Abbas makes historic visit to Kuwait to open embassy
PA president attends ceremony in Gulf state two decades after it expelled hundreds of thousands of Palestinians
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)
KUWAIT CITY (AP) — Kuwait on Monday it hosted a Palestinian leader for the first time in more than 20 years after ties were broken over the 1990 Iraq invasion of the Gulf state.
At the time, then-Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was perceived as sympathetic to Iraq’s Saddam Hussein and opposed to the US-led invasion to oust Iraqi forces.
The official Kuwait News Agency said Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas attended a ceremony Monday to open a Palestinian Embassy in Kuwait City.
After Iraqi forces were driven from Kuwait in 1991, the Gulf state’s rulers expelled hundreds of thousands of Palestinian workers. Palestinians began working to restore ties with Kuwait more than a decade ago.
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.
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