THULQADA 26, 1440 AH MONDAY, JULY 29, 2019 28 Pages Max 46º Min 33º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 17894 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Kuwait won’t compromise on Iran links tanker row Israel, US successfully test Verstappen wins chaotic 4 protecting oil facilities: MoI 7 to ailing nuclear deal 24 ballistic missile interceptor 26 German F1 Grand Prix Adasani adds interior minister to his grilling list after being grilled Rights commission to be launched soon • Fadhl urges solution for bedoon problem By B Izzak the announcement and said that the executive structure and the necessary bylaws were completed in May and Amir receives Iraqi parliament speaker KUWAIT: MP Riyadh Al-Adasani, who was questioned the permanent premises of the commission has been by the public prosecution yesterday over a defamation chosen. Member of the committee MP Khalil Abul mean- lawsuit filed by a former lawmaker, threatened to grill while praised the interior ministry for accepting the com- Interior Minister Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah. mittee’s remarks on the central prison and for improving Adasani was sued by former MP Abdullah Al-Tameemi the situation there. for saying he had received money from the premier’s MP Ahmad Al-Fadhl called on political groups and office in aid for a Kuwaiti citizen. civil society organizations along with concerned gov- Adasani said he had only repeated what Tameemi had ernment agencies to cooperate for a comprehensive and publicly announced, and charged that the report sent by durable solution for the problem of stateless people or the interior ministry to the public prosecution was not bedoons, describing it as Kuwait’s most chronic crisis. fair and held the interior minister responsible. The law- Fadhl praised the efforts of the head of the central maker insisted that he will not change his policy towards agency for bedoons Saleh Al-Fadhalah, who had been the minister and towards pursuing cases of corruption strongly criticized by human rights advocates for taking and money laundering. Adasani had vowed to file to grill measures deemed oppressive to bedoons. Fadhl said the prime minister over the same issue. that an expanded meeting between the government and Meanwhile, the government informed the National the National Assembly is expected to be held at the Assembly’s human rights panel that preparations for the speaker’s office to debate the problem, which concerns launch of the national human rights commission have some 120,000 bedoons who have been living in the been finalized. Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Anas country for decades. Al-Saleh made the announcement after meeting with the Also, five MPs submitted a draft law calling for KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah receives visiting Speaker of the Council assembly rights panel, adding that the government is rescheduling the repayments of bank loans of Kuwaiti of Representatives of Iraq Mohammed Rikan Al-Halbousi at Bayan Palace yesterday. — KUNA ready to implement the rights commission law. citizens and re-tabulating them over 12 years. The bill will Head of the committee MP Adel Al-Damkhi welcomed be first debated by the legal and legislative committee. Iran says European fleet in Trump rejects Gulf would be ‘provocative’ racism charges, TEHRAN: Iran yesterday slammed as detained an Iranian tanker - the Grace 1 - “provocative” a British proposal for a off its overseas territory Gibraltar, on ‘hate agenda’ European-led naval mission to escort allegations it was breaching EU sanctions tankers in the Gulf, amid soaring tensions on Syria. In his comments yesterday, the WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump over the seizure of ships. “We heard that government spokesman said Iran believed pushed back yesterday against charges that he was they intend to send a European fleet to the security of the oil-rich Gulf had to be racist and promoting a “hate agenda” to win the...Gulf which naturally carries a hostile maintained by countries in the region. reelection following his attacks on a prominent message, is provocative and will increase “We are the biggest agent of maritime black lawmaker and his constituency. In a series of tensions,” said government spokesman security in the Persian Gulf,” Rabiei said, tweets, Trump had on Saturday taken aim at Ali Rabiei. Britain said on Monday it was quoted by ISNA news agency. Democratic Representative Elijah Cummings, a planning a European-led force to escort Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said high-profile critic of his administration whose dis- tankers through the world’s busiest oil a force like that proposed by the UK trict covers much of the majority black city of shipping lane, the Strait of Hormuz, in would only make matters worse. “The Baltimore, Maryland. response to Iran’s