$ Iraq to Form an Emergency Committee to Solve the Problem of Ministerial Port Mubarak Kuwait $

**Kar/Admin** on Wed May 11, 2011 4:18 pm

Iraq to Form an Emergency Committee to Solve the Problem of Ministerial Port Mubarak Kuwait

11/05/2011 23:58

Baghdad, 11 May (Rn) - The Iraqi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Ali Alsjeri on Wednesday, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki formed a committee to emergency ministerial visit to Kuwait during the next two days to end the problem of building the port of Mubarak, Kuwait close to the waterway, Iraq's Gulf Arab south of the country.

He said Alsjeri to Kurdistan News Agency (Rn) "Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki formed a committee to emergency Zraip to go to Kuwait and to accelerate solving the problem of encroaching on the waterway of Iraq through the Kuwaiti authorities, the decision to build the port of Mubarak."

The Kuwaiti authorities decided two days before the construction of a port Mubarak Al-Kabir near the port of Khawr Abd Allah waterway in Basra, southern Iraq.

The objection to the Iraq re-construction of the port of Kuwait tension between the two sides, after the relations have improved relatively over the past period.

The two sides initiated the formation of joint committees to resolve the problems existing between them, especially the problem of war reparations from the invasion of Kuwait before Saddam Hussein's regime in 1991, and the demarcation of the border, and the missing Kuwaitis, and joint oil fields, and others.

There are in the province of Basra (550 km) south of Baghdad, which is the only maritime port of Iraq, five commercial ports and two ports PB.

Alsjeri added that "the Committee of Ministers would discuss with the Kuwaiti side of the negative effects on Iraq in the event was the construction of the port which was announced by the Kuwaiti government, two days before."

He continued by saying that the "Iraqi Committee will develop a roadmap with the Kuwaiti side based on dialogue and mutual interests and away from the reactions and statements escalating to resolve the issue quickly."

He was a member of the Iraqi parliament for a free block of the Sadrist movement, Mezni Mazen, has revealed the (Rn) two days ago, for the majority of the members of the opposition Iraqi Council of Representatives resolution on the Kuwaiti authorities to build the port of Mubarak Al-Kabeer.

He explained that "There are several reasons behind the objection, especially close all economic transactions between the Khor Abdullah and the port of Umm Qasr, as well as the problems that will cause the port with fishermen and other big economic problems."

He Mezni, who heads a Liberal in the province of Basra, that "the objection to the establishment of this port was submitted to the presidency of the Iraqi Council of Representatives to be voted upon as soon as possible during the next few days to be approached after the Kuwaiti authorities to prevent the establishment of the port."

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**mochasmom** on Wed May 11, 2011 5:05 pm

Is this the recent "glitch" with KU and why they are unhappy?

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