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KUWAIT, Oct 29 (KUNA) -- Director General of the Environment Public
Authority (EPA) Salah Al-Mudhi said here on Tuesday Kuwait attaches much
attention to the reduction of wildlife crimes.
Speaking at a workshop on the promotion of regional cooperation for
fighting wildlife crimes in West Asia, co-organized by the EPA and UN
Development Program office in South Asia and Secretariat of the Convention on
International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, commonly
known as CITES, Al-Mudhi said Kuwait is committed to fulfilling the
requirements of the CITES and to improving its implementation procedures.
Kuwait is also interested in the necessary promotion of the concept of
creating an executive regional network for fighting wildlife crimes in South
Asia, he said.
The workshop is primarily intended to provide the opportunity to
participating officials and experts to look into the possibility of
establishing such a network, he added.
While creating such a network, it is necessary to consider the current
different challenges facing the application of the CITES and to build bridges
of regional cooperation with other similar networks as well as to exchange
information and date among the region's countries, he stressed.
The workshop is expected to discuss a suggestion making Kuwait the host
country for the regional network, given that the Gulf country is the Asian
representative of the CITES permanent committee and general coordinator of
the CITES at the Arab League. (end)
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