A Kuwaiti proposal to finance and build a joint water channel with Iraq has been unveiled

The interim parliamentary committee to follow up the Khawr Abdullah agreement revealed a proposal submitted by the Kuwaiti side to finance the drilling and construction of the joint water channel in Al Khor, calling on the House of Representatives and the government to reject this proposal.
“There is information that the Kuwaiti committee formed for dialogue with the Iraqi side on Khawr Abdullah has allocated $ 410 million to dig the Creek corridor and another $ 410 million as a second stage to dig and equip the canal,” committee member Zahir al-Abadi told a joint news conference with the committee members on Saturday. “Adding that” these amounts will be paid by the Kuwaiti side only. ”
He added that “the mechanism of contracting with the company that will carry out these acts will be one-sided, the Kuwaiti side, without any addition to the Iraqi side,” noting that “these actions will be an introduction to the future deal on the basis that the channel will be the Kuwaiti side contrary to all legal procedures followed by The Iraqi government and the House of Representatives. ”
He warned the government to approve the proposal, which will be rejected by Parliament, indicating that the contract should be from the Iraqi and Kuwaiti sides and that the company is chosen from Iraq to be linked to Iraq and not Kuwait, because it is our entitlement and not the entitlement of Kuwait and money should be allocated from Iraq and not from Kuwait Because we are responsible for it because the completion of the channel by Kuwait will end the construction of the port of Faw. ”
For his part, the head of the committee, Mazen Mazni, said that “the digging of the channel should be from Iraq and is able to complete it. We have precedents in the time of the Iraqi-Iranian war when the channel was destroyed, Iraq has re-dug and completed, so we do not want charity from Kuwait and do not enter it, That “information we have that the President of the Republic will visit Kuwait on Monday with some officials from the province of Basra and ask him to be a positive role towards the Basrien and Iraqis and channel Khor Abdullah, and that the visit is not at the expense of public interests.”

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