Dubai: The Kuwaiti parliament has started legal procedures against those who offended the UAE leadership in a TV show broadcast on the official television channel of the legislature, the speaker said on Thursday.
Addressing a press conference at Kuwait’s National Assembly, speaker Marzouq Al Ganem said: “In the morning after the programme, we started our legal procedures” with regard to the TV programme in which a former Kuwaiti MP and Muslim Brotherhood member Mubarak Al Duwailah insulted the UAE and its leaders over its policy which designated the Brotherhood and its affiliate groups as terrorist organisations.
“Relations between Kuwait and the UAE are not the result of a diplomatic decision; rather, [the UAE and Kuwait] share common destiny and our history is as old as our existence as Emaratis and Kuwaitis,” he explained.
Nobody in Kuwait or the UAE needs to affirm those ties which have been affirmed politically and historically, he added.
Al Ganem condemned the offending remarks that was mentioned in the show regarding General Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, as “appalling and unacceptable”.
“I am not talking here as the parliament’s speaker but on behalf of all Kuwaitis who reject any offending remark against a brother such as Shaikh Mohammad whose place is engraved in the hearts of all Kuwaitis and no one can ever taint this high status in our hearts” he added.
Earlier, Mohammad Ahmad Al Murr, Speaker of the Federal National Council, strongly condemned as slander the statements made by Al Duwailah against the UAE and its leaders, namely Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed.
Al Murr also called upon the Kuwaiti parliament to block any such attempts to damage relations between the UAE and Kuwait.
“Such false allegations are unfounded and are clearly aimed at sparking divisions between the Gulf Cooperation Council people and states. They were levelled at a time when the GCC states are engaging in wider close cooperation aimed at serving the interests of their peoples. This has been clearly manifested in the recent GCC Summit in Doha, Qatar.”
