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KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait’s Emir has urged Parliament to work with the Cabinet following a snap election intended to kick-start economic reforms in the state.
“We ask you to play a positive and effective role and to cooperate with your brothers in the executive,” the Emir, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, told Parliament, the fourth to convene in six years.
“Fixing the faults in the structure of the national economy by diversifying sources of income and creating job opportunities for our children must be at the top of your priorities.”
A new Cabinet was formed on Tuesday under Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah.
Sheikh Sabah told Parliament: “Kuwait is expecting you to ... rise to the challenge of internal reform and comprehensive development and to confront the dangerous changes in the international arena and the bloody struggles that are afflicting the region, knowing full well their effect and threat to our country.”
Lawmakers elected Ahmed Al-Saadoun as speaker at Parliament’s opening session.
The new Cabinet was formed with one token representative from the opposition. Hani Hussein, former head of Kuwait’s state petroleum corporation, became oil minister.
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