The Government of Kuwait has presented Thursday, March 31, his resignation to the emir, announced Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs, Roudhan Al-Roudhan was quoted by the official KUNA news agency. The resignation comes after members have submitted to Parliament on requests for hearing of the Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, Minister of Foreign Affairs and that of information, all members of the ruling family Al-Sabah.
The emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, is expected to instruct the outgoing prime minister, Sheik Nasser Al Mohammed Al Sabah, to form the new government. The Foreign Minister, Sheikh Mohammed Al-Sabah, is accused of having done nothing to prevent the spread late March in Bahrain for a television program deemed "insulting" to the Shiite community and prominent Shiite families - cited in the show as funders of the protest movement in Bahrain, a Shiite-majority country.
"The Foreign Ministry has failed to defend the citizens, institutions and even the regime of Kuwait," complained Saleh Ashour, the Shiite member of Kuwait who requested the hearing. "The insults fomented against Kuwait and the Prime Minister by a Bahraini media (...) are an act of aggression against the independence, the Constitution and the rule of Kuwait," he added.
The Foreign Minister of Bahrain, Sheikh Khalid Al-Khalifa Benahmed, also intervened to express reservations about the content of the broadcast: "Any insult against Kuwaiti personalities is an insult to all Bahrainis," had he wrote about Twitter. The protests in Bahrain, mate by the government that prohibits mid-March the street protests, has caused tension between the majority Sunni Kuwait and the Shiite community.
The latter, which represents 30% of 1.15 million Kuwaiti, has expressed his support for his co-religionists in Bahrain. For their part, Sunnis have held two demonstrations of solidarity with the Sunni minority and the royal family, accusing Iran of interference in the internal affairs of Bahrain.
The crisis in Bahrain took a regional dimension: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United States suspects Iran of seeking to provoke sectarian unrest in the Gulf States. Monarchies that exist in this region rich in oil and gas are Sunni, while Iran is a Shiite theocracy. Kuwait has decided on Thursday the expulsion of Iranian diplomats accused of conspiring against the security of the emirate.
Shortly before, a Kuwaiti court sentenced him to death three people accused of spying for the Islamic Republic. Tehran has dismissed the accusations as "misleading". The debates in Parliament of Kuwait was delayed several important economic reforms and opposition MPs have already led to several resignations and reshuffles. 
The emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, is expected to instruct the outgoing prime minister, Sheik Nasser Al Mohammed Al Sabah, to form the new government. The Foreign Minister, Sheikh Mohammed Al-Sabah, is accused of having done nothing to prevent the spread late March in Bahrain for a television program deemed "insulting" to the Shiite community and prominent Shiite families - cited in the show as funders of the protest movement in Bahrain, a Shiite-majority country.
"The Foreign Ministry has failed to defend the citizens, institutions and even the regime of Kuwait," complained Saleh Ashour, the Shiite member of Kuwait who requested the hearing. "The insults fomented against Kuwait and the Prime Minister by a Bahraini media (...) are an act of aggression against the independence, the Constitution and the rule of Kuwait," he added.
The Foreign Minister of Bahrain, Sheikh Khalid Al-Khalifa Benahmed, also intervened to express reservations about the content of the broadcast: "Any insult against Kuwaiti personalities is an insult to all Bahrainis," had he wrote about Twitter. The protests in Bahrain, mate by the government that prohibits mid-March the street protests, has caused tension between the majority Sunni Kuwait and the Shiite community.
The latter, which represents 30% of 1.15 million Kuwaiti, has expressed his support for his co-religionists in Bahrain. For their part, Sunnis have held two demonstrations of solidarity with the Sunni minority and the royal family, accusing Iran of interference in the internal affairs of Bahrain.
The crisis in Bahrain took a regional dimension: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United States suspects Iran of seeking to provoke sectarian unrest in the Gulf States. Monarchies that exist in this region rich in oil and gas are Sunni, while Iran is a Shiite theocracy. Kuwait has decided on Thursday the expulsion of Iranian diplomats accused of conspiring against the security of the emirate.
Shortly before, a Kuwaiti court sentenced him to death three people accused of spying for the Islamic Republic. Tehran has dismissed the accusations as "misleading". The debates in Parliament of Kuwait was delayed several important economic reforms and opposition MPs have already led to several resignations and reshuffles.
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