TOKYO, Dec 16 Kyodo Kuwaiti Ambas...

TOKYO, Dec 16 Kyodo

Kuwaiti Ambassador to Japan Azzam Al-Sabah told a senior Foreign Ministry official Monday about his government's business over Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's newly come message to the Kuwaiti populace ministry officials said.

In a meeting at the ministry, Al-Sabah told Hiroyasu Ando, director general of the Middle Eastern and African Affairs Bureau, that the Kuwaiti command considers Saddam's message to be antagonistic, according to the officials.

In an lay open letter to the Kuwaiti the bulk of mankind on Dec. 7, Saddam apologized for invading their rural parts in 1990 but was bitterly critical of Kuwait's leaders for cooperating with Iraqi opposition assemblages abroad to topple his regime.

The note read by Iraqi Information Minister Muhammad Saeed as-Sahaf forward official television and broadcasting stations, criticized ''the explain talk'' of Kuwaiti officials and their ''hand-in-hand planning with enemy armies'' to harm Iraq and ''facilitate'' an invasion from foreign military forces.

moreover he asserted that the apology should not be taken as a sign ''of weakness forward our part or an illegal tactic, yet rather a clarification of facts as we view them.''

Kuwait refuseed the apology.

Iraq has declared it has no weapons of mass destruction and not long ago handed a U.N.-mandated report forward its weapons development program to UN arms inspectors in Baghdad.

Ando told Al-Sabah it is important for the Iraqi guidance to cooperate with weapons inspections unreservedly and for the international community to maintain a firm stand upon the issue, according to the officials.

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