A spokesman for the Kuwait-held Africa-Arab Summit denied on Saturday news reports of the possession of illegal substances by a foreign minister of one of the participating countries at a hotel in Kuwait City. "News reports broadcasted by one of the local messaging services said that an expatriate had been arrested trying to bring in illegal substances to a foreign minister of one of the participating countries in the Afro-Arab conference at a hotel in the capital," the spokesman said in statements to KUNA. The spokesman called on the media to ensure the accuracy of news prior to publication of such stories