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Saudi Arabia, Kuwait to abide by UN blacklisting of citizens


DUBAI: Saudi Arabia and Kuwait agreed to comply with a United Nations resolution aimed at stopping financing for Islamist militant groups in Syria and Iraq after four of their nationals were named among a group blacklisted by the international body. 

The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution on Friday intended to weaken the Islamic State — an al-Qaida splinter group that has seized swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria and declared a caliphate — and al-Qaida's Syrian wing, Nusra Front. 

Western officials believe that wealthy Gulf Arabs, in countries that include Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, have been a main source of funding for Sunni Islamist militants fighting against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. 

While Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia is a main backer of the rebellion against Assad, a member of the Alawite sect of Shia Islam and an ally of Riyadh's rival Shiae Iran, it says it is careful to direct state support to moderate groups. 

Riyadh this year declared the Islamic State group and the Nusra Front terrorist organizations, imposing prison terms for giving them moral or material support, and has mobilised its clerics to preach against private donations to militants. 

The Islamic State has long been blacklisted by the Security Council, while Nusra Front was added earlier this year. Both groups are designated under the UN al-Qaida sanctions regime. 

Gulf media said that two of the blacklisted men were Saudis wanted by Riyadh for links to Islamist militants, while two others were Kuwaitis, including Sheikh Hajjaj Bin Fahd Al Ajmi, a prominent cleric accused of links to Syria's al-Qaida branch, the Nusra Front. 

"Kuwait will abide by the UN Resolution 2170 and implement all its terms," Kuwait's UN ambassador Mansour Ayyad al-Otaibi said in a statement carried by state news agency KUNA on Saturday. this is only for my read.

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