KUWAIT CITY, 10 December 2003, 10 December 2003 — Kuwait has agreed to receive an ambassador from its former foe Iraq, becoming the first Arab nation to do so since the US-led occupation, a member of Iraq’s Governing Council said in remarks published yesterday. “We have spoken on this issue with Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah who told us, ‘Let your ambassador come and start his work,’” Ibrahim Al-Jaafari told Al-Anbaa newspaper. Al-Jaafari is in Kuwait to attend a symposium on the role of Islamic groups in political reforms, organized by Al-Watan newspaper and the US Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Diplomatic ties between the two Arab neighbors were severed in August 1990 after former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein ordered his troops to invade Kuwait which he later annexed. A US-led international coalition evicted Iraqi troops seven months later.
