GENEVA, June 12 (KUNA) -- It is difficult to reach a final formula on all the items of the ILO agreement of organizing domestic workers this year, so it will be postponed to the next year, Director General of the General Department for Migration at Kuwait's Ministry of Interior Maj. Gen. Kamel Al-Awadi told KUNA here Saturday.
Al-Awadi also pointed to the consensus of delegations of the participating countries on the necessity of formulating an international agreement to streamline the labor affairs provided that it would be binding to the governments and labor employment bureaus alike.
However, he added that this consensus was associated with a deep conviction from the majority of countries that it is better to deliberately scrutinize all points of discussion than to swiftly reach an agreement.
He also asserted that this 10-day negotiations have tackled the stances of all countries, business people and representatives of domestic workers including the divergence in views and how to reach compromises that would be accepted by all parties in this key and complicated file.
Further, Al-Awadi, who led the working group of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states in these negotiations, asserted that the GCC states which take part for the first time in such meetings have much benefitted from other views and tabled their own views as well on the agreement according to their own national legislations.
Kuwait has called, in the name of the GCC states, that the proposed international agreement on domestic workers should include rules that address the role played by the employment agencies in the countries of origin on educating workers on their future tasks. Moreover, the GCC statement in the meeting paid attention to, "the important role of the employment agencies in the countries of origin on educating workers on their rights and obligations along with the nature of their future labor and the peculiar nature and culture of the GCC societies." - Kuna