KUWAIT: Kuwait's
Minister of Public Works and Minister of State for Housing Dr Jenan Bushehri
spoke during a Cabinet meeting on Monday of ongoing infrastructure reforms
after heavy rains battered the country last year. The Cabinet has agreed to
dedicate a future session to the aforementioned matter, where the government
executives will be discussing what measures the government has taken to repair
the roads affected by the deluge, in addition to progress on major housing
projects.

Meanwhile, the
Cabinet was informed of a Kuwait Oil Company initiative to address a sewage
problem plaguing Sabah-Al-Ahmad residential area, where puddles of wastewater
have accumulated. Discussing the problem, the Cabinet decided to assign various
state bodies, including the Environment Public Authority and the Ministry of
Public Works, with the task of remedying the issue in a month's time.

During its weekly
meeting at Seif Palace on Monday, the Kuwaiti Cabinet discussed the aftermath
of an Arab League emergency ministerial meeting held a day earlier to discuss
Turkey's military operation in northern Syria. The Egypt-hosted talks, attended
by Kuwait's Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, were
called to examine Turkey's ongoing military operation against Kurdish fighters
in northeast Syria, he told the customary Cabinet meeting, chaired by His
Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah.

In the meantime,
the Cabinet expressed profound grief after the most powerful typhoon to hit
Japan in decades paralyzed the capital Tokyo, leaving millions of people
evacuated and streets deserted. On the other hand, the Cabinet congratulated
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on winning the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize for
his peacemaking efforts, which ended two decades of acrimony with longtime
nemesis Eritrea. The Cabinet went on to deplore an attack on a mosque in
Burkina Faso, in which gunmen killed scores of people amid prayers on Friday
evening, saying such "terrorist acts" run counter to humanitarian
principles. - KUNA