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King's Absence Signals Saudi Discontent with Iran Policy SUBSCRIPTION TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2015 RAJJAB 23, 1436 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Anti-vaxxers Cameron ‘Jon Stewart Rickie Fowler in Kuwait face unveils new of Egypt’ eyes delivers major jail, fines under cabinet after new plan after performance new child3 law election7 win Harvard14 stint to17 win Players King’s absence signals Saudi Min 26º discontent with Iran policy Max 37º High Tide 06:15 & 17:15 Amir arrives in Washington • Most Gulf rulers skip US summit Low Tide 12:15 40 PAGES NO: 16518 150 FILS DUBAI: It is not just the Saudi king who will be skipping the Camp David summit of US and allied Arab leaders. Saudis, Kuwait Most Gulf heads of state won’t be there. The absences will put a damper on talks that are designed to reassure to shut Wafra key Arab allies, and almost certainly reflect dissatisfac- tion among leaders of the six-member Gulf Cooperation joint oilfield Council with Washington’s handling of Iran and what they expect to get out of the meeting. Among those KUWAIT: Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have decided to who will be at the summit is Kuwait’s Amir HH Sheikh shut the second oilfield in the neutral zone, effec- Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, who arrived at Andrews Air tively halting output in the area which produced Force Base yesterday. Also, Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim 500,000 barrels of oil, an official said yesterday. “A bin Hamad Al-Thani departed yesterday to take part in decision has been taken today to shut operations the meeting. at Wafra oilfield... for two weeks for periodical Rulers of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, maintenance,” head of the trade union of Kuwait Bahrain and Oman never publicly announced they Gulf Oil Co (KGOC) Fadghoush Al-Ajmi told AFP. would attend the summit - so officially at least, there KGOC and Saudi Arabian Chevron jointly run the was no reversal of plans. However, White House Wafra field which produced 184,000 barrels yester- spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters in Washington day, Ajmi said. At one stage, the oilfield produced last Monday that Saudi King Salman had formally around 220,000 barrels per day (bpd), he said. accepted the invitation to meet with President Barack In October, Saudi Arabia halted production in Obama ahead of the summit. the offshore Khafji oilfield, also in the neutral zone, Late on Sunday, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al- which produced more than 300,000 bpd. An oil Jubeir announced that newly installed Salman will not industry source told AFP that the closure in Wafra is be attending. The ostensible reason was because the upcoming summit on Thursday coincides with a due to a row between the two Gulf neighbors, and humanitarian ceasefire in the conflict in Yemen, where a that periodical maintenance is a “diplomatic term” Saudi-led coalition is fighting Shiite rebels known as used as a cover. “The production may not resume Houthis. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, who is soon unless the two nations find a solution to their also interior minister, will lead the Saudi delegation and row” which began in 2009, the source told AFP, the king’s son, Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin requesting anonymity. WASHINGTON: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah waves as he arrives at Andrews Air Salman, who is defense minister, will also attend. Continued on Page 13 Force Base yesterday. —KUNA Continued on Page 13 Dashti files to grill FM over Yemen Govt ‘has nothing to hide’ By B Izzak “sectarian” and Saadun Hammad dis- missed it as “born dead”, while others KUWAIT: In a surprising move, Shiite MP vowed to oppose it because it is “mean- Govt agrees to Abdulhameed Dashti yesterday filed to ingless”. grill Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al- Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs set up company Khaled Al-Sabah over Kuwait’s participa- Sheikh Mohammad Al-Abdullah Al- tion in the Saudi-led air campaign Sabah said late yesterday interpellations to recruit maids against Yemen’s Shiite Houthi militias are the constitutional right of MPs as and a number of other issues. In a long as they serve national interest. “We By B Izzak lengthy grilling, Dashti, who was taken to are working in daylight and we will not court by the foreign ministry for insulting abandon our role in any circumstances... KUWAIT: The government has accepted a propos- Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, also accused especially during the critical and sensi- al to set up a company to recruit domestic helpers the foreign minister for pushing the tive circumstances in our region,” Sheikh and replace a large number of recruitment offices National Assembly to ratify the Gulf secu- Mohammad, also Acting Foreign Minister with the aim to cut expenses, member of the rity pact, saying the pact violates the and Defense Minister, told KUNA. “The KUWAIT: Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Mohammad Al-Abdullah National Assembly’s