Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – The Kuwaiti Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced, on Thursday, that it had summoned the Acting Chargé d’Affairs of the United States Embassy, Jim Hollistider, “against the embassy’s publication on its social media accounts of references and tweets supporting homosexuality.”
The ministry said, in a statement via its Twitter account: “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the Acting Chargé d’Affairs of the United States Embassy, Mr. Jim Hollistider, and met with the Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Americas Affairs, Nawaf Abdul Latif Al-Ahmad, against the background of the embassy’s publication in its accounts on social media sites of references. and tweets supporting homosexuality.
She added, “Al-Ahmad handed Mr. Jim a memorandum confirming the State of Kuwait’s rejection of what was published and stressing the need for the embassy to respect the laws and regulations in force in the State of Kuwait and the obligation not to publish such tweets in compliance with the provisions of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations in 1961.”
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs summons the Chargé d’Affairs of the US Embassy in the State of Kuwait. Full story: https://t.co/qcTj49ZTPh https://t.co/ItSaIqQ4Rv
The US embassy had posted on its Twitter account, a tweet in which it said: “In defense of the human rights of LGBT people, President Biden said: “All people deserve respect, dignity, and the ability to live without fear, no matter who they are or who they love.”
Defending the human rights of LGBT people, President Biden said, “All people deserve respect, dignity, and the ability to live without fear, no matter who they are or who they love.” https://t.co/YptuptZJE6