17/01/2006 (Agence Europe) - Speaking on behalf of the Austrian EU Council Presidency, Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik presented her condolences for the death of the emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, whom she described as a “man of vision who was a vigorous leader of his country and his people for whom he did so much”. The EU Council president notes that, during his long and extraordinary reign, the emir of Kuwait relentlessly encouraged modernisation of his country and...