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Legal representative: Maliki awaiting a report from MPs on the port of Mubarak
Friday, 27 December / 2 January 2012 20:44
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Revealed a member of the Parliamentary Legal Committee Friday, 70 deputies delivered the signatures demanding the transfer of the report of the technical discussions on Port Mubarak government of Kuwait. She added that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was waiting for a report from the Council prior to his visit to Kuwait.
Iraq had sent a committee of technical experts in August last August to prepare a detailed report on the Port of Mubarak and the negative effects that I found on the navigation of Iraq. Kuwait had said before leaving the delegation is ready to provide all types of assistance to accomplish his work.
A member of the high Nassif told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) that "the signatures collected from more than 70 members in the House of Representatives demanding the transfer discussions of the report of the Intergovernmental Technical on Port Mubarak to the House of Representatives instead of the Foreign Relations Committee have been delivered to the Presidency of the Council."
She said that the "Presidency of the Council so far has not received an answer."
Nassif explained that "Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was waiting for a detailed report of the House of Representatives prior to his visit to Kuwait."
And placed Kuwait in April last the foundation stone to build a port, "Mubarak Al-Kabeer" in Bubiyan Island, which lies in the far north-west Persian Gulf. Is the second biggest island in the Gulf (890 square kilometers) after the Iranian island of Qeshm.
Baghdad has seen and other Iraqi cities Kuwait protests over the project because of what it said about the Iraqi government that will stop traffic in Iraq.
And Iraqi experts say that the port will make the Kuwaiti coast extends over a distance of 500 kilometers, while the coast would be limited to Iraq in an area of 50 km. They warned that the project may cause a new political crisis between the two neighbors on the grounds that it would lead to "strangle" the only sea port of Iraq.
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