Assembly-government bad blood has Amir worried
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KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah told a group of lawmakers that he has no intention to dissolve the National Assembly, but said he was very concerned at the state of affairs in the relations between the government and the National Assembly. The Amir was speaking during a meeting with members of the assembly's legal and legislative committee in the presence of speaker Jassem Al-Khorafi and a number of ministers, head of the committee MP Nasser Al-Duwailah...
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