PM chairs restructured planning board meeting
KUWAIT: His Highness Prime Minister and President of the Supreme Council for Planning and Development Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah chaired yesterday at Bayan Palace the first meeting of the council after its recent re-structuring.
He opened the meeting with a speech in which he underscored the imperative to use methodologies of planning, based on scientific paradigms, to delineate existing problems prior to seeking out resolutions for them that would benefit the society in the long run.
He called on the government and the private sector to tap new and creative resources in dealing with finding solutions for societal problems, affirming at the same time the government’s commitment to adhering in letter and spirit by solutions arrived at by the Council.
Additionally, the prime minister pinpointed in his speech the problems and challenges facing the country at this juncture in its history, which he enumerated as: preserving the national identity, protecting the national unity, boosting national security, developing the skill of practicing democracy, reforming the economy, improving health services and education, and ameliorating the performance of the government. Though all these represented top priorities for the prime minister, he nevertheless stressed the fact that the strategic goal for the government was to help advance the potentialities of the Kuwaiti citizen to the furthest limit and to enable him or her to succeed in creating a prosperous and rewarding life. — KUNA