The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Angelino Alfano, today met with his Kuwaiti counterpart, Sabah\u00a0Al-Khaled Al-Hamad\u00a0Al-Sabah, on the fringes of the UN General Assembly in New York. During the talks, the ministers focused on the situation in the Gulf and on bilateral relations.<\/p>\n
\u201cItaly supports Kuwait\u2019s efforts to mediate in the Gulf crisis and invites other Countries to do the same, leaving all prejudices aside,\u201d Minister Alfano told his interlocutor. He added: \u201cWe expect all the parties concerned to hold a loyal and open discussion with a view to achieving the common objective of soon reaching a negotiated solution to the controversy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Minister Alfano also pointed out that \u201che intends to take advantage of the opportunity provided by these days of consultations on the sidelines of the UNGA in order to sensitise the Quartet Countries on the urgency of removing the block against Qatar, also in the light of the unbearable discomfort caused to millions of families.\u201d<\/p>\n
Turning to the excellent and economically relevant bilateral relations between the two Countries, Mr Alfano expressed Italy\u2019s great interest for the \u2018New Kuwait 2035\u2019 Plan. He said: \u201cI am sure that Italian companies can contribute to achieve Kuwait\u2019s goals by offering competence, expertise and know-how in strategic sectors, namely infrastructure, health and the environment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Angelino Alfano, today met with his Kuwaiti counterpart, Sabah\u00a0Al-Khaled Al-Hamad\u00a0Al-Sabah, on the fringes of the UN General Assembly in New York. During the talks, the ministers focused on the situation in the Gulf and on bilateral relations. \u201cItaly supports Kuwait\u2019s efforts to mediate in the Gulf crisis […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,76,26],"class_list":["post-28444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comunicati","tag-mediterraneo-e-medio-oriente","tag-ministri-precedenti","tag-onu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}