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Minister defends Kuwait''s record of human rights as "clean" |
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Wednesday, 23 June 2010 08:46 |
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KUWAIT, June 22 (KUNA) -- Kuwaiti Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Mohammad Al-Afasi said here Tuesday Kuwait's record of human rights "is, and will remain, clean".
Speaking to reporters at the National Assembly (parliament), the minister challenged that Kuwait would never be back to the list of those countries which are less committed to human rights or international labor criteria.
But, he vehemently blasted a recent US Department of State report that kept Kuwait in the third and last level in the field of human rights, billing it as "unjust and unfair".
He said he had recently met US Ambassador in Kuwait Deborah K. Jones on Kuwait's achievements in the area of human rights and incoming labor care.
He said he had briefed the US ambassador on financial aid worth USD 15 billion extended by Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) to international human rights and labor organizations, not to mention annual financial support valued at USD nine million to such organizations.
He recalled to memory that the US was one of those countries which hailed Kuwait's human rights record during a recent UN human rights meeting in Geneva.
The minister quoted the US ambassador as promising to ask the US Department of State to "avoid some negative remarks" on its reports on Kuwait. - Kuna
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