Port Mubarak negatively affect the Iraqi economy

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Port Mubarak negatively affect the Iraqi economy
05/10/2011 13:57

Baghdad, October 5 / October (Rn) – The Parliamentary Services Committee on Wednesday, after the hospitality and transport minister said the Iraqi port of Mubarak negatively affect the Iraqi economy and causing the closure of five commercial ports of Iraq.

Ahsan al-Awadi said the Kurdistan News Agency (Rn) that “the Transport Minister Hadi al-Amiri said that there is economic damage to the port of Mubarak the Great,” noting that “the technical delegation headed by Senior Adviser to the Prime Minister Thamer Ghadban was political in nature.”

“The Commission services examined in detail the damage caused by the Port Mubarak, especially as it is free of the economic feasibility only in the case of Iraq to deal with.”

He pointed out that “the Ministry of Transport questioned the technical report to the government because it did not indicate in detail the stages of the establishment of Mubarak the Great Port, which stifles Iraq economically and caused a halt of five commercial ports of Iraq.”

And announced that the Parliamentary Services Committee of the Iraqi parliament postponed the discussion until the Port Mubarak hospitality and Transport Minister Hadi al-Amiri said on Wednesday, for the stages of the establishment Port Mubarak, and the government report on the Port Mubarak will discuss publicly this week.

The Committee noted that the issue of port Mubarak will present after mid-October of this.

The Iraqi government announced, on 25 May, to send a high-level committee of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Transportation as well as the Iraqi navy to Kuwait to monitor the affected waters of Iraq’s territorial Port Mubarak, who plans to build, noting that it will determine its position according to a report of the Committee.

The Kuwait began, the sixth of April, the establishment of the port of Mubarak Al-Kabeer in Bubiyan Island near the Iraqi coast, after exactly a year to develop Iraq’s transport ministry the foundation stone for the construction of the port of Faw, causing the outbreak of the crisis between the two countries, while the see it as Kuwaitis to Mainahm will have the results of economic and strategic task, confirms officials and Iraqi experts that the port of Kuwait will reduce the importance of Iraqi ports, and restrict navigation in the Khawr Abd Allah channel leading to the ports of Umm Qasr and Khor Al-Zubair, and make the draft port of Faw worthless.

Iraq has threatened earlier to resort to the United Nations in case of 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 case it was built, the lining troops near the Kuwaiti island of Bubiyan for fear of attacks by some groups.

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