Govt meeting with joint parliamentary committee ‘fruitful’: defense minister

MoCI teams to follow up issuance of commercial licences

KUWAIT CITY, June 3, (Agencies): First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Sheikh Nasser Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah on Sunday said that the meeting of the joint parliamentary committee was “excellent and fruitful.” Sheikh Nasser Al-Sabah made the statement to KUNA after a meeting for the parliamentary committees on budget and final accounts, financial and economic affairs, and legislative legal affairs, and the government, tackling a host of state finances.

Sheikh Nasser Al-Sabah added that they addressed Kuwait’s future. Discussions will continue in the next one.

He thanked members of the parliamentary committees for their cooperation with the government.

Attending the meeting were Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Cabinet Affairs Anas Al-Saleh; Minister of Finance Naif Al-Hajraf; Minister of Social Affairs and Labor and State Minister for Economic Affairs Hind Al-Sabeeh and State Minister for National Assembly Affairs Adel Al-Kharafi, as well as CEO of the Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA).

Meanwhile, Ministry of Commerce and Industry has formed teams to follow up issuance of commercial licences that influence demographic imbalance, reports Al-Qabas daily.

The daily quoting a source said the teams have been formed upon request of the supreme committee for studying and remedying demographic imbalance, especially as the majority of expatriates come to Kuwait to work through commercial licence holders.

The same sources expected the teams to specify the work plan and to revoke inactive commercial licences registering a large number of marginal workers, while presenting recommendations to suspend the issuance of licences for some activities and convincing relevant bodies such as Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor and Ministry of Interior for that purpose.

They stressed the recommendations may include toughened conditions for obtaining commercial licences, and thwarting the activities of visa traffickers by specifying the quota of laborers for each commercial licence holder.