Iraq and Kuwait signed a strategic partnership contract to establish a telecommunications corridor that links the Gulf to Europe.
The new partnership aims to strengthen Iraq’s strategic position in the region, the Iraqi Ministry of Communications said, noting that the ministry’s General Company for Communications and Informatics signed a strategic contract for the establishment of an international telecommunications corridor to Europe via Iraq passing through Turkiye, through temporary transit with the Kuwaiti Al-Zajil Telecom.
Iraqi Minister of Communications Hiyam Al-Yasiri said that the agreement “comes to strengthen Iraq’s strategic position in the region, and to maximize financial revenues, in implementation of the government program and the general federal budget law.”
She added that the agreement was the first of a number of contracts and projects for submarine and transit cables, aimed at establishing communication movement from the Gulf countries to South and West Asia up to the European continent, via Iraqi sea and land ports, passing through Turkiye.
Al-Yasiri continued: “This plan and other similar projects that are currently underway will make Iraq a safe land corridor that competes with the only international sea route in the region that passes through the Suez Canal.”
She also indicated that the ministry will sign other similar contracts, including an agreement with Saudi Arabia to set up a third submarine cable to Iraq in the Al-Faw region (located in the south of the country), pointing to initial approvals to connect the UAE to Al-Faw, as well as other agreements with Oman and Bahrain
