Kuwait City, Tuesday.
THE Prince of Wales was presented with Kuwait's top honour today as he
toured the city liberated from Iraq during the Gulf War.
In a short ceremony at an Anglican church the Prince paid tribute to
the 47 British servicemen who lost their lives by laying flowers beneath
a small wooden plaque erected in their memory.
The Emir of Kuwait surprised the Royal party by presenting a Mubarak
the Great Medal as a thank-you for Britain's role in driving out Saddam
Hussein's forces in 1991.
He spoke warmly of the friendship between the two countries and
Britain's ''noble'' stand alongside United Nations troops during the
conflict.
He went on to praise the Prince for his speech in Oxford two weeks ago
in which he called for greater understanding between the Islamic and
Western worlds.
The Prince visited one of the few remaining signs of the illegal
occupation which left much of the oil-rich city devastated. He stood
solemn-faced in the ruins of two houses used by a Kuwaiti resistance
group.
The Prince's visit came as Iraq revealed that it had fired
ground-to-ground missiles in a military exercise.
It was the first time Iraq had announced the firing of missiles since
it was driven out of Kuwait. Under the ceasefire terms that ended the
Gulf War Iraq is only permitted to have missiles with ranges under 90
miles. -- Reuter.
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