SUBSCRIPTION TUESDAY, JULY 25, 2017 THULQADA 2, 1438 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Consumption Blast kills Kushner says ‘Trapped’ of water in at least 25, met Russians Tomic says he Kuwait hits injures dozens four times, has no love record rate3 in Lahore6 denies11 collusion for16 the game Iran ambassador to remain in Min 31º Kuwait as ties downgraded Max 49º High Tide 01:40 & 12:25 Low Tide MP proposes tough penalties for Hezbollah supporters 07:03 & 19:59 32 PAGES NO: 17288 150 FILS By B Izzak and Agencies TEHRAN/KUWAIT: Iran said yesterday it was disap- Qatar, Turkey praise Kuwait mediation pointed at Kuwait’s decision to reduce the number of Iranian diplomats in the country, but said its ambassa- DOHA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan dor would remain. Kuwait announced last week that 15 arrived in Doha yesterday as part of a Gulf tour Iranian diplomats would have to leave within six weeks aimed at defusing a dispute between Turkey’s ally in response to the conviction of a “terror” cell with Qatar and a bloc of Saudi-led Arab states. Erdogan alleged links to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. “We was greeted by Qatari ruler Emir Sheikh Tamim bin did not expect this from Kuwait,” foreign ministry Hamad Al-Thani ahead of their first face-to-face talks spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said, according to the on the Gulf crisis, state news agency QNA reported. IRNA news agency. Sheikh Tamim and Erdogan both backed Kuwait’s “We have always maintained positive relations with mediation efforts to resolve the dispute during the Kuwait in the...Gulf region. The action by the country talks aimed at discussing regional and international was not nice... but we can still continue conversations developments, particularly on efforts to resolve the and contacts,” he added. Ghasemi confirmed that Iran’s feud through “dialogue and diplomacy”, QNA said. ambassador would remain in Kuwait, a question which The visit was focused on “developments in Syria had remained unclear when the move was announced and Iraq, the fight against terrorism ... and the impor- on Thursday. Kuwait also told Iran’s cultural and military tance of protecting countries’ sovereign rights”, missions to shut down, following the court case. Iran Erdogan’s spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said in Doha. responded to the expulsions by filing a complaint with Turkey has sided with Qatar in the crisis, the worst to the Kuwaiti charge d’affaires. hit the region since the 1981 establishment of the Kuwait’s cassation court last week convicted 21 peo- six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council. On June 5, ple of belonging to a cell trained and formed by the Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Revolutionary Guards - an allegation which Iran said Bahrain suspended diplomatic and economic ties was “baseless”. Kuwait, which has a sizeable Shiite with Qatar over allegations that Doha had too close majority, has had tense relations with Iran, although it ties with Iran and supported Islamist extremist has tried to act more as a mediator in regional disputes. groups. Qatar has denied the allegations. DOHA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his wife Emine Erdogan are welcomed by Emir of Qatar Sheikh Kuwait greatly reduced its diplomatic presence in Continued on Page 11 Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani at Doha International Airport at the start of his official visit to Qatar yesterday. — AFP Tehran last year after its ally Saudi Arabia completely Continued on Page 11 LOCAL TUESDAY, JULY 25, 2017 His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah bids farewell to KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah sees off Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. — KUNA Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Turkish President concludes official visit to Kuwait KUWAIT: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his accompa- nying delegation left Kuwait yes- terday, concluding an official vis- it to the country. He was seen off at the airport by His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al- Ghanem and His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al- Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. Also at President Erdogan’s farewell were First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al- Hamad Al-Sabah, Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Sheikh Mohammad Khaled Al- Hamad Al-Sabah, Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah Al- Sabah, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Anas Al- Saleh, Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs and Acting Information Minister Mohammad Al-Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al- His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al- First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah, as well as senior military National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem bids farewell to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Hamad Al-Sabah bids farewell to Turkish President Recep Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah bids farewell to Turkish and state officials.