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SHAWWAL 29, 1440 AH TUESDAY, JULY 2, 2019 Max 47º 28 Pages Min 34º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 17871 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net KOC predicts 100,000 bpd Protesters ransack Hong Kong Bollywood starlet quits Osaka, Zverev, Tsitsipas crash 36output after Halliburton deal parliament on handover ’versary 19 acting over Islamic faith 28 on Wimbledon ‘Black Monday’ Israel renewing Oman ties amid opportunity for more: Mossad Israeli spymaster sees ‘onetime’ chance for peace with Arabs sharing Iran worries JERUSALEM: The head of Israel’s intelligence agency MPs pass laws on Mossad said yesterday his country was renewing ties Bountiful catch as mullet season opens with Oman and had an “unprecedented opportunity” for a thaw with other Arab states. “Just recently, renew- bedoons, insurance, al of formal relations with Oman was declared and the establishment of a representative office of the (Israeli) lawyers, accounting foreign ministry in that country,” Yossi Cohen told a security conference in Herzliya, near Tel Aviv. By B Izzak “That is only the visible tip of a much broader secret effort,” he said, adding that in addition to Israel’s his- KUWAIT: The National Assembly yesterday approved toric treaties with Jordan and Egypt other Arab coun- a host of draft laws including a law allowing the gov- tries had discreetly joined “the states of peace, some of ernment to naturalize up to 4,000 people this year in a them in an unseen manner”. “We do not yet have with bid to resolve the decades-old problem of stateless them official peace treaties but there is already a com- people. The Assembly also passed laws regulating munality of interests, broad cooperation and open advocates, insurance, companies and accounting, channels of communication,” he added. besides a key law to regulate the personal status affairs Israel and Oman agreed to open trade representative of Shiites, who reportedly form some one-third of the offices in the 1990s, but in 2000 the Gulf sultanate 1.4 million native population. closed them after the outbreak of the second Palestinian The law on naturalization was passed despite objec- intifada. Cohen said the current climate presents “an tions by a number of MPs, who said it could pose a unprecedented opportunity, perhaps the first in the his- danger to Kuwait’s national identity. MP Abdullah Al- tory of the Middle East, to reach a regional understand- Roumi said the law was not needed since the govern- ing which could lead to a comprehensive peace agree- ment can naturalize people under the existing nationali- ment”. “Common interests, the fight against rivals such ty law, while MP Omar Al-Tabtabaei warned the law as Iran and jihadist terrorism, the close relations with could pose risks to Kuwait’s national identity. the White House, and channels of communication with Continued on Page 24 the Kremlin all combine to create what might be a one- time window of opportunity,” he said. The Israeli foreign ministry declined to comment on his remarks. In October, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held surprise talks with Oman’s Sultan Qaboos in Muscat. The recent moves have raised KUWAIT: Mullet fishing resumed yesterday after a six-month ban, with 25-kilo baskets of mullet selling for KD 25-35 Palestinian fears of a normalization of ties. Last week OPEC extends at the Sharq fish market auction. Chairman of the Kuwait Fishermen Union Thaher Al-Suwayyan expected the catch Oman said it would open an embassy in the Palestinian offered for sale to be enough for local consumers, stressing that all the fish caught by union members is for sale territories in support of the Palestinian people, in a first locally and none of it is exported. — By Meshaal Al-Enezi for a Gulf Arab state. oil cut to prop Continued on Page 24 up crude prices their catch: Two grey minke whales. VIENNA: OPEC and its oil-producing allies shifted Japan fishermen The hunts come after Japan decided to yesterday towards extending their daily output withdraw from the International Whaling caps, sending oil prices racing higher before the Commission, a move slammed by activists outcome of the cartel’s official gathering. Ministers catch first whales and anti-whaling countries but welcomed from the 14-nation Organization of the Petroleum by Japanese whaling communities. “Today Exporting Countries (OPEC) met in Vienna to dis- as hunts resume is the best day,” said Yoshifumi Kai, head of cuss output, before gathering a day later for the Japan Small-Type Whaling Association, OPEC+ - which is a grouping of 24 oil-producing KUSHIRO, Japan: Japanese whalers as the ocean giants were hauled ashore. “It countries that includes Russia and together brought ashore their first catches yesterday was worth waiting for 31 years,” he said