RABIA ALTHANI 19, 1441 AH MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2019 28 Pages Max 23º Min 14º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 18011 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net UK opposition chief Corbyn Jamaican crowned Miss World, Inked at the uprising: Woods leads US Presidents Cup 6 ‘sorry’ for election wipeout 19 will work for sustainable change 24 Iraq’s teen tattoo artist 28 fightback to crush Els dream MPs reject any withdrawals from future generations fund $10bn for 2019-20 development plan • Call for curbs on private sector labor support By B Izzak the Assembly has repeatedly warned the gov- should stop squandering public funds, adopt ernment to diversify sources of income measures to boost public revenues and diver- KUWAIT: MPs rejected yesterday the pos- against an almost total dependence on oil for sify sources of income away from oil. Damkhi Applicants for work visas sibility that the government might be com- public revenues and also cautioned the gov- said rejecting to debate the public debt bill pelled to withdraw from the Reserve Fund for ernment to take measures to raise income and was not because of political problems, but Future Generations as suggested by Fitch reduce expenditure. because there were financial sources other now need two PCCs Ratings in a report on Kuwait’s finances. The The lawmaker said that if the government than debt, adding that the Assembly had agency said in the report that the government had adopted a prudent financial policy to asked the government to specify where the KUWAIT: The interior ministry has the forensics department in Kuwait could be forced to withdraw from the fund to raise and diversify revenues and cut spending, debts would have been spent. He said he is stipulated that anyone coming to and should also be less than three meet a growing budget deficit amid low oil the country would not have reached this opposed to any withdrawal from the future Kuwait to work for the first time must months old. The Civil Service prices and the depletion of the state reserve stage. The report comes amid warnings that generations fund because there are other produce two certificates showing a Commission told government depart- fund, which the government normally taps in the state reserve fund is running out of money avenues to get money, adding that the gov- clean criminal record. The first police ments that the interior ministry said case of need. faster than expected. It also comes after the ernment must collect its debts. clearance certificate (PCC) must be any expatriate who applies for a Head of the National Assembly’s financial National Assembly refused to debate a draft Head of the Assembly’s budgets committee from their country, authenticated by work visa in the government sector and economic affairs committee MP Safa Al- law allowing the government to seek debt. MP Adnan Abdulsamad called yesterday for the Kuwaiti embassy if present, and must submit the two certificates to Hashem categorically rejected the suggestion, Hashem said that the bill was not debated regulating financial aid given by the govern- should be obtained no more than guarantee they have a clean record saying no funds can be withdrawn from the because government officials did not have ment to encourage Kuwaitis to seek jobs in three months before entering Kuwait. and have not been convicted before future generations fund because it is exclu- answers to where the loans would be spent. the private sector. The other PCC must be issued by for a crime. — Al-Qabas sively for the next generations. She said that MP Adel Al-Damkhi said the government Continued on Page 24 presence. President Bolsonaro in January UN climate talks a Brazil opens pledged to follow US President Donald Trump’s controversial step and relocate his country’s embassy from Tel Aviv. The ‘lost opportunity’ trade center Brazilian head of state visited Israel in March, when he announced his country’s A major climate summit wrapped up in Madrid MADRID: in Jerusalem intention to open a trade office in the dis- yesterday with a compromise deal that left little to show, puted city. prompting UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to JERUSALEM: Brazil opened a trade Israel claims all of Jerusalem as its lament a “lost opportunity” to act. Almost a fortnight of office in Jerusalem yesterday, in a cere- capital, while Palestinians view east COP25 talks just squeezed out hard-earned compromises mony attended by President Jair Jerusalem as the capital of its own future from countries over a global warming battle plan that fell Bolsonaro’s son and Israel’s Prime state. Virtually all countries maintain well short of what science says is needed to tackle the cli- Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. their embassies in the city of Tel Aviv, mate crisis. Speaking