Iraq still a threat to region

Iraq still a threat to region

KUWAIT (Reuters): Kuwait said on Saturday that its "evil" former occupier Iraq continued to pose a threat to oil-rich Gulf Arab states.

Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah also demanded Baghdad's full implementation of Gulf crisis-related U.N. resolutions.

In an address read in parliament at the start of a new term the emir said recent Iraqi statements and acts should kill any "illusions" by some countries about the true "evil and aggressive intent of the Iraqi regime towards Kuwait and regional states".

In recent months, a number of Kuwait's Arab and foreign allies who backed the U.S.-led Gulf War which ended Iraq's seven-month occupation of the small emirate have called for the lifting of U.N. sanctions imposed on Iraq after its August 2, 1990 invasion of Kuwait.