SUBSCRIPTION MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2015 THULQADA 23, 1436 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Schools hiking Netanyahu won’t Veggie meals No pressure fees without allow Israel to for all schools for Hamilton permission be ‘submerged’ a solution in in dominant face closure5 by10 refugees secular28 France? Monza20 win Syrian refugees put Min 28º Max 42º High Tide Gulf under spotlight 05:40 & 20:00 Low Tide Exodus stirs emotions, official silence 13:10 40 PAGES NO: 16633 150 FILS DUBAI: When Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, fellow Gulf Kuwait to raise states raced to shelter thousands of displaced Kuwaitis. Fast forward 25 years, and the homeless from Syria’s near- by war have found scant refuge in the Arab world’s rich- oil output after est states. For critics of the affluent Gulf, the contrast is profoundly unflattering, especially as several are backers double closure of the combatants in Syria’s conflict, so must, they argue, shoulder a special responsibility for its consequences. KUWAIT: Kuwait will raise its oil output by 250,000- The wrenching image of a Syrian Kurdish refugee boy 270,000 barrels a day by the end of the year to drowned on a Turkish beach has stoked debate in make up for production lost from two oilfields the Europe. The official silence makes many Gulf citizens OPEC member shares with Saudi Arabia that were uneasy. Paintings and cartoons of the young boy’s death forced to shut, a Kuwaiti oil industry source said. crowded Arab social media, one depicting little Aylan The Khafji oilfield was shut last year for environ- Continued on Page 15 mental reasons. It had been producing 280,000- 300,000 bpd. The Wafra oilfield closed in May due to operating difficulties. US oil major Chevron oper- New visa system ates the field on behalf of the Saudi government. So far, extra output from Kuwait’s other fields has for Kuwaitis in made up for around 200,000 bpd of the production lost from Wafra and Khafji, the source said, adding April: UK envoy that Kuwait’s total output is almost 2.9 million bpd. KUWAIT: The coming April will be the final date to Kuwait has limited spare production capacity and apply the new electronic visa system for Kuwaiti citi- has therefore been harder hit by the closures than zens, British Ambassador to Kuwait Matthew Lodge Saudi Arabia. Kuwait’s production capacity is esti- has stated. The new system will allow travelers to mated at around 3.2 million bpd, compared to the UK to get their visas within 48 hours through Saudi Arabia’s 12.5 million bpd. In July, Kuwaiti the web portal; however, this new system will not media reported on a leaked letter from Kuwaiti Oil include medical and student visas, he told Al-Rai Minister Ali Al-Omair to his Saudi counterpart Ali Al- newspaper yesterday. He also pointed out that UK Naimi in which he said Riyadh would have to com- KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (right) is received by HH the Crown embassy will host a number of British security and pensate for future losses arising from the closure of Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (left) after he returned home yesterday from a private immigration officials to discuss the new visa system the Khafji oilfield. — Reuters visit to the UK. — KUNA with Kuwaiti authorities next week. — KUNA Turaiji targets Iranian envoy, embassy Tana wants citizenship of cell members revoked By Staff Reporter minister if he knew that the Iranian ambassador was in the intelligence serv- Saudis eye cut KUWAIT: MP Abdullah Al-Turaiji yester- ice and that he was in charge of provid- day targeted the Iranian ambassador to ing support to the Houthi Shiite rebels in in fuel subsidy, Kuwait and the mission with 15 ques- Yemen between 2006 and 2009. tions to the foreign minister asking He also asked if the minister knew explicitly about their role in the alleged that the ambassador was responsible trim expenses terror cell busted by Kuwait last month. for stirring chaos in Bahrain in 2011 and RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s government is cutting Another MP Mohammad Tana, mean- demanded evidence that the minister unnecessary expenses and delaying some projects while called for revoking the citizenship did not know of this fact. to compensate for low oil prices, though projects of the cell members if they are convict- Turaiji asked if a controversial state- that are important for the economy will go ahead, ed in a final court order. MP Ahmad Al- ment issued by the Iranian embassy on Finance Minister Ibrahim Al-Assaf said. His com- Qudhaibi however called for dealing Thursday that ridiculed Kuwaiti authori- ments, made in an interview with broadcaster CNBC with the latest developments away from ties and undermined the country’s sov- SOROCABA, Brazil: