U.S.-KUWAIT OPEN SKIES AGREEMENT CLEARS LAST HURDLE

UNCLAS KUWAIT 000837 SIPDIS SIPDIS STATE FOR EB/TRA/AN THOMAS COLEMAN AND NEA/ARP BELINDA JACKSON PARIS FOR NOURI LARBI E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: EAIR BEXP PGOVU ECON KU SUBJECT: U.S.-KUWAIT OPEN SKIES AGREEMENT CLEARS LAST HURDLE REF: A. 06 KUWAIT 3536 ¶B. KUWAIT 779 ¶1. On May 29, Post received a diplomatic note from the Kuwait Ministry of Foreign Affairs stating that the GOK has completed all necessary procedures for full implementation of the U.S.-Kuwait Open Skies Agreement, signed August 30, 2006 (Ref A). Full text of the diplomatic note follows. ¶2. Begin text of the diplomatic note: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Legal Department May 27, 2007 Ref.# 13648/8 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Kuwait presents its compliments to the American Embassy in Kuwait. This note is in reference to the Open Skies Agreement concluded between the Government of Kuwait and the Government of the United States of America on August 30, 2006 in Kuwait City. The Ministry would like to inform the Embassy that the State of Kuwait has fulfilled its constitutional procedures required to put the agreement into practice by issuing Amiri Decree No. 136/2007. Since we have received your notification of completing your internal procedures, this Diplomatic Note is considered as final notification from Kuwait stating its fulfillment of the internal legal procedures. Thus, this agreement comes into effect from the date of this Diplomatic Note in accordance with Para I, Article 17 of the agreement. Complimentary closing. ********************************************* * For more reporting from Embassy Kuwait, visit: http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/nea/kuwait/?cable s Visit Kuwait's Classified Website: http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/nea/kuwait/ ********************************************* * LeBaron