*****Begin construction of the port of Faw*****
25/08/2011
No agreement with Kuwait on the phases of the project Mubarak
Baghdad Tariq Araji - Omar Abdel-Latif
*****Is scheduled to hold a Council of Ministers on Thursday a special meeting to complete discussions on the extent of the impact of the port of Mubarak in Iraqi ports,***** at the time it was announced officially for the direct construction of the port of Faw government denied the signing of an agreement with Kuwait to build 3 stages necessary only from the port of Mubarak. *****
A senior source at the Council of Ministers of the "morning": that the Council decided to hold a special meeting today to complete the discussions on the establishment of the Kuwaiti port of Mubarak and the extent of its influence in the ports of Iraq and discuss other important issues.
The source added that the decision will be issued by the Council of Ministers will express the official position of Iraq, pointing to the importance to study the decision before it was published extensively "because of the sensitivity of the situation with the Kuwaiti side."
On the other hand revealed a member of the House of Representatives for the province of Basra begin construction of the port of Faw from their own budgets, while the government denied the signing of an agreement with Kuwait necessary to build all 3 phases of the port project Mubarak.
And said member of a coalition of state law MP Jawad Albzona that *****"Basra has decided to rely on their own budgets in the construction of the port of Faw,"***** pointing to "the president of the provincial council's new morning Albzona visit the port." *****
He Albzona for "morning": Basra officially started work to build the port of Faw, starting from last Tuesday. " *****
And on the feasibility of a deal with Kuwait obliged not to build the fourth phase of the port project Mubarak Al-Kabeer, said Albzona that "Mabulgna of experts in this area that the first and second stages Tlhakan also damage the interests of Iraq, it is possible that Taiqa the passage of ships and Iraqi Tathera to navigation in the corridor narrow, "and urged the technical committee concerned with the file to" bring the matter to Parliament in order to pursue the subject, and make sure whether this port, or this stage to really hurt or Atdhar Iraqi ports. "
In the meantime, denied the legal adviser to the Prime Minister Mohamed Fadhil Jawad, Wednesday, Metrdd the signing of an agreement with the Kuwaiti side on the phases of the establishment of the port of Mubarak.
The news agency quoted (Rn) on the horse as saying that "the technical delegation who visited Kuwait recently has not signed any agreement with the Kuwaiti side because it is not a delegation to negotiate, but rather focused its mission to report to the government on the location of the port of Mubarak." The government yesterday postponed the announcement of the first official position on the port to the next week.
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