Kuwait in international newspapers in 1961

Posted on 03. Mar, 2010 by Ali in kuwait

I was checking out the Google News services and got the following snippet from the Guardian.

The formal stamp of sovereign independence has now been set upon the Persian Gulf sheikhdom of Kuwait.In practice Kuwait has enjoyed such independence for the past two years. Yesterday British protection as set out in the Anglo-Kuwait agreement of 1899 was formally withdrawn; the treaty was abrogated in an exchange of letters between the ruler of Kuwait and the British Political Resident.

This development was made known in a statement in the House of Commons yesterday by the Lord Privy Seal. Mr Heath explained that for some time past Kuwait had possessed entire responsibility for the conduct of its international relations and, with Britain’s blessing, had joined a number of international organisations as a sovereign independent State.

Read More

You can find many more articles and interesting reports about incidents and actions happened in Kuwait back in the old days which our local newspapers fails to bring to us via the world wide web network. what a shame

Tags: Embassies and Consulates, Google News, government, kuwait, Persian Gulf