BAGHDAD: The third coordinative meeting of the GCC member states held on Thursday supported a Kuwaiti resolution on respecting international conventions and treaties ahead of discussing it at the Asian Parliamentary Assembly’s (APA) permanent political affairs committee’s gathering in Baghdad, said a Kuwaiti lawmaker.

Speaking to KUNA, Dr MP Hamad Al-Matar, head of Kuwait’s delegation to the meeting, said the GCC member states expressed support to the Kuwaiti draft resolution to be presented to the committee’s meeting on Friday to approve it and refer it to the APA executive board due in Turkey on Nov 26. The draft resolution calls for respecting international conventions and treaties signed among countries, including the Khor Abdullah agreement inked between Kuwait and Iraq, he elaborated.

He stressed that Kuwait respects all international treaties, urging all parties to do the same. He indicated that the coordinative meeting touched upon another Kuwaiti draft resolution calling for upgrading the APA charter. — KUNA