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SUBSCRIPTION SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 2014 SHAABAN 10, 1435 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Sheikh Nasser Poroshenko Pak MQM Sharapova stresses UN sworn in with leader bailed, supreme once role in peace, Ukraine facing supporters more at welfare2 civil war end protest French Open Saudi10 king offers11 full20 Max 48º Min 30º support to Egypt’s Sisi High Tide 07:37 & 19:46 Amir to attend inauguration Qatar not invited Low Tide • 00:46 & 14:01 40 PAGES NO: 16190 150 FILS DUBAI: As new Egyptian president Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi pre- pares for his inauguration today, his most powerful Arab Egypt bans ally is deploying both threats and promises to ensure the Arab Spring cannot upset a new anti-Islamist front in the Middle East. Senior Saudi and Gulf officials, including HH unlicensed the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Sabah, are expected to turn out in force at Sisi’s elaborate inauguration to show the Egyptian army field marshal has preachers the backing of a new regional order that applauded his bloody removal of a Brotherhood-led government in 2013. CAIRO: Egypt has banned unauthorised preachers Qatar, which poured billions into Egypt during President from giving sermons or teaching Islam in mosques Mohamed Morsi’s one year in power, was not invited. and other public places, according to a decree yes- King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia urged Egyptians last terday marking a further step in official efforts to week to embrace Sisi, the military man who drove Islamists curb Islamist influence. The decree issued by interim from power in Cairo a year ago, and said they should to dis- President Adly Mansour’s office also threatened fines own the “strange chaos” of the Arab uprisings. It was and jail for freelance imams, especially if they wore Riyadh’s starkest message of support yet for Sisi, who won an election last month thanks to support from Egyptians clerical garments associated with the respected Al- hoping that a strong, military-backed government will Azhar centre of Sunni learning in Cairo. Selected bring an end to three years of political instability in the employees of the religious endowments ministry will most populous Arab country. Sisi’s win was undoubtedly a be empowered by the justice ministry to arrest any- boost for Saudi Arabia, which had watched with horror as one caught violating the decree, it added. the Arab revolts toppled authoritarian leaders and brought “No preacher will mount a minbar next Friday Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood to power in Egypt. without a permit,” the ministry said on its Facebook For Saudi Arabia, Sisi’s win sealed the end, for now, of page, referring to the traditional raised pulpit in a the rise of the Brotherhood, the international standard- mosque. The decision was taken to “preserve nation- bearer of mainstream Sunni political Islam since it was al security,” it said. The military-backed government founded in Egypt in 1928. Since the movement has a fol- sees mosques as recruiting grounds for Islamist par- lowing in every Arab and Muslim society, the example set ties and has moved to bring them under tighter con- by the Egyptian Brotherhood’s embrace of the ballot box trol since the army toppled President Mohamed poses a threat to the hereditary dynasties that hold sway in Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood last July. CAIRO: Egyptians watch the news on TV under posters supporting president-elect Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi at a wealthy Gulf Arab states such as Saudi Arabia and the Continued on Page 15 coffee shop yesterday. Sisi, who oversaw Islamist President Mohamed Morsi’s removal and who won presi- United Arab Emirates. dential elections in a landslide, will be sworn in today at the supreme constitutional court. — AP Continued on Page 15 Iran, US announce surprise talks TEHRAN: Iran and the United States will Mohammad Javad Zarif in Geneva last hold their first bilateral talks in decades, it year. UAE introduces was announced yesterday, in a major step The apparent thaw in relations is aimed toward securing a comprehensive nuclear at ending decades of enmity between the military service deal with the West. The head to head dis- countries, with an accord on Iran’s nuclear cussions will take place in Geneva tomor- activities the apparent prize sought by the ABU DHABI: The United Arab Emirates yesterday row and Tuesday, Iran’s foreign ministry US and other world powers. In return, Iran introduced military service, compulsory for men said in a surprise statement carried by the wants an end to wide-ranging economic aged between 18 and 30, state news agency WAM official IRNA news agency. A State sanctions