KUWAIT: Ministerof State for Cabinet Affairs Anas Al-Saleh said yesterday that the governmentis determined to find a lasting solution for the decades-old problem of thestateless people or 'bedoons'. Saleh said the desired solution will be reachedin cooperation of the national assembly and will take into considerationsecurity, humanitarian, cultural and economic situation of the country.
The ministerrecalled the call of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah onthe two authorities to resolve the problem of bedoons who have been living inthe country for over a half century and claim the right to Kuwaiti citizenship.
Some 120,000bedoons live in Kuwait and say they are Kuwaitis while the government insiststhat only some of them qualify for consideration to be naturalized. Several MPshave proposed a draft law granting bedoons full humanitarian and civil rightsuntil their issue can be resolved. National Assembly speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanemsaid last month that the desired solution for the bedoons problem will bereached this summer or at the start of the new assembly term next October.
In the meantime,MP Khalil Al-Saleh yesterday sent a question to Minister of State for EconomicAffairs Mariam Al-Aqeel inquiring about the number of Kuwaiti employees whoresigned from the private sector since the beginning of 2017.
Additionally, heasked about the number of Kuwaitis who resigned from the private sector andwhere either appointed in government jobs, reappointed in the private sector orjust retired. Saleh also asked about rumors that Kuwaitis shun private sectorjobs and asked for the reasons, and asked if the government has conducted astudy on the reasons for the resignation of Kuwaitis from the private sector.