draft port of Faw worthless.
The Ministry of Transport and placed in April of last year, the foundation stone for the port of Faw, which indicates his designs the basic features the container terminal along the 39,000 meters, and a berth last a length of 2000 meters, as well as an arena for containers with an area of more than one million m 2 and the field of other multi-purpose an area of 600 thousand m 2, where the absorptive capacity of the port 99 million tonnes annually, while total cost for the establishment of four billion and 400 million euros, it is hoped that the connection port line of the railway linking the Persian Gulf through the Iraqi ports in northern Europe through Turkey, a project known as as the "dry canal".
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Thursday, 16 2011
Alsumaria News / Baghdad
A source at the House of Representatives, Thursday, that the Iraqi Foreign Minister, hosted a request that the evening session of parliament closed for the day to discuss the issue of the Kuwaiti port of Mubarak.
The source said in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari asked the Presidency of the Council of Representatives to be a meeting of the Council of Representatives this evening closed the day in order to discuss the implications of the subject of the Kuwaiti port of Mubarak."
The source, who asked not to be named, said "the Presidency of the Council of Representatives agreed to the request made by Zebari."
Iraq had declared, on 25 May last, that Kuwait's decision to build the port of Mubarak Al-Kabir near the Iraqi coast is a violation of the UN resolution adopted by the Security Council No. 833, threatening to Kuwait in the event of continuing to build the port would leave Iraq "in solution" of Security Council resolution.
And proceeded to Kuwait, the establishment of the port of Mubarak the Great, the sixth of April, after exactly one year of the Declaration on the development and the Iraqi transport ministry foundation stone for the establishment of the port of Faw Iraq, and draw the Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs and Development Minister of Kuwait Ahmed Al-Fahd said that the project which is contracted to create a company Korea's Hyundai, "involves the big goals, and achieve the hopes and aspirations of the Kuwaiti people, which has long wished to build a port in this strategic location and effective, which will make Kuwait's financial and trading center on the regional and global levels," officials believe the Iraqi experts that the port of Kuwait will diminish the importance of ports Iraq, and restrict shipping in the Khawr Abd Allah channel leading to the ports of Umm Qasr and Khor Al-Zubair, and make the draft port of Faw worthless.
The Ministry of Transport and placed in April of last year, the foundation stone for the port of Faw, which indicates his designs the basic features the container terminal along the 39,000 meters, and a berth last a length of 2000 meters, as well as an arena for containers with an area of more than one million m 2 and the field of other multi-purpose an area of 600 thousand m 2, where the absorptive capacity of the port 99 million tonnes annually, while total cost for the establishment of four billion and 400 million euros, it is hoped that the connection port line of the railway linking the Persian Gulf through the Iraqi ports in northern Europe through Turkey, a project known as as the "dry canal".
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