Baghdad, February 12 (Rn) – The Kuwaiti Embassy in Iraq as Astinavt its officially supported by the Iraqi government and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
He said the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the insured, told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) that “the Kuwaiti embassy Ostinavt Aamalhaaleom formally in the capital, Baghdad.”
“The reopening of the Kuwaiti embassy in Baghdad will contribute to the promotion of trade and investment between the two countries.”
He pointed out that “the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kuwait has helped facilitate the opening of the Embassy of Kuwait in the international zone (green) in the capital, Baghdad.”
The volume of exchanges with Kuwait $ 250 million in 2011.
Relations between Baghdad and Kuwait, a significant improvement in the past few years as it seemed as if they exceed the repercussions of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait during the rule of Saddam Hussein’s regime in 1990.
And re-open its embassy in Kuwait, Iraq in 2008 after nearly 19 years of uninterrupted diplomatic relations between the two countries, while re-open the Iraqi embassy in Kuwait in 2010.
The two sides began to form joint committees to resolve the existing problems between them, especially the problem of war reparations invasion of Kuwait by Saddam Hussein’s regime in 1991, and the demarcation of the border, and the missing Kuwaitis, and the joint oil fields, and others.
Iraq has announced its intention to build a port of Faw since 2005, where he laid the foundation stone to him in April 2010, a year before the announcement at the port of Kuwait Mubarak, but he did not proceed with the implementation process so far.
Placed in Kuwait in April the foundation stone for the construction of the port, “Mubarak Al-Kabeer” in Bubiyan Island, which lies in the far north-west Persian Gulf, and is the second largest island in the Gulf (890 square kilometers) after the Iranian island of Qeshm.
And Iraqi experts say that the port will make the Kuwaiti coast extends over a distance of 500 km, while the Iraqi coast be limited in an area of 50 km, warning that the project may cause a new political crisis between the two neighbors on the grounds that it would lead to “strangle” the only sea port of Iraq.
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