KUWAIT - A US decision to freeze the assets of a Kuwaiti charity could harm its relations with its key Gulf Arab ally, Kuwait's parliament speaker said on Sunday. The US Treasury Department said on Friday it has decided to freeze the assets of the Revival of Islamic Heritage Society, accusing it of financing terrorist activities.
Jassem Al Kharafi, a pro-government politician and former minister, criticised the decision and said such charities were under state scrutiny. ‘We wish that the United States respects the sovereignty of Kuwait and it should not take actions that would harm this (U.S.-Kuwaiti) relationship,’ Kharafi told reporters. ‘Who has a house of glass should not throw stones against others,’ he said, adding that the United States should first solve the problem of its prison at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba.
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‘If this is the way the United States deals with a sovereign state then what is the meaning of the excellent relationship we have with the United States,’ Kharafi said.
Kuwaiti officials rarely criticise the United States in public.
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