INTERVIEW WITH KUWAIT'S 'ALI KHALIFAH

(The following are extracts - edited by MEES - from a London TV interview with the Kuwaiti Minister of Oil and Industry, Shaikh 'Ali Khalifah al-Sabah. The interview, which was conducted by three journalists - Ms. Gillian Reynolds of the Daily Telegraph, Mr. Dominic Lawson of the Financial Times, and Mr. Patrick Seale of the Observer - was not in fact broadcast on TV but transcripts of the text were made available to the press.)

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