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KUWAIT: (Left) HH the Amir Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah receives HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah at Bayan Palace on Oct 29, 2024. New Oil MInister Tareq Al-Roumi (center) and new Education Minister Jalal Al-Tabtabaei (right) take the oath of office before HH the Amir. - KUNA
KUWAIT: (Left) HH the Amir Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah receives HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah at Bayan Palace on Oct 29, 2024. New Oil MInister Tareq Al-Roumi (center) and new Education Minister Jalal Al-Tabtabaei (right) take the oath of office before HH the Amir. - KUNA

New education, oil ministers named

Newly-appointed ministers take oath of office before HH the Amir

KUWAIT: An Amiri decree was issued on Tuesday appointing new education and oil ministers to complete the Cabinet line-up, as the two posts were being held by the minister of higher education and minister of finance respectively on a temporary basis. Jalal Al-Tabtabaei, 57, a long-serving bureaucrat at the Public Authority for Applied Education and Training, was appointed education minister after the post was held by the higher education minister on a temporary basis.

Tareq Al-Roumi, former chairman of Kuwait Oil Tanker Co, was appointed oil minister, replacing Emad Al-Ateeqi, who resigned about two months ago on health grounds. The 70-year-old Roumi also served in various positions for several decades in the oil sector.

With the two appointments, the Cabinet now has a 16-minister line-up headed by HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah, who was appointed as premier in May. The two ministers took the constitutional oath before HH the Amir Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah at Bayan Palace, in the presence of HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah and HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah. Senior state officials attended the swearing-in ceremony.

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