THULHIJJA 26, 1440 AH TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2019 28 Pages Max 46º Min 27º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 17916 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Kuwait Airways set to receive Trump: India, Pak can handle Camo, crop top: Thai palace Judo’s coming home: Clinical 2 first Airbus A320neo airplane 9 Kashmir dispute on their own 22 publishes consort pictures 25 Japan bag world double Trump ready to meet Rouhani after Macron’s G7 diplomacy Iran president also makes case for talks • Iran has sold oil from freed tanker BIARRITZ, France: US President Donald Trump said he was prepared to meet his Amir thanks all well-wishers Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani in the next few weeks after talks over Tehran’s nuclear program at a G7 summit in France. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif made a surprise appearance on the sidelines of the summit in Biarritz on Sunday at the invitation of French President Emmanuel Macron. Macron said that the “conditions for a meeting” between Trump and Rouhani to take place “in the next few weeks” had been created through intensive diplomacy and consultations. “If the circumstances were correct, I would certainly agree to that,” Trump said at a joint press conference with Macron. Asked by reporters if he thought the timeline proposed KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets HH the Crown by his French counterpart sounded realistic, Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah yesterday. — KUNA (See Page 3) Trump replied: “It does”, adding he thought Rouhani would also be in favor. “I think he’s KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah and HH the going to want to meet. I think Iran wants to get Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah yesterday Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al- this situation straightened out,” Trump added. thanked officials and ministers from Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. Trump has put in place a policy of “maxi- BIARRITZ, France: French President Emmanuel Macron and US President Donald Trump pose across the Kuwaiti government and He also mentioned Kuwait’s chief mum pressure” on Tehran over its disputed during a joint press conference yesterday. — AFP National Assembly for their tremendous judge Yousef Al-Mutawa and First nuclear program via crippling sanctions that concern over his wellbeing. HH the Amir Deputy Prime Minister and Defense are seen as raising the risk of conflict in the interests we must use any tool,” he said. “And But hardliners have criticized the initiative, expressed gratitude to HH the Crown Minister Sheikh Nasser Sabah Al- Middle East. The US president last year uni- if I knew that I was going to have a meeting with the ultra-conservative Kayhan newspa- Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al- Ahmad Al-Sabah, in addition to all laterally pulled out of a landmark 2015 inter- with someone that would (lead to) prosperity per saying the trip was “improper” and sent Jaber Al-Sabah, National Assembly Kuwaiti lawmakers and citizens. HH national deal that placed limits on Tehran’s for my country and people’s problems would “a message of weakness and desperation”. Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem, Chief of the Amir acknowledged Arab heads nuclear activities in exchange for trade, be resolved, I would not hesitate. “The main “These improper measures are taken in the the Kuwait National Guard HH Sheikh of states as well for constantly check- investment and sanctions relief. thing is our country’s national interests,” he fantasy of an opening but it will definitely Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah, Deputy ing on his health, wishing their Rouhani defended Zarif’s Biarritz visit in a said to a round of applause from those gath- have no outcome other than more insolence National Guard Chief Sheikh Meshaal nations continued prosperity and speech aired live on state television yester- ered at an event marking government and pressure,” it added. Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, HH Sheikh Nasser success. — KUNA day. “I believe that for our country’s national achievements in rural areas. Continued on Page 24 Kenya ships first Indians rush to export of crude oil remit money as NAIROBI: Kenya exported its first-ever batch of crude oil yesterday, with President Uhuru Kenyatta declaring the shipment of 200,000 barrels a “special rupee plunges moment” in the country’s history. The president unfurled the Kenyan flag aboard a tanker at the Indian By Sajeev K Peter Ocean port of Mombasa that will be carrying the oil to Asia. “There are special moments that mark a turning KUWAIT: Money exchange centers across point in the destiny of our nation,” Kenyatta said at the Kuwait witnessed an unusual rush yesterday, with ceremony. “The first export of crude oil