KUWAIT MAY INCREASE HUMANITARIAN AID TO AZERBAIJANI REFUGEES AND IDPS
Author: S. Aghayeva
TREND Information, Azerbaijan
Dec 4 2006
Kuwait may increase its humanitarian aid to refugees and IDPs in
Azerbaijan driven from their native land as a result of the Armenian
aggression. This issue was the focus of attention during the meeting
with Ali Hassanov, Vice-Premier of the Azerbaijani Government and
Chairman of the State Committee for Affairs with Refugees and IDPs
and Abdullah Maatouk al-Maatouk, Kuwaiti Ministry for Vakfs and
Islam Issues. This meeting took place within the official visit of Ali
Hassanov to Kuwait, Trend was informed exclusively by Gourban Sadikhov,
Chief of a Department of the State Committee, who is accompanying
the Azerbaijani Vice-Premier during the visit.
During the meeting, Mr. Hassanov informed the Minister of the heavy
consequences of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, of problems the
refugees and IDPs face in the country as well as measures taken to
improve the conditions and life of these people.
Within the visit, the Head of the Azerbaijani State Committee held
a meeting in the Kuwaiti Red Crescent Society where he discussed
perspectives of humanitarian co-operation. "The Azerbaijani party has
put forward several projects, including one concerning the construction
of a settlement for 500 families of IDPs, hospitals and schools",
said Mr. Sadikhov.
The agenda of the Head of the Azerbaijani Committee also includes
meetings with Kuwait’s Prime-Minister, Speaker of the Kuwaiti
Parliament as well as the Kuwaiti Crown Prince.
