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05KUWAIT4455
2005-10-17 13:05:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Kuwait
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KUWAITIS MAKE SUPPORTIVE STATEMENTS ON REFERENDUM;

Tags:  PREL PGOV IZ KU KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS 
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UNCLAS KUWAIT 004455 

SIPDIS

STATE FOR NEA/ARPI, LONDON FOR TSOU, PARIS FOR ZEYA

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL PGOV IZ KU KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS
SUBJECT: KUWAITIS MAKE SUPPORTIVE STATEMENTS ON REFERENDUM;
VISITING IRAQI SHI'A CLERIC PRAISES KUWAIT SUPPORT OF NEW
IRAQ

REF: KUWAIT 3498

UNCLAS KUWAIT 004455

SIPDIS

STATE FOR NEA/ARPI, LONDON FOR TSOU, PARIS FOR ZEYA

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL PGOV IZ KU KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS
SUBJECT: KUWAITIS MAKE SUPPORTIVE STATEMENTS ON REFERENDUM;
VISITING IRAQI SHI'A CLERIC PRAISES KUWAIT SUPPORT OF NEW
IRAQ

REF: KUWAIT 3498


1. (U) Prime Minister Shaykh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber
Al-Sabah, in remarks to the opening session of the National
Assembly October 17, congratulated the Iraqi people on the
Iraqi Constitution. The Kuwaiti Council of Ministers
released a similar statement of support after its Sunday
meeting. Before the vote, a senior MFA official briefed the
press on Kuwait's support for continuing political process in
Iraq, manifested by the referendum.


2. (U) Visiting Iraqi Shi'a cleric Al-Sayed Riyad Al-Hakim,
son of Ayatollah Al-Sayed Mohammed Saeed Al-Hakim, said that
Kuwait is a model for the Arab world for its constructive
dealings with Iraq. As reported in an English-language Daily
Star on October 17, Al-Hakim explained that "Kuwaitis are the
only Arabs who understand closely the suffering of the Iraqi
people." Meanwhile, some Arab countries have played a
negative role since the fall of the Saddam Hussein regime by
promoting divisions among the Iraqi people, he asserted.
Al-Hakim, on his first public visit to Kuwait, voiced
gratitude for Kuwait's donations to the victims of the Bridge
of the Imams stampede (reftel) and the official support of
the Iraqi electoral process. Al-Hakim commented that Kuwait
set a positive example which should be followed by other Arab
nations as it will lead to greater stability in Iraq and the
region.

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