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SUBSCRIPTION TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013 SHAABAN 9, 1434 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Amir urges Turkey could Airbus leads Nigeria thrash citizens to deploy army Boeing in Tahiti in ‘positively to quell battle of giants Confed Cup contribute’2 protests at air show Liberal8 National21 Alliance20 Max 44º to take part in elections Min 31º High Tide 06:29 & 18:38 Two police officers sentenced to death over torture Low Tide 12:59 40 PAGES NO: 15843 150 FILS By B Izzak Movement insisted in a statement that the “out of respect for court rulings”. constitutional court rulings will not resolve the The alliance insisted that it will take part in KUWAIT: The National Democratic Alliance chronic political crisis in the country which can the coming elections, expected to be held (NDA), the main umbrella of liberal groups, be solved only through true democratic within two months, and that it will work within said yesterday it has decided to accept the rul- reforms. the Assembly to introduce a series of reforms ing of the constitutional court in confirming The constitutional court on Sunday con- including legalizing political parties, a new the controversial electoral law amendment firmed that the amendment to the electoral electoral system, the independence of judici- and announced it will take part in the next law introduced by HH the Amir last October is ary and preparing the ground to reach a full election. The announcement comes just one in line with the constitution. But the court can- parliamentary system. The NDA, which had day after the main opposition alliance com- celled the December election process, scrap- around six MPs in the 50-seat Assembly in the prising Islamist, nationalist and other liberal ping the National Assembly and ordering fresh 2009 house, had boycotted the December groups and activists, said it has decided to elections. The NDA said in a statement that it election along with other opposition groups in boycott any future elections based on the sin- has decided to accept the constitutional court protest against the electoral law amendment. gle-vote amendment. The leftist Progressive verdict although it was against its ambitions Continued on Page 15 Rebels get Saudi missiles DUBAI: Saudi Arabia, a staunch opponent of President Bashar Al-Assad since early in Syria’s conflict, began sup- plying anti-aircraft missiles to rebels “on a small scale” Ali vows to rid about two months ago, a Gulf source said yesterday. The shoulder-fired weapons were obtained mostly from sup- pliers in France and Belgium, the source told Reuters. traffic ‘disease’ France had paid for the transport of the weapons to the region. The supplies were intended for General Salim Idriss, leader of the Supreme Military Council of the Free KUWAIT: Interior Ministry Assistant Syrian Army (FSA), who was still the kingdom’s main Undersecretary Maj Gen Abdulfattah “point man” in the opposition, the source said. Al-Ali stressed that all traffic violation- The Gulf source said without elaborating that the related deportations are in accordance kingdom had begun taking a more active role in the with the law. Speaking at a press con- Syrian conflict in recent weeks due to the intensification ference at the Kuwait Journalists of the conflict. A foreign ministry spokesman was not Association (KJA) headquarters, Ali said immediately available for comment. King Abdullah that deporting people for traffic viola- returned to Saudi Arabia on Friday after cutting short a tions was also adopted by the US and holiday in Morocco to deal with what state media other countries worldwide. “The prob- described as “repercussions of the events that the region lem is that we were very tolerant with is currently witnessing”. violators and this does not mean that Diplomatic sources in the kingdom say Riyadh has law violation is a right for motorists,” he grown increasingly concerned after the entry of underlined, urging all human rights Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah into the conflict and organizations who have criticized the subsequent rebel defeat in Qusair. Speaking to Kuwait’s traffic police to examine Reuters on Friday, Idriss urged Western allies to supply human rights in their respective coun- anti-aircraft and anti-tank missiles and to create a no-fly tries before talking about Kuwait. zone, saying if properly armed he could defeat Assad’s “We have filed over 70,000 traffic army within six months. Idriss said his forces urgently citations including 43,000 serious ones needed heavier weapons in the northern city of Aleppo, such as running red lights, driving where Assad’s government has said its troops are under the influence of alcohol, driving Maj Gen Abdulfattah Al-Ali preparing a massive assault. on the wrong side and many others,” he have various problems... including the Syria’s