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SUBSCRIPTION MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 2017 RABI AL-THANI 18, 1438 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Iraqi invasion Outgoing CIA Ringling Bros Ibrahimovic memorial chief rips into circus closing strikes late museum faces Trump over show after to rescue demolition4 tweets,7 Russia 14640 years Man20 United In Paris, Trump warned Min 6º Max 20º over Middle East peace High Tide 01:29 & 15:18 Low Tide Kuwait urges ‘final settlement’ of conflict 08:53 & 20:53 40 PAGES NO: 17112 150 FILS PARIS: France warned of “serious consequences” yester- Eurowings flight day if Donald Trump recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s capital as representatives from 70 countries met in Paris lands in Kuwait to try to revive stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts. Neither Israel nor the Palestinians are attending the after bomb threat conference, which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dismissed as “futile”. France called the KUWAIT: A Germany-bound Eurowings passenger gathering to reaffirm global support for a two-state flight from Oman landed in Kuwait yesterday over a solution to the seven-decade-old conflict, seen as bomb threat, but no explosives were found onboard, increasingly reclusive. authorities said. The Airbus A330 from Salalah heading The Palestinians have warned that Trump’s campaign to Cologne, Eurowings flight EW117, landed at 8 am at pledge to move the US embassy to the contested city of Kuwait International Airport after the captain received Jerusalem could torpedo their chances of obtaining an word of the threat, said Mansour Al-Hashemi, a independent state. French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc spokesman for Kuwait’s civil aviation authority. Ayrault warned such a move would have “extremely Security officials found no signs of explosives on the serious consequences” and predicted the incoming US aircraft, Hashemi said. He declined to discuss how the leader would find it impossible to implement. “When threat was made against the aircraft. you are president of the United States, you cannot take Eurowings said there were 287 passengers and 10 such a stubborn and such a unilateral view on this issue. crewmembers onboard the plane, which was being You have to try to create the conditions for peace,” he flown by SunExpress on its behalf. Eurowings said the told France 3 TV. flight was a charter for tour company FTI. The plane In a final statement, the conference warned Israel was diverted to Kuwait “for security reasons and in and the Palestinians against “unilateral steps” on consultation with the relevant authorities,” Eurowings Jerusalem and borders that could threaten a two-state said in an emailed statement, without elaborating. The solution. It called on them to avoid steps that “prejudge airline added that the flight would take off at 1 am the outcome of negotiations on final status issues, today to head to Cologne as legal restrictions on maxi- PARIS: (From left) Russian Ambassador to France Alexander Orlov, US Secretary of State John Kerry, French including, inter alia on Jerusalem, borders, security, mum crew working time abarred it from leaving President Francois Hollande, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, European Union Foreign Policy Chief refugees”. It also said the pre 1967 war borders should Kuwait sooner. Passengers were put up a hotel in the Federica Mogherini and French State Secretary for European Affairs Harlem Desir pose for a group photo dur- provide the basis for negotiations, Ayrault said. meantime, it said. — AP ing the Mideast peace conference yesterday. Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah is seen in the second row behind Ayrault. — AFP Continued on Page 13 MPs file grilling over sports ban By B Izzak KUWAIT: Three opposition lawmakers yesterday carried out their threat and filed to grill Minister of Information and Youth Sheikh Salman Al-Humoud Al-Sabah for allegedly failing to do enough to end an international ban on Kuwaiti sports. The lawmakers - Waleed Al-Tabtabaei, Al-Humaidi Al-Subaei and Abdulwahab Al-Babtain - also charged the minister of committing a variety of financial and administrative violations in the two ministries. The grilling blamed the minister for playing a key role in triggering the international suspension on Kuwaiti sports by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), world football body FIFA and several other federations. They also charged him of failing to take the necessary and appropriate steps demanded by IOC and FIFA to end the suspension, which ultimately barred Kuwait from taking part in the qualifiers for the 2019 Asian Cup last week. The lawmakers claimed that the minister has refused to implement requirements and standards demanded by the international sports organizations, which have maintained the ban. “The minister did not take the necessary measures to resolve the sports crisis in Kuwait and lift the suspension despite the repeated ultimatums that were given to him,” RIYADH: Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz (right) yesterday decorates Spanish the grilling said. “The minister has caused to deprive a gen- KUWAIT: (From left) Opposition MPs Al-Humaidi Al-Subaei, Abdulwahab Al-Babtain King Felipe VI with the cordon of King Abdul Aziz, the highest Saudi honor for a eration from external sports participations,” it added. and Waleed Al-Tabtabaei, who filed to grill the minister of information and youth, foreigner.