THULQADA 19, 1440 AH MONDAY, JULY 22, 2019 28 Pages Max 45º Min 31º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 17888 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Met keen to provide accurate Trump says congresswomen Finance minister strikes blow as Tearful Sun roars to gold as 4 weather reports, transparency 6 should ‘apologize to America’ 11 Johnson prepares to become PM 26 Peaty shatters world record Just solution for bedoons this summer on Amir’s directives Ghanem: National identity, rights won’t be undermined • Three bodies working on ‘roadmap’ By B Izzak and A Saleh issue” and that it will be “comprehensive, just they have full right to Kuwaiti citizenship and uralized unless they have security restric- and durable”. The speaker reiterated that have been appealing and protesting to get it. tions or another nationality. Permanent resi- KUWAIT: In a surprising announcement, political consultations involving members of Ghanem also insisted that the issue of dency will be granted to these people, and National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al- parliament have been held for some time Kuwaiti citizenship will not be involved in others included in the 1970 and 1975 cen- Ghanem said yesterday that under directions about this issue and talks are still ongoing. political bargaining, an indication that the suses and beyond, provided they admit to from HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- Kuwait has recently come under criticism planned solution may not stipulate naturaliza- having other nationalities. Jaber Al-Sabah, a comprehensive and just from international rights groups over what tion of bedoons, or at least naturalization will The sources said the bedoons who do not solution will be struck this summer to end the they call as “mistreatment” of bedoons after a be greatly limited. confess to having other nationalities will be decades-old problem of thousands of state- young stateless man committed suicide two Informed sources said the bedoon issue is confronted with their official documents and less people or bedoons in a way that wouldn’t weeks ago after claiming that the central being dealt with by three entities - the interi- old papers kept by security authorities prov- “inhibit their national identity rights”. bedoons’ agency refused to renew his securi- or ministry, the central agency for bedoons ing that they entered Kuwait with these, and Insisting that the solution will not under- ty ID, and as a result, he lost his job. Bedoons and the National Assembly bureau - that are this is proof of their nationalities. Sources mine Kuwait’s national identity and will not or their forefathers have been living in the preparing a roadmap and implementation expected 20,000 of those included in the be at the cost of Kuwaiti citizenship, country for decades and have in recent years procedures to resolve the matter before the 1965 census to be naturalized out of a total of Ghanem told reporters that the Assembly lost many of their basic rights in a govern- end of the year. They have agreed to hold 34,000, but some of them left the country a will be called to approve legislation either ment clampdown. continuous meetings to reach practical solu- long time ago, while others have criminal early next term starting in October or could The government says that as many as tions to resolve this issue, which is distorting restrictions, in addition to some who be invited to an emergency session during 34,000 of the estimated 120,000 bedoons Kuwait’s humanitarian image. obtained other nationalities. The sources said the summer recess. qualify for consideration for Kuwaiti citizen- The sources said the roadmap will have priority will be for bedoons in the military, Ghanem declined to provide details about ship, but the rest belong to other countries, two basic aspects. Those who have any offi- degree holders and postgraduates, old-time the solution, but said it was initiated with and has put pressure on them to reveal their cial documents that indicate their presence workers in the oil sector and Kuwaiti “clear directives by the Amir to resolve this actual identity. Bedoons however insist that in Kuwait before the 1965 census will be nat- women’s children. Marzouq Al-Ghanem banning all Iranian oil exports worldwide. “We rant and Britain weighing rave and we shout at the ambassador and we hope it all goes away,” said Tim Ripley, a British defense expert who writes about the Gulf for Jane’s Defence Weekly. “I response; Saudis don’t see at this point in time us being able to offer a concession that can resolve the crisis. Providing securi- release Iran ship ty and escort for future ships is a different matter.” A day after calling the Iranian action a “hostile act”, DUBAI/LONDON: