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SUBSCRIPTION SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 2016 JAMADA ALTHANI 10, 1437 AH No: 16818 1,100 Lebanese UN blames New Zealand canít renew their Saudi-led beat Australia Kuwait visas over forces for most by eight runs ‘Hezbollah3 link’ Yemen deaths8 in44 World T20 Kuwait ‘rejects deal to lift Olympic ban’ Min 12º 150 Fils Max 27º Athletes cannot compete under Kuwait flag at Games BERLIN: The government of Kuwait twice refused to sign a deal hammered out in negotiations with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that would have lifted the Olympic ban on the country, the IOC said yesterday. Kuwait was suspended in October, 2015, for the second time in five years due to government interference in the country’s Olympic Committee over a new sports law. Despite negotiations in January and Kuwaiti representatives twice approving a draft deal, the government refused to endorse it, Pere Miro, IOC Deputy Director General for Relations with the Olympic Movement said. “At the end of January with representa- tives sent by the government of Kuwait we had meetings in Geneva with the United Nations. The United Nations was witness of the conversations,” Miro said. “We were discussing for five days and after that we got two times a draft already agreed between the negotiators. We got an agree- ment with negotiators on what should be changed in the law.” “Every time with these two drafts the government at the end gave instructions to the negotiators not to sign,” BRUSSELS: Police officers and emergency vehicles gather during a raid in the Molenbeek Miro said. neighborhood of Brussels, Belgium yesterday. The main suspect in the jihadist attacks on The ban angered Kuwait which filed a Paris in November, Salah Abdeslam (inset) was arrested in a raid in Brussels yesterday, French police sources said. — AP civil lawsuit against the country’s Olympic committee and is also trying to get the Olympic Council of Asia, head-quartered there, to leave the country. Kuwait was also Paris attacks fugitive Abdeslam captured banned in 2010 over a similar dispute but was reinstated before the 2012 London BRUSSELS: After an intense four-month man- accomplice of Abdeslam - Mohamed Belkaid - by a police sniper as he prepared to open fire Olympics. The country’s football federation hunt across Europe and beyond, police yester- was shot dead, Belgian prosecutors say. But two on police from a window. Police identified him day captured the top fugitive in the Paris attacks men escaped from the apartment, one of whom as Belkaid, 35, an Algerian national living ille- was also banned by world soccer’s govern- in the same Brussels neighborhood where he appears to have been Abdeslam. Federal prose- gally in Belgium. A Kalashnikov assault rifle was ing body FIFA this month over government grew up. Abdeslam was shot in the leg and cutor Eric Van der Sypt said it was possible found by his body, as well as a book on interference in the running of the Kuwait detained by police during a raid in Molenbeek, Abdeslam had spent “days, weeks or months,” in Salafism, an ultraconservative strain of Islam. FA. said Ahmed El Khannouss, the neighborhood’s the apartment. Abdeslam fled Paris after the Elsewhere in the apartment, police found an As things stand, Kuwaiti athletes cannot deputy mayor. Police are still searching for Nov. 13 attacks. Most of the Paris attackers died Islamic State banner as well as 11 Kalashnikov compete under their own flag at the another suspect who is holed up in a house that that night, including Abdeslam’s brother Brahim, loaders and a large quantity of ammunition, Games and must participate in the first is just a few dozen meters from two schools, he who blew himself up. Brahim Abdeslam was the prosecutor said. Olympics in South America under the added. Helmeted police with riot shields have buried in the area Thursday. Belgian authorities initially said Belkaid had Olympic flag. “Unexpectedly what hap- cordoned off the area. Salah Abdeslam, a childhood friend of sus- no known background in radical Islamic activi- pened three weeks later, the government Brussels-born Abdeslam, 26, was among the pected ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud, is ties. But yesterday afternoon, prosecutors issued of Kuwait, not the negotiators who had dis- attackers who killed 130 people at a rock con- believed to have driven a group of gunmen a statement saying he was “most probably” an appeared, sent to the United Nations a new cert, the national stadium and cafes on Nov 13 in who took part. The Islamic State group accomplice of Abdeslam who had been using a proposal that had nothing to do with our Paris. In addition to Abdeslam, the whereabouts claimed responsibility for the attacks, in which fake Belgian ID card in the name of Samir Bouzid. discussions,” Miro said. “We could not