Dep. Foreign Minister Al-Jarallah to head delegation at Rohingya conf. in Geneva

KUWAIT, Oct 22 (KUNA) -- Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Al-Jarallah, accompanied by officials, departed to Geneva on Sunday to head the State of Kuwait delegation at the Pledging Conference on the Rohingya Refugee Crisis due to kick off on Monday.
Kuwait will co-chair the convention with the European Union, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the UN refugee agency (UNHCR).
The minister was accompanied by the assistant foreign minister for the deputy minister's bureau affairs, Ambassador Ayham Al-Omar, and the assistant foreign minister for international organizations, the designated minister, Nasser Al-Hain.
The conference will be an important moment for the international community to respond and address this major refugee crisis, European Commission said in a statement in Brussels, late Friday.
"As co-host of this high-level event, the EU is actively encouraging all donors to contribute to a successful conference. It is an important moment to demonstrate solidarity, common approaches and a strong humanitarian face of the international community to meet the needs of the many people that have fled their homes," EU Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management Christos Stylianides said.
The State of Kuwait has dispatched convoys of essential supplies for thousands of Rohingya, who have settled in squalid conditions on Bangladesh's side of the border with Myanmar. (end) amh.rk