Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Foreign Relations committee completes report on the Kuwaiti port of Mubarak

mina albasra

Baghdad, June 15 (Rn) – The Foreign Relations Committee in the Iraqi Council of Representatives, Wednesday, for completion of a report to be presented at a meeting hosted the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Transport in the building of Representatives on Problems of the port of Mubarak, who intends to Kuwaiti government built in the Persian Gulf.

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.

Decided that the Kuwaiti authorities recently the construction of the port of Mubarak Al-Kabir near the port of Khawr Abd Allah waterway in Basra in southern Iraq.

The objection to the Iraq re-construction of the port of Kuwait tension between the two sides, after the relations have improved relatively over the past period.

A member of the Foreign Relations Committee Staff Arshad told the Kurdish news agency (Rn), “The Foreign Relations Committee prepared a detailed report on the economic effects that will bless the establishment of Port Mubarak of Kuwait,” noting that “the Commission will have before it the full report at the meeting on Thursday the existence of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Transport “.

He taught that “the House of Representatives tomorrow to hear an accurate breakdown of the Ministers of Transport and Foreign Affairs on the responses of the Kuwaiti side of the Iraqi fears of the impact of construction of the port to shipping traffic in Iraq.”

And confirmed the Federal Ministry of Transport in March that there is pressure hinder regional completion of the port of Faw being will affect their economic interests.

It is hoped to change the port of Faw map of the international maritime transport of goods being transferred from Japan, China and South East Asia to Europe via Iraq.

Iraq had plans to build the port of Faw since 2005, but lay the foundation stone to him in April 2010, a year before the Declaration of Kuwait, Mubarak construction of a port, but it is not prescribed in the implementation process so far.

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