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White Iraqiya accuses government of stalling over Kuwaiti port
11/08/2011 14:58
Baghdad, Aug. 11 (AKnews) – White Iraqiya – a splinter bloc that broke from al-Iraqiya earlier this year – accused today Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s government of stalling on the Kuwaiti Mubarak deep-water Port project.
Last week, Kuwait rejected an appeal from Iraq to stop working on the large-scale port, close to the Iraqi border, that economists have predicted will cost Iraq 60% of its marine traffic.
The government wanted Kuwait to suspend the project until Iraq’s rights to the shared deep-water marine channel have been examined and asserted.
Rejecting the appeal, the Kuwaiti government described its neighbor’s request as “surprising and illegal”.
White Iraqiya – led by Hassan al-Alawi - went on to accuse the government committees set up to study the legality of the port and its consequences on the Iraqi economy, of procrastinating.
Spokeswoman Aliya Nassif told AKnews that the Iraqi government is preoccupied with internal disputes and conflicts between the political blocs, accusing them at the same time of “looking after their personal interests”.
Nassif launched an urgent appeal to the international community to step in and block the Kuwaiti port.
“The United States must intervene, according to the security agreement to protect the interests of Iraq, and the United Nations is also obliged to intervene by canceling the unjust sanctions against Iraq imposed in 1991,” she said.
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11/08/2011 14:58
Baghdad, Aug. 11 (AKnews) – White Iraqiya – a splinter bloc that broke from al-Iraqiya earlier this year – accused today Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s government of stalling on the Kuwaiti Mubarak deep-water Port project.
Last week, Kuwait rejected an appeal from Iraq to stop working on the large-scale port, close to the Iraqi border, that economists have predicted will cost Iraq 60% of its marine traffic.
The government wanted Kuwait to suspend the project until Iraq’s rights to the shared deep-water marine channel have been examined and asserted.
Rejecting the appeal, the Kuwaiti government described its neighbor’s request as “surprising and illegal”.
White Iraqiya – led by Hassan al-Alawi - went on to accuse the government committees set up to study the legality of the port and its consequences on the Iraqi economy, of procrastinating.
Spokeswoman Aliya Nassif told AKnews that the Iraqi government is preoccupied with internal disputes and conflicts between the political blocs, accusing them at the same time of “looking after their personal interests”.
Nassif launched an urgent appeal to the international community to step in and block the Kuwaiti port.
“The United States must intervene, according to the security agreement to protect the interests of Iraq, and the United Nations is also obliged to intervene by canceling the unjust sanctions against Iraq imposed in 1991,” she said.
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