THULHIJJA 3, 1440 AH SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 2019 28 Pages Max 47º Min 31º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 17899 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Scientific Center expansion to Thousands flee Kashmir Demise of US-Russia nuclear Mbappe magic, Di Maria free kick 4 advance knowledge, science 6 after ‘terror’ warning 24 treaty fuels fears of arms race 28 help PSG claim Champions Trophy Iraq ‘identifies’ remains of 32 Kuwaitis found in mass grave Kuwait cautious, says more tests needed to determine their identity BAGHDAD/KUWAIT: The Iraqi for- Hussein. Iraq will spare no effort for eign ministry declared on Friday “identi- determining the fate of the other missing Kuwait, Iraq sign contract to exploit shared oilfields fying” remains of 32 Kuwaiti prisoners Kuwaitis and “what has been discovered who were found in a mass grave in South recently depicts continuation of the AMMAN: Kuwait and Iraq signed in the Iraq months ago. The ministry efforts that has led to information about Jordanian capital a contract for conducting a spokesperson, Ahmad Al-Sahaf, said in a the remains”, he said. technical study for joint frontier oilfields. Both statement that the “Iraqi technical team But Kuwaiti Assistant Foreign neighboring countries picked British energy tasked with the file of the missing Minister for International Organizations advisory firm ERC Equipoise (ERCE) to deter- Kuwaitis and prisoners was able, in Nasser Al-Hayyen said later on Friday mine the optimal way to invest into and tap cooperation with the Red Cross, to that more examinations are required to their shared oilfields. The contract was inked locate the mass grave in the Governorate determine the identity of the 32 bodies. by Acting Undersecretary of the Kuwaiti Oil of Al-Muthanna on March 6”. The grave “Knowing about the identities of the Ministry Sheikh Talal Nasser Al-Sabah and the contained 46 human corpses, he said, exhumed bodies needs further examina- Iraqi Oil Ministry’s petroleum contracts and adding that preliminary DNA examina- tions,” Hayyen told KUNA, noting that licensing directorate chief Abdulmahdi Al- tion revealed that 32 of them were of Iraq recently sent to Kuwait results of Ameedi. Kuwaitis who had been missing. the DNA tests it carried out on the bod- Speaking to KUNA following the signing, The ministry spokesperson also said in ies. He pointed out that Kuwait has pre- Sheikh Talal said the agreement came at the the statement that Iraq would cooperate sented an official request to Iraq to behest of HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- with Kuwaiti authorities to transfer the receive the recovered bodies to carry Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, who had instructed remains to Kuwait and provide proper out its own tests and compare the results the creation of vistas of cooperation with Iraq. support for forthcoming tasks in the case. with its DNA database of Kuwaiti POWs He added the contract with the British adviso- AMMAN: Acting Undersecretary of the Kuwaiti Oil Ministry Sheikh Talal Nasser Al-Sabah and Sahaf has affirmed that Iraq is seeking and missing people. ry firm aims at carrying out a technical study Iraqi Oil Ministry’s petroleum contracts and licensing directorate chief Abdulmahdi Al- with utter concern to end ramifications of Recognizing the identities of the on the most effective way to capitalize on oil- Ameedi sign a contract on border oilfields on Friday. — KUNA this humanitarian tragedy that involved recovered bodies is the sole responsibility fields, expecting the study to be completed in Kuwaiti brothers in the beginning of the of Kuwait’s General Department of two and a half years at most. spoke highly of the contract as the “fruit of six of working in shared frontier oilfields. “Saddami invasion of their country in Criminal Evidence, which has the com- He said pursuant to the contract, the British years of efforts exerted by both countries’ Ameedi said the meetings would be a sig- 1990 and determine the destiny of the plete DNA database related to POWs company would conduct studies on border working teams”. On scheduled meetings by nificant step towards the determination of the missing and Kuwaiti prisoners”. and missing people, he clarified. He oilfields between Kuwait and Iraq and techni- both sides and the British advisory firm yester- optimum means to capitalize on joint oilfields. He was alluding to the Aug 2, 1990 affirmed that once the identity of any cal and legal mechanisms for tapping and day, he said these technical meetings are main- Speaking to KUNA, the Iraqi official said the invasion carried out by troops of the exe- body is known, their family would be investing in these oilfields. The Kuwaiti official ly intended to mull the scope and mechanisms Continued on Page 24 cuted Iraqi ruler at the time, Saddam notified. — KUNA ern Christian tradition and pray in News in