Kuwait says it is optimistic to resolve the crisis with Iraq, Mubarak Port
Sunday June 19, 2011
Expressed the Kuwaiti Embassy in Iraq, Sunday, optimism about the resolution of the crisis with Iraq, the port of Mubarak, saying it quoted requests for clarification made by the Iraqi government to the government of her country.
The Kuwaiti ambassador in Iraq to the insured in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "all documents obtained by the Iraqis moved to the Kuwaiti government," noting that "the documents included a request for clarification of some points of the Government of Kuwait on the construction of the port of Mubarak."
He insured that the "meeting held in Kuwait to consider such clarifications," he said. "Pantdhar the Kuwaiti government's response to those explanations for transfer to Iraqi officials."
He expressed his optimism for the believer "to resolve the crisis between the two countries as soon as possible."
The committee, the House Foreign Relations Iraq, on Saturday, that Iraq will fight by all possible means when you close its path of water by the Port Mubarak of Kuwait, as revealed the signing of the government delegation to Kuwait, the convention does not serve Iraq, she noted that the Foreign Ministry over all the observations made by specialists navigation in the Ministry of Transport.
The MP for the Kurdistan Alliance, Sheriff Ali Suleiman, a student, yesterday evening, the State of Kuwait to review its decision on the Port Mubarak to not affect the Iraqi port of water, pointing out that Iraq and Kuwait need to calm dialogue based on mutual benefit to promote the relations between them.
Criticized the National Alliance MP Mansour al-Tamimi, the ministries of transport and planning in the former Iraqi government, and ports for refusing requests for the investment made by international companies to build a port of Faw, and as called for Transport Minister Hadi al-Amiri to review all MoUs and contracts signed between the ports Iraq and Kuwait, warned that Iraq will end just plotting the current as it would be without the lung and the coast and the port.
The Iraqi Transport Minister Hadi al-Amiri said during a press conference, in the 25 of May, in the province of Basra, said that Kuwait's decision to build a port Mubarak Al-Kabir near the Iraqi coast is a violation of the UN resolution by the Security Council No. 833, and pointed out that the waterway, Iraq will be among the port of Kuwait, noting that construction of the port up to the border of water drawn by resolution 833 and in it a great injustice on Iraq.
She Kuwait, in the 28 of May, ready for coordination with Iraq on the construction of ports of FAO and Mubarak without the need for treaties, while confirming it had informed the Iraqi delegation of all backgrounds project Mubarak Al-Kabeer and information about the missing.
And confirmed the Kuwaiti embassy in Baghdad in a letter to the Ministry of State for Foreign Affairs of Iraq, in the 26 last May, that the construction of the port of Mubarak will be in shallow water and within Kuwaiti territorial waters, and indicated that it will dig a channel to qualify smooth traffic unimpeded towards Umm Qasr, while considered that the procedures to be taken to build the port, according to the UN resolution No. 833.
And initiated the establishment of the port of Kuwait, Mubarak Al-Kabeer, the sixth of April, exactly a year after the announcement of the development and the Iraqi Ministry of Transport, the foundation stone for the construction of the port of Faw Iraq.
The Ministry of Transport in April of last year 2010, the foundation stone for the port of Faw, which contains, according to his designs essential to the container terminal length of 39,000 meters, and a berth last a length of 2000 meters, as well as square container with an area of more than one million m 2 and the field of multi-purpose an area of 600 thousand m 2, with a capacity of the port 99 million tonnes annually, while total cost for the establishment of four billion and 400 million euros, and it is hoped that the connection port line of the railway linking the Persian Gulf through Iraqi ports in northern Europe through Turkey, a project known as "dry canal".
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 Basra, despite the recognition of the Iraqi government, which was dominated by the Party Baath Party in 1963 after dropping system Abd al-Karim Qasim, the independence of Kuwait said a deal of some historians that it was against the Iraqi government to give money because of the deficit was experienced, but that President Saddam Hussein, who belongs to the same party, decided on the second of August 1990 invasion of Kuwait on the back of problems on the border and Tsmha and conflict on some oil wells.
The UN Security Council issued resolution No. 833 in the year 1993 provides for the demarcation of the border between Iraq and Kuwait, which has a length of 216 km through the formation of an international commission to demarcate the border between the two parties, which was rejected by the regime of President Saddam Hussein first, but it was approved by the end of 1994 after international pressure, and Iraqi officials affirm that the demarcation of the border between the two countries were strong, and led to the deduction of Iraqi territory in terms of Safwan and Umm Qasr, as well as reducing the area of the territorial waters of Iraq, while urging the Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon, Iraq in November 16 of the year the past, to fulfill its obligations to Kuwait, in particular with regard to Security Council resolution No. 833 on the demarcation of their borders out of the penalty provisions of Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.
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