The head of the Research and Studies Center, Dr. Abdullah Al-Ghunaim said that the center, which was established by Amiri Decree No. 178 of 1992, is a national source for knowhow of Kuwait’s history, political, economic, social and heritage affairs.
Al-Ghunaim said in an interview with KUNA on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the establishment of the center said the center is of vital importance for anyone who wants to write about Kuwait because the library and historical archive contain unique and important information and an essential source for those interested in Kuwait’s past, reports a local Arabic daily.
He indicated he also gave Kuwait’s fitting response to the Iraqi allegations contained in the memorandum of the Iraqi Foreign Minister submitted to the Secretary-General of the United Nations in May 1992, in addition to publishing a book on the Kuwaiti resistance which was made available into three languages.
Al-Ghunaim revealed that in the field of documents, the center was able to preserve and restore 1,450,120 documents from the archives of the Public Authority for the South and the Arabian Gulf, which were indexed, classified and entered into the computer system, along with 1,034,456 documents — remnants of the brutal Iraqi invasion relying upon a number of studies and documents on the invasion.
He explained the center boasts of two-floor library and contains more than fifty thousand books for the benefit of scholars and researchers.
He pointed out the center, which includes a special floor for document restoration, has indexed and classified more than twenty million “governmental and civil” documents, which is a rich material for researchers in Kuwaiti affairs.