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07/08/2011
Ministry of Science: no truth to Kuwait's intention to build a reactor near our borders
BAGHDAD - Omar Abdel-Latif in the time it was announced Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said his country is seeking to resolve differences between Iraq and Kuwait as soon as possible, revealed the Ministry of Science and Technology received notification of an official from the Kuwaiti side of the lack of a plan to have to build a nuclear reactor on the border with Iraq.
Frattini said in a statement quoted by the agency AKI Italian: that he "found during his recent meetings with his counterparts from Iraq, Hoshyar Zebari, the Kuwaiti Mohammed Sabah Al Salem Al Sabah, the desire of the two countries in dialogue to resolve differences over the Iraq-Kuwait border, which" may turn out to spark the dangers of sharp, "he said.
He pointed to the efforts of Italy, which called for both sides to meet again to resolve this dispute as soon as possible.
The Minister welcomed the hosting of such a dialogue, saying: "It would be great. And I believe that the two countries are aware that Italy is a friendly country and that the only interest is the stability in this region and reconciliation."
It is said that some of the dilemmas have taken place recently between the Iraqi parties and Kuwait, when he embarked on the final establishment of the port of Mubarak the Great, the sixth of April, after exactly a year of the Declaration on the development and the Iraqi transport ministry the foundation stone for the construction of the port of Faw Iraq, and draw the Deputy Prime Minister for Affairs Economic and Development Minister Sheikh Ahmad Fahd said the project, contracted to create the Hyundai Korean, involves the big goals, and achieve the hopes and aspirations of the Kuwaiti people, which has long wished to build the port of this strategic position and effective, which will make Kuwait's financial and trading center on the regional and global levels, are of the view 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 worthless after the narrow waterway.
In the meantime, the Ministry of Science and Technology that it had received formal notification from the Kuwaiti side of the lack of a plan to have to build a nuclear reactor on the border with Iraq.
The Minister of Science and Technology Abdul Karim al-Samarrai said in a statement quoted by the agency "Alsumaria News": "The Kuwaiti delegation participating in the General Conference of Atomic Energy of the Arab held in Tunis told us solemnly that there was no intention of Kuwait, the establishment of a nuclear reactor near the Iraqi border."
Samarrai said that "the reports by the media about the intention of Kuwait building a nuclear reactor is only talk and unfounded."
And announced that the Iraqi List, the white end of last June, the Kuwaiti government has contracted with a French company to create a nuclear reactor on the island of Warba, near the port of Umm Qasr in Basra province, calling on the government and the Iraqi parliament to move to prevent the Kuwaiti side to move forward with the project, while Kuwait has denied the words of its ambassador in Iraq to the insured its intention to build the reactor, it is uncertain if they decide to implement such a project in the future will be away from the Iraqi border.
Download Samurai, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs responsible for delayed response of the organization of the International Atomic Energy Agency and Tehran over fears of the establishment of the Iraqi nuclear reactor near the Iranian-Iraqi border, "adding that" the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is responsible for discussing with countries including Iran on the nuclear file. "
The Iraqi government has asked, in 2009, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) accurate information on Iran's determination to establish a plant for a nuclear reactor on the border between the two countries, while the environment ministry said Iraq at the time that the Iraqi government does not have official information on the subject and if confirmed the presence of so information will be taken action through diplomatic channels, while Iran has denied, and the Israeli ambassador to Iraq Hassan Dnaúa far received no formal objection from the Iraqi side of its intention to build a nuclear reactor near the border between the two countries, noting that his country was planning to build the reactor in question for more than 38 years , before the Iran-Iraq war, but delayed the work for special reasons, he said, adding that the work was resumed nuclear reactor during the last term.
The center of this picture, and described the Foreign Relations Committee in the House of Representatives to review by the State of Kuwait to build the fourth phase of the port of Mubarak, and informed Iraq that there is no intention of building a nuclear reactor near its territory, the steps as "excellent" and "positive", in the development of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
A member of the Committee Deputy Chuird Khudair Hassan al-Hamdani told the "morning": that "such steps Tflha the State of Kuwait toward Iraq is excellent. It represents the beginning of a new page of diplomatic relations and goodwill between the two countries."
He added that "such steps gives room for diplomacy to take a formal role," and he "wishes to be diplomatic with the Kuwaiti Muslim Brotherhood is the solution interval in the outstanding problems between the two countries."
He also stressed that the re-Hamdani of the Government of Kuwait to build the fourth phase of the port of Mubarak is a positive step towards the right path, noting that "if proven goodwill between the two countries, Iraq will try to open a new page of relations developed in the future," stressing at the same time not to there is nothing between Iraq and Kuwait to demolish Mapnth diplomacy over the past seven years, and that any crisis in the relations between the two countries reflect negatively toward the peoples of both countries.
In a related context, Kuwaiti diplomatic sources said that "Kuwait does not intend to build 60 berths at the port of Mubarak to be established."
The sources told the Kuwaiti press that "the technical committee that will reach Iraq to Kuwait, will brief on the facts of the three major port on the construction of Mubarak the Great."
The sources added that "the first of those facts that would reassure the Iraqi side that Kuwait will not go ahead with building the fourth phase of the port, which includes construction of 60 marina, and the second is that there will be no environmental impacts of the port in marine life, as well as the lack of impact on the level of navigation Marine in Iraqi waters. "and the new Transport Minister Hadi al-Amiri rejected by Iraq, Kuwait, the establishment of the port of Mubarak at the site of damage the economy and environment of Iraq.
The Ameri at a news conference in Najaf yesterday, hoped to reach Iraq and Kuwait, a diplomatic solution to the dispute over the port.
He also announced that Iraq will begin the first stages of the Iraqi port of Faw end of the year.
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