Kuwait and al-Jazeera TV
Kuwait-Qatar, Politics, 11/5/2002

The first deputy prime minister in Kuwait and the foreign minister Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad described the al-Jazeera office in Kuwait as a "shop" and it was closed for security reasons especially in this critical phase the region is passing.

Sheikh Sabah told the Kuwaiti daily al-Rai al-Aam that this office does not represent the Qatari government nor falls under its control, otherwise the people of Qatar would have controlled its behavior and statements issued by it, adding that is this office was for the state of Qatar "we will not close it just in honor of the state of Qatar."

For his part, Kuwait's minister of information Ahmad Fahad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah said in statements yesterday that al-Jazeera has no supreme reference and is not under the control of governmental sides and was dealt with as an independent entity.

Al-Fahd denied that the decision had links to the recommendations adopted by the information ministers of the Gulf states GCC. He added "we behaved in light of a practice we saw and the people of Kuwait had seen."

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