US embassy cable - 05KUWAIT3023

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Identifier:	05KUWAIT3023
Wikileaks:	View 05KUWAIT3023 at Wikileaks.org
Origin:	Embassy Kuwait
Created:	2005-07-06 06:22:00
Classification:	CONFIDENTIAL
Tags:	PREL PHUM PREF KU ICRC
Redacted:	This cable was not redacted by Wikileaks.

C O N F I D E N T I A L KUWAIT 003023 
 
SIPDIS 
 
FOR NEA/ARPI AND PRM/MCE 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/04/2015 
TAGS: PREL, PHUM, PREF, KU, ICRC 
SUBJECT: KUWAIT:  MDA DEMARCHE REQUEST REGARDING OIC MEETING 
 
REF: A. SECSTATE 118394 
     B. KUWAIT 2728 
     C. STATE 112023 
     D. STATE 104272 
     E. KUWAIT 1131 
     F. KUWAIT 942 
     G. STATE 31746 
 
Classified By: Charge d'Affaires, a.i., Matthew H. Tueller 
 
(C)  Ref A arrived over Post's weekend and the responsible 
Kuwaiti MFA officials had already departed for Sanaa when the 
work week began.  PolChief, however, discussed June 27 with 
Ali Al-Basari of the MFA International Organizations 
Department reported OIC opposition to the convening of an 
international conference on the Third Additional Protocol of 
the Geneva Conventions.  Al-Basari said the GOK was aware of 
U.S. support for the Israeli National Society, Magen David 
Adom (MDA), to join the international Red Cross/Crescent 
Movement and commented that the issue was not an agenda item 
for the OIC meeting.  Al-Basari further reported July 5 that 
according to Ambassador Abdullah Al-Murad, MFA Director of 
International Organizations, who led the Kuwaiti delegation 
to the OIC meeting, MDA and the Swiss-sponsored conference 
were not/not discussed. 
TUELLER