Amir keen on encouraging youth pursue education: Envoy

PARIS: Kuwait’s Ambassador to France Sami Al-Sulaiman said Saturday that His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah was keen on encouraging youth pursue education to eventually serve their country. Sulaiman, addressing the first conference of the National Union of Kuwait Students (NUKS) in France, said that His Highness the Amir has always emphasized that investing in human beings was “the best investment ever” which would contribute to development, security and prosperity of Kuwait.

He said Kuwait’s 2035 development plan, based on His Highness the Amir’s vision to transform the Gulf country into a regional commercial and financial hub, was primarily based on investments in quality education to achieve development and advancement.

Kuwait, added Sulaiman, has been encouraging students to apply for scholarships abroad for more than seven decades. The Ministry of Higher Education is coordinating with Kuwait Embassy in Paris and the Cultural Office to create suitable environment for the students in France, he said. Speaking in a statement to the press afterwards, Sulaiman said the Embassy and Cultural Office were exerting every effort to support Kuwaiti students in France. He called on the students to be dedicated during their studies so they would return to Kuwait to contribute to its development.

Kuwaiti MP Dr Abdulkareem AlKandari said in a similar statement that the political seminar that was held during the NUKS conference dealt with “fake certificates, quality of education in Kuwait and cheating.” MP Mubarak Al-Hajraf called for expanding educational cooperation with France in order to ultimately exchange cultural values.