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| President Uhuru Kenyatta is welcomed by Kuwait's Emir Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al Sabah at the Kuwait International Airport. The President is in the country to attend the two day 3rd Arab-Africa Summit. |
KUWAIT: President Uhuru Kenyatta Tuesday attended
the third Africa-Arab summit, where he encouraged Arab nations to invest
heavily in the continent to strengthen a friendship that goes back
centuries.
President Kenyatta is among 65 African, Arab and Asian leaders
attending the Kuwait Summit held at the picturesque seaside Bayan
Palace.
“Without a doubt, Arab-African relations are founded on
unbreakable bonds and the most immutable circumstances. We share a
common geography and history over two continents and have pursued
similar aspirations and goals collectively and individually over many
years,” the President told the summit.
“The founders of the Arab -African partnership resolved to work
together towards those shared goals, and committed themselves to a
vision of brotherhood and solidarity. The realization that our
respective journeys towards prosperity share the same roads is the
foundation of our partnership,” he added.
The two-day summit –which opened on Tuesday –will discuss a joint
financing mechanism for development projects to promote trade and
investment; global fight against terrorism and transnational crimes like
drug and human trafficking, and piracy; Africa-Arab cooperation in
security, and coordination of positions on the reform of the United
Nations.
President Kenyatta is expected to speak strongly about the damage brought by terror on African economies.
Kenya will also explore how African and Arab countries can pool
Sovereign Wealth Funds to fast-track investment. A Sovereign Wealth Fund
is part of the recommendations of the Presidential Taskforce on the
reform of parastatals, whose recommendations the President has directed
to be implemented in three months.
President Kenyatta, in Kuwait mainly to push Kenya’s economic
growth agenda, will also separately hold talks with the leaders of
Kuwait, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and
Palestine. The President will also meet a host of his African
compatriots, including Presidents Paul Kagame of Rwanda, Alassane
Ouattara of Cote D’Ivoire, Macky Sall of Senegal and Ethiopian Prime
Minister Hailemariam Desalegn. The leaders are known friends of Kenya.
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