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The new Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, expects diplomatic challenges due to the tension between Saudi Arabia and with it Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates on the one hand and Qatar on the other hand, and then the continued escalation between Iran and the United States. Amid these tensions, Kuwait consistently chose neutrality and mediation. This country is also facing the health crisis caused by the Coronavirus.
Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah receives a dam Governance in Kuwait In a sensitive phase marked by regional tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran, and in the midst of a diplomatic crisis between Qatar on the one hand and Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain on the other, with which it cut relations in 2017.
Sheikh Nawwaf is expected to continue the diplomatic policy of his predecessor, which is based on mediation between the conflicting parties, as Kuwait avoided participating in regional disputes and conflicts, including those experienced by the Gulf “family,” and kept calling for a peaceful solution.
Kuwait mediated between Qatar and Saudi Arabia, but failed to end the diplomatic crisis between the two countries. She also continued to host Iranian officials despite hostility between Riyadh and Tehran.
During these summits, the late Emir Sheikh Sabah Ahmad Al-Sabah called for defusing regional crises and reducing escalation in the Gulf as tensions escalated between Iran and the United States and suggested a war nearby.
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Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, who spent four decades at the forefront of his country’s diplomacy, saw him as the “architect” of modern foreign policy for the oil-rich state of Kuwait.
The new emir takes office as the world grapples with the emerging Corona virus crisis, which has caused a sharp drop in oil prices and increased fears of economic effects in the oil-rich Gulf countries.
Who is Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah?
Sheikh Nawwaf was born in 1937, the fifth son of Sheikh Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, the late ruler who ruled Kuwait between 1921 and 1950.
He continued his secondary studies in Kuwait, but did not complete his higher education. He began his career almost half a century ago when he was appointed Governor of the Hawalli Governorate.
Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah assumed several top posts in Kuwait, before becoming Emir of the oil-rich Gulf state on Wednesday following the death of his half brother, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al -Jaber Al-Sabah.
In 1988 he assumed the Ministry of Defense, and directed it during the seven months of the Iraqi invasion that culminated in the United States’ intervention at the head of a military coalition in the first Gulf War in 1991. After the liberation of Kuwait, he was appointed for the post of Minister of Social Affairs and Labor, before assuming the presidency of the National Guard in 1994.
Sheikh Nawwaf returned to government as Interior Minister in 2003, and was appointed Deputy Prime Minister that same year, until he became Crown Prince three years later.
Sheikh Nawwaf led the security services during his term as Interior Ministry between 2003 and 2006, in the process of persecuting extremist fighters, which sparked bloody clashes with the police in January 2005, in which two policemen were killed, eight extremist fighters and two civilians.
France 24 / AFP