accounts for almost half of global crude. as they resumed commercial hunting after a with a smile. The enlarged crude producing club had already three-decade hiatus, brushing aside criti- One of the whales, more than eight decided in December to remove 1.2 million barrels cism from activists who say the practice is metres long, was hoisted from a ship onto a per day from the market to bolster prices and soak cruel and outdated. Five vessels set sail truck and driven to a warehouse. Inside, up excess supplies. Russian President Vladimir under grey morning skies from northern whalers hosed it down with water and then Putin and Saudi Arabia agreed on Saturday to Japan’s Kushiro with their horns blaring and lined up to pour ceremonial cups of the KUSHIRO, Japan: A captured minke whale is lifted by a crane into a truck bed extend the deal by between six and nine months, grey tarps thrown over their harpoons. By Japanese liquor sake over the animal at this port in Hokkaido prefecture yesterday. — AFP but the move provoked consternation from some yesterday afternoon they were back with Continued on Page 24 quarters. The news nevertheless fired New York oil prices above $60 per barrel, with sentiment boost- ed also by the China-US trade truce agreed at the and illegitimate use of force in the country, G20 in Osaka. New daily bucks the veteran journalist said. Continued on Page 24 Lebanon’s media landscape is rife with privately-owned newspapers affiliated with trend in Lebanon at least one of the country’s many political parties, who are often the primary source BEIRUT: Lebanon woke up to a new of funding. This has left little room for an Iran exceeds national newspaper on stands yesterday, independent press. Nida Al-Watan, or Call even after a series of prominent dailies have of the Nation, is funded by Lebanese busi- enriched uranium disappeared from print over the past three nessman Michel Mecattaf who unsuccess- years. Nida Al-Watan, a 16-page publica- fully ran for a seat in parliament during last tion to be printed six days a week, could be year’s polls. He was formerly a member of stockpile limit seen on newsstands and in libraries. “The the Christian Kataeb party and is affiliated newspaper has a goal and champions a with a US- and Saudi-backed alliance that TEHRAN: Iran said yesterday it had exceeded a limit cause, which is, in brief, the sovereignty of became known as March 14. on its enriched uranium reserves under a 2015 nuclear Lebanon,” editor-in-chief Bechara Charbel The launch of Nida Al-Watan comes dur- BEIRUT: A man reads the headlines yesterday of the first issue of Nidaa Al- deal that has edged towards collapse as the US impos- told AFP. It would notably address corrup- ing a time of crisis for Lebanon’s print media. Watan, a new daily newspaper published in Lebanon. — AFP es a “maximum pressure” campaign. Russia voiced tion, foreign meddling in internal politics, Continued on Page 24 regret but said it was a consequence of the US pres- sure, while Britain urged Iran “to avoid any further steps away” from the landmark deal. “Iran has crossed phenomena,” he said. “It’s incredible.” the 300-kilogram limit based on its plan” announced in Freak hail storm Guadalajara, located north of Mexico May, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told City and with a population of around five semi-official news agency ISNA. million, has been experiencing summer tem- The United States withdrew from the nuclear deal hits Mexican city perature of around 31 Centigrade in recent last year and reimposed biting sanctions on Iran’s cru- days. While seasonal hail storms do occur, cial oil exports and financial transactions as well as oth- of Guadalajara there is no record of anything so heavy. At er sectors. Tehran, which has sought to pressure the least six neighborhoods in the city outskirts remaining parties to save the deal, on May 8 announced woke up to ice pellets up to two meters it would no longer respect the limit set on its enriched GUADALAJARA, Mexico: A freak hail deep. While children scampered around and uranium and heavy water stockpiles. It also threatened storm on Sunday struck Guadalajara, one of hurled iceballs at each other, Civil to go further and abandon more nuclear commitments Mexico’s most populous cities, shocking Protection personnel and soldiers brought unless the remaining partners - Britain, China, France, residents and trapping vehicles in a deluge out heavy machinery to clear the roads. Germany and Russia - helped it to circumvent sanc- of ice pellets up to two meters deep. “I’ve Nearly 200 homes and businesses tions, especially to sell its oil. never seen such scenes in Guadalajara,” reported hail damage, and at least 50 In his comments published yesterday, Zarif said Iran said the state governor, Enrique Alfaro.

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