Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr. Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah 10/18/2010
Kuwait rejects results of Sirte extraordinary summit, no reservations - FM
KUWAIT, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr. Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah said on Monday that Kuwait had no reservations on results of the extraordinary Arab summit that was held in Sirte, Libya, last week, but rejected them.
This came in response to a question at the press conference Sheikh Mohammad held with Turkish Foreign Minister Dr. Ahmet Davutoglu regarding the position of Kuwait towards the results of the extraordinary Arab summit and whether there were reservations.
Sheikh Mohammed said: "There are no reservations, but a Kuwaiti rejection and we are not interested in any decision with no consensus", adding that a memorandum in this regard has been sent to the League of Arab States "not only from the Kuwaiti side, but from seven countries including the GCC states except the brothers in the State of Qatar being a member of the Committee of Five." He stressed that the position of the State of Kuwait is based on constants, assumptions and strategies, adding that the League of Arab States was "an extension of its (Kuwait) national security", recalling in this context the disaster of Saddam Hussein's invasion of the country in 1990, where the decision of the Arab League was then the "torch, which was launched to liberate the country." He noted that the State of Kuwait "does not consider any proposal regarding the amendment of the Charter of the Arab League from a routine perspective, but based on a perspective on the basis of being a strategic work with risky strategic dimensions on all the Arab countries."
Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammad said therefore, these kinds of proposals must take a thourough study with high responsibility, referring to what has been agreed upon during the summit "was a quick decision and that the opportunity was not given to discuss the ideas contained in the Committee of Five." Sheikh Mohammad said "the truth is that the assumptions upon which these recommendations were based ignored the issue of the obligation in the decisions and replaced it with an assumption that 'distension' of institutions is the solution of joint Arab action and the main dilemma is not commitment to the Charter, commitments and decisions." He said that there are countries that "do not adhere to the decisions," recalling the decision to establish a fund to support SMEs in the Arab States, which was passed unanimously at the Arab Economic Summit which was held in Kuwait following the initiative launched by His Highness the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, saying that 10 states have so far participated and "there is nothing wrong in that." Sheikh Mohammad said that believers in this idea have unleashed it "because they believe in the joint Arab action ... so all must commit to what has been agreed upon and this is a core thing in the path of changing the name of League of Arab States to the Union of Arab States.
He added that His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad made an important intervention during the Sirte summit when he said that the entrance to development of Arab action is to link the interests of all the peoples, noting that the initiative of His Highness came to confirm the need for summits to be dedicated to development, economy, education, health, fight against poverty, hunger and ignorance in the Arab world.
Sheikh Mohammad stressed the need to have a strategy for developing the joint Arab action to address the ills of poverty, famine and ignorance as well as inter-related ties to be strengthened through railway, electrical interconnection and the opening of the borders between the countries and airports ... and this makes work to progress rather than having the person stalled in one place".
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Kuwait rejects results of Sirte extraordinary summit, no reservations - FM
KUWAIT, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr. Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah said on Monday that Kuwait had no reservations on results of the extraordinary Arab summit that was held in Sirte, Libya, last week, but rejected them.
This came in response to a question at the press conference Sheikh Mohammad held with Turkish Foreign Minister Dr. Ahmet Davutoglu regarding the position of Kuwait towards the results of the extraordinary Arab summit and whether there were reservations.
Sheikh Mohammed said: "There are no reservations, but a Kuwaiti rejection and we are not interested in any decision with no consensus", adding that a memorandum in this regard has been sent to the League of Arab States "not only from the Kuwaiti side, but from seven countries including the GCC states except the brothers in the State of Qatar being a member of the Committee of Five." He stressed that the position of the State of Kuwait is based on constants, assumptions and strategies, adding that the League of Arab States was "an extension of its (Kuwait) national security", recalling in this context the disaster of Saddam Hussein's invasion of the country in 1990, where the decision of the Arab League was then the "torch, which was launched to liberate the country." He noted that the State of Kuwait "does not consider any proposal regarding the amendment of the Charter of the Arab League from a routine perspective, but based on a perspective on the basis of being a strategic work with risky strategic dimensions on all the Arab countries."
Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammad said therefore, these kinds of proposals must take a thourough study with high responsibility, referring to what has been agreed upon during the summit "was a quick decision and that the opportunity was not given to discuss the ideas contained in the Committee of Five." Sheikh Mohammad said "the truth is that the assumptions upon which these recommendations were based ignored the issue of the obligation in the decisions and replaced it with an assumption that 'distension' of institutions is the solution of joint Arab action and the main dilemma is not commitment to the Charter, commitments and decisions." He said that there are countries that "do not adhere to the decisions," recalling the decision to establish a fund to support SMEs in the Arab States, which was passed unanimously at the Arab Economic Summit which was held in Kuwait following the initiative launched by His Highness the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, saying that 10 states have so far participated and "there is nothing wrong in that." Sheikh Mohammad said that believers in this idea have unleashed it "because they believe in the joint Arab action ... so all must commit to what has been agreed upon and this is a core thing in the path of changing the name of League of Arab States to the Union of Arab States.
He added that His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad made an important intervention during the Sirte summit when he said that the entrance to development of Arab action is to link the interests of all the peoples, noting that the initiative of His Highness came to confirm the need for summits to be dedicated to development, economy, education, health, fight against poverty, hunger and ignorance in the Arab world.
Sheikh Mohammad stressed the need to have a strategy for developing the joint Arab action to address the ills of poverty, famine and ignorance as well as inter-related ties to be strengthened through railway, electrical interconnection and the opening of the borders between the countries and airports ... and this makes work to progress rather than having the person stalled in one place".
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