Kuwait Acting Premier receives Saudi officials
KUWAIT: Acting Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah received a number of visiting Saudi officials yesterday at Bayan Palace. Sheikh Sabah Khaled hosted Kuwait’s Minister of Oil, Electricity and Water Bakheet Al-Rashidi, who was accompanied by the following Saudi officials: Minister of Culture Prince Bader bin Abdullah bin Farhan Al-Saud, Minister of Commerce Dr Majid AlQasabi, Minister of Energy, Industry and Minerals Eng Khaled Al-Faleh, Minister of Information Dr Awad AlAwad and other officials from the brotherly Kingdom.
Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled also received Kuwait’s Minister of State for Housing Affairs and Minister of State for Services’ Affairs Dr Jenan Boushehri; accompanied by the visiting GCC countries’ housing ministers at Bayan Palace yesterday. The meeting was held on the occasion of the GCC 16th session of GCC states’ ministers of housing. It was attended by Assistant Secretary General for Economic and Development Affairs at the GCC General Secretariat Khalifa Bin Said Al-Abri.
Moreover, Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled received the newly appointed Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the country, Nikolai Makarov yesterday. During the meeting held at his office at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled expressed his best wishes to the new ambassador, all the success of his duties in Kuwait and the bilateral relations that bind the two friendly countries to further growth and prosperity. The meeting was attended by Assistant Foreign Minister for Protocol Affairs Ambassador Dhari AlAjran, Assistant Foreign Minister for the Office of Deputy Prime Minister and Acting Foreign Minister Ambassador Saleh Al-Loughani and a number of officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled also received the copy of credentials of the Ambassador of Canada to Kuwait, Louis Pierre Emond yesterday. During the meeting, he wished the new ambassador best of luck in his new duty, and hope more developed, growing relations between both the friendly countries. Assistant Foreign Minister for Protocols Ambassador Dhari Al-Ajran, Acting Assistant for Foreign Minister for the Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister’s Office Ambassador Saleh Al-Lughani and several other senior officials of the Foreign Ministry were present at the meeting.