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Kuwait, Cyprus ink energy memo

Foreign minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah and his Cypriot counterpart Ioannis Kasoulides inked the memo for energy cooperation
Foreign minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah and his Cypriot counterpart Ioannis Kasoulides inked the memo for energy cooperation
KUWAIT, Oct 8 (KUNA) -- The foreign minister, who inked a memo for energy cooperation with his visiting Cypriot counterpart on Sunday, lauded 50 years of close bonds with the friendly Mediterranean republic.
Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, also the First Deputy Prime Minister, praised continuing growth of bilateral relations between the State of Kuwait and the friendly Republic of Cyprus, during a meeting with his Cypriot counterpart, Ioannis Kasoulides, at Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled's bureau.
Minister Kasoulides is currently on an official visit to Kuwait marking the 50th anniversary of the two countries' diplomatic relations.
Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled has expressed congratulations on the occasion, affirming that these bonds have been deep and quite solid.
For his part, Kasoulides voiced great satisfaction at the level of the historic and friendly relations between the two countries.
The two ministers, during the meeting, examined means of boosting further the close relations and exchanged views over a host of regional and international affairs.
They signed, at end of the meeting, a memo between the Kuwaiti Ministry of Oil and the Cypriot energy ministry for cooperation in the hydrocarbon field. The also inked a protocol and minutes for correcting the tourism cooperation accord, signed in Kuwait on October 8, 2013.
Kuwait and Cyprus established relations at ambassadorial level in 2005. (end) rk