brief Erdogan lays Aramaic, which Jesus is believed to have spoken. Erdogan said he hoped the con- Rights council visits detained bedoons struction of the Syriac Orthodox Mor stone for first Ephrem Church would be completed KUWAIT: A delegation of the National Diwan within two years. He had ordered the for Human Rights has visited the central prison new church Istanbul metropolitan municipality to inspecting conditions of detained bedoons find space for the building in 2009 while (stateless residents). Yousef Al-Sagr, a board ANKARA: President Recep Tayyip he was prime minister. It is being built on member, said in a statement yesterday that the Erdogan yesterday laid the foundation land belonging to the Latin Catholic delegation met the detainees for four hours on stone for the first new church in Turkey Church and which is part of an Italian Thursday. They examined their conditions, since it became a modern republic in cemetery, the head of the Beyoglu Virgin inquired about their interrogations and listened 1923. The church in the Istanbul suburb Mary Syriac Orthodox Church to their remarks. They met the detainees individ- of Yesilkoy will serve the 17,000-strong Foundation in Istanbul, Sait Susin, said. ually, he said, indicating that reports would be Syriac Christian community, which is In recent years, Turkey has restored filed to competent state authorities, calling for a also paying for the new building. “It is and reopened churches but the Islamic- permanent solution to this issue. The government the Turkish republic’s duty to meet the rooted government has been criticized has affirmed necessity of cooperation between need for space to worship for the Syriac for trying to Islamicize the official secu- the executive and legislative authorities to find a community, who are the ancient children lar country. Christian minorities includ- ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (center), Syriac (Assyrian) “fundamental and decisive” solution to the prob- of this geography,” Erdogan said during ing Armenians have also complained of Orthodox Patriarch Yusuf Cetin (left) and Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople lem of illegal residents. — KUNA the stone-laying ceremony. being treated as second-class citizens in Bartholomew I pose during the stone-laying ceremony of modern Turkey’s first Syriac Christians are part of the east- Continued on Page 24 church in the Yesilkoy district yesterday. — AFP Trump invited Zarif to White House the trapped trash panda in Newton, Massachussets. WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump No ‘Guardian of Firefighters were dispatched when a passing cyclist Praise, ire as Saudi invited Iran’s foreign minister to the White House saw the raccoon clinging desperately to the grill, head last month at the height of tensions between the the Galaxy’: US and tiny paws visible through the metal struts, local Arabia eases travel two countries, a magazine reports. The invitation, media reported. “We sent a fire truck and we tried to extended by Senator Rand Paul with permission remove his head from the sewer grate with soap and from the president, was turned down for now, The raccoon goes viral water,” said Newton Fire Lieutenant Michael Bianchi. curbs on women New Yorker reported Friday. The minister, When that failed, the firefighters called in local govern- RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s easing of travel restrictions on Mohammad Javad Zarif, said it was up to Tehran to WASHINGTON: He may lack the poise of “Guardians ment animal control experts, who sedated the raccoon, women was hailed in the kingdom Friday as a historic decide on accepting it. Zarif told the magazine he of the Galaxy” superhero Rocket Raccoon but this fur- calming it enough to pull its head out of the grate. leap for gender equality, but it also drew anger from would not want a White House meeting that yield- tive little adventurer is becoming an Internet star in his “It was quite the operation,” said Bianchi. The whole hardliners backing contentious male “guardianship” rules. ed just a photo op and a two page statement after- own right after coming off worse in an encounter with a rescue mission lasted two hours. “We rescue citizens The Muslim kingdom announced it was effectively allow- wards, The New Yorker said. At the one hour storm grate. The mischievous mammal went viral after both big and small!!!” tweeted the Newton fire depart- ing women over the age of 21 to obtain passports and meeting with Paul on July 15, Zarif suggested ways he was snapped by US firefighters managing to look ment. Raccoons, which are omnivorous, live around two travel abroad without securing the permission of their to end the nuclear impasse and address Trump’s simultaneously startled and cute as a button during a to three years in the wild. They are known for their “guardians” - husband, father or other male relatives. concerns, The New Yorker said.