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FM stresses need to consolidate efforts to ease humanitarian suffering around world

First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and Dr. Abdullah Al-Matouq
First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and Dr. Abdullah Al-Matouq
KUWAIT, Nov 29 (KUNA) -- First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah stressed here on Sunday the importance of strengthening international efforts to alleviate human suffering around the world.
آ آ آ This came in a speech by Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled during an honoring cermony held by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for him and a number of officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in recognition of their humanitarian and effective role in the preparations for the international humanitarian conferences held in Kuwait.
آ آ آ Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled said that "the growing humanitarian challenges in today's world, in addition to the unprecedented bloody conflicts, especially in the Middle East, led to the displacement of more than 60 million refugees around the world, which doubles the size of the responsibility incumbent on all of us and on the international conscience to enhance efforts to find solutions to these conflicts and alleviate their tragic consequences." آ آ آ He added that the international humanitarian work that is free from any specific political, geographic, religious or ethnic approach ascended a distinct rank in the hierarchy of priorities of the foreign policy of the State of Kuwait based on the directives of His Highness the Amir, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al Sabah.
آ آ آ He praised the joint cooperation of the State of Kuwait with the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and other international humanitarian organizations which represents a live embodiment and a practical model as well as a shining example of the spirit of human solidarity.
آ آ آ He explained that the cooperation between the State of Kuwait and the UNHCR Office has polished the mechanism of cooperation between the two sides, which resulted in a close strategic relationship, the most prominent landmarks of which was Kuwait's hosting of three donor conferences to support the humanitarian situation in Syria, through which the State of Kuwait had contributed USD 1.3 billion.
آ آ آ He expressed his deep pride in his close personal relations with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres, thanking him on behalf of the State of Kuwait on taking office with all wisdom and competence.(end) hrz.tb.tg