KUWAIT, Aug 2 (KUNA) -- Marking the 20th anniversary of the brutal Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, the Kuwaiti Cabinet urged here Monday the Kuwaiti people to learn lessons, build the present and the future and shore up national unity.
At a routine weekly meeting, held at Seif Palace presided over by Acting Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al-Sabah, while bitterly remembering this heinous crime - committed by Saddam Hussein's army in August 1990 - which left hundreds martyred, injured or missing, the cabinet urged the Kuwaiti people to learn lessons from the brutal Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Roudhan Abdelaziz Al-Roudhan told reporters following the meeting.
The cabinet also voiced gratitude and appreciation for all those friendly and brotherly countries which contributed to the expulsion of the Iraqi army from Kuwait, he said.
However, the Kuwaiti ministers reiterated their country's support for ongoing efforts to build a new Iraq based on freedom, democracy, respect of Iraq's sovereignty and good neighborliness as well as abidance by international conventions and resolutions, the cabinet minister added.
At the meeting, the cabinet also discussed recent Tunisian, Lebanese, Slovakian, Liberian and Malawian letters to His Highness the Amir on ways and means of further bolstering and promoting distinguished relations between Kuwait and these nations.
They also welcomed the current visit to Kuwait by Crown Prince of Brunei Al-Muhtadee Billah and his accompanying party.
At the outset of the meeting, the ministers considered several reports on the latest Arab and international political developments. - Kuna