Kuwait- ( SPECIAL REPORT)Kuwait's ruler has accepted the resignation of the government in a bid to end a standoff with parliament, Kuna, the state news agency, has reported.

"The resignation of the prime minister Sheikh Nasser al-Mohammad al-Sabah and the ministers has been accepted," said Kuna on Sunday, citing a decree by Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah.

Last month, the cabinet tendered its resignation over a request by three Sunni Islamist MPs to question the prime minister, over a controversial visit by an Iranian Shia cleric.

The prime minister has since stepped down.
 
The announcement that the resignation had been accpeted followed remarks by the speaker of parliament earlier this month that the emir, who has the last say in Kuwaiti politics, would accept the resignation.

The news agency did not say who the new prime minister would be, but the speaker had said that the emir had reappointed Sheikh Nasser, his nephew, as prime minister.

The new cabinet will be the fourth in the Opec member since March 2007 after previous line-ups stepped down.

The ruler dissolved parliament in March in a bid to end a similar standoff.

 

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