Essam Al-Marzouq

KUWAIT: Kuwaiti and Iraqi officials will soon meet to discuss the final terms of an agreement by which Kuwait would import natural gas from Iraq, Minister of Oil and Minister of Electricity and Water Essam Al-Marzouq said yesterday. "We are still waiting for the Iraqi side's approval on the proposed price," he underlined. Marzouq met with his Iraqi counterpart at the sidelines of the recent OPEC meeting held in Vienna to discuss reducing oil productions.

In other news, Marzouq signed yesterday a KD 14 million ($46 million) contract to build a water pipeline system stretching from a water distribution plant in Mina Abdullah to the areas of Julaiaa and Nuwaiseeb. A 30-month timeframe has been put on the mega project, involving the construction of a 1,200 MM pipeline that connects Mina Abdullah to the border of the two areas, read a statement by the Ministry of Electricity and Water. The project is being carried out, given the soaring demand for fresh water in these areas and to keep other ongoing development enterprises afloat, the statement added.

Grilling suspended

MP Abdul Kareem Al-Kandari announced suspending a grilling motion he had intended to file against His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah and stressed that the suspension came in consolidation with His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah's efforts to hold the GCC Summit. The decision also came in response to news he received about forming the new cabinet next week, Kandari added.

By A Saleh