With eye on Iraq, Kuwait urges end to political games


  • World
  • Thursday, 26 Jun 2014

ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Kuwait's ruler has told his people not to threaten stability by playing "games" with politics, pointing to turmoil in neighbouring Iraq and elsewhere as examples of the dangers of political division.

"We do not have this luxury of differences and divisions and empty arguments and political games while catastrophes are right at our doorstep," the emir, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah, said in the address late on Wednesday. "Are you aware of what is going on not far from us?" he added.

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