by our nation, Indian expats scrambling to send money home as therefore, marks a special moment in our history as a the Indian rupee tumbled to this year’s lowest level. people and as a country.” One Kuwaiti dinar fetched 236.93 Indian rupees, The maiden shipment was purchased for $12 million while the currency traded around 71.98 against the by Chinese trading company ChemChina for export to US dollar in forex markets, recording one of the Malaysia. Kenyatta said the first attempts at finding oil worst performances in its history. in Kenya date back to 1937 but it was not until 2012 According to experts, the rupee had been on a that a commercially-viable deposit was located. This rollercoaster ride all along this year, primarily field was discovered in the South Lokichar Basin in MOMBASA, Kenya: President Uhuru Kenyatta (center) poses for a group photo with other officials in front of an oil due to the weakening of investor sentiment, with Turkana, in Kenya’s far north, by British firm Tullow and tanker carrying 200,000 barrels of crude oil during its inaugural shipment at Kipevu Oil Terminal yesterday. —AFP the Indian economy showing signs of a sharp its joint venture partners. The company estimates the slowdown. “There is a confidence crisis in the field holds 560 million barrels of oil. Kenyatta said it “showed the global market that Kenya the people of Turkana but also the wider republic with Indian market today, prompting foreign funds to In early June 2018, the company began shipping possesses the know-how and the infrastructure very many local communities directly benefiting from flee the country. crude from Turkana to Mombasa by road. It will even- required to facilitate full- fired development”. “This first employment opportunities in production and logistics,” Continued on Page 24 tually be shipped via a pipeline under construction. oil pilot scheme has also brought with it prosperity for he said. — AFP by the newly independent country’s More curbs Indonesia picks founding father Sukarno more than half a century ago. Shifting from problem-plagued on expats in Borneo island Jakarta would also transfer Indonesia’s power base off Java island, where about the works for new capital half of the sprawling archipelago’s 260 million people live. “Moving the capital By A Saleh JAKARTA: Indonesia will move its capi- off Java is a gesture that aims to solidify tal to the eastern edge of jungle-clad unity,” said Jakarta-based political risk KUWAIT: Official sources said increasing the minimum Borneo island, President Joko Widodo analyst Kevin O’Rourke. “Jakarta will salary required for an expat to obtain family visas to KD said yesterday, as the country shifts its continue to be a megacity - as a center 500 is not the last decision with regards to controlling the political heart away from congested and for finance and commerce - for a few entry of expats in Kuwait, as other decisions related to sinking megalopolis Jakarta. The pro- more decades, but ultimately it is at increasing transaction fees will follow, because the current posed location - near the regional cities severe risk to climate change,” he added. fees are the lowest in the Gulf. They said the aim behind of Balikpapan and Samarinda - is an area A bill for the proposed move will now studying the fee increase is to distinguish between those at “minimal” risk of natural disasters, be presented to parliament, Widodo who enter the country for tourism and visits and those who where the government already owns said. Building is set to begin next year enter to violate the state’s laws. some 180,000 hectares of land, he added. with the move of some 1.5 million civil The sources said new procedures will be applied at the “The location is very strategic - it’s in servants slated to begin by 2024, at a start of the new year to fight visas forgers, as all types of the center of Indonesia and close to cost of 466 trillion rupiah ($33 billion), entry visas will be changed, with security features that are urban areas,” Widodo said in a televised officials said. Known as Kalimantan, hard to forge. They said there are stricter procedures speech. “The burden Jakarta is holding Indonesia’s section of Borneo - the regarding absconding complaints and the legal period to right now is too heavy as the centre of report an absconding case. They said as soon as the island it shares with Malaysia and Brunei authorities are informed, the residency permit is cancelled governance, business, finance, trade and - is home to major mining activities as services,” he added. The announcement well as rainforests, and is one of the few and referred to the investigations department, adding no SAMBOJA, Indonesia: This aerial picture taken on July 31, 2019 shows a view of residency has been restored of those reported absconding ends months of speculation about places on Earth with orangutans in their whether Widodo would follow through natural habitat.