Minister Refutes MP's Claims of Obstructing T4 Operations
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THULHIJJA 17, 1439 AH TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2018 Max 47º 28 Pages Min 30º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 17617 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Govt assigns departments to Suspect in Dutch boy’s 1998 Mahathir bans foreigners from Farmer’s son Chopra reaps 2 bring back stranded Kuwaitis 6 murder agrees to be extradited 13 buying flats in Malaysian city 28 Asian javelin gold for India Minister refutes MP’s claims of obstructing T4 operations Lawmaker says amnesty gateway to Assembly-govt cooperation By B Izzak new airport project by the end of 2021. The minister said that the claims by the Bushehri insisted that the civil aviation lawmaker that three Kuwait Airways jets KUWAIT: Minister of State for Housing authorities and other officials have held were deliberately involved in accidents to and Services Affairs Jenan Bushehri yester- meetings regularly with the South Korean prevent their operation need to be sent to day denied allegations by opposition MP company to discuss facilitating operations the public prosecution if true. She however Mohammad Al-Mutair that the government and the company did not raise any com- recalled that in 2017 and this year, two KAC was obstructing the work of a Korean com- plaints about visas and residencies. planes met with accidents and the two cases pany that won a contract to operate a new She said that the ministries of interior and were investigated and sent to court. A third Kuwait airport terminal used by Kuwait social affairs and labor have been providing plane was involved in an accident by mis- Airways. Mutair had alleged that the com- the company with all the assistance needed take and the case is under investigation. pany was unable to operate Terminal 4 for the recruitment of employees to ensure Separately, opposition MP Nayef Al- properly because ministries were refusing to smooth operations. Bushehri however asked Merdas said yesterday cooperation issue the necessary visas and residence per- the lawmaker to submit any evidence between the government and the National mits, claiming this was done under pressure regarding his claims and promised she Assembly over the issue of granting a gen- from a competing domestic airline. The law- would take the necessary legal measures. eral amnesty to convicted opposition MPs Jenan Bushehri Mohammad Al-Mutair Nayef Al-Merdas maker also threatened to file to grill the The minister stressed that operations at T4 and activists is the gateway for solid coop- prime minister over the claims and accused are proceeding according to schedule in eration between the two bodies. He said that the government of being weak. cooperation between the civil aviation, after the conviction of MPs Waleed Al- The lawmaker said that the storming of bership of the two lawmakers must not be Kuwait Airways was exclusively given Kuwait Airways, the interior ministry, the Tabtabaei and Jamaan Al-Harbash over the the Assembly is a purely political case in revoked. Merdas called for putting an end to the new terminal in a bid to reduce the rush customs and other authorities. She said this storming of the Assembly building, their which opposition MPs and activists protest- this issue by issuing the general amnesty law of passengers at the main terminal as a is being done gradually and in phases to membership in the Assembly should be ed against corruption and the bribery case to defuse a political crisis that has continued Turkish company is due to complete the reach full operations soon. decided by the Assembly itself. in the Assembly, and accordingly the mem- for years and has exhausted the country. no need for the presence of aliens like the US and the Amir commends Iran claims full countries whose home is not in here,” he said in the quote, which appeared in English translation on Tasnim. He added, “All the carriers and military and non-military athletes as another control of Gulf; ships will be controlled and there is full supervision over the...Gulf. Our presence in the region is physical karateka medals Israel working and constant and night and day.” Separately, the head of the Revolutionary Guards, KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- on new missiles Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari, said Iran’s ene- Jaber Al-Sabah congratulated Sunday Kuwaiti shooter mies would not prevail in a conflict. “The enemies are Mansour Al-Rashidi and karateka Ali Al-Shatti for TEHRAN/JERUSALEM: Iran has full control of the strictly avoiding any conflict with Iran because they winning gold medals at the 2018 Asian Games held in Gulf and the US Navy does not belong there, the head know that it will not be beneficial for them,” Jafari said, Indonesia. He also congratulated Kuwaiti karateka of the navy