KUWAIT -- World Bank Chief Executive Officer Kristilina Georgieva announced an award handed to His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah in recognition of his role in supporting economic and social development worldwide and global peace.
KUWAIT -- On behalf of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Minister of the Amiri Diwan Affairs Sheikh Ali Jarrah Al-Sabah expressed gratitude to World Bank Group and the Group's CEO for offering a special award to His Highness the Amir in recognition of his support to social and economic development in the Arab region and beyond.
KUWAIT -- His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah's representative Finance Minister Nayef Al-Hajref praised an award handed to His Highness the Amir for his efforts on supporting global development and peace as "unprecedented."
KUWAIT -- Kuwait's Finance Minister Dr. Nayef Al-Hajraf discussed Bahrain's Comprehensive Fiscal Balance Program with his counterparts from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in Washington.
NEW YORK -- Sudan's deputy permanent representative to the UN Yasser Abdulsalam stressed that what is going in his country is an internal affairs and goes purely in harmony with Sudanese will.
KHARTOUM -- Chief of Sudan's Transitional Military Council Lt.-Gen. Awad ibn Auf announced his resignation and the appointment of Lt.-Gen. Abdulfatah Al-Borhan as a replacement. (end) bs