Al-Wahdawi [Archives:2007/1112/Press Review]
Tuesday, December 11
Top stories
– JMP announces its proposal for amending election law
– British airport authorities prevent President Saleh's armed bodyguards from entering Britain
– Yemen PAC: Rampant corruption in Yemen still constitutes biggest barrier to development
– Security authorities hold staff of Aljazeera and Alarabiyya televisions, prevent them from covering martyr's funerals
– Civil Community Coalition warns of hostile policies toward rights and political activists
– Kuwait denies that it opposes Yemen's GCC entry
The State of Kuwait denied reports published by different media that it objects to Yemen's admission to Gulf Cooperation Council, the weekly paper reported. It quoted Kuwaiti political sources as saying that their government never opposed Yemen's entry into GCC during the most recent Gulf summit, held in the Qatari capital Doha, in the presence of Iran's President Ahmadinejad.
According to the weekly, the Saudi newspaper, Al-Watan, quoted other Kuwaiti official sources as saying that Kuwait has been and is still backing the GCC member states' unanimous decision to strengthen their relations with Yemen. The sources told that the summit did not discuss the issue of Yemen's GCC entry, nor was this issue included in the agenda. They confirmed that Kuwait retains strong ties with Yemen, particularly in the economic area, adding that all the previous summits focused on developing relationships between GCC member states and Yemen, which started with involving Yemen in sport, health and social activities.
Media sources revealed that the State of Kuwait objected to a proposal set up by a Gulf state's leader backing Yemen's admission into the Gulf cartel and that leader explained why he conserved confidentiality of the proposal, the weekly said. It added that London-based Al-Hayah newspaper quoted Gulf high ranking officials saying that one of the Gulf leaders, whom it refused to reveal his name, spoke at a closed meeting for leaders about the future of Yemen's relations with other GCC state members.
Al-Hayat reported that the Kuwaiti side reserved this proposal and justified why it did so, however, many of those who participated in the meeting attributed Kuwait's conservation to Yemen's positions during the Second Gulf War.
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