Prince Mohammed: Vision 2030 to Help Kuwait Make Major Gains MBS Speaks with Erdogan, Vows to Bring Khashoggi Killers to Justice
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SAFAR 16,1440 AH THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2018 34º 28 Pages Max 150 Fils Established 1961 Min 22 ISSUE NO: 17666 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Firemen tackle massive blaze Inside China’s internment camps: Decades of war have shattered De Jong leveller leaves Spurs’ 3 in Dajeej commercial building 7 Tear gas, Tasers and textbooks 19 Afghanistan glassblowing craft 28 hopes hanging by a thread Prince Mohammed: Vision 2030 to help Kuwait make major gains MBS speaks with Erdogan, vows to bring Khashoggi killers to justice RIYADH: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman executives to boycott the conference that opened in yesterday said Kuwait could achieve major accomplish- Riyadh on Tuesday. ments, thanks to the country’s “Vision 2030” and finan- Saudi Arabia first denied any involvement in cial resources. Prince Mohammed made the remark Khashoggi’s disappearance after he entered the con- during a session on the second day of the Future sulate but a Saudi official eventually attributed his Investment Initiative (FII) in the presence of Lebanese death on Oct 2 to a botched attempt to return him to Prime Minister Saad Al-Hariri and Bahrain’s Crown the kingdom. Turkey has dismissed Saudi efforts to Prince Salman bin Hamad. Kuwait has huge financial blame rogue operatives and urged the kingdom to resources and wonderful people as well as the “Vision search “top to bottom” for those responsible. Prince 2030”, which will enable the country to make major Mohammed said Saudi Arabia and Turkey would work achievements, he said. together “to reach results” on a joint investigation and Prince Mohammed also vowed yesterday that the described cooperation between the two countries as killers of Jamal Khashoggi would be brought to justice, “special”, despite criticism from Ankara. “The incident in his first public comments since the journalist’s murder that happened is very painful, for all Saudis... The inci- sparked global condemnation. Striking a defiant tone, dent is not justifiable,” the crown prince said on a dis- Prince Mohammed told international investors at a cussion panel at the conference. major conference in Riyadh that the furor over Erdogan spoke to Prince Mohammed yesterday and Khashoggi’s killing at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul the two discussed the steps needed to bring to light all would not derail the kingdom’s reform drive. aspects of Khashoggi’s death, a presidential source “We will prove to the world that the two govern- said. The phone call was at the request of the prince, ments (Saudi and Turkish) are cooperating to punish the presidential source noted. Prince Mohammed any criminal, any culprit and at the end justice will pre- painted a different picture of relations with Turkey. vail,” Prince Mohammed said to applause. The world’s “There are now those who are trying to take advantage top oil exporter has come under increasing pressure of the painful situation to create a rift between the over the death of Khashoggi, a columnist and one of the kingdom and Turkey,” he said. “I want to send them a crown prince’s most prominent critics. The crisis has message that they cannot do this as long as there a king strained Riyadh’s ties with the West and led dozens of named Salman bin Abdulaziz and a crown prince named RIYADH: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (left) arrives with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Al-Hariri Western politicians, top world bankers and company Continued on Page 24 to attend the Future Investment Initiative conference in the Saudi capital yesterday. — AFP News in brief This gave the government time to reject the law and open on Tuesday. Adasani warns send it back to the Assembly on July 5, when MPs were Adasani also blamed Minister of State for Assembly on summer recess, Adasani said. Affairs Adel Al-Khorafi for the delay and warned that Kuwait places 9 on terror list Under the constitution, the government has the right this could trigger a constitutional crisis. The lawmaker speaker over to reject laws passed by the Assembly within 30 days said the delay is similar to attempts to scrap grillings in KUWAIT: Kuwait has designated nine terrorists for of receiving them. The Assembly can overturn the the Assembly. He also warned that he will include this their link with Afghanistan’s Taleban and Iran’s retirement law rejection in two ways: Either by a two-thirds majority in violation in his grilling of Khorafi, expected to be Revolutionary Guard, the foreign ministry announced the same term or by a simple majority in the next term. debated on the Assembly’s opening day. Tuesday. The designation was taken hand-in-hand By B Izzak Adasani said when the speaker delayed sending the law Meanwhile, the Assembly’s public utilities committee with Riyadh-based Terrorist Financing Targeting to the government, it allowed it to reject the legislation decided yesterday that the public roads authority Center (TFTC), co-chaired by the US and Saudi KUWAIT: Opposition MP Riyadh Al-Adasani yester- within the stipulated constitutional period and send it should continue to exist and made a number of recom- Arabia, as well as in line with UN Security Council day blamed National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al- back to the Assembly during the summer recess. mendations to amend a few provisions of its law. resolutions under Chapter VII of the UN Charter, it Ghanem for the delay in sending to the government a This means that to overturn the government rejec- Separately, MP Mohammad Al-Dallal asked the oil min- said in a statement. The foreign ministry identified the key early retirement law that could result in preventing tion and pass the law again, the Assembly needs a two- ister about the number of Kuwaiti chemical and petro- terrorists as: Mohammad Owhadi, Esma’il Razavi, the Assembly from easily approving it. According to thirds majority in this term, Adasani said. If the speaker leum engineers in each oil company compared to expa- Abdullah Faroqui, Mohammad Muzzamil, Abdul Adasani, the law was passed by an overwhelming had sent it a few days earlier, the government rejection triate engineers. He also asked why the oil sector did Rahim Manan, Abdul Aziz Zamani, Sadr Ibrahim, Hafiz majority of 43 MPs on May 15, 2018, but Ghanem took would have come in the previous term, and the law not hire Kuwaiti chemical and petroleum engineers in Majid and Naeem Paretch. The ministry said the des- more time than expected to send it to the government. could have been overturned in the new term, which will the past three years. ignation is part of efforts by the TFTC to address ter- rorism financing and crack down on terrorist groups which posed a threat to the interest and security of TFTC member countries. — KUNA and is routinely condemned by the pres- Pipe bombs ident, who succeeded Obama and defeated Clinton in 2016. Signs at his ral- Israel wins $777m India order lies condemn the network. sent to Trump The spree of bomb alerts was kicked JERUSALEM: Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) said off Monday with a device found at the yesterday it had won a $777 million order from India to foes Obama, New York home of billionaire liberal buy defense systems for its navy. 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Israel’s and India’s leaders have Barack Obama, other top Democrats and uals sent out multiple similar packages,” pledged to deepen ties and the countries have been CNN - all hate figures for backers of he added, in what appeared to be a increasing cooperation in fields like agriculture and President Donald Trump - in a coordi- coordinated effort. advanced technologies. “IAI’s partnership with India nated “effort to terrorize” days before Another suspicious device was sent dates many years back and has culminated in joint sys- polarizing US elections, officials said to the Manhattan office of New York’s tem development and production,” IAI Chief Executive yesterday. Hillary Clinton was among Democratic state Governor Andrew Officer Nimrod Sheffer said. “It constitutes further some of America’s most high-profile Cuomo. In Florida, police also investigat- proof that security is an investment not an expense,” Democrats targeted with the country ed a suspicious package near the office NEW YORK: (From left) New York City Police Commissioner James O’Neil, New York Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said of bitterly divided ahead of Nov 6 elections of a Democrat lawmaker, Debbie Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio attend a news yesterday’s deal. “Israel Aerospace Industries is a pillar seen as a referendum on the Republican Wasserman Schultz. In California, suspi- conference outside the Time Warner Building yesterday after an explosive device of the nation that we must conserve and strengthen,” he Trump. 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