US embassy cable - 05KUWAIT295

C O N F I D E N T I A L KUWAIT 000295 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/18/2015 
TAGS: EAID, PREL, JO, KU 
SUBJECT: KUWAITI OFFICIAL SAYS NO AID REQUEST FROM 
JORDANIAN PM 
 
REF: A. KUWAIT 111 
 
     B. 04 SECSTATE 275413 
 
Classified By: Ambassador Richard LeBaron, Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d) 
 
1.  (C) In a January 17 meeting with MFA Undersecretary 
Khaled Al-Jarallah, Ambassador asked if Jordanian Prime 
Minister Faisal Al Fayez had requested renewed assistance 
from Kuwait during his recent visit (ref A).  The 
Undersecretary said that the Prime Minister did not/not ask 
for more aid in his meeting with Kuwaiti Prime Minister 
Shaykh Sabah.  "He may have asked in the car," Al-Jarallah 
quipped, "but if something was raised with Shaykh Sabah, we 
would know."  Al-Jarallah noted that Minister of Energy 
Shaykh Ahmed Al-Fahad Al-Sabah, who was not present during 
Shaykh Sabah's meeting with Al Fayez, had also asked whether 
the Jordanians had requested more assistance; Al-Jarallah 
told him that they had not. 
 
2.  (C) Al-Jarallah said almost all the discussion focused on 
Iraq, with the Jordanian Prime Minister most worried about 
the Iranian role there.  In response to a Jordanian request 
to coordinate against this threat, Shaykh Sabah advised that 
this be handled through intelligence channels and include 
others in the GCC.  Jordan's Prime Minister responded that he 
had raised it with the Saudis and would also do so on his 
next stop in U.A.E. 
 
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