Kuwait Denies Fm Meeting With Livni

Kuwait denied on Sunday media reports alleging that its Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled al-Hamad al-Sabah had attended a dinner banquet with Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni on the sidelines of United Nations General Assembly meetings in New York.



"This report is baseless," the official news agency "ed a Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry official as saying.



The Hebrew news site Walla reported on Saturday that the foreign ministers of Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan and Kuwait; former Saudi intelligence chief Turki al-Faisal; and Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi had a "rare" meeting with Livni at the house of former U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton.



Egypt and Jordan are the only Arab countries that have diplomatic relations with Israel.



The former speaker of the Kuwaiti National Assembly Ahmed al-Sadoun had earlier asked his government to clarify whether reports about such a meeting were true.



"The Zionist entity [Israel] is an enemy state with which Kuwait has no relations," al-Sadoun wrote on his Twitter account.



"The government must clarify whether the foreign minister had attended such a meeting," he added.



World leaders and top diplomats converged on New York last week to attend the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly.  



By Faisal Yasser



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