New Kuwait Crisis?

Press, Volume C, Issue 29565, 14 July 1961, Page 13

New Kuwait Crisis?

(SZ P>«»» AtioctalUMl— CopvrtoMl NEW YORK, July 13. The head of Kuwait’s emergency mission to the United Nations, Mr Abdel Aziz Hussein, warned last night of a possible crisis on the Iraq-Kuwait border in the next 48 hours.

He staid July 14 was the bird anniversary of the Iraqi revolution Which brought the Iraqi Prime Minister (General Abdel Karim Kas;em) to power. He said General Kassem. whom he termed “unpredictable.” might stage a frontier demonstration to back his claims to Kuwait. Arab League

The United Arab Rcoublie is ready to support the replacement of British forces in Kuwait by Arab troops from countries not bordering Israel, it was announced in Cairo last night. The Arab League Council ras told this by the U.A.R. telegate, Mr Hassan el Zay•at, soon after it met to insider Kuwait’s application 'r membership Earlier, Kuwait Radio said tree battalions of British oops and supporting units /ere being withdrawn from ie sheikdom. Agreement on the withrawal was reached at talks etween the ruler of Kuwait nd Mr James Ramsden, Pariamentary Under-Secretary 'or War. and the British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Sir William Luce).

A Defence Ministry spokesman in London said late last night no mow ment of forces from Kuwa: bad taken place today, and none was likely during th< next few days. The Iraq delegate. M: Abdel Hussein Koteify walked out of the Aral: League meeting last nigh' in protest against a Kuwaiti suggestion that the British troops should be replaced by Arabs, but was persuaded to return. After four hours’ discussion, the council adjourned until the morning without reaching a decision on Kuwait’s membership application. Moscow Comment Moscow Radio last night referred to British plana for a stage-by-stage withdrawal from Kuwait as “a manoeuvre.” The radio said, according to the British United Press: “The world does not want to hear statements about the withdrawal of troops in the indefinite future but demands that Britain immediately evacuate her troops from Kuwait.”