— KUNA Tayyip Erdogan. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Kuwait, Turkish FMs discuss regional developments KUWAIT: Kuwait’s First Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al- Sabah held talks with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on regional and international developments. The meeting, held on sidelines of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit on Sunday, also touched upon ways of boosting bilateral relations in differ- ent domains. The meeting was attended by Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs and Acting Information Minister Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah Al- Sabah, Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Al-Jarallah, Assistant Foreign Minister for Europe Waleed Al-Khubaizi, Assistant Foreign Minister for the minister’s office Ambassador Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Sabah and Kuwait KUWAIT: Kuwait’s First Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Ambassador to Turkey Ghassan Al- Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah meets with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Zawawi. — KUNA Cavusoglu. — KUNA Limiting oil production improved markets in 2017: Kuwaiti oil minister SAINT PETERSBURG: The joint min- rels daily in Q3 and Q4 of 2017. Vienna to cut production by around isterial committee on monitoring In the meantime, Russian Minister 1.2 million barrels per day (bpd), or world oil market has seen vital of Energy Alexander Novak said that over three percent, to 32.5 million achievements in limiting production committing to the limiting deal led bpd. Non-OPEC producers voluntari- this year, said head of the committee to an increase of investments in oil ly decided to reduce output by Essam Al-Marzouq. In his speech at industries. In November 2016, OPEC 600,000 bpd. Russia alone made a the committee’s meeting in Saint members concluded a deal in 300,000-bpd-cut. —KUNA Petersburg yesterday, Marzouq; Kuwait’s Minister of Oil and Minister of Electricity and Water, hailed the commitment of all countries to the oil production cut agreement to keep stable the oil market. The agreement reduced the rate of oil reserve down to 90 million barrels in 2017, Marzouq noted. He added that some countries went below the production rate agreed upon; a step much appreciated by the committee, according to him. Meanwhile, the minister noted that despite the limiting proce- dures, the reserve rate in oil con- suming countries still exceeded demand by 250 million barrels. Countries need to exert further efforts in executing the terms of the nine-month deal in order to keep prices stable, he said. Marzouq also SAINT PETERSBURG: Kuwait’s Oil Minister Essam Al-Marzouq attends the noted that demand on oil is expect- joint ministerial committee on monitoring world oil market meeting in ed to reach about two million bar- Saint Petersburg. — KUNA TUESDAY, JULY 25, 2017 LOCAL Mubarakiya Market keeps tradition Local Spotlight alive as modernity looms large Germany today - Part I KUWAIT: Kuwait’s venerable Al- remain intact. He pointed out that the Mubarakiya Market should never lose its historic market has long beguiled visi- aura of heritage despite a slew of devel- tors through its nostalgic ambiance, opment projects that have sprung up in even as plans to expand the facility con- the area, a municipal official said yester- tinue to move full steam. Named after day. Osama Al-Otaibi, a member of Kuwait’s seventh ruler and founding Kuwait’s Municipal Council, said that father Sheikh Mubarak Al-Sabah, the By Muna Al-Fuzai names given to roads that meander market is highly reminiscent of old through what had once been the epi- bazars with vintage products and center of the nation’s trade, would restaurants available. —KUNA [email protected] aintaining and protecting cultural her- itage in Germany and in the world” was KUWAIT: Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Al-Jarallah meets with Austrian “Mthe theme of my weeklong tour of Ambassador to Kuwait Sigurd Pacher. — KUNA Germany. The trip was at the invitation of the German Federal Foreign Office that brought togeth- er many participants from around the world. I was Deputy Foreign Minister invited as part of the visitors program. I would like to share with Kuwait Times’ readers meets Austria’s ambassador an insight of my experiences in Germany. Before fly- ing to the country, I thought I was familiar with KUWAIT: Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled his country’s support for the efforts exerted German culture, but I was wrong - what I knew was Al-Jarallah held talks yesterday with by Kuwait to boost relations within the GCC merely a drop in the ocean. This cultural trip was a Austrian Ambassador to Kuwait Sigurd bloc. The meeting was attended by vivid lesson on how Germany has today become a Pacher, on bilateral relations and the latest Assistant Foreign Minister for the Deputy great and powerful nation and was able to preserve regional as well as international develop- Foreign Minister’s Office Affairs KUWAIT: Abdullah Al-Salem Street in Al-Mubarakiya Market.