financial and economic affairs constitution. constitution of Kuwait is clear and the Al-Sabah and former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad attend a committee MP Ahmad Lari said. Lari said the min- There are just seven Shiite MPs in lawmaker should exercise his legislative two-day Gulf Leaders’ Summit yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat istries of interior, social affairs and labor and Kuwait’s 50-seat parliament, where sev- and supervision role in order to benefit health, besides the Kuwait Investment Authority eral MPs swiftly rejected Dashti’s move. the national interest. and union of cooperative societies have accepted Independent Mansoor Al-Dhafiri called it Continued on Page 13 Call for leadership the establishment of the company. Stakes of the proposed company will be distrib- uted to those agencies and citizens will be in turbulent world allowed to subscribe to a portion of the shares, the lawmaker said. He said the company aims at KUWAIT: Administrative skills and abili- teristic of the region, a matter that neces- improving the process of recruiting maids from ties of special nature are needed to try to sitates more adherence to national unity abroad at a reasonable and suitable cost and calculate what may happen in the near and GCC solidarity. He stressed that branches of the proposed company will be future in a tumultuous world, Minister of boosting national unity is of maximum opened at various cooperative societies. Lari said State for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh priority so as to get ready for potential KIA has no objection to take a 10 percent stake in Mohammad Al-Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al- problems and work for the future the company, while the rest will be distributed to Sabah said yesterday. The historic events through an ambitious plan, making the region is going through prompt utmost use of the available financial and other partners and citizens. thinking, planning and serious work to human resources. The issue of the company had triggered a con- set a scientific basis for leadership in an Current events in the region highlight troversy in the Assembly after the health and unstable environment, Sheikh the dire need for conscious leaders hav- labor committee initially rejected the proposal. Mohammad told a Gulf Cooperation ing the abilities to handle emergencies, But several MPs voted to refer the proposal to the Council (GCC) event yesterday on behalf calculate potential future happenings financial and economic affairs committee, which of HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al- and design strategies and achieve goals. has not yet given a final opinion on the issue. Mubarak Al-Sabah. The gathering is dis- Since the world is in a state of everlasting Hundreds of maid offices operate in the country, cussing the issue of leading organiza- chaos, it is but natural that stability is but recruitment costs have skyrocketed in the past tions in a turbulent environment. absent all through, which makes it few years. KUWAIT: MP Abdulhameed Dashti (right) submits a grilling motion against Sheikh Mohammad noted that con- inevitable to focus on how to handle Continued on Page 13 Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah to acting speaker Adel Al- flicts and wars have come to be a charac- Continued on Page 13 Khorafi at the National Assembly yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat Houthis ‘down’ Moroccan jet Dad hands ‘lost’ SANAA: Yemeni rebels said yesterday try’s official MAP news agency report- early morning, jets, artillery, and rock- they shot down a fighter jet as Saudi- ed, citing the armed forces. “A second ets have been pounding Saada” from child to police led coalition air strikes intensified a day plane which was flying in formation the Saudi side of the border, one resi- By Hanan Al-Saadoun ahead of a hoped-for five-day humani- was not able to see whether the pilot dent told AFP. The coalition has tarian truce. Morocco announced that ejected,” it added. A Saudi official said declared the entire rebel stronghold of KUWAIT: A citizen yesterday one of its warplanes taking part in the warplane was “certainly on Yemeni Saada province to be a military target dropped off a two-year-old boy operations against the rebels was territory and had a single pilot on after Houthi bombardment of Saudi at a police station, claiming he missing along with its pilot, and that a board.” Houthi rebel television said towns across the border caused sever- had found him in a park. Police search was underway. Coalition air tribesmen shot down a coalition air- al deaths. posted the child’s image on vari- strikes hit Iran-backed rebels in their craft in the Wadi Nushur area of Saada, Aid agencies say some 70,000 civil- ous media, prompting a woman northern stronghold of Saada and in and broadcast pictures of them cele- ians have fled the province bordering to come forward and give them the capital Sanaa, where they sparked brating around the wreckage of a Saudi Arabia, but that many more the name of the boy, which led powerful explosions at an arms depot plane bearing a Moroccan flag.
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