Native Name: | الحكومة الكويتية في المنفى |
Conventional Long Name: | Kuwaiti government in exile |
Common Name: | None |
Era: | Gulf War |
Status: | Government-in-exile |
Event Start: | Invasion of Kuwait |
Date Start: | 5 August |
Year Start: | 1990 |
Event End: | Liberation of Kuwait |
Date End: | 26 February |
Year End: | 1991 |
Year Exile Start: | 1990 |
Year Exile End: | 1990 |
P1: | State of Kuwait |
Flag P1: | Flag of Kuwait.svg |
S1: | State of Kuwait |
Flag S1: | Flag of Kuwait.svg |
Capital: | Kuwait City |
Capital Exile: | Taif |
Leader1: | Jaber III |
Year Leader1: | 1990–1991 |
Title Leader: | Emir |
Deputy1: | Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah |
Year Deputy1: | 1990–1991 |
Year Deputy2: | . |
Title Deputy: | Prime minister and military governor |
The Kuwaiti Government-in-exile (Arabic: الحكومة الكويتية في المنفى) was the government in exile of Kuwait following Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait during the Persian 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.