Kuwaitis should consider Turkey as second home- Speaker Kahraman
Date
2/10/2016 5:30:39 AM
(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) By Redah Sardar ANKARA Feb 10 (KUNA) -- The relations between our two great countries should enable Kuwaitis to consider Turkey as their second home said Speaker of the Turkish National Assembly Ismail Kahraman Wednesday.
In an exclusive interview with KUNA Speaker Kahraman said that he was glad to have met with his Kuwaiti counterpart Marzouq Al-Ghanim on the sideline of the 11th conference of the Parliamentary Union of the OIC (PUIC) recently held in Baghdad stressing that the upcoming visit by Al-Ghanim to Turkey will further boost bilateral relations.
The commercial exchange between Turkey and Kuwait had reached USD 624 million last year which is an improvement from 2014's USD 569 million said Kahraman who added that both nations have established a committee in 2013 to look into more fields of cooperation.
He indicated that the Turkish Foreign Ministry was coordinating with its counterpart in Kuwait to hold several meetings in the future aimed at boosting ties.
Regarding the situation in Syria the Turkish Speaker affirmed that the international community should increase its efforts in helping the Syrian refugees and stressed that it was important to find a just solution to the crisis in Syria which began in 2011.
He took the chance to thank Kuwait for its firm support of the Turkish efforts to help the Syrian refugees affirmed that the Gulf State was on the vanguard of helping the needy worldwide. (end) rs.gta
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