Iraq’s Foreign Ministry charged with treating Mubarak Port’s crisis with illegal manner, according to MP

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: The Legislature of the White al-Iraqiya Bloc, Alia Nuseif, has demanded Iraq’s Foreign Ministry to deal with the crisis about Kuwait’s Mubarak Port, according to International laws and not on “non-committing correspondence and documents.”   “The Foreign Ministry is following a wrong direction, through dealing with correspondence and documents with the Kuwaiti side, that have no legal value, thinking that such documents might oblige the Kuwaiti side that its Mubarak Port won’t affect Iraq’s navigation movement,” Nuseif said in a statement on Monday.   Nuseif said that “the Iraqi Foreign Ministry must deal with Kuwait according to the International laws, especially that the Seas Navigation Law includes a condition that the building of ports must not affect the navigation movement.”   “The Mubarak Port shall highly affect the navigation movement and cause continuous accidents by steamers, after its narrowing of this water passage,” she said, “charging that Kuwait would stand behind such accidents in the event of its insistence to build its port, without taking any other facts into consideration.”   She said that the Iraqi Foreign Minister “shall fall into a great embarrassing in the event of such accidents that might occur in the said narrow water passage, because it did not depend on International laws in dealing with this serious dossier, bearing the legal and historic responsibility for the results of such ill-treated and unserious trends.”   Kuwait had announced on April 6 th last the beginning of works to build its Mubarak Port , after one year of Iraq ’s announcement to build its Grand Faw Port in the same area.   Iraq had strongly criticized the Kuwaiti project and its government and Parliament officials have considered the project as harming to the interest of Iraq , due to its closing the narrow water passage leading to the Iraqi ports, demanding Kuwait to change the site of the Port, in such a way that does not undermine Iraq ’s interests.   SKH (FT) 473