(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) The Kuwaiti delegation accompanying Minister of Information and Minister of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Al-Humoud Al-Sabah said Tuesday that the talks with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) were successful by all means and new facts were uncovered.
In a statement to KUNA, Dr. Mohammad Al-Feeli, head of the legal team in the talks, said that Kuwait's sports laws are compatible with the Olympic Charter and that people who manage Kuwaiti sports clubs should respect the laws just like the situation in all countries.
But he warned that in case of violating the law, then the matter is taken to court.
"We discovered that the file submitted to the IOC contains inaccurate information and the evidence used by the committee is extremely weak so the complaint against Kuwait is baseless," he said.
Problems should have been solved in accordance with the Kuwaiti laws before resorting to the IOC, he said, noting that the committee winked at the details of Kuwait's policy regarding sports laws.
In the meantime, Dr. Saqer Al-Mulla, advisor to the Minister of Information, said that Sheikh Salman Al-Humoud Al-Sabah decisively refuted inaccurate information received by the IOC.
The minister said that the State of Kuwait cannot accept any threats, especially it provides clear-cut legal facilities to sports associations, Al-Mulla said.
On his part, Dr. Abdullah Al-Turaiji, a member of the National Assembly's sports committee, said that there were no certain points in the meeting and the IOC legal representative didn't reply to several questions asked by the Kuwaiti delegation.
He added that the IOC's members should have realized that Kuwait is a State of law and legislations are adopted only in accordance with all norms applied in all countries that have parliamentary regimes," he said.
"The IOC doesn't have the right to impose law amendments on Kuwait so the committee should respect the sovereignty of Kuwait," he added.
"We realized, unfortunately, that the Kuwait Olympic Committee (KOC) is working with the IOC against the State of Kuwait and the Kuwaiti people should know this fact," he said.
Meanwhile, Abdullah Al-Mayouf, head of the parliament's sports and youth committee, said that the IOC failed to answer many questions asked by the Kuwaiti delegation.
He added that it doesn't intend to ban Kuwait's sports activities, urging the IOC to reconsider inaccurate information and discuss the issue with the KOC.
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