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EX-DIPLOMAT WRITES BOOK ABOUT KUWAIT'S DIPLOMACY
BY DHAHOUK AL-BANWAN
KUWAIT, DEC 8 (KUNA) -- FORMER KUWAITI MINISTER OF STATE FOR FOREIGN
AFFAIRS SULAIMAN MAJED AL-SHAHEEN WROTE A BOOK CONSISTING OF DOZENS OF
DOCUMENTS AND OFFICIAL MESSAGES, A BOOK SUMMARIZING THE VETERAN'S EXPERIENCE.
THE BOOK IS ENTITLED "KUWAIT DIPLOMACY BETWEEN THE CRISIS AND
PROFESSIONALISM."
NUMEROUS BUYERS ARE FLOCKING TO BOOKSTORES TO ACQUIRE THE BOOK FOR ITS RICH
AND ACCURATE INFORMATION.
THE BOOK, DEDICATED FOR ACTING PRIME MINISTER AND FOREIGN MINISTER SHEIKH
SABAH AL-AHMAD AL-SABAH, IS MADE UP OF CHAPTERS TELLING THE STORY OF THE
SUFFERING OF KUWAIT AND THE DEVELOPMENTS IN THE ARABIAN GULF REGION.
IT STARTS FROM THE PRE IRAQI INVASION OF KUWAIT IN 1990 TO EXPLAIN
BACKGROUND OF THE AGGRESSION, IN WHICH AL-SHAHEEN PLACES THE MESSAGES AND
SITUATIONS THAT TOOK PLACES IN THE DAYS AND HOURS BEFORE THE INVASION.
THEN AL-SHAHEEN STARTS THE FOLLOWING CHAPTER WITH FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT
GEORGE BUSH'S FAMOUS STATEMENT THAT "SADDAM'S HISTORY IS ABOUT A CHAIN OF
MISCALCULATIONS." THE EX-DIPLOMAT ALSO INQUIRED, WHO WILL BE ABLE TO BRING
BACK BAGHDAD'S "ENETRAL ROLE" IN LITERATURE AND CONSTRUCTION.
THE BOOK THEN TALKS ABOUT THE POSSIBILITIES OF CHANGING RULING REGIME IN
IRAQ, AS WELL AS POLITICAL SECURITY AND SECURITY RELATIONS BETWEEN COUNTRIES
AND ORGANIZATIONS.
AL-SHAHEEN ANALYZES THE ANCIENT INTERESTS AND NEW STRATEGIES BETWEEN THE U.
S. AND THE ARABIAN GULF STATES ON ONE HAND, AND THE RELATION BETWEEN
WASHINGTON WITH EACH OF THE GULF COUNTRIES ON THE OTHER.
HE SAID THE KUWAITI DIPLOMACY STARTED IN 1750, THE YEAR WHICH MARKED THE
CREATION OF THE STATE AND THEIR RULERS.
THE BOOK ALSO DEFINES NEGOTIATIONS, NORMAL DIPLOMACY, GOOD-WELL EFFORTS,
MEDIATIONS, INTERROGATION COMMITTEES, ARBITRATION COMMITTEES AND LEGAL
SETTLEMENT.
AL-SHAHEEN WROTE A WHOLE CHAPTER ABOUT TERRORISM, CITING THAT "KUWAIT CAN
TALK ABOUT TERRORISM BECAUSE IT WAS A VICTIM OF IT ... ."
HE WAS REFERRING TO THE 1984 BOMBINGS IN KUWAIT, THE 1985 FAILED
ASSASSINATION BID AGAINST H.H. THE AMIR SHEIKH JABER AL-AHMAD AL-SABAH, THE
1998 AIRCRAFT HIJACKING AND THE IRAQI OCCUPATION OF KUWAIT.
AL-SHAHEEN CONCLUDES THE BOOK WITH SOME DOCUMENTS ABOUT KUWAIT'S HISTORY
AND SEVERAL U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS.
AL-SHAHEEN BEGAN HIS DIPLOMATIC CAREER IN MID-60. HE WAS KUWAIT'S FIRST
AMBASSADOR TO BAHRAIN IN 1971, TO THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) IN 1973. HE
WAS APPOINTED AMBASSADOR TO EGYPT AND PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE TO THE ARAB
LEAGUE UNTIL 1979, THEN AS FOREIGN UNDERSECRETARY UNTIL 1999. (END)
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