Kuwaiti Government in exile
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Kuwaiti government in exile الحكومة الكويتية في المنفى | |||||||||
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| 1990–1991 | |||||||||
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| Status | Government-in-exile | ||||||||
| Capital | Kuwait City | ||||||||
| Capital-in-exile | Taif | ||||||||
| Emir | |||||||||
• 1990–1991 | Jaber III | ||||||||
| Prime minister and military governor | |||||||||
• 1990–1991 | Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah | ||||||||
| Historical era | Gulf War | ||||||||
| 5 August 1990 | |||||||||
| 26 February 1991 | |||||||||
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The Kuwaiti Government-in-exile (Arabic: الحكومة الكويتية في المنفى) was the government in exile of Kuwait following Ba'athist Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait during the Gulf War. On 2 August 1990, Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and senior members of his government fled to Saudi Arabia, where they set up a government-in-exile in Taif.[1] The Kuwaiti government in exile was far more affluent than most other such governments, having full disposal of the very considerable Kuwaiti assets in western banks—of which it made use to conduct a massive propaganda campaign denouncing the Ba'athist Iraqi occupation and mobilizing public opinion in the western hemisphere in favor of war with Ba'athist Iraq. In March 1991, following the defeat of Ba'athist Iraq at the hands of coalition forces in the Persian Gulf War, the Sheikh and his government were able to return to Kuwait.
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- ^ Ottaway, David B. (24 August 1990). "'ALIVE AND WELL,' KUWAITI GOVERNMENT SETS UP SHOP IN SAUDI HOTEL". Washington Post.