Kuwait is a close and solid partner of the international community in combating terrorism, affirmed the assistant foreign minister on Monday.
Addressing the third high-level UN conference for heads of intelligence and anti-terrorism agencies, Assistant Foreign Minister for Development and International Cooperation Ambassador Hamad Al-Mashaan asserted Kuwait’s commitment to support the diverse international mechanisms for combating terrorism.
He noted that Kuwait plays a prominent role in the international coalition against ISIS and leads the international working group to prevent the flow of foreign terrorist fighters together with The Netherlands and Turkiye.
“Kuwait has secured and facilitated the repatriation of 667 foreign fighters and their families since 2019,” he clarified. Al-Mashaan reiterated Kuwait’s call for repatriation of foreign terrorist fighters and their families and reintegrating them in their countries in order to achieve social cohesion and sustainable peace.
He recalled that Kuwait had hosted several meetings in the working group to prevent the flow of foreign terrorist fighters since 2017.
He added that a memorandum of understanding was signed between the Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law and the Kuwait Institute for Judicial and Legal Studies in December 2022, and a workshop was held in January 2023 in Malta between the Institute and a number of Kuwaiti bodies on protecting the non-profit sector from its misuse for financing terrorism.
Al-Mashaan underlined that Kuwait is fully aware of the danger of terrorism and the need to combat it, as this issue occupies the highest priority of its foreign policy.
The conference, which was inaugurated earlier today by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, discusses ways to combat terrorism and prevent its spread.
Source: Kuwait News Agency