Kuwait FM urges Muslim unity against challenges

Kuwait's First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah said here on Wednesday the Muslim world is facing major challenges and swift variables that require more integration.
Addressing the 41st meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) foreign ministers held here, Sheikh Sabah Khaled said: "The Muslim nation is embroiled in difficult challenges and swift changes which necessitate integration and solidarity from everybody and efforts to face them." In occupied Palestinian territories, for instance, the Palestinian people have been suffering so much due to violations of Israeli occupying authorities, he said.
The Palestinian people are being denied inalienable rights and even hopes for a just and comprehensive peace based on an independent state on the June 4, 1967 border with East Jerusalem as its capital in line with relevant UN resolutions, he said.
He congratulated the Palestinian leadership on their new national unity government, wishing it could live up to its due responsibility.
He voiced much regret at the deteriorating humanitarian conditions of the Syrian people owing to killing, torturing and displacement, calling on the international community to continue efforts to arrive at a political solution to the pressing Syrian crisis.
Kuwait hosted two international donor conferences for Syria and contributed USD 800 million to UN humanitarian activities in Syria in order to ease out the woes of the Palestinian people, he reminded.
However, the Kuwaiti foreign minister warned anew of the impacts of the Syrian crisis on the region's countries.
On Iraq, he stressed the necessity of respecting Iraq's sovereignty, security, stability, national unity and territorial integrity, while voicing strong objection to interference in Iraq's national affairs.
He further condemned all terrorist acts targeting Iraq's security and unity, but he called on all Iraqi political rivals to get engaged in serious dialogue aiming to face serious threats to their country.
Sheikh Sabah Khaled also condemned the kidnapping of Turkish diplomats in the Iraqi city of Mosul, hoping that they would be set free soon