Amir receives top officials
KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received yesterday at Bayan Palace His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. His Highness also received National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem, His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah and First Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. Meanwhile, His Highness the Crown Prince received His Highness Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak, Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled, Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Anas Khaled Al-Saleh.
His Highness finally met with Minister of Information and Minister of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Mohammad Al-Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah.
In other news, His Highness the Amir sent a congratulatory cable yesterday to Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud on the occasion of the second anniversary of his ascension to the throne. In the cable, His Highness the Amir extolled deep and firm fraternal historical relations between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, and lauded the prominent development renaissance involving various fields under the leadership of the Saudi King.
His Highness the Amir also wished the Saudi King wellbeing and success in pursuing development in the kingdom and serving both Arab and Muslim worlds. Two cables of similar sentiments were sent to the Saudi King by His Highness the Crown Prince and His Highness the Prime Minister.
Separately, His Highness the Amir has cabled Bahraini King Hamad Bin Issa Al-Khalifa robustly denouncing the armed attack on a prison in the Gulf Kingdom. His Highness the Amir condemned in strong terms this terrorist and gruesome act that targeted souls of the innocents, thus jeopardizing security of the brotherly country.
He re-affirmed the State of Kuwait’s unwavering stance, rebuffing all “forms and pictures” of terrorism, its stand on side of the brotherly Kingdom of Bahrain and supporting any measures it may take in this respect. Moreover, His Highness expressed solace to the King and family of the ‘martyr’ who lost his life while he was on duty when the attack was carried out on the prison. Cables of identical sentiments were addressed to the Bahraini Monarch by His Highness the Crown Prince and His Highness the Prime Minister. Meanwhile, National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem sent a cable to his Bahraini counterpart Ahmad bin Ibrahim Al-Mulla, expressing his deepest sympathies over the policeman’s death. —KUNA