Foreign Minister Sheikh Salem Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received Fayez Al-Enzi, board chairman of the society of families of Kuwaiti martyrs, detainees and missing people, and board member Nawaf Al-Howider on Tuesday.
The meeting reviewed the progress in the efforts to account for the people who were detained or went missing during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, notably the recent identification of the remains of martyr Hamdan Mohammad Hamdan, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a press release.
During the meeting, Sheikh Salem Abdullah affirmed that the political leadership of Kuwait attaches great importance to issue of Kuwaiti prisoners and missing people, according to the statement.
The minister noted that this humanitarian dossier featured prominently in his talks with Iraqi senior officials during his visit to Baghdad on July 30, adding that the Iraqi side signalled a clear desire to finalize this issue.
DNA testing of Hamdan’s remains verified that he died in at an Iraqi prison after being detained on September 14, 1990, the Ministry said in a statement on Thursday, August 17.
Source: Kuwait News Agency