Pages 15 & 16 THE FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE DAILY IN FREE KUWAIT Page 9 olympics Established in 1977 / www.arabtimesonline.com markets THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 2021 / ZUL-HIJJAH 26, 1442 AH emergency number 112 NO. 17755 16 PAGES 150 FILS DAESH threat to global peace rising UN warns Opinion UNITED NATIONS, Aug 4, (AP): U.N. Sec- retary-General An- Governments of ‘there’s nothing in this country but this boy’ tonio Guterres says in a new report that the threat to interna- By Ahmed Al-Jarallah tional peace and secu- Editor-in-Chief, the Arab Times rity from the Islamic IS there a Deep State that is working State extremist group on sabotaging Kuwait and creating a is rising, pointing to an rift between the state and the people? Or has the executive authority lost its “alarming” expansion bearings, as it hardly comes out of a of its affiliates in Africa hole until it falls into another deeper and its focus on a come- one? back in its former self- It seems that the enemies of change are stronger than everyone; they win declared “caliphate” in because they are always mobilized Syria and Iraq. to abort any development project. It The report to the U.N. Secu- seems as if Kuwaitis were destined rity Council, which was circu- to get out of this era and dwell in the lated Tuesday, said DAESH and corridors of seclusion forever. Are the other terrorist groups have taken advantage of “the disruption, enemies of Kuwait’s renaissance pow- grievances and development set- erful to such an extent? backs” caused by the COVID-19 Isn’t it time for us to come out to pandemic, both on the ground light, open up, and revitalize the econ- and online. omy like the way it is happening not While lockdowns in non-con- only in all the countries of the region, flict areas suppressed terrorist but also the entire world? activity, in conflict areas where Indeed, the knife has reached the pandemic restrictions have less bone due to the lack of awareness impact the threat from IS, also about the magnitude of the loss in- known by its Arabic acronym curred by everyone, including the Daesh, “has already increased,” society, education sector, and the Guterres said. national economy, which is increas- Elevated ingly shrinking after the expulsion of foreign investment and with the mi- “As pandemic-related restric- gration of the national investment. So tions gradually ease, there is where do you want our country to go? an elevated near-term threat of Daesh-inspired attacks outside Opening the borders to tourism conflict zones by lone actors or means revitalizing the economy as a small groups that have been radi- whole including hotels, restaurants, A photo taken from a helicopter shows burning forest near tourist resort of Marmaris, Mugla, Turkey, Aug. 3. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s calized, incited and possibly di- and even taxis and the retail sector. government is facing increased criticism over its apparent poor response and inadequate preparedness for large-scale wildfires that have left eight people rectly remotely online,” he said. However, we do not understand the dead and forced thousands to flee their homes. (AP) The U.N. chief said this exem- wisdom behind preventing the is- plifies a wider and evolving risk suance of tourist visas. It seems as from the accelerated use of digi- if Kuwait is the Garden of Eden that Conference raises $357mn tal technologies during the pan- only the pious can enter, hence the demic, and the potential for “new rigorous vetting. The transit industry Other Voices and emerging technologies to be has become a mainstay in the national used for terrorist purposes.” income of many countries, as visas are In assessing the Islamic State’s granted at airports. Kuwait stands with Lebanon threat, Guterres said its leader, Amir Muhammad Sa’id Abdal- People are allowed to visit most of Human hopes, aspirations KUWAIT CITY, Aug 4, (Agencies): Ku- the Gulf countries. In Dubai, for ex- Rahman al-Mawla, “remains wait’s Prime Minister His Highness Sheikh reluctant to communicate di- ample, the number of passengers tran- By Ali Ahmed Al-Baghli Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah said on siting through its airport has reached Former Minister of Oil rectly with supporters,” and “the Wednesday his country stands alongside Newswatch group’s command and control about 60 million annually. In Bahrain, was and I am still interested in the field of human rights. I served as Min- Lebanon a year after a devastating port blast over its global affiliates has loos- 14 million passengers pass through its left much of its capital city in ruin. Iister of Oil from October 1992 to April 1994. ened, even though it continues airport annually, and about 40 million When I left the Ministry of Oil, I returned to the National Assembly “We meet today a year after the Beirut KUWAIT CITY: Expatriates from high- to provide guidance and some transit passengers annually in Qatar. because I was an MP and an elected minister. I went to the office of then port blast to demonstrate our support for risk countries for corona are not allowed financial support.” As for outside the region, there is Speaker of the Assembly Ahmed Abdul Aziz Al-Saadoun who asked me the Lebanese people who have suffered to enter Kuwait; except the doctors, diplo- He said the autonomy of re- Turkey where its government saw a which of the parliamentary committees I would like to work in. I told him: a lot,” the Kuwaiti prime minister said mats or those who obtained an entry per- gional affiliates has strength- decrease in the number of tourists, and The Finance Committee in my capacity as Minister of Oil -- the only source amid the virtually held third Paris inter- mit from the Corona Committee, reports ened especially in West Africa decided to issue an order for visitors of Kuwait’s funds, and the Human Rights Committee. national conference, coinciding with the Al-Anba daily quoting governmental and the Sahel, East and Central to obtain an entry visa at the airport. Al-Saadoun was astonished by my last wish and asked me: What does oil anniversary of the “painful” incident. sources. Africa, Afghanistan and South Subsequently, the tourism sector flour- have to do with human rights? I told him that prior to working at the minis- On the talks, he said it was a “show Sources disclosed the Ministry of Asia. This evolution will be an ished, and eventually the rest of the try and the Public Prosecution, I practiced the legal profession -- a profession of solidarity” to prove the international Health specifi ed the high-risk countries important factor in Daesh’s fu- sectors. Now the Kingdom of Saudi connected to the achievement and promotion of human rights. community’s support for Lebanon, citing as follows: India, Nepal, Pakistan, ture global impact, he quoted The chairman of the committee at the time was distinguished MP Mu- a previous sum of USD 30 million Ku- Bangladesh and Sri Lanka; noting that unidentified U.N. member states Arabia is issuing tourist visas from the hammad Al-Murshed; while the distinguished members included Dr Ahmed the decision to allow travelers from these airport or electronically. wait is donating to push reconstruction as saying. Al-Khatib, Abdullah Al-Nibari and others whose names I no longer remem- efforts in the country. countries to enter directly will be speci- Member states also assess that As for Kuwait, about 40 years ago, ber. fi ed in circulars that the ministry will is- the governments yielded to the tenden- A powerful port blast rocked the Leba- the extremist group “will con- Then, I left the Assembly and joined the Human nese capital Beirut a year ago, causing sue later. tinue to prioritize regrouping and cies of the MPs of the Muslim Broth- On increasing the number of passen- Rights Society, which was working without a li- large-scale destruction in a country al- seeking resurgence” in Iraq and erhood Group or other Islamists, and cense at the time. The late Jassem Al-Qatami used ready in the throes of its worst economic gers arriving at Kuwait International to preside over our meetings at the Kuwaiti Gradu- Airport to more than 5,000 daily; sources Syria as its core area of opera- imposed on visitors restrictions that crisis in decades. tions, he said. only exist in the Taliban state. We thus ates Society. disclosed the airport has not reached the The French presidency said an interna- current maximum as the number of ar- The 16-page report, prepared started seeing an economic decline After we were licensed on the condition that no tional conference on Lebanon has gath- government aid is requested and with the permis- rivals in the last few days did not exceed by Security Council counter- that was later aggravated by the unre- ered over $357 million in aid required to terrorism committee and by ex- alistic precautionary measures to fight sion of the fundamentalist brothers (Salaf Broth- 3,000 per day. ers) to establish another Kuwaiti society for human meet the country’s humanitarian needs, ❑ ❑ ❑ perts monitoring sanctions on the COVID-19 crisis, which struck the rights, we worked hard to achieve human rights one year after the massive explosion at the Islamic State, said the group last hope of a possible rise. and respect its principles in Kuwait. When Jassim Beirut’s port. KUWAIT CITY: The Ministry of Health remains active in wide swaths of The infrastructure in Kuwait can Al-Qatami was transferred to the mercy of God, I Wednesday’s virtual conference, co- plans to vaccinate all those who are regis- Syria, where it is seeking to re- accommodate 20 to 30 million visi- became the president of the society for several years.