Kuwait’s roads get a makeover for GCC leaders ahead of December summit

• Kuwait has developed and equipped specific sites along the sixth ring road towards Messilah, transforming 18,000 square meters by removing dust, paving the area, and adding 7,200 cubic meters of agricultural soil to create an honorable façade.

Abdullah Al-Munafi, the Director of the Services Department at the Ministry of Defense, announced the ministry’s role in supporting the efforts of relevant authorities to beautify the roads for the GCC leaders attending the 45th session in Kuwait on December 1, according to Al Rai newspaper.

Al-Munafi stated in an interview with Kuwait TV that the Public Authority of Agriculture Affairs and Fish Resources, in coordination with the Ministry of Defense, was tasked with planting and beautifying the routes for the convoys of leaders and Kuwaiti guests for the conference.

In coordination with the authority, the ministry took responsibility for specific sites along the sixth ring road towards Messilah, after the airport road. The site has been handed over and work has been underway since last September; currently, about 95 percent of the task has been completed, with five percent remaining. We expect to finish the site and hand it over to the agriculture authority within a week.

He added, “Since we received the site, we have worked to develop and equip it to serve as an honorable façade for the country. We developed an area of 18,000 square meters, removing the old dust, paving the area, and brushing 7,200 cubic meters of agricultural soil. We also planted 64 Dashton palms and approximately 6,000 rumals and 11,000 pieces of ground cover.”

He pointed out that “the project is proceeding at a rapid pace, as the Ministry of Defense’s nurseries have been utilized, which include many plants, flowers, and trees. This agricultural stock within the ministry is a source of pride for us because we can implement projects without needing to purchase them from the market, allowing us to utilize both summer and winter plants and trees.”

For his part, Faisal Al-Awadi, the road controller in the military installations sector at the Ministry of Defense, stated that “the sector has tasks and responsibilities to support state agencies through the development of roads and streets leading to the camps. We have studied all roads and camps and developed a five-year timeline to complete the projects we plan to implement, dividing the projects into phases over the years of the plan.”