Arabic News Weekly Edition for Kuwait, 2/18/2002
Weekly Edition, Kuwait - Week of February 18, 2002
- Kuwait voices support for Saudi crown prince's initiative
The Kuwaiti first deputy for the prime minister and the foreign minister Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad has announced his support for the initiative made by the Saudi crown prince Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz on "conditional" normalization with Israel. Kuwait-Saudi Arabia, Politics, 2/22/2002 - Kuwaitis account for 40% of Kuwait's total population
The report released by Kuwait's planning ministry on Monday states that the number of Kuwaitis has reached 855,333 or 40% of the total population. Kuwait, Local, 2/21/2002 - Kuwait: we will not be the base to strike Iraq
Kuwait on Tuesday announced it will not be the base for the American forces to striking Iraq and stressed that what was stated of deploying 200,000 American troopers in Kuwait for this purpose is "just a rumor that aims at increasing sympathy with Iraq and defaming Kuwait." Kuwait-Iraq, Politics, 2/20/2002 - Kuwait: Islamic parliamentarians seek to open al-Ghabra file
Kuwaiti Islamic parliamentarians called on the Kuwaiti minister of information Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahd to provide them with information about the Kuwaiti media office in Washington since it was run by Shafiq al-Ghabra whose participation in a seminar with Israelis raised great controversy in Kuwait. Kuwait-Israel, Politics, 2/20/2002 - Sheikh Sabah represents his country to Beirut Arab summit
A Kuwaiti official source said that the ruler of Kuwait Sheikh Jaber al-Ahmad al- al-Sabah has assigned the deputy premier and foreign minister Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah to represent Kuwait at the Arab summit to be held in March in Beirut. Kuwait-Regional, Politics, 2/20/2002