— AFP Continued on Page 13 arrive for a session at the National Assembly yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat Spanish king meets Saudi Bahrain executes king, warship sale mooted 3 convicted over RIYADH: Spain’s King Felipe VI met yes- riyals ($51 billion) for military spending police bombing terday with Saudi King Salman, official including equipment and weaponry, media said, during a visit coinciding with down from 205 billion riyals spent in 2016. DUBAI: Bahrain yesterday carried out its first execu- talks to sell Spanish warships. King Felipe A separate budget allocation of 97 billion tions since an Arab Spring uprising rocked the was guest of honor at a lunch hosted by riyals is to pay for new naval bases for the country in 2011, putting to death three men found King Salman, who decorated him with Border Guards, and other security projects. guilty of a deadly bomb attack on police. Bahrain’s the cordon of King Abdul Aziz, the high- Felipe’s father, Juan Carlos, who reigned public prosecution said the death sentences were est Saudi honor for a foreigner, the Saudi from 1975 to 2014, has close ties to the carried out by firing squad. Press Agency said. Later they discussed Saudi royal family. Abbas Al-Samea, Sami Mushaima and Ali Al- relations between the two nations and A Spanish consortium, Al-Shoula, is Singace were found guilty in 2015 of killing two how to further develop them “in various building a high-speed railway across the Bahraini policemen and an Emirati officer deployed fields”, it said. desert to link the holy cities of Makkah and to bolster the country’s security forces in a bomb They also reviewed the situation in the Madinah. The project is behind schedule attack the previous year. A court upheld their death Middle East, before Felipe held separate and is now set to open in 2018. Spanish sentences last Monday. Government forces crushed talks with Saudi Finance Minister construction group FCC leads one of three the 2011 uprising with help from allies Saudi Arabia Mohammed Aljadaan and Minister of consortia building a $22.5-billion rapid and the United Arab Emirates, but the country con- Commerce and Investment Majed Al- transit system in the Saudi capital. tinues to face low-level unrest. Qasabi. The Spanish king arrived late If the deal for the five corvettes goes Bahrain hosts the US Navy’s 5th Fleet, which Saturday in Riyadh for a three-day stay. ahead, it would provide jobs for over 2,000 patrols the waters around the Arabian Peninsula Madrid’s foreign ministry said its minister people for several years, said Jose Antonio and is the naval counterweight to nearby Shiite Alfonso Dastis, and Public Works Minister Fernandez Vidal, a representative of powerhouse Iran. Bahrain also maintains close ties to Britain, which is building a naval base of its own Inigo de la Serna, are accompanying Felipe Spain’s biggest union, Comisiones Obreras, in the country. Over the past two and a half months, during the visit. in the northwestern region of Galicia, Prince Charles, Prime Minister Theresa May and Spanish media have linked this trip to a which is home to a major shipyard. “We are Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson have all paid visits much-anticipated deal to sell Avante 2200 awaiting this like rain in summer to create to the island. frigates for an estimated two billion euros jobs in shipyards,” he said. Spain’s jobless Hundreds of protesters took to the streets ($2.1 billion). “We can only confirm that rate of 18.9 percent is the second highest Saturday in solidarity with the condemned men as negotiations are very advanced to build in the European Union after Greece. The rumors spread that their executions were imminent. five warships which would be sold to the contract is not a done deal yet as Saudi Images shared on social media showed activists Saudi navy,” a spokesman for state-owned Arabia is slashing spending with falling oil blocking roads with burning debris and hurling Spanish ship builder Navantia told AFP. prices having led to a drop in revenues. petrol bombs in clashes with police. Protests and Spain is the seventh largest arms exporter And Spain faces stiff competition. France clashes continued yesterday despite a heavy pres- in the world, and Saudi Arabia is one of the hopes to sell another type of navy ship to ence of riot police deployed in predominantly Shiite biggest buyers of military gear.