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Minister of Communications and Acting Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Salem Al-Utheina meets with the International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge
LAUSANNE, July 14 (KUNA) -- Minister of Communications and Acting Minister
of Social Affairs and Labor Salem Al-Utheina on Saturday congratulated all
Kuwaitis on the approval of the International Olympic Committee of Kuwait's
request to hoist the National Flag at the upcoming Olympic games in London and
playing of the Kuwaiti National Anthem.
The Minister told KUNA that he was informed of the approval following his
second meeting earlier today with the Committee's President Jacques Rogge.
Al-Utheina had delivered a letter from His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah
Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah to Rogge at the Committee's headquarters in
Lausanne, Switzerland on hoisting the flag of Kuwait in the Olympic Games,
which kick off in London on July 27. (pick up previous).
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