KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanim at his residence in the US on Tuesday. The audience was attended by deputy head of Kuwait National Guard Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. "HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah will return home in near future following successful medical tests in the US" National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem said Tuesday.

Al-Ghanem made the statement after visiting HH the Amir at his residence in the US. He said he conveyed greetings of the Kuwaiti people to His Highness the Amir. HH the Amir "expresses his appreciation and gratitude for sentiments of the Kuwaiti people, and His Highness assures he will return soon," said Al-Ghanem. Minister of Amiri Diwan Sheikh Ali Jarrah Al-Sabah announced last Thursday that HH the Amir was discharged from a US hospital following successful checkups.

In related news, HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah sent a cable of condolences yesterday to Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani over two terrorist bombings. In the cable, HH Amir expressed his sincere condolences to the victims of the two terrorist bombings; one took place in the capital of Kabul and another in Parwan province. HH the Amir pointed out that Kuwait rejects all forms of terrorism and prayed for the victims and their families as well as for the wounded swift recovery. His Highness the Deputy Amir and Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah sent similar cables.

Kuwait National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem also expressed his deepest sympathies, yesterday, after a pair of suicide bombings in the Afghan capital left scores of people dead and injured. In cables he sent to Afghan Senate chief Fazel Hadi Muslimyar and Speaker of Parliament Mir Rahman Rahmani, Kuwait's top lawmaker wished mercy upon the souls of the victims and a speedy recovery for the injured. - KUNA