Al-Muzayian: Kuwaiti FM to visit Moscow soon

2/24/2010

MOSCOW-- Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Dr. Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah will be visiting Moscow soon as a step to further discuss relations with Russian officials, said a Kuwaiti diplomat here on Wednesday.

Kuwaiti Ambassador to Moscow Nasser Al-Mezian told the press here on the 49th National and 19th Liberation Days that the preparations for the visit, expected to be in May, were underway, adding that the Kuwaiti official would be meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, discussing with him means to bolster Kuwaiti-Russian as well as Russian-GCC relations.

The meeting would also focus on the proper time and preparations for His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah to visit Moscow, Al-Mezian.

Kuwaiti-Russian relations are developing progressively and this was evident on the cultural level, when Kuwait held an Islamic artifacts exhibition in Moscow and in Saint Petersburg last year, said the diplomat who indicated that around 700,000 visitors attended the two exhibitions.

Kuwait also hosted events aimed at boosting relations between Russia and the Islamic world, said the official, indicating that the last GCC summit in Kuwait called for tighter relations with major world states.