Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09KUWAIT593
2009-06-15 14:00:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Kuwait
Cable title:
TIP REPORT DEMARCHE: GOK WELCOMES CRITICISM, SAYS
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UNCLAS KUWAIT 000593
SIPDIS
NEA/ARP, G/TIP, G, INL, DRL, PRM, G-ACBLANK
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB
KU
SUBJECT: TIP REPORT DEMARCHE: GOK WELCOMES CRITICISM, SAYS
IT MUST "FINISH ITS HOMEWORK"
REF: SECSTATE 60642
UNCLAS KUWAIT 000593
SIPDIS
NEA/ARP, G/TIP, G, INL, DRL, PRM, G-ACBLANK
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB
KU
SUBJECT: TIP REPORT DEMARCHE: GOK WELCOMES CRITICISM, SAYS
IT MUST "FINISH ITS HOMEWORK"
REF: SECSTATE 60642
1. POLCOUNS on June 15 delivered reftel demarche notifying
Kuwait of its Tier 3 ranking in the 2009 TIP report both to
Mr. Hamad Sulaiman Al-Mishaan, First Secretary of the
Americas Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),
and to Mr. Hamad Al-Medhadi, Undersecretary for Co-operative
Affairs and Acting Undersecretary at the Ministry of Social
Affairs and Labor (MOSAL). In response, both GOK officials
said they would immediately forward the demarche message to
their respective Ministers.
2. The MFA's Al-Mishaan was very welcoming and thanked
POLCOUNS for briefing him prior to the June 16 public release
of the report. He recognized the GOK's own shortfallings on
TIP and expressed a curiosity over how Bahrain and other GCC
countries fared in this year's TIP rankings. His final remark
on the GOK's TIP efforts was, "We have homework. We should
finish our homework."
3. MOSAL's Al-Medhadi was similarly welcoming and
acknowledged that TIP was a small sore point in a strong and
largely positive bilateral relationship. He said that the
Council of Ministers was drafting a TIP law which would
eventually go before the National Assembly and that MOSAL was
considering ways to reform Kuwait's foreign worker
sponsorship system. However, he expressed doubts concerning
the ability of Kuwait's parliament to effectively handle TIP,
saying that, "The government of Kuwait is moving forward (on
TIP),but the National Assembly is out of our control."
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For more reporting from Embassy Kuwait, visit:
visit Kuwait's Classified Website at:
http://www.intelink.sgov.gov/wiki/Portal:Kuwa it
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JONES
SIPDIS
NEA/ARP, G/TIP, G, INL, DRL, PRM, G-ACBLANK
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB
KU
SUBJECT: TIP REPORT DEMARCHE: GOK WELCOMES CRITICISM, SAYS
IT MUST "FINISH ITS HOMEWORK"
REF: SECSTATE 60642
1. POLCOUNS on June 15 delivered reftel demarche notifying
Kuwait of its Tier 3 ranking in the 2009 TIP report both to
Mr. Hamad Sulaiman Al-Mishaan, First Secretary of the
Americas Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),
and to Mr. Hamad Al-Medhadi, Undersecretary for Co-operative
Affairs and Acting Undersecretary at the Ministry of Social
Affairs and Labor (MOSAL). In response, both GOK officials
said they would immediately forward the demarche message to
their respective Ministers.
2. The MFA's Al-Mishaan was very welcoming and thanked
POLCOUNS for briefing him prior to the June 16 public release
of the report. He recognized the GOK's own shortfallings on
TIP and expressed a curiosity over how Bahrain and other GCC
countries fared in this year's TIP rankings. His final remark
on the GOK's TIP efforts was, "We have homework. We should
finish our homework."
3. MOSAL's Al-Medhadi was similarly welcoming and
acknowledged that TIP was a small sore point in a strong and
largely positive bilateral relationship. He said that the
Council of Ministers was drafting a TIP law which would
eventually go before the National Assembly and that MOSAL was
considering ways to reform Kuwait's foreign worker
sponsorship system. However, he expressed doubts concerning
the ability of Kuwait's parliament to effectively handle TIP,
saying that, "The government of Kuwait is moving forward (on
TIP),but the National Assembly is out of our control."
********************************************* *********
For more reporting from Embassy Kuwait, visit:
visit Kuwait's Classified Website at:
http://www.intelink.sgov.gov/wiki/Portal:Kuwa it
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JONES