KUWAIT CITY, Jan 11: A 37-yearold man who identifies himself as Taleb says he practically finds himself in no man’s land because he has no identity and all efforts ‘to know who he is has failed’.

During a visit to the Al-Jarida daily he said: “I have lived in this country all my life but I don’t have any paper with my name on it with my picture stamped by the Ministry of Interior as my personal identity.” “This is my dream and to achieve it through the daily he has made an appeal to the Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khalid to solve his problem, because “I live in Kuwait does not have any document to prove who I am.”

He went on to say, “I live this tragedy but I don’t want my two children to suffer the same.” “All I know from my mother’s relatives I was born in Qatar and when I was six years old I traveled to Iraq with my mother where she was arrested and put in prison,” Taleb said. He continued: “My mother died after her release and my mother’s friend adopted me when I was 10. She told me my mother has relatives in Kuwait and she brought me to Kuwait during the Iraqi invasion of the country and handed me over to a Kuwaiti family. I was told they are my mother’s relatives but when I was 17, I left this family.”

Taleb added, he exerted tremendous efforts looking for his origin and got to know that his birth certificate is in Qatar at the Supreme Health Council, Department of Birth Certificates. He added: “I visited the Embassy of Qatar in Kuwait and has been meeting officials and the consul since 2012, but my efforts have borne no fruit.” He added, he visited the Kuwait Human Rights Association about one-and-a-half-year ago, and officials promised to give him me a letter of recommendation to the UNCHR, but they treated me as a bedoun.

He pointed out the officials at the Central System for Remedying Status of Illegal Residents told him the solution of the problem is in the hands of the Minister of Interior, and the question is: How do I reach the interior minister.