KUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Sheikh Hamad Jaber Al-Ali Al-Sabah meets the United Kingdom's Ambassador to Kuwait Belinda Lewis. - KUNA

KUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Sheikh Hamad Jaber Al-Ali Al-Sabah held talks yesterday with the United Kingdom's Ambassador to Kuwait Belinda Lewis, addressing issues of joint interest and means of cementing bilateral relations as well as a host of regional and international issues. The Kuwaiti Ministry of Defense said in a statement that Minister Sheikh Hamad Jaber Al-Ali received at his office ambassador Lewis and held with her talks on topics of common concern and means of boosting cooperation.

Moreover, the two sides explored latest developments on the regional and international arenas. The meeting was attended by the Kuwaiti Army Chief of Staff Lieutenant-General Khaled Saleh Al-Sabah, the UK Chief of Defense Staff's Senior Advisor to Middle East and North Africa Air Marshal Martin Sampson, the Defense Attache at the British Embassy in Kuwait, Captain Paul Mulvaney, and the Second Secretary at the Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry's Europe Department, Omar Al-Dwaisan. - KUNA