Kuwait to Explain Stances in Arab Summit to World PowersKuwait said Saturday that it would send envoys to a number of world countries to explain its stances towards the Kuwait-Iraq issue during the recent Arab summit.Kuwaiti envoys will go to countries including the United States, Britain, France, China, Iran and Turkey to explain the Kuwaiti positions at the two-day summit, which ended Wednesday in Jordanian capital Amman. The envoys will also explain Kuwaiti viewpoints concerning the developments in the region, said Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah. Sheikh Sabah said that Kuwait had insisted on its uncompromising position on Kuwait's safety and sovereignty, in addition to Iraq's compliance with legitimate U.N. resolutions. He expressed regret over Iraq's refusal to a paper on the status of relations between Kuwait and Iraq. The paper called for respecting Kuwait's safety, independence and sovereignty, and demanded Iraq abide by U.N. resolutions related to its invasion of Kuwait in 1990 to pave the way for lifting the decade-old U.N. sanctions on Iraq. Sheikh Sabah said the paper was referred to the Arab summit after having been approved by Arab foreign ministers, and Kuwait was adherent to that paper. However, Iraq had reportedly rejected the paper just because it wanted the Arab world to help break the U.N. sanctions and get rid of the U.S.-British air patrols that enforce the two "no-fly zones" in north and south Iraq. Since the end of the Arab summit, Kuwait and Iraq have traded accusations against each other for driving the summit to failure. |
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