Bou Habib Says Studying Kuwaiti Paper Starts Today to be Done by Saturday

Foreign minister Abdallah Bou Habib said Monday that studying the Kuwaiti paper will start today.

"It will be ready by Saturday," Bou Habib affirmed from Baabda, after meeting with President Michel Aoun.

Kuwait’s foreign minister Sheikh Ahmed Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Sabah said Sunday that he gave Lebanese authorities a list of suggested measures to be taken to ease a diplomatic rift with Gulf Arab countries. He added that he was "carrying a Kuwaiti, Gulf, Arab and international message containing measures and ideas to build confidence again with Lebanon."

Sheikh Ahmed added that in order for the initiative to be successful there should be no interference in the internal affairs of Arab countries in general, and specifically Gulf states. Lebanon should "not be used a launching pad for oral or active aggression against any country," he said.

President Michel Aoun meanwhile expressed to the Kuwaiti envoy his reservations over the mention of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1559 in the submitted paper, stressing that “the issue of Hizbullah’s arms and its regional role is not a local issue that has to do with Lebanon alone, but rather a regional and international issue,” Baabda sources told al-Akhbar newspaper in remarks published Monday.

“Arabs and the world must understand this matter,” the sources quoted Aoun as saying.