Kuwaiti premier confers with GCC industry minister

Kuwaiti Crown Prince and Prime Minister Sheikh Saad al-Abdullah al-Sabah on Wednesday in Kuwait received ministers of industry from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states, who arrived in Kuwait to take part in the meeting of the 17th Gulf Cooperation Committee.

Earlier in the day, the GCC industry ministers started the 17th meetings of the industrial cooperation committee in Kuwait.

In an inaugural speech, Kuwait's minister of trade and industry, Abdul Aziz al-Dakhil, said that achieving industrial integration among the GCC states is a strategic objective ever sought by the GCC member states to withstand the consequences of political and economic risks resulting from international changes.