Kuwait top MP praises ties with Qatar

Kuwait parliament speaker Ali Al-Rashed said Saturday his visit to Qatar aimed at further cementing relations between the two people and coordinate over a host of issues of mutual interest. Speaking to KUNA after his arrival in Doha within a Gulf tour, Al-Rashed said Kuwaiti-Qatari relations were historic and deep-rooted, citing the Qatari soldiers who died defending Kuwait during the latter's war of liberation from the Iraqi invasion in 1991. Al-Rashed, received by speaker of the Shura Council Mohammad Al-Khulaifi and Kuwaiti diplomats, said he would be discussing with the Qatari officials ways of fostering bilateral relations and cooperation, noting that Kuwait was the rotating chairman of the union of Arab parliaments