KUWAIT: Kuwait yesterday hosted the fifth online session of the Joint Kuwaiti-Qatari Higher Cooperation Committee, where various Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) were signed between the two sides. The Kuwaiti side was represented by the Foreign Minister and Acting Information Minister Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah, while Qatar's Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammad bin Abdulrahman Al Thani chaired the Qatari side.

Sheikh Dr Ahmad praised the Qatari authorities for hosting Kuwaiti citizens during the COVID-19 pandemic and facilitating their return procedures to Kuwait, stressing that these efforts were appreciated by the leadership and people of Kuwait.

The two countries signed the final minutes of the session and a number of MoUs on encouraging direct investment, civil services and administrative development, Islamic Affairs and agricultural field. The number of agreements signed between the two countries reached 26 agreements from 1978 to 2018 in various fields. - KUNA