at the ceremony, Eduardo insisting Jerusalem’s status be defined “I am disappointed with the results of COP25,” Bolsonaro, a lawmaker, said his father through Israeli-Palestinian peace negoti- Guterres said. “The international community lost an impor- intended to make good on a pledge he ations. The United States broke with that tant opportunity to show increased ambition on mitigation, made early this year to move Brazil’s decades-long consensus in May 2018 adaptation and finance to tackle the climate crisis.” The embassy in Israel from the city of Tel and relocated its Israeli embassy to summit’s final declaration “expresses the urgent need” for Aviv to Jerusalem. Jerusalem, with only Guatemala follow- new carbon cutting commitments to close the gap between “He told me that for sure - it’s a com- ing suit so far. Paraguay made the move current emissions and the Paris treaty goal of capping tem- mitment - he’s going to move the embassy but later backtracked. Hungary has also JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends with his wife perature at below two degrees, host country Spain said. to Jerusalem, he’s going to do that,” the opened a trade office in Jerusalem. Sara and Brazilian Federal Deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro (right) the opening cere- Continued on Page 24 younger Bolsonaro said, in Netanyahu’s Continued on Page 24 mony of the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency yesterday. — AFP interests and a common enemy - Iran. An Israeli pavil- itors”. Concept videos of the pavilion reveal stairs lead- Israel eyes Dubai ion at an Arab-hosted expo presents a unique opportu- ing up a representation of a sand dune. Described as a nity to speed up the “normalization” of relations and “pavilion with no walls and no borders”, the stairs are reach out to Arab peoples, officials say. “To us, the arched by large LED screens showing images of differ- expo as ‘portal’ added value is in the Arab and Muslim visitor,” said ent aspects of Israeli society. Elazar Cohen, the Israeli foreign ministry’s pointman for The aim, Knafo said, is to symbolize Israel’s transfor- to Arab world the expo, which is organized by the Paris-based Bureau mation of its deserts through culture and technology, International des Expositions (BIE). hinting at the possibility that other desert lands could TEL AVIV: With the world’s largest trade fair opening So far public overtures between Israel and Arab do the same. An auditorium below the pavilion will offer in an Arab country for the first time next year, Israel is nations have been cautious, but notable, with Israeli visitors an interactive multimedia experience, the for- stepping up preparations, hoping to boost nascent ties athletes and officials increasingly allowed into Gulf eign ministry’s director general Yuval Rotem told AFP. It with regional neighbors. The Dubai Expo 2020 trade countries. The expo is “a unique meeting between cul- aims to showcase “the Israeli spirit and culture” in fair will gather nearly 200 countries vying for the tures and languages and people who don’t routinely innovations and developments from fields such as attention of a projected 25 million visitors over nearly meet”, said David Knafo, the Tel Aviv-based architect water, medicine and information technology, he said. six months from October. Like most Arab countries, the behind the design of Israel’s pavilion. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has described United Arab Emirates has no diplomatic relations with Designed to reflect Israel’s sense of belonging to the the Israeli expo pavilion as part of “the continued Israel. region as well as the openness the Jewish state seeks to progress of normalization with the Arab states”. Past TEL AVIV: Israeli architect David Knafo, who designed But the Jewish state has been quietly moving closer broadcast to its Arab neighbors, “the pavilion is there- Israeli leaders saw peace with the Palestinians as the Israel’s pavilion for the Expo 2020 Dubai, speaks during to Gulf Arab countries on the basis of shared security fore an open space - a living room to host the expo vis- Continued on Page 24 an interview in his Aviv office on Nov 28, 2019. — AFP will continue to protest. India is a democracy and the 6 dead in protests government has to listen to us,” said Karan Mili, a col- league of one of the victims, 25-year-old Iswor Nayak, who died yesterday. “We don’t want violence but against Indian protests will continue... Assamese will not stop until government revokes the law,” another demonstrator, citizenship law Pratima Sharma, told AFP. Officials said oil and gas production in the state were GUWAHATI, India: Angry protesters in northeast hit by the curfew, although the restrictions were eased India vowed yesterday to keep demonstrating against a during the day yesterday with some shops opening.