Assistant Secretary of State for Asian Affairs, Ambassador Samih Hayat, in response to a question regarding the Filipino labor crisis, said “We are working to resolve the misunderstanding, and this requires time and concrete steps, and things are progressing at a steady pace, especially after His Highness the Crown Prince met with the Philippine President on the sidelines of the ASEAN Summit in Riyadh”.
Speaking to journalists on the sidelines of the National Day of Kazakhstan at the country’s embassy in Kuwait, Wednesday evening, Hayat said that “the issue of lifting the ban on workers or not is related to the work of committees and discussing joint matters.”
He explained that “bilateral meetings between the relevant committees in the two countries have not ceased and the diplomatic channels are always open between the two countries.”
He added, “The repercussions of the Covid pandemic have delayed many joint projects to develop relations with Asian countries, and that the coming period will witness more high-level mutual visits, which will result in many agreements and memorandums of understanding that will legally frame relations for investment in Asian countries.”