Kuwait urges US to talk to Iran and Syria

Kuwait’s emir told the US secretary of state that Washington should talk to Syria and Iran to improve the situation in Iraq, the Kuwaiti foreign minister said today.

Sheikh Mohammed Al Sabah told reporters that when Condoleezza Rice met Kuwait’s emir, Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah, yesterday, she had spoken of the “the difficulties facing the Iraqi government in imposing security and (difficulties caused by) outside interference”.