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Parliamentary Foreign: Kuwait shown a willingness to resolve the crisis Port Mubarak Abralhawwar
Posted 30/07/2011 12:30 PM
BAGHDAD (Rn), member of the parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee, today, Kuwait expressed its desire to resolve the crisis through the Port Mubarak dialogue and mutual understanding, unlikely to resort to Iraq put the file on the table, the United Nations. Sami al-Askari said that "the Kuwaiti government expressed its desire to resolve the crisis through the Port Mubarak dialogue, understanding and expand the discussions between the joint committees of the two countries." He added that "the Commission will send to Iraq to Kuwait scientific and technical committee does not have anything to do with political or parliamentary positions in order to provide an atmosphere of talks with Kuwait on the scientific and technical damage left by the construction of the port of Mubarak the Great."
He added that "Iraq will be followed by means of dialogue and discussion on the technical damage left by the negative port of Mubarak Al-Kabeer and rejected the latter does not mean the conclusion of the dialogue and debate between the two countries." He noted that the "file port Mubarak will discuss ongoing between the two countries to find compromises and not by putting this file on the table, the United Nations."
The Iraqi government yesterday unveiled Friday, the formation of a technical delegation to visit Kuwait in order to see the Port Project Kuwait plans to build in the Persian Gulf and Iraq opposes this and says that would restrict its path on the water, which raised tensions between the two neighboring countries.
Kuwait has rejected Iraq's request last Wednesday to halt work at the port of Mubarak Al-Kabeer, and said that work is continuing on schedule, planned, and stated that the Iraqi request to stop work is surprising, and not based on any legal basis.
The refusal came after the Kuwaiti Kuwait demanded the Iraqi government to officially stop work on the project of building the port of Mubarak, the while making sure that the rights of Iraq in the shared water will not be affected by this port.
He called on Iraq to Kuwait days before the cooperation between the two sides through the Iraqi in charge of following up this issue by providing the information required to access the position preserves the rights of Iraq and its people.
Baghdad has also expressed concern about the establishment of the port "in the absence of adequate information and data to assure that the interests of the government of Iraq does not hurt in the maritime rights ... and according to the rules of international law and UN Security Council resolutions.
He said Iraqi Transport Minister Hadi al-Amiri in the sixth of July that the Iraqi government to take "all diplomatic means, mental and logical to prevent the build (port) Mubarak" in its present position, indicating that the proportion of work which amounted to 14 percent.
Iraq had announced its intention to build a port of Faw since 2005, where he laid the foundation stone to him in April 2010, a year before the Declaration of Kuwait at the port of Mubarak, but he did not initiate the implementation process so far, and will cost 4.6 billion euros, and the absorptive capacity is estimated at the port planned 99 million tonnes per year to be one of the largest ports bordering the Persian Gulf region.
Iraqi officials have said they have initiated plans and preparations for the implementation of the port that will put the final designs for the end of this year by a company Konnentr Italian, and will be directly working the beginning of 2012 in two stages, each stage takes two years, and will link the port to land across the roads and rails of iron each of the Turkey and Syria for the transport of goods.
And put Kuwait in April the foundation stone for the construction of the port, "Mubarak the Great" in the Bubiyan Island, which lies in the far north-west Persian Gulf, and is the second largest 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 to build a port in the Kuwaiti island adjacent to the waterway, Iraq.
According to Iraqi experts that the port will make the Kuwaiti coast extends over a distance of 500 km, while the coast of Iraq would be limited in the area of 50 km, warning that the project could cause a new political crisis between the two neighboring countries on the grounds that it would lead to "strangle" the only sea port of Iraq.
He visited the Kuwaiti prime minister in Baghdad January 12 last, at the head of government delegation during which he met both Maliki and President Jalal Talabani and Parliament Speaker Osama Najafi and Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari and a number of Iraqi officials, while visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, Kuwait on 16 last February, during which he discussed with the Amir of Kuwait and the Prime Minister of the many outstanding issues between the two sides.
Relations between Baghdad and Kuwait, a significant improvement in the past few years as it seemed to go beyond the repercussions of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, the regime of Saddam Hussein in 1990. Kuwait and re-open its embassy in Iraq in 2008 after nearly 19 years of uninterrupted diplomatic relations between the two countries, while re-open the Iraqi consulate in Kuwait in 2010.
Iraq and form an emergency committee and the ministerial visit to Kuwait to end the problem of the port adjacent to the waterway, Iraq's Persian Gulf.
The Kuwaiti authorities recently decided to build a port Mubarak Al-Kabir near the port of Khor Abdullah in Basra in southern Iraq.
The objection to the Iraq re-construction of the port of Kuwait tension between the two sides, after the relatively improved relations during the last period.
The two sides began to form joint committees to resolve the existing problems between them, particularly the problem of war reparations by the invasion of Kuwait, Saddam Hussein's regime in 1991, and the demarcation of the border, and the missing Kuwaitis, and the joint oil fields, and others.
The former Iraqi government announced last April, the inclusion of Iraq within the United States participating canal dry.
It is hoped to change the port of Faw map of world maritime transport of goods being transferred from Japan, China and Southeast Asia to Europe via Iraq.
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