KUWAIT:  Kuwait Fire Force (KFF) and United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) discussed preparation to host the sixth Arab Regional Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction, which will be held in Kuwait in October. The Acting Chief of Kuwait Fire Force Lieutenant General Khaled Fahad met with the Head of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) Regional Office for Arab States Nora Achkar to discuss the forum’s preparations. This came in a press statement by the Fire Force on Monday during the reception of Lieutenant General Khaled Fahad to the UNDRR Regional Office for Arab States’ delegation in preparation for hosting the forum, which would be headed by the First Deputy Minister, Minister of Defense and Interior Sheikh Fahad Yousef Saud Al-Sabah. He stated that the forum would discuss the progress made in the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, as well as adopt a strategy for disaster risk reduction to be implemented during the next three years, which will be developed in the name of Kuwait to be implemented by all Arab countries. — KUNA