Foreign Relations: We have not seen the report of the Techni

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Foreign Relations: We have not seen the report of the Technical Committee on Kuwait’s Port Mubarak

Baghdad, February 16 (Rn) – The Foreign Relations Committee, the parliamentary, Thursday, for not taking note of the report, “publication” of the Technical Committee-governmental organizations on the port of Mubarak, despite many calls, while confirming that the President of the advisers responded to all questions raised by the Committee.

Iraq had sent a committee of technical experts in August last August to prepare a detailed report on the Port Mubarak and negative effects that I found on the navigation of Iraq. Kuwait and declared before leaving the delegation is ready to provide all types of assistance to accomplish his work.

Hosted by the Foreign Relations Committee earlier by the President of the Technical Committee, who headed the government delegation to Kuwait to prepare a detailed report on the Port Mubarak to see the reality of its effects on the navigation after the failure of the Iraqi Joint Committee of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and transport it to perform its functions.

Said committee member Nada Jubouri told the Kurdish news agency (Rn), “the Committee and by hosting the Technical Committee government has not seen its report on the Port Mubarak (…) We have called for more than a formal letter should be delivered to us a copy of the printed report, but we do not get the report” .

She Jubouri “It seems that an agreement within the Council of Ministers not to send a copy of the report of the Technical Committee to the House for fear of leaks to the media,” stating, “I am not with the presentation of the report to the House of Representatives for the time being.”

She Jubouri that “the chief advisor Thamer Ghadhban and people of the State Department and an officer of the Navy gave a detailed explanation to the Committee for three hours,” afterthought saying, “We Donna what they told us, without Islmona report.”

And placed Kuwait in April last the foundation stone for the construction of the port, “Mubarak Al-Kabeer” in Bubiyan Island, which lies in the far north-west Persian Gulf. Is the second biggest island in the Gulf (890 square kilometers) after the Iranian island of Qeshm.
Baghdad has seen and other Iraqi cities Kuwait protests over the project because of what it said about the Iraqi government that will stop traffic in Iraq.

And Iraqi experts say that the port will make the Kuwaiti coast extends over a distance of 500 kilometers, while the coast would be limited to the Iraqi area of 50 kilometers. They warned that the project may cause a new political crisis between the two neighbors on the grounds that it would lead to “strangle” the only sea port of Iraq.

Iraq has threatened earlier to resort to the United Nations in case discovered the existence of economic damage may be caused by shipping and the port of Kuwait. Following threats of “Hezbollah Iraq” posted on the Web sites to hit the port of Kuwait in the event was built, the troops near the Kuwait Bthhid Bubiyan for fear of attacks by some groups.

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