Iraq’s Ambassador to Kuwait: trade relations between the two

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Iraq’s Ambassador to Kuwait: trade relations between the two countries were not affected by file Mubarak

Baghdad, October 7 / October (Rn) – stressed the Iraqi ambassador to Kuwait on Friday that his country’s relations were not affected by trade with the southern neighbor Kuwait as a result of a controversial port plans to build in the recent Persian Gulf.

Said Mohammed Hussein Bahr al-Ulum, told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) that “the trade relations between Iraq and Kuwait would not be affected at all due to the issue of the Kuwaiti port of Mubarak.”

The Transport Ministry has decided to raise fees for commercial trucks entering the Kuwaiti port through Safwan from $ 25 to $ 100 per truck, and the decision came as a kind of dissatisfaction with the project of Kuwait and the pressure it to halt work on the project.

Uloum said that “raising the entry fees of trucks did not prevent the business and Kuwaiti companies to compete in the Iraqi market power,” noting that “the lifting of pricing access to trucks harm consumers, not the Dealer Kuwait because Iraq will submit to the merchant and the latter to raise the prices of his goods in the market.” .

And put Kuwait on the sixth of April / April, the foundation stone to build a port in the Mubarak Al-Kabeer Bubiyan Island near the coast of Iraq.

There were signs of tension between the two sides again after experts said that the Iraqi port of Kuwait that will impact negatively on the waterway to Iraq in the Persian Gulf, and before that year and put the Iraqi Ministry of Transport and the foundation stone for the construction of the port of Faw.

Iraq did not officially announce its position on the port of Kuwait, although he had sent a technical committee in May / May, is composed of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Transportation as well as the Iraqi navy to Kuwait to follow the effect on Iraq’s territorial waters of the port of Kuwait.

And threatened Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki earlier resort to the United Nations in case discovered the existence of economic damage may be caused by shipping and the port of Kuwait.

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