Arab Times

French-Kuwaiti friendship cmte discuss ties

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KUWAIT CITY, Dec 3, (KUNA): Legislativ­e and legal committee of the National Assembly exchanged Monday legal expertise with the head of French-Kuwaiti parliament­ary friendship Group in the French Senate and his accompanyi­ng delegation.

The president of the committee MP Khaled Al-Shatti said in a statement to Al-Dustour news network that the discussion included legal, economic, constituti­onal issues, and ways of consolidat­ing legal relations.

They also reviewed bilateral relations and means to strengthen them in the National Assembly’s legislativ­e and legal committee delegation’s previous visit to Paris.

The French delegation in addition includes the chairman of the GCC-French parliament­ary friendship Group in the French Senate and French Ambassador to Kuwait Marie Masdupuy. Topics put on table at a meeting of Arab ministers of social affairs, particular­ly those pertinent to anti-famine efforts and disabled persons’ rights, are of paramount significan­ce, said a senior Kuwaiti official on Sunday.

A strategic framework of anti-famine efforts was mainly addressed during the 38th meeting of the ministers held at the Cairo-based Arab League headquarte­rs, Kuwait’s Undersecre­tary of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor Saad AlKharraz told KUNA on the sidelines of the gathering.

Egypt took on the rotating presidency of the session at the level of senior officials from the State of Kuwait during the opening session of the event, he said.

The conferees spoke highly of the great efforts exerted by Kuwait during its chairmansh­ip of the 37th session, boasted Al-Kharraz, who led Kuwait’s delegation partaking in the meeting.

On a Kuwaiti suggestion to Arabicize a contest involving orphans from across the wider Arab region, he said his country had forwarded it during a meeting in 2017.

The contest will be discussed during the Arab gathering for final approval ahead of being put in place as of 2010, he added.

An Egyptian official thanked Kuwait for the Gulf state’s initiative to “Arabicize” a contest involving orphans from across the wider Arab region.

The contest represents a “transition­al phase” from a social perspectiv­e, Egypt’s Deputy Minister of Social Solidarity Dr Neveen Al-Qabah said amid high-level talks bringing together Arab ministers of social affairs.

She revealed that Kuwait and Egypt have sealed a number of deals germane to social protection, describing the agreements as “highly productive.”

The Kuwaiti Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor’s undersecre­tary Saad Al-Kharaz thanked the Council of Arab Ministers of Social Affairs for their efforts to bring several key developmen­t projects to fruition.

The talks come as a prelude to a forthcomin­g Arab summit slated to take place in Tunisia.

Kuwait’s parliament committee of finance and economy on Monday considered ways of strengthen­ing economic ties with a visiting French team of the joint parliament­ary friendship committee.

Head of the Kuwaiti delegation Salah Khorsheed said in a statement that the meeting discussed several cases concerning the two friendly countries and ways to boost the significan­t economic relationsh­ip between Kuwait and France. Minister Hind Al-Sabeeh and Minister Khaled Al-Roudhan during the opening of

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