YEREVAN. – Armenia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Territorial Administration Minister Armen Gevorgyan, who is also Co-Chairman of the Armenian-Kuwaiti Intergovernmental Commission on Economic and Technical Cooperation, on Tuesday received Kuwaiti Ambassador Bassam Muhammad Alqabandi.  

On behalf of the new Government of Kuwait, the ambassador expressed a readiness to deepen bilateral relations, the Territorial Administration Ministry press service informs. He noted that Kuwait’s new government attaches a great importance to the strengthening of cooperation with Armenia.        

Alqabandi informed that, associated with the change of government, the Kuwaiti party proposes to postpone, for a certain period, the forthcoming second session of the aforesaid intergovernmental commission. At the same time, however, it was stressed that the session needs to be convened this year.  

For his part, the Armenian deputy PM expressed confidence that, together with the new Government of Kuwait, cooperation between the two countries will broaden and all the planned projects will be brought to fruition.