of two Paris attack suspects remains unknown, Belgian nationals played key roles. On A man using that ID card was one of the two including fellow Molenbeek resident Mohamed Tuesday, a joint team of Belgian and French men seen with Abdeslam in a rental car on the accept that. “Sooner or later someone Abrini and a man known under the alias of police showed up to search a residence in the Hungarian-Austrian border in September. Four should move for the rational way,” he said. Soufiane Kayal. Yesterday’s capture of Abdeslam Forest area of Brussels in connection with the days after the Nov. 13 Paris attacks, the same “If we got the agreement (and it was not comes after Belgian authorities say they found Paris investigation, and were unexpectedly false ID card was used to transfer 750 euros signed), something else is behind this non- his fingerprints in an apartment raided earlier fired upon by at least two people inside. Four ($847) to Hasna Ait Boulahcen, Abaaoud’s niece. agreement.” “If you don’t sign it is because this week in another Brussels neighborhood. officers were slightly wounded. Both Ait Boulahcen and Abaaoud died afterward you have something else behind. I don’t In that raid, a man believed to have been an An occupant of the residence was shot dead in a police siege. — AP know what it is,” he said. — Reuters LOCAL SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 2016 Minister promises to solve Farwaniya problems By Meshaal Al-Enezi committee that was formed to investigate Responding to questions about the new the ‘flying pebbles’ problem has submitted airport terminal’s building, Omair said that a KUWAIT: Minister of Public Works Ali Al- its final report. “A neutral investigation was letter was sent to the State Audit Bureau, Omair promised residents in Farwaniya carried out, and those responsible are being requesting that they speed up the process of Governorate’s areas to work on solving held accountable,” he said without elaborat- investigating the tender and making their problems and removing obstacles they are ing further. The problem emerged early this recommendations; which is a necessary step facing. The minister made his remarks to year when heavy rain damaged streets before the project can be sent to the cabi- reporters during a tour he carried out with around the country, causing gravels to net. Omair thanked MP Rasheedi for the MP Saad Al-Khanfour Al-Rasheedi around break-apart and damage vehicles when they conducting the tour. “We know that some the governorate Thursday night. are sent flying after making contact by the areas need maintenance, and they will be Minister Ali Al-Omair The minister further indicated that a tires of other passing vehicles. dealt with accordingly,” he said. MP Saad Al-Khanfour UN envoy to Yemen commends Kuwait’s humanitarian aid KUWAIT: United Nations Special bringing people of world closer Envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould together and preventing humani- Cheikh said Kuwait had a pioneer- tarian crises. Hayat made his ing role in the provision of remarks Thursday while addressing humanitarian and relief aid to the the “culture of respect: freedom of Yemen people since the outbreak expression and religious symbols” of their country’s crisis. symposium, which kicked off at the Kuwait has provided $100 mil- UN Educational, Scientific and lion in humanitarian aid to Yemen Cultural Organization headquarters with the goal of easing out the in the French capital. sufferings and woes of Yemeni “Peaceful living, respect of reli- people, Cheikh was quoted as gions and religious symbols, and saying in a press statement intercultural dialogue pave way released by the Kuwait Relief for convergence among people,” Society. the Kuwaiti envoy said in his The State of Kuwait is well- opening speech, adding that pre- known for its pioneering humani- serving the freedom of expression tarian and charitable role in sup- and creativity is one of the main porting Arab issues, especially in principles of human rights. times of crises and disasters, he He also stressed the impor- said during his visit to the society. tance of supporting the founda- “Since the outbreak of the Yemeni tions of human, cultural, and civil crisis, we have been impressed by communication in order to pre- Kuwaiti support that has con- vent crises and disasters from tak- tributed to the provision of neces- ing place in the world, denying sary services to refugees, home- any relevance of racial and reli- less people, the needy and gious abuse of individuals to the orphans,” he added. freedom of expression. Hayat also Meanwhile, Kuwait Relief pointed out the role and quality Society Chairman Tareq Al-Isa said of education and media in consol- Kuwait’s nonstop humanitarian idating human rights and free- and relief aid to Yemen is part of dom of expression, noting that fraternal and religious initiatives.