Baghdad and Arbil agree to transfer border ports to the owners of the General Authority for Ports
​(Article from Charles Bright)



The delegations of the Kurdistan Regional Government and the federal government agreed to transfer the official border ports in the Kurdistan region to the owners of the General Authority for Federal Border Ports.

The head of the General Authority for Border Ports Kazim al-Aqabi said during a news conference in Sulaymaniyah attended by the correspondent "Economy News", "In implementation of the orders of the Council of Ministers was formed a committee to hold meetings with the Kurdistan Regional Government around the border crossings and was during the meetings to agree on the conversion of official border crossings in the province A threat to the owners of the General Authority for Federal Border Ports.

"There are four official border ports in the Kurdistan region of Bashmag, Haj Amran, Parviz Khan and Ibrahim Khalil, and there are other unofficial outlets also need official recognition by the federal government."

He pointed out that "a report has been submitted to the Council of Ministers on the informal border crossings for recognition."

For his part, said a member of the Commission on the border crossings in the Kurdistan region, Brigadier Salar Abdullah, said that "a committee of the federal government consisted of representatives of 9 federal ministries visited the executors of Kelly and Siraan Band to find out the economic feasibility of opening these two."

He pointed out that "the work of the Committee has been completed and the final report on these two implementations was submitted to the Presidency of the Federal Council of Ministers to take the appropriate decision on this subject."

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