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<\/p