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Come After Apologizing, Abbas Told
Agencies, Arab News
KUWAIT, 10 August 2003 — Kuwait said yesterday it had withdrawn an invitation to Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmud Abbas for a visit to the emirate because he would not apologize for Yasser Arafat’s support of Iraq for its 1990 invasion.
“There was supposed to be a joint declaration at the conclusion of Abbas’ visit which would include a clear and frank condemnation by the Palestinian Authority of the occupation crime but they were reluctant to agree,” Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah told Al-Seyassah daily.
“The Kuwaiti people cannot accept a visit by a senior Palestinian Authority official unless there is a statement that includes an apology for the Authority’s position over Iraq’s aggression on Kuwait in 1990.”
A Palestinian official said: “Abu Mazen (Abbas) considered this a humiliation and refused to comply.”
Abbas, in Saudi Arabia at the start of a regional tour, planned to visit the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait to brief them about his talks in Washington last month with President George Bush.
Yesterday he met Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Fahd and discussed with him the road map and the situation in the Palestinian territories
Kuwaiti newspapers said Abbas would now visit Tunisia. Had his visit materialized, Abbas would have been the first top Palestinian official to come to Kuwait since the 1990 invasion.
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| The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03). |
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| The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers in the West Bank (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03). |
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