KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah chairs the cabinet’s weekly regular session yesterday. —KUNA

KUWAIT: The Cabinet has consented to a decree forming an ad hoc committee entrusted with looking into Kuwaiti citizenship abrogation cases. The move was taken during a customary weekly cabinet meeting held yesterday at Bayan Palace under chairmanship of His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah.

The committee would also give appropriate practical overtures in this regard in line with law, and would eventually report to the cabinet over relevant findings, Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah said in a press statement following the meeting.

The cabinet also instructed all state agencies to use the logo of activities pertinent to the choosing of Kuwait Capital of Arab Youth for 2017 on their respective websites, added Sheik Mohammad Abdullah, who doubles as Acting Minister of Information.

At the onset of the meeting, the ministers were apprised of a letter addressed to His Highness the Amir from UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, inviting him to attend a donor conference on Yemen due in Geneva on April 25. The ministers then listened to a briefing from First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah on the outcomes of His Highness the Amir's participation in the 28th Arab Summit held in Dead Sea in Jordan.

In the briefing, Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled quoted His Highness the Amir as calling for a fresh approach to be adopted in order to address the grave challenges of the Arab world. The cabinet lauded the efforts of His Highness the Amir and other Arab leaders during this summit, and thanked Jordanian King Abdullah II for proper preparations and successful organizing of the Arab gathering.

Afterwards, Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled kept the ministers posted on the outcomes of the 142nd session of the GCC Ministerial Council recently held in Riyadh, which underlined Gulf positions and resolutions against terrorism and extremism.  Meanwhile, the cabinet condemned a recent attack that targeted a police training center in Tanta City in Gharbiya Governorate in Egypt, and left several policemen wounded. The cabinet reiterated Kuwait's unshakable positions based on rejecting all terrorist act regardless of relevant motives and goals.-KUNA