By Xinhua,
Kuwait City : Kuwaiti foreign ministry announced on Thursday that it has named retired Lieut. Gen. Ali al-Mu’min as ambassador to Iraq, the first one since 1990 when Iraq invaded its neighbor, the state KUNA news agency reported.
Al-Mu’min’s nomination is expected to be formally ratified by Kuwaiti emir, First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr. Mohammad Sabah al-Salem al-Sabah was quoted by KUNA as saying.
The official did not disclose when al-Mu’min would take up his functions or how many diplomats would be posted in Baghdad, saying only that “there are lengthy diplomatic procedures which will take their course.”
Kuwait’s ambassador nomination came after several Arab nations, including Bahrain, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, had named their envoys to the warn-torn country.
The new Kuwaiti embassy will probably be located in the heavily fortified Green Zone area in Baghdad, Khaled al-Jarrallah, the undersecretary of the foreign ministry said last week.
According to the U.S and Iraqi forces, violence has been dropping on the whole in Iraq since last summer. The decline was largely attributed to the reinforcement of U.S. troops, the ceasefire of major Shiite militia and the insurgency of Sunnis against al-Qaida.