Mubarakiya sit-in delayed
KUWAIT CITY, April 4: In the latest development on the shop owners’ crisis at Mubarakiya Market, their proposed strike due for tomorrow has been cancelled after a meeting of the delegation from the union of shop owners with the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Anas Al-Saleh, reports AlAnba daily.
The daily quoting sources said they agreed to continue paying the old rent through the court until the Ministry of Finance completes its study on the contracts with companies implementing the project.
Meanwhile, some real estates
“I hope and wish that a country like Kuwait can play a more prominent role in the political mediation,” said the EU foreign policy chief.
Mogherini said she will meet Kuwaiti First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah either today or tomorrow to discuss not only the humanitarian issue but also the political solution to the Syrian conflict.
She stressed that all the countries in the region have a role to play in the political side as they have a direct interest to see that the conflict is not further protracted.
“In the moment when Inshallah soon we will come to the end of the conflict we have to see that the situation is managed in a reasonable manner,” she said.
“I have a clear sense of the fact that Europeans and the Gulf countries share a sense of urgency and seriousness of the situation (in Syria) and that it could only be solved politically,” she added.
The European Union, Germany, Kuwait, Norway, Qatar, the United Kingdom and the United Nations will co-chair the Brussels Conference titled “Supporting the future of Syria and the region,” on Wednesday.
Mogherini said that representatives from 70 delegations, including from the EU and the region but also the wider international community, the United Nations, major donors and civil society, humanitarian and development organisations, will attend the meeting.
The conference will also assess where the international community stands collectively in fulfilling commitments made at the London Conference in February 2016 and agree on additional efforts needed to meet the needs of those affected by the crisis. She said pledges for Syria will be announced tomorrow and hoped that the pledges made last year and this year for Syria will be maintained.
Mogherini said discussions in tomorrow’s conference will also focus on how the international community can support a lasting political resolution to the Syrian conflict through an inclusive and Syrian-led political transition process based on the relevant Security Council resolutions.
National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanim received Tuesday member of the Saudi Council of Senior Scholars and Advisor to King Salman bin Abdulaziz
Al-Saud, Sheikh Dr Abdullah bin Mohammad Al-Mutl’aq. (KUNA)
brokers held a protest denouncing the decision of Real Estates Committee to designate representatives on their behalf to facilitate the issuance and renewal of broker books.
A Kuwaiti Folk Theatre Team led by Board Chairman Dr Anba Waleed left for Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt to take part in the International Youth Festival, reports AlRai daily.
Dr Waleed told reporters the team is representing Kuwait at the festival with a play titled “Station 50” written by Al-Jazi Al-Senafi and directed by Nassar Al-Nassar.