Kuwait Satisfied with OIC Summit Results: Kuwaiti FM

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Kuwait Satisfied with OIC Summit Results: Kuwaiti FM

Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah on Wednesday expressed his country's satisfaction with the results of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) summit.

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Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah on Wednesday expressed his country's satisfaction with the results of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) summit.

He promised that Kuwait would work hard to ensure the success of the summit.

Leaders attending the OIC summit, opened in the Qatari capital of Doha earlier Wednesday, urged Iraq to honor Kuwait's independence and territorial integrity, stressing that the only way Iraq could avoid war would be to fully comply with all relevant international resolutions, the minister said in a statement upon his return from the summit.

The statement said the summit also demanded that Baghdad address seriously the issue of Kuwaiti prisoners of war and return all Kuwaiti properties it looted during its seven-month occupation in 1990-1991.

Referring to the speech made by the Iraqi delegation at the Islamic summit, Sheikh Sabah said "there was intention on the part of the Kuwaiti delegation to react to these erroneous rhetoric... but it respected a request by the chairmanship of the conference and the Egyptian president not to react."

At the summit of the 57-member organization, Iraq denounced Kuwait as an American vassal and a traitor to the Muslim faith.

Sheikh Sabah reiterated his country's decision not to take part in any military action against Iraq.

"This war is not between Kuwait and Iraq...It is between the United Nations Security Council and the United States on one hand and Iraq on the other hand," he stressed.

The minister also voiced his country's support for an initiative put forward by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) at the Arab summit last Saturday in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh which called on Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to step down to avoid a regional war.

The UAE was the first Arab country publicly urging Saddam to quit. Although the Arab summit did not discuss the UAE initiative due to its sensitivity, it is gaining ground in Arab countries such as Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.

With at least 140,000 US and British soldiers already deployed in Kuwait, the oil-rich Gulf state is favored by the United States as a launch pad for a possible war on Iraq.

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