Kuwait commends UN decision to lift freeze on Dawah Committee

(WITH PHOTOS) NEW YORK, Oct 9 (KUNA) -- A decision to lift the sanctions ban on the Islamic Society for Social Reform's Dawah Committee was praised by Kuwait on Tuesday, reversing a decision made by the UN Security Council Sanctions Committee last September.
This came in a speech of Kuwait's Permanent delegation to the UN, delivered by First Secretary, Mashaan Al-Ajmi, before the General Assembly's Legal Committee at its 68th session, during the discussion of "Measures to eliminate international terrorism." Al-Ajmi said that the decision "certified the transparency of Kuwait's charity work, and the transparency of support presented by Kuwait to humanitarian work, especially that the State of Kuwait only supports humanitarian work," stressing that Kuwaiti associations and charities" operate with full transparency all around the world with great contributions in the aim of alleviating the suffering of the poor." Kuwait is keen on supporting humanitarian efforts around the world and help humanitarian organizations and institutions to carry out charity work. The State of Kuwait responded to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's call to host an international donors conference to support the Syrian people, held on January 30, 2013, Al-Ajmi highlighted.
He also pointed out that the conference attracted worldwide attention at all levels and the commitment of the participating countries succeeded in the conference to collect USD 1.5 billion, Kuwait's contribution was USD 300 million, The full amount was handed over to UN specialized agencies.
Al-Ajmi said "Our brotherly Syrian people suffer greatly from a worsening humanitarian crisis which led to the increase in the number of Syrian refugees, leaving two million people suffering the brunt of displacement." The State of Kuwait condemns "terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, in whatever form or category, committed by whomever, and for whatever purposes," Al-Ajmi said. Stressing at the same time that terror is not linked to religion or nationality, civilization or ethnic groups, calling on all States to take effective measures to combat the spread of terrorism, including the long-standing conflicts that have not yet been solved in many states, in addition to the abuse of human rights, lack of good governance.
Al-Ajmi added that Kuwait "condemns the terrorist acts recently witnessed in Iraq and Kenya." The State of Kuwait "values the draft Convention on the Prevention and Combating of Terrorism," Al-Ajmi said, stressing on the importance that such conventions define the true meaning of terrorism. (end) sj.aa KUNA 091240 Oct 13NNNN