US embassy cable - 05KUWAIT4639

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SYRIAN ENVOY DUE IN KUWAIT; GOK TO URGE COOPERATION WITH UN INVESTIGATION

Identifier: 05KUWAIT4639
Wikileaks: View 05KUWAIT4639 at Wikileaks.org
Origin: Embassy Kuwait
Created: 2005-10-30 12:59:00
Classification: CONFIDENTIAL
Tags: PREL SY KU
Redacted: This cable was not redacted by Wikileaks.
VZCZCXRO3546
PP RUEHBC RUEHDE RUEHKUK RUEHMOS
DE RUEHKU #4639 3031259
ZNY CCCCC ZZH
P 301259Z OCT 05
FM AMEMBASSY KUWAIT
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 1568
INFO RUEHEE/ARAB LEAGUE COLLECTIVE PRIORITY
C O N F I D E N T I A L KUWAIT 004639 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
FOR NEA 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/29/2015 
TAGS: PREL, SY, KU 
SUBJECT: SYRIAN ENVOY DUE IN KUWAIT; GOK TO URGE 
COOPERATION WITH UN INVESTIGATION 
 
 
Classified By: Ambassador Richard LeBaron for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d) 
 
1. (C) Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under Secretary Khaled 
Al-Jarallah told Ambassador October 30 that Syrian Deputy 
Foreign Minister Walid Al-Muallim, with a letter from Syrian 
President Bashar Al-Asad in hand, would arrive in Kuwait 
October 31 and would meet with Prime Minister Shaykh Sabah 
Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. Al-Jarallah speculated that the 
SARG, in a calculated move, dispatched Al-Muallim rather than 
Foreign Minister Farouk Al-Shara as his deputy "is more 
welcome in the region." According to the U/S, the GOK "hopes 
to hear something positive" about SARG cooperation with the 
UN investigation regarding the assassination of former 
Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. 
 
2. (C) Ambassador urged Al-Jarallah to give Al-Muallim a 
clear message to cooperate fully with UN investigator Detlev 
Mehlis. Al-Jarallah predicted that Shaykh Sabah would deliver 
the same message to Al-Muallim as Egyptian President Hosni 
Mubarak conveyed to Al-Asad October 28: the SARG needs to 
cooperate with the UN and cease support for certain Iraqi and 
Palestinian groups. Al-Muallim is to arrive in Kuwait after 
stops in Qatar and Saudi Arabia. 
 
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LEBARON 

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