Slovenia supports Kuwait’s deal on Khor Abdullah
LJUBLJANA: Slovenia has stressed its support to abide by the Kuwait-Iraq deal on ‘Khor Abdullah’, signed in 2012 and submitted to the UN in 2013, said a Kuwaiti lawmaker on Tuesday. Speaking to KUNA and Kuwait TV, MP Osama Al-Zaid, head of the parliamentary friendship group, lauded the results of the visit to the Slovenian capital. He said that the Kuwaiti delegation held some fruitful meetings with Slovenian officials and bodies as well as lawmakers, including heads of foreign and economic affairs committees in the parliament.
He pointed out that he and his accompanying delegation met with the speaker of the Slovenian parliament and minister of state for foreign affairs, adding that this visit would have positive impacts in the future. The visit’s timing is important as it came after Slovenia, supported by Kuwait, obtained a nonpermanent seat in the UN Security Council, he said, indicating that Slovenia backed Kuwait to get a UN human rights’ seat. Meanwhile, Al-Zaid said that they discussed exempting Kuwaitis from Schengen visas and that the Slovenian side affirmed that it would support Kuwait on that matter.
He went on to say that the Kuwaiti delegation informed Slovenia about Kuwait’s stance, at the parliamentary, government, and people levels, towards the Palestinian cause. Kuwait calls for stopping the massacres and war crimes committed by the Zionist entity against Palestinian people, Al-Zaid noted. During the meetings, the two sides agreed on forming a joint Kuwait-Slovenia parliamentary economic committee, and the Slovenian side was invited to visit Kuwait to activate economic cooperation between the two sides, he made clear.
Kuwait’s delegation includes MPs Shuaib Ali Shaban, Hamad Al-Olayan, Abdulwahab Al-Issa, and Kuwait’s Ambassador to Austria and non-resident envoy to Slovenia, Talal Al-Fassam. The delegation is set to leave Slovenia this evening, heading to Vienna, where it will meet senior officials with the aim of boosting ties between the Kuwaiti and Austrian parliaments.