US embassy cable - 04KUWAIT760

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Identifier:	04KUWAIT760
Wikileaks:	View 04KUWAIT760 at Wikileaks.org
Origin:	Embassy Kuwait
Created:	2004-03-07 05:48:00
Classification:	CONFIDENTIAL
Tags:	PREL XF KU
Redacted:	This cable was not redacted by Wikileaks.

C O N F I D E N T I A L KUWAIT 000760 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR NEA, NEA/ARN, NEA/ENA, NEA/ARP 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/06/2014 
TAGS: PREL, XF, KU 
SUBJECT: (C) FONMIN ON ARAB LEAGUE REFORM AND GME 
 
Classified By: AMB. RICHARD H. JONES; REASON 1.4 (B, D) 
 
1.  (C) Ambassador met March 6 with Foreign Minister Shaykh 
Dr. Mohammed al-Sabah (other topics septels).  During the 
course of the meeting, the Ambassador asked about the 
prospects for Arab League reform, in light of the upcoming 
summit and the March 1  Ministerial in Cairo.  The Minister 
laughed and said "it's like when Syria is unhappy, it changes 
Lebanon's government:  everybody, the Americans, the Germans, 
is proposing changes to the political landscape in the Arab 
world, so how do the Arabs respond?  They change the Arab 
League."  He then confided that at the March 29 Arab League 
Summit, the leaders would decide to mandate the Foreign 
Ministers to review the League's Charter.  This was just 
"kicking the can down the road." 
 
2.  (C) "We hear about the Greater Middle East Initiative," 
continued Dr. Mohammed, "but nobody has seen a document; it's 
like the invisible friend Harvey."  Nonetheless, at the Cairo 
Ministerial, Egypt and Jordan submitted "interesting" papers 
responding to GME.  The Ministers did not/not discuss the 
papers in Cairo. 
JONES