Zebari: Currently waiting for official position from Maliki regarding Kuwait’s Port of Mubarak

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Called to the Foreign Relations Committee, Wednesday, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to declare an official position and clear about the File Port Mubarak of Kuwait, stressing the non-receipt of the latest report prepared by the advisers in the Office of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.

The technical committee composed of experts under the chairmanship of the advisers in the Office of the Prime Minister Thamer Ghadban ended her recent visit to Kuwait in August last, as discussed with officials of Kuwaiti cause of building the port of Mubarak and the Prime Minister met with the Technical Committee for the impact of port construction Mubarak, whether or not the Iraqi ports.

A member of the Foreign Relations Committee staff Arshad Zebari said in an interview with “Twilight News” “The House of Representatives is expected from the prime minister to resolve this through the official position is clear and unified vision to enable the House to take a stand against this file,” and expressed hope that “the visit Maliki’s upcoming State of Kuwait to resolve all outstanding issues, including a port of Mubarak. “

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki received a phone call, the end of last year, the Prime Minister of Kuwait, Jaber Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah asking them to visit Kuwait, but that morning, told him to postpone his visit because of the preoccupation with the elections in Kuwait.

Zebari said that “the Foreign Relations Committee has not received the latest report prepared by the Committee Advisor, Office of the Prime Minister peshmerga Thamer Ghadban,” noting that “the file at the port of Mubarak, Kuwait took their ups and wide through the statements of some officials from both sides and bred Altoar in the relations between two countries. “

Zebari said that “Relations Committee fears of the continuing divergence of opinions and different views on file at the port of Mubarak will impact negatively on dealing with this issue within the government and the House of Representatives,” stressing the need to declare that the government and in its view this file in order to have a shared vision and unified strengthens Iraqi position. “

The Iraqi government formally asked the Kuwaiti counterpart to postpone construction of a port to be established Mubarak, Kuwait’s Boubyan Island, overlooking the waterway shared with Iraq, while making sure not to impact on the rights of Iraq in common water, in the last rejected that request him usually illegal.

He said Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, in a speech before the United Nations on 21 September last, that the Iraqi experts who visited Kuwait on the crisis in the port of Mubarak raised their report to the Council of Ministers, noting that the report dispelled fears of Iraq “not true” from the port, with the exception of Ambassador Kuwait in Iraq to the insured that Zebari’s remarks on the port indicates its interest in the interest of Kuwait and Iraq at the same time, stressing that Zebari, a leading man with a center draw Iraq’s foreign policy official.

The Minister of Transport of Iraq, in October of last year, that the technical report on port Mubarak says he will hurt “a lot” ports of Iraq and suffocating, calling on Kuwait to build it in another location, with the exception of some Iraqi officials defended Kuwait at the expense of the interests of their country.

The experts and Iraqi researchers had promised the purpose of the Port Mubarak is to capture and steal stocks Saybah gas field, one of the largest gas fields in the region as it extends to the geographical area on which the Port Mubarak.

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