seizure of a UK- presence of foreign forces will not help After calling Cummings’s district a “rat and flagged vessel on July 19. the region’s security and will be the main rodent infested mess” where no one would choose TEHRAN: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani greets Oman’s Minister of State for The capture of the Stena Impero came source of tensions,” Rouhani said after Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah yesterday. — AFP Continued on Page 24 two weeks after British authorities Continued on Page 24 The Palestinian Authority boycotted US peace plan the Bahrain forum, accusing the ‘Slow war of attrition’ unabashedly pro-Israel Trump of using the prospect of cash to try to impose rings alarm political solutions, and of ignoring the on Idlib frontline fundamental issue of occupation. Trump BEIRUT: For three months Damascus and its ally bells in Jordan has taken the landmark step of recognis- Russia have been pummeling hospitals, markets and ing disputed Jerusalem as Israel’s capital schools in Idlib unleashing a deadly, ferocious cam- AMMAN: A controversial US plan for and Kushner has suggested the peace paign aimed at retaking Syria’s last rebel-run strong- Israeli-Palestinian peace could spell the plan would not mention a Palestinian hold, analysts say. Opponents to the regime of Syrian demise of Jordan and turn it into a state. Kushner is returning to the Middle President Bashar Al-Assad have denounced what they “Palestinian state”, Jordanians and ana- East later this month to push his eco- say call a bid to “exterminate” the region, while the UN lysts warn. The initiative launched by US nomic plan which has been rejected by has condemned the world’s “collective shrug” at the President Donald Trump’s son-in-law the Palestinians and criticized by Jordan. mounting casualties, many of them women and children. Jared Kushner at a June conference in “No economic proposal could replace Located in northwest Syria, Idlib as well as parts of the Bahrain dangles the prospect of $50 bil- a political solution that ends the occupa- neighboring provinces of Aleppo, Hama and Latakia lion of investment into a stagnant tion” of Palestinian territories by Israel, remain under the control of a jihadist alliance Hayat Palestinian economy. But it fails to Jordan’s foreign ministry spokesman Tahrir al-Sham, led by Al-Qaeda’s former Syria affiliate. address key issues such as an independ- Sufyan Al-Qudah said. Jordan, one of only The aim of the air raids is to “put pressure on the ent Palestinian state, Israeli occupation two Arab countries to have a peace treaty factions and their popular base,” said Nawar Oliver, an and the Palestinians’ right to return to with Israel, sent only a low-level official to analyst at the Turkey-based Omran Center. It is also a ARIHA, Syria: An image grab taken from a video on July 24, 2019 shows a Syrian homes from which they fled or were the June 25-26 conference in Manama. prelude to retaking the region - where “all the Syrian man reacting as a dust-covered girl, trapped in rubble, grabs her baby sister by expelled after Israel’s creation in 1948. Continued on Page 24 Continued on Page 24 her shirt as she dangles from a bombed-out building. —AFP speech as king he listed the ills facing the coun- around 250 of them. Moroccan king try: Poverty, unemployment and social inequali- According to Abdellatif Menouni, a constitu- ty. Royal advisor Omar Azziman, in a rare inter- tional scholar and royal advisor since 2011, view with AFP, admitted that there was “dissat- under Mohammed VI “most of (what is needed) marks two stable isfaction” in the country. “We can’t find jobs for in terms of democracy has been done, it just our young people, we have regions that are too needs to be deepened”. For analyst Mohamed decades in power poor,” he said. Tozi, Morocco’s stability in a tumultuous region As the Arab Spring swept across North is a key performance indicator given the region- RABAT: King Mohammed VI is preparing to Africa and beyond, Mohammed VI nipped al context. He cited a 2004 family law boosting mark 20 years on the throne of Morocco, a swelling protests in the bud by offering up con- women’s rights, commissions set up to probe North African country seen as a regional island stitutional reforms and promising to curb his abuses under Hassan II and the existence of of stability. The kingdom’s towns and cities powers. The country’s long-marginalized Rif political parties as “enormous changes”. have been decked out with flags to mark the region was rocked by months of protests from But despite that, seven out of ten young anniversary tomorrow, while newspapers have late 2016, sparked by the death of a fisherman Moroccans, seeing few prospects, say they published editorials praising the monarch’s and spiraling into a movement demanding more want to emigrate, according to the Arab achievements.