Graffiti depicting Aylan Kurdi, a three-year-old Syrian boy Arabia during a visit to Washington with King sectarianism in a bid to diagnose distor- ereignty was something abnormal in who drowned off a Turkish beach, is seen yesterday in this town some 90 km Salman, were the clearest official signal yet that the tions in the country that allowed the diplomatic ties between countries. The from Sao Paulo. — AFP government was reducing expenditure in some penetration of terror ideology. lawmaker asked the minister why the areas as cheap oil slashed its revenues. Turaiji asked the foreign minister if ministry has not summoned the Iranian Failures expose rifts Meanwhile, a newspaper reported Saudi Arabia is the Iranian ambassador Ali Reza was ambassador to protest the statement looking more closely at cutting gasoline subsidies, a expelled by Saudi Arabia or any other that breached Kuwait’s sovereignty. move it has been studying for years, after the United country before he was appointed as the Turaiji inquired if the foreign ministry over Assad’s future Arab Emirates did so last month, with both states Iranian representative in Kuwait. He plans to recall the Kuwaiti ambassador trying to save money in the era of cheaper oil. Saudi asked if the foreign ministry has to Tehran for consultations over the BEIRUT/MOSCOW: While the desperate As a consequence, Syria looks set for ever domestic gasoline prices are some of the lowest in reviewed the CV of the ambassador and case in which Kuwaiti citizens are the world. Allowing them to rise would be one of flight of Syrians from their country’s war was greater fragmentation into a patchwork of ter- his diplomatic career before accepting accused of spying for the Islamic repub- the biggest economic reforms in the country for dominating news bulletins this summer, yet ritories, one of them the diminishing his appointment in the country. The lic. The lawmaker said that local media years and a highly politically sensitive one as many another diplomatic push to end the four- Damascus-based state where Assad appears lawmaker asked the minister if the min- has reported that two Iranian diplomats Saudis rely on cheap fuel. United Arab Emirates let istry knew that the ambassador was in are involved in the case and demanded year-old conflict was quietly running into the confident of survival with backing from his gasoline prices rise 24 percent last month. charge of the “Persian Gulf” affairs at the to know the names of the diplomats sand. That largely unnoticed failure has rein- Russian and Iranian allies. While some Western Assaf said the world’s top oil exporting country forced the view amongst Syria experts that officials say even Assad’s allies now recognise was well-prepared to cope with the plunge of crude Iranian foreign ministry and during that and also asked about the ministry’s there is no solution in sight, with one of the he cannot win back and stabilize Syria, prices since last year, and that Saudi policymakers time he issued highly aggressive and plans toward the embassy after its biggest obstacles a seemingly unbridgeable Moscow is setting out its case for supporting were taking it seriously. hostile statements against Saudi Arabia staff’s involvement in spy rings have international divide over President Bashar Al- him in ever more forthright terms. Continued on Page 15 with regards to a court verdict. been repeated. Assad’s future. Continued on Page 15 In another question, Turaiji asked the Continued on Page 15 Yemen strike boosts coalition resolve US Army’s latest beast DUBAI: The first heavy losses suffered by the conflict with Iran through the proxy of Yemen”. against this Houthis-Saleh alliance is very near Saudi-led coalition in Yemen will only strengthen The rebels have suffered a wave of losses since now,” Alani said, adding that the problem in Yemen its resolve to neutralize the threat posed by Iran- July, when forces loyal to Hadi backed by air strikes for the coalition is Iran more than the rebels them- backed Shiite Houthi rebels, analysts say. On Friday, pushed them out of several regions in south selves. a missile strike on a base killed 45 Emirati soldiers, Yemen, starting with the port city of Aden. The Since the rebel offensive against the UN-backed 10 Saudis and five Bahrainis, the Sunni coalition’s insurgents trumpeted the deadly attack on the Hadi began, it has been seen as a threat to all Gulf highest death toll in a day since it unleashed its air Safer base in Marib province as “revenge for the states, said Alani. Iran was seen to be working campaign in March. “Now there is a determination crimes and the war of extermination being carried towards establishing a proxy in Yemen like the to be even more committed to the objective of sta- out by the Saudi aggressor and its mercenaries”.