imposed as punishment for pur- announced. A law on military service was brought in Department official confirmed the meet- suing its atomic program. The sanctions under the UAE constitution, which stipulates “the ing, noting the US delegation would be have devastated its economy in recent defence of the federation is a sacred duty for every led by Deputy Secretary of State William years. In yesterday’s announcement the citizen,” WAM said. Emirati nationals account for only Burns and Undersecretary Wendy foreign ministry also said two days of around 20 percent of the population of oil-rich UAE, Sherman, who is responsible for Iran direct talks with Russia in Rome would ISTANBUL: Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a ground- a seven-member federation. negotiations. immediately follow the talks with the US. breaking ceremony for the city’s third international airport yesterday. — AP WAM said President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al- The two-day meeting is the most senior The two meetings, which immediately Nahyan had issued the federal law, which was pub- direct bilateral contact on the nuclear precede the next round of discussions Erdogan launches work lished in the official gazette. “The issuing of the law issue so far, with Iran to be represented at between Iran and the P5+1, will be widely comes with the goals of affirming the instilling of vice foreign minister level. The discussions interpreted as an all-out diplomatic push the values of loyalty, affiliation and sacrifice in the in Geneva are also the first between Iran to close glaring gaps between Tehran and on new Istanbul airport souls of the sons of homeland,” WAM said. The UAE and the US to fall outside the P5+1 group the West over the Islamic republic’s disput- announced plans to introduce military service in ISTANBUL: Turkish Prime Minister Recep said. The facility will be constructed 50 km of leading nations (Britain, China, France, ed nuclear program. January. Russia, the United States plus Germany) The P5+1 and Iran meet in Vienna, Tayyip Erdogan yesterday laid the first north of Istanbul on an area of 7,700 Emirati men who have finished secondary school stone for Istanbul’s third airport, a multi-bil- hectares and will accommodate 500 air- will serve for nine months, while others will have to which is pursuing talks in the quest for a between June 16-20. Iran was also “work- lion-dollar project expected to create one craft. enrol in the armed forces for two years. Service is landmark nuclear agreement. Iran and the ing to arrange” other bilateral discussions of the world’s busiest air hubs. “Istanbul is The third airport in Turkey’s largest city optional for women and depends on their US, at odds since the 1979 Islamic revolu- with members of the P5+1 before the marking a historic day. Turkey is marking a aims to rival Dubai’s Al Maktoum guardian’s consent. Military service will include tion and the hostage crisis that followed, Vienna meeting, the foreign ministry said. historic day. The biggest airport of the International airport, which opened in training periods, military exercises and lectures on have in the past year taken tentative steps The negotiations are aimed at securing a world and six continents is going to rise October last year and is expected eventual- patriotism and security, WAM said, citing the law. on the path to rapprochement. comprehensive agreement on the Islamic here,” Erdogan told a cheering crowd at the ly to accommodate 160 million passengers The London-based International Institute for President Hassan Rouhani, a self- republic’s disputed nuclear programme groundbreaking ceremony for the $30 bil- a year. A Turkish joint venture won a tender Strategic Studies estimates the size of the UAE declared moderate elected last June, ahead of a July 20 deadline imposed lion project. for the project last May obtaining a 25-year armed forces at 51,000, with an army of 44,000, navy spoke by telephone with his US counter- under an interim deal agreed last Erdogan said the first stage of the con- lease to build and operate the planned air- of 2,500 and air force of 4,500. part Barack Obama shortly after taking November. Several rounds of talks have struction is set for completion on Oct 29, port. Plans to build a third airport have In November, Qatar’s government approved a office. Such a step had not occurred since already been held in Vienna but the latest 2017 - the 94th anniversary of the founding raised concerns among environmentalists draft law on military service. Qatari men between 18 the revolution and would have been con- in mid-May ended with no apparent of modern Turkey - and the facility is pro- who say they are protesting the construc- and 35 will have to serve for three months if they are sidered unthinkable under Rouhani’s pred- progress on a conclusive deal.