Iraqi opposition leader visits Kuwait

Mohammed Baker El-Hakim, the head of the Iraqi opposition Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution, is currently visiting Kuwait, where he denied having discussed with Kuwaiti officials the status of the Iraqi refugees.

This came in answer to press reports that the head of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq will ask the Kuwaiti government to allow the employment and settlement of Iraqi refugees in Kuwait.

In statements to reporters yesterday after his meeting with head of the Kuwaiti Parliament, Jasem El-Korafi El-Hakim, he urged that the Iraqi people receive all the humanitarian aid provided by UN for the Iraqi refugees as with the Kurds in northern Iraq.