of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, General according to Tasnim. Tension between Iran and the Ahmad Mohammad Al-Misfir yesterday for winning a Alireza Tangsiri, was quoted by Tasnim news agency as United States has escalated since President Donald silver medal. Misfir defeated Mahmoud Sajjan of saying yesterday. Tehran has suggested it could take Trump pulled out of a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran JAKARTA: Japan’s Ryutaro Araga (left) competes military action in the Gulf to block other countries’ oil and world powers in May and reimposed sanctions. Jordan, Ma Zyon of China and Zabiollah Poorshab of against Kuwait’s Ahmad Al-Misfir during their men’s Iran before losing his final game against Japan’s exports in retaliation for US sanctions intended to halt Senior US officials have said they aim to reduce 84-kg category final karate event at the 2018 Asian its sales of crude. Washington maintains a fleet in the Iran’s oil exports to zero. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ryutaro Araga after a tough match. The Amir, in Games yesterday. — AFP cables to the athletes, commended their achievements Gulf that protects oil shipping routes. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the most senior authority in the and wished them best and more medals in the future. Tangsiri said Iran had full control of the Gulf and the Islamic Republic, said last month that he supports the letes for their achievements. HH the Prime Minister Strait of Hormuz that leads into it. Closing the strait idea that if Iran is not allowed to export oil then no HH the Deputy Amir and Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah sent simi- Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah also congratulated ath- would be the most direct way of blocking shipping. country should export oil from the Gulf. lar cables too. — KUNA “We can ensure the security of the...Gulf and there is Continued on Page 24 News in brief UN slams Myanmar Monsoon rains kill over 1,200 army for ‘genocide’, NEW DELHI: More than 1,200 people have been killed across South Asia in monsoon storms so far this year, as India counts the rising toll from floods Facebook slaps bans that have devastated southern Kerala state. Kerala has reported 445 deaths with more bodies discov- GENEVA: UN investigators called yesterday for ered each day as a massive cleanup gets underway. Myanmar’s army chief to resign and for him and five Kerala accounted for nearly half of the more than other top military commanders to be prosecuted in an 1,000 deaths reported across India, with over 160 international court for genocide against the country’s killed in neighboring Karnataka, more than 200 fatal- Rohingya minority. The call prompted Facebook, which ities in Uttar Pradesh, and 195 in West Bengal. The has been criticized for allowing hate speech against the monsoon also battered Nepal, with 87 people killed Rohingya to flourish, to ban the army chief and remove since June. But in Sri Lanka, where authorities organ- other pages tied to the country’s military. ized the early evacuation of 750,000 people in Some 700,000 Rohingya Muslims fled northern threatened areas this year, the death toll from mon- Rakhine state to Bangladesh after Myanmar launched a soon floods fell to 24 from 224 killed in May and June brutal crackdown in August last year on insurgents last year. In Bangladesh, floods and landslides killed amid accounts of arson, murder and rape at the hands at least 29 people. — AFP of soldiers and vigilante mobs in the mainly Buddhist country. Myanmar has vehemently denied allegations of ethnic cleansing, insisting it was responding to attacks Canada holds firm in dispute by Rohingya rebels. But yesterday, a UN-backed fact-finding mission BERLIN: Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia into violations in Myanmar said the country’s “top mili- Freeland refused to give ground in a dispute with tary generals, including Commander-in-Chief Senior- GENEVA: Members of the UN Independent International Fact-finding Mission on Myanmar Christopher Saudi Arabia yesterday, saying her country would General Min Aung Hlaing, must be investigated and Sidoti, Chairperson Marzuki Darusman and Radhika Coomaraswamy present the final report during a press “always stand up for human rights around the Continued on Page 24 conference yesterday. — AFP world”. While she did not cite the kingdom by name, Freeland told a gathering of German diplomats in Berlin that “Canada will always stand up for human rights around the world, very much including a lack of basic hygiene facilities during their education, are forced to risk their health to take part in classes, women’s rights”. That would hold true “even when Half the world’s putting their health at risk and meaning some have to according to the report produced jointly by the United we are told to mind our own business, or that mat- miss school.