Britain was weighing its next top British officials kept comparatively quiet yesterday, moves in the Gulf tanker crisis yesterday, with few good making clear that they had yet to settle on a response. options apparent as a recording emerged showing that “We are going to be looking at a series of options,” the Iranian military defied a British warship when it junior defense minister Tobias Ellwood told Sky News. boarded and seized a ship three days ago. Little clue “We will be speaking with our colleagues, our interna- has been given by Britain on how it plans to respond tional allies, to see what can actually be done. Our first after Iranian Revolutionary Guards rappelled from heli- and most important responsibility is to make sure we copters and seized the Stena Impero in the Strait of get a solution to the issue to do with the current ship, Hormuz on Friday in apparent retaliation for the British make sure other British-flagged ships are safe to oper- capture of an Iranian tanker two weeks earlier. ate in these waters and then look at the wider picture.” The British government is expected to announce its The Iranian capture of the ship in the global oil next steps in a speech to parliament today. But experts trade’s most important waterway was the latest escala- on the region say there are few obvious steps London tion in three months of spiralling confrontation with the This image grab taken from a video on Saturday shows Iranian Revolutionary Guards preparing to board the can take at a time when the United States has already West that began when new, tighter US sanctions took British-flagged tanker Stena Impero in the Strait of Hormuz. — AFP imposed the maximum possible economic sanctions, Continued on Page 24 plant in the city of Shchyolkovo for seven Muftis, has approved more than 200 compa- Halal sees growth years. The factory was among the first of its nies since it opened in 2007. The center says kind when it opened two decades ago, recre- that number is growing by five to seven com- ating Soviet-style sausages in accordance panies a year - from a standing start at the in Russia economy with Islamic law, among other products. collapse of the anti-religious Soviet Union. SHCHYOLKOVO, Russia: The manager of a “Now I go to shop displays and I see sausage Rushan Abbyasov, the deputy head of the sausage factory near Moscow, Arslan from one, two, three producers... I see that Council of Muftis, told AFP the Russian agri- Gizatullin says his halal business has been competition is growing,” he adds from the culture ministry was supporting the center in feeling the pinch - not so much from Russia’s factory, which employs 35 people and puts its efforts to increase exports to the Arab sluggish economy but competitors vying for a out up to 1.5 tonnes of produce a day. world and Muslim-majority ex-Soviet piece of a growing Islamic market. Ever more The halal economy, worth more than $2.1 republics. “We’ve looked at international producers are catering for the domestic trillion globally, is far from limited to meat. experience in the Arab world, in Malaysia, Muslim community, which accounts for Cosmetics firms and services such as halal and we’ve developed our Russian (halal certi- around 15 percent of Russia’s population and hotels have received licenses from the body fication) standard following that model,” is set to expand, and in some cases are also that oversees Islamic production in Russia, Abbyasov said in an interview at Moscow’s setting their sights on export. while state-owned Sberbank is looking into central mosque. “We’re doing it in a way that “In the last few years in general, halal’s creating an Islamic finance entity. The Centre matches international halal standards as well become something of a trend in Russia,” said for Halal Standardization and Certification, as the laws of the Russian Federation.” MOSCOW: Rushan Abbyasov, the deputy head of the Council of Muftis, is seen at Gizatullin, who has been at the Halal-Ash under the authority of the Russian Council of Continued on Page 24 Moscow’s central mosque on May 23, 2019. — AFP Israel boasts of Philippines goes Pakistanis irked ‘killing Iranians’; wild for ‘force by new baggage will host Iraqi, at 40’ Pacquiao wrapping policy MANILA: Fans in the Philippines roared their approval Saudi journalists and rose to their feet yesterday, imitating the punches ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s civil aviation watchdog has of Manny Pacquiao, as they declared that their idol was ordered all air travellers to have their checked baggage shrink-wrapped, drawing scorn and criticism from fre- JERUSALEM: An Israeli minister boasted yester- still a boxing force at the age of 40 with his stunning victory over American Keith Thurman.