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Info. Min. to embark on landmark visit to Ramallah Saturday




Photo: Kuwait's Minister of Information and Minister of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah

Info. Min. to embark on landmark visit to Ramallah Sat.

04/05/2016

(Translation of this article appears in Arabic section)

KUWAIT-- Minister of Information and Minister of State for Youth Affairs in Kuwait Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah is set to commence a historic visit to Ramallah in West Bank on Saturday.

The minister will head a Kuwaiti delegation participating in the 10th session of the Palestinian International Book Fair, where Kuwait has been chosen "Guest of Honor".

Speaking to KUNA on the visit, the minister touted relations between Kuwait and Palestine and their peoples as "firm", saying that the Palestinian invitation to Kuwait as "Guest of Honor" reflects the fact that the Palestinian side holds the State of Kuwait in high esteem.

He added that during his visit to Ramallah he would meet Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and other senior Palestinian officials in order to look into various cooperative fields, expecting closer cooperation and coordination between both sides in the future.

- Sheikh Salman said his visit to Ramallah recalls a similar visit to Palestine by First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah on Sept.14, 2014 which at the time was considered the first such visit by a high-ranking Kuwaiti official to Palestine since 1967.

On the issue of the Palestinian cause, the Kuwaiti Minister of Information said Kuwait has backed the rights of the Palestinian people in multiple ways, be that politically or economically or culturally or through the media.

A vivid instance of that backing is the huge undertaking by the ministry of Information to publish a compendium on the history and culture of the city of Al-Quds or Jerusalem written by Palestinian authors.

On Kuwaiti-Palestinian cultural ties, the minister said they go back to the mid-thirties when Kuwait invited the first group of Palestinian teachers to teach in Kuwaiti schools in 1936, right after the establishment of an education department in the country. In fact, two Palestinian teachers were given the duty to run the department from 1937 to 1940, said the minister.

Furthermore, three Palestinian female teachers were among the first hired to teach at the first Kuwaiti elementary school for girls in the country in 1937, said the minister, noting that much cultural activities by Palestinians in Kuwait over the years received substantial support by the Kuwaiti government.

One such recent activity took place on Oct. 26, 2014 at the Dasma Theater, organized by Kuwait's National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters (NCCAL), celebrating Palestinian Cultural Days in Kuwait, said the minister.

Regarding Kuwait's participation in the 10th Palestinian International Book Fair, the minister noted the pavilion of (NCCAL) and that of the celebration of Kuwait as the capital of Islamic culture for 2016 as well as an exhibition on Kuwaiti national heritage.

Further, the minister said that a Kuwaiti cultural week in Palestine, slated for May 8-12, will showcase a number of Kuwaiti intellectuals, poets, and authors along with a display of Kuwaiti postage stamps organized in conjunction with the Kuwait Philatelic Society.


 














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