White Iraqiya MP criticizes Foreign Minister’s statement in UN

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: The Legislature of the White Iraqiya Bloc, Alia Nuseif, on Saturday criticized the statement of Iraq’s Foreign Minister, Hoshiar Zibary in the United Nations, in which he had minimized the impacts of Kuwait’s Mubarak Port on the Iraqi economy and his support for UN Security Council’s Resolution 833 on the drawing of Iraq’s borders.   “Zibary’s statements had slaughtered the Iraqi cause, vein-to-vein and had indirectly given legitimacy for Kuwait’s Mubarak Port, despite fact that its construction is taking place in an area that shall undermine Iraqi ports,” Nuseif said in a statement, copy of which dropped in IraqiNews.com news agency.   “Despite fact that until the last moment, we were not expecting such statements by Zibary, but we were struck by his ‘Kuwaiti’ viewpoints, that would make him a national hero in their eyes, due to his statement in the United Nations,” Nuseif added.   She said that Minister Zibary “was not satisfied by minimizing the seriousness of Mubarak Port, but he added to it his support to the legitimacy of the UN Security Council Resolution 833, that had caused the undermining of the borders between Iraq and Kuwait, which enabled Kuwait to capture broad areas of Iraqi territories.”   “Despite the great mischief caused by those statements, they, of course, don’t reflect the will of the Iraqi people, and the evidence had been the demonstrations that went out in Baghdad’s al-Tahrir (Liberation) Square, that strongly condemned those statements,” she added.   Iraq’s Foreign Minister, Hoshiar Zibary, had conferred with his Kuwaiti Counterpart in New York, where they discussed bilateral relations and suspended issues between both countries.   Kuwait had announced on April 6th last, the beginning of its construction of Mubarak Port, after one year of Iraq’s announcement of its intention to build its Grand Faw Port.   Iraq had criticized the project, considering it as “harming for Iraq’s interests and strangling its narrow water course, leading to the Iraqi ports in the Gulf, demanding Kuwait to change the position of its Port, in such a way that won’t harm the Iraqi interests.”   SKH (TF)/SR 281