civil war grew out of protests that swept across elaborated, pointing out that those fact that motorists speak many lan- the Arab world in 2011, becoming by far the deadliest of already deported did not want to guages and dialects which requires a those uprisings and the most difficult to resolve. Just respect the traffic laws they had repeat- large number of specialists to develop months ago, Western countries believed Assad’s days edly violated. their traffic awareness,” he explained, were numbered. But momentum on the battlefield has Ali added that the results of studies noting that the traffic remedy strategy turned in his favour, making the prospect of his swift of traffic problems revealed many and started by diagnosing the “disease” by LAS VEGAS: Miss Connecticut USA Erin Brady poses onstage after winning the removal and an end to the bloodshed appear remote that once one problem was solved, studying random “specimens” at 2013 Miss USA pageant at PH Live at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on without outside intervention. another emerged immediately. “We Continued on Page 15 Sunday. — AFP (See Page 39) Continued on Page 15 West rebukes Putin on Syria ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland: bring Assad to the negotiating table to Western leaders rebuked Russian end a conflict in which at least 93,000 President Vladimir Putin for supporting people have been killed. British Prime Four more die Syria’s Bashar Al-Assad’s attempt to crush Minister David Cameron, who is chairing a two-year-old uprising, setting the stage the G8 summit in a remote golf resort in of MERS virus for a tense G8 summit of the world’s Northern Ireland, conceded there was “a most powerful nations. US President big difference” between the positions of RIYADH: Four people have died from the MERS virus in Barack Obama is expected to use his first Russia and the West on how to resolve Saudi Arabia, bringing the death toll from the SARS-like face-to-face meeting with Putin in a year the war. virus in the kingdom to 32, the health ministry said on its to try to persuade the Kremlin chief to Continued on Page 15 website yesterday. Two people died in the western city of Taif and the other two were pronounced dead in Eastern Province, where most cases have been registered, said the ministry. The ministry announced three more confirmed cases of people in Saudi Arabia infected with the virus, which the World Health Organisation has dubbed the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus, or MERS. TEHRAN: Newly-elected Iranian President Hassan Rowhani places his hand on his One case of infection was in Eastern Province and heart as a sign of respect after speaking at a press conference yesterday. — AP another in the capital Riyadh, while the third was of a two- year-old boy in the western city of Jeddah who was suffer- ing from a “chronic” lung problem. The other two cases are Rowhani firm on nuclear of a 63-year-old woman suffering from several chronic dis- eases and a 42-year-old man with chronic asthma, it said. rights, vows moderation The ministry said the total number of MERS infections in the kingdom now stood at 49, including the 32 fatalities. TEHRAN: Iran’s newly-elected president But he said he would seek to thaw rela- The World Health Organisation announced Friday that Hassan Rowhani ruled out yesterday any tions with the key Gulf Arab backers of the the global death toll from MERS had reached 33, with 28 halt to the nuclear activity that has drawn rebels fighting to oust Assad’s regime for of them in the kingdom. It had said 58 laboratory-con- UN sanctions but said he hoped an early more than two years. Rowhani, who led firmed cases were announced worldwide, the majority of deal could be reached to allay the con- the nuclear negotiating team under them in Saudi Arabia. The virus is a member of the coron- cerns of major powers. The moderate cler- reformist former president Mohammad avirus family, which includes the pathogen that causes ic, who won outright victory in Friday’s Khatami from 2003-5, said there could be Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). SARS sparked presidential election on the hopes of mil- no return to the moratorium on uranium global panic in 2003 after it jumped to humans from ani- lions for an end to the economic hardship enrichment that Iran accepted at the time. mals in Asia and killed 800 people. caused by Western sanctions, pledged “This period is over,” he said. When Like SARS, MERS appears to cause a lung infection, greater transparency in the long-running Rowhani stepped down, outgoing with patients suffering from a temperature, cough and talks. Rowhani, addressing his first press President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad breathing trouble. But it differs in that it also causes rapid conference since winning the vote, said resumed uranium enrichment, triggering kidney failure.