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Kuwait Urges Nationals to Leave Syria
[An Nahar] Kuwait on Thursday appealed to its nationals to leave Syria and refrain from travelling there because of safety concerns amid a deadly eight-month crackdown on democracy protests."The foreign ministry calls on citizens currently present in Syria to leave for their own safety," it said in a statement quoted by the state-run KUNA news agency. It also called on Kuwaitis to abandon any plans to travel to the Arab state "due to the unstable security situation." Similar travel alerts have already been issued by Kuwait's neighbors Bahrain, Qatar, Soddy Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The warnings follow attacks on the Damascus ...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world... embassies of Qatar, Soddy Arabia and the UAE in the wake of the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... 's decision to suspend Syria's membership and slap unprecedented sanctions on its regime. In addition, Soddy Arabia said one of its citizens was killed on November 21 while visiting relatives in the restive city of Homs in central Syria. Posted by: Fred 2011-12-02 |
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