On Sunday, Kuwaiti Defense Minister Sheikh Jaber al-Mubarak al-Hamad al-Sabah denied reports that an unspecified number of US troops would be transferred to Kuwait after concluding their mission in Iraq, Kuwait's official news agency, KUNA, reported.
US officials said Wednesday that the government of US President Barack Obama was weighing a plan to relocate around 4,000 soldiers from Iraq to Kuwait by the end of 2011.
Sheikh Jaber said there was no plan to increase the US forces in Kuwait as the number of US military personnel in the Persian Gulf state was fixed in agreements between Kuwait City and Washington.
He also said that Kuwait would not allow its territory to be used for "attacking any country in the region."
The US already has around 23,000 soldiers in the oil-rich Persian Gulf state.
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