KUWAITI OFFICIAL SAYS NO AID REQUEST FROM

C O N F I D E N T I A L KUWAIT 000295 SIPDIS E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/18/2015 TAGS: EAID PREL JO KU SUBJECT: KUWAITI OFFICIAL SAYS NO AID REQUEST FROM JORDANIAN PM REF: A. KUWAIT 111 ¶B. 04 SECSTATE 275413 Classified By: Ambassador Richard LeBaron, Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d) ¶1. (C) In a January 17 meeting with MFA Undersecretary Khaled Al-Jarallah, Ambassador asked if Jordanian Prime Minister Faisal Al Fayez had requested renewed assistance from Kuwait during his recent visit (ref A). The Undersecretary said that the Prime Minister did not/not ask for more aid in his meeting with Kuwaiti Prime Minister Shaykh Sabah. "He may have asked in the car," Al-Jarallah quipped, "but if something was raised with Shaykh Sabah, we would know." Al-Jarallah noted that Minister of Energy Shaykh Ahmed Al-Fahad Al-Sabah, who was not present during Shaykh Sabah's meeting with Al Fayez, had also asked whether the Jordanians had requested more assistance; Al-Jarallah told him that they had not. ¶2. (C) Al-Jarallah said almost all the discussion focused on Iraq, with the Jordanian Prime Minister most worried about the Iranian role there. In response to a Jordanian request to coordinate against this threat, Shaykh Sabah advised that this be handled through intelligence channels and include others in the GCC. Jordan's Prime Minister responded that he had raised it with the Saudis and would also do so on his next stop in U.A.E. ********************************************* *** Visit Embassy Kuwait's Classified Website: http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/nea/kuwait You can also access this site through the State Department's Classified SIPRNET website ********************************************* *** LEBARON