Chief of General Staff Discusses Ways to Enhance Military Cooperation with UK's First Defence Advisor

Kuwait City, 9 October (KUNA) – Chief of the General Staff of the Army, Lieutenant General Khaled Al-Sharhan, held talks today, Friday, with Edward Graham Green, First Defence Counsellor for the Middle East and North Africa at the British Embassy, to discuss the dimensions of military cooperation between the two friendly countries and ways to enhance and develop it in the interest of their shared objectives. The General Staff of the Army said in a press statement that the discussions took place during Lieutenant General Al-Sharhan’s reception of the British Defence Counsellor and his accompanying delegation at the General Staff headquarters, where key issues of mutual interest were examined. Also present at the meeting were Undersecretary of the Ministry of Defence Sheikh Dr. Abdullah Mubarak Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, the Ambassador of the friendly United Kingdom to Kuwait, Qudsi Rashid, and a number of senior commanding officers from both sides. (End) A.J.R. / T.M.A.