Parliament speaker praises Kuwaiti emir for tackling inter-GCC rifts

National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanem, addressing Tuesday's regular session, lauded His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah's efforts for tackling rifts among GCC states and his keenness on safeguarding the GCC as a single regional bloc.
The Parliament Speaker, speaking during a one-hour period, devoted for this particular topic in the session, lauded on behalf of the MPs Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad's good-will efforts for "maintaining the Gulf home and tackling strains affecting ties members of the Council.
"His Highness' efforts were largely effective in opening a new chapter in the Gulf relations that have recently witnessed, as you may know, an unprecedented crisis, thus paving way for holding the next GCC summit, as scheduled, in the Qatari capital next month.
"This capped the great efforts and intensive action undertaken by His Highness the Amir, out of his keenness on unity of the GCC as an organization .. we have always expected such strong keenness and continuous action (on His Highness' part), particularly at the level of making initiatives and taking action designed to promote humanitarian values, peaceful co-existence among states and peoples.
"Such efforts have been crowned, with his designation by the United Nations as humanitarian leader at the level of states of the world." The GCC, established more than 30 years ago, will remain "the (common) home" for the member states and peoples," the parliament speaker said, affirming that it would remain a solid bloc in shadow of sensitive circumstances, currently prevailing in the region.