Iraqi Parliament to question Govt. Spokesman for statement on Kuwait’s Mubarak Port

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: The Legislature of al-Iraqiya Coalition, Zuheir al-Aarajy, has stated on Tuesday that the Parliament would question the Official Spokesman for the Iraqi Government, Ali al-Dabbagh, for a recent statement he made about Kuwait ’s intention to build a port on the joint borders between both countries, considering it as “harming to the rights of the Iraqi people.”   “Ali al-Dabbagh’s statement on Kuwait ’s intention to build the Mubarak Port had been harming to the rights of the Iraqi people, and we hope that he would revise himself towards the issue,” Aaraji told IraqiNews.com news agency.   Aarajy said that “the Parliament members shall put Dabbagh under question, to know whether he had been expressing his personal viewpoint or expressing the government’s opinion.”   Dabbagh had stated to the Kuwaiti al-Siyasa Newspaper on May 11 th that “there is no Iraqi objection for the construction of the Grand Mubarak Port by Kuwait, which had laid its foundation stone over the past few weeks, pointing out to the right of any state to practice its sovereignty on its properties and installations, thus there is nothing that prevents Kuwait to build anything within what it sees suitable on its territories and territorial waters.”   “We have been taken by surprise to read the statement of the government Spokesman, Ali al-Dabbagh and regret about it, because everybody knows that the construction of such project on the joint borders between us and Kuwait is an economic loss for Iraq ,” Aarajy said.   In conclusion, he said: “we were hopeful that neighborly Kuwait would build good relations with us, in the aftermath of the recent diplomatic visits, which we were hopeful that they would settle several suspended problems between both sides,” Aaraji said, adding that the “Iraqi people had no guilt to shoulder the wrong policies of the former regime.”   SKH (FT)