VOL. XXXIV

NO. 38

24-JUNE-1991

Kuwait

Kuwait Spends $3mn Daily on Fire-Fighting Work

The Kuwaiti Ambassador to the United States, Shaikh Sa'ud Nasir al-Sabah,said on 15 June in a televised address to a conference on "Opportunitiesfor the Reconstruction of Kuwait" being held in Washington that Kuwait wasspending around $3mn per day on fire-fighting work in which about 4,000 workersare involved at present. Shaikh Sa'ud also said that all the fires are expectedto be extinguished within a "period of...