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Sunday, 21 August 2011
Maliki: I have to resort to the United Nations to resolve the issue of port Mubarak
Editor: MN | BR Sunday, 21 August 2011 13:36 GMT
Alsumaria News / Baghdad,
said a representative for a coalition of state law, Sunday, that the Parliament will host the technical committee responsible for following up the issue of port Mubarak after the Eid holiday, and will take a position on the matter after having heard the report of the Committee, pointing out that the situation may reach to the asylum of the United Nations. The MP from the coalition of state law, Abdul Salam al-Maliki in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "the House of Representatives will host after the Eid holiday, the technical committee responsible for monitoring the port Mubarak for its report to decide what to do then, especially that Kuwait is completed 14% of the construction of the port." ****Maliki said he "fears the arrival of the construction of the port to the third phase which include construction of smooth rock," *****asserting that "it would hinder the waterway connecting the ports of Iraq."***** Maliki said that "the House of Representatives if it finds that the port of Mubarak harm navigation Vomamh several options, including asylum to the United Nations and the internationalization of the issue, "calling the Iraqi government to" call Kuwait to stop construction of the port until the completion of negotiations. " The Kuwait began on the sixth of April, the establishment of the port of Mubarak Al-Kabeer in Bubiyan Island near the coast of Iraq, a year after fully develop and the Iraqi transport ministry foundation stone for the construction of the port of Faw, causing the outbreak of the crisis between the two countries, at a time when there Kuwaitis that Mainahm will have the results of economic and strategic task, confirms officials and Iraqi experts that the port of Kuwait will reduce the importance of Iraqi ports and restricts 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." Iraq had formally requested from Kuwait, on July 27 last, stop working temporarily to the project, for while making sure that the rights of navigation are not affected If the completion of the project, but that Kuwait has announced rejected the request, saying that it is not based on any legal basis, as renewed confirmation that the project is located within its borders, and not hinder navigation in the Khor Abdullah. while considered the Iraqi Transport Minister Hadi al-Amiri, 25 May, the Kuwaiti government's decision to build the port in violation of resolution 833 adopted by the UN Security Council, stressing that part of the Khawr Abd Allah channel shipping will be within the scope of the port of Kuwait after the operation, while confirming the Foreign Relations Committee in the House last June, that Iraq would defend by all possible means when you close its path of water due to the port of Kuwait controversial. The file border disputes and oil between Iraq and Kuwait, began after the British decision in 1961 granting the independence of Kuwait, the rejection of the late Prime Minister Abdul Karim Qassem, recognition, and called then to annex Kuwait to spend of Basra, despite the recognition of the Iraqi government, dominated by the Baath Party in 1963 after dropping system of Abdul Karim Qasim, the independence of Kuwait deal said by some historians that it was in exchange for giving the Iraqi government money because of the deficit, which was experiencing, that former President Saddam Hussain, who belongs to the same party, decided on the second of August 1990 invasion of Kuwait militarily against the backdrop of problems on the border and Tsmha and conflict on some oil wells, and after more than seven years after the fall of the former regime in 2003, still most of those problems caught between the two countries , also appeared in recent years, other problems, most notably the repeated incidents of attacks on Iraqi fishermen by the Kuwaiti naval patrols.
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