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TARMAC TO TABLE VIPS from politics, diplomacy, media and the corporate world filled the ornate ballroom of Kuwait’s embassy residence to support the Kuwait-America Foundation’s efforts benefiting Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon. Just before U.N. Goodwill Ambassador Rima Al-Sabah oresented a $1 million check to the UNHCR, Secretary of State John F. Kerry, whose plane landed from Saudi Arabia only 30 minutes prior to his arrival, minced no words when he told guests that the terrorist groups we are fighting “are a new definition of evil [and] the antithesis of everything we’ve fought for since World War II.” HELPING HAND: “It’s hard to believe that after more than a decade the tragic situation for refugees in the Middle East has not gotten any better and is getting worse by the day,” Kuwaiti Amb. Salem Al-Sabah observed, noting that his country had donated $1.3 billion in humanitarian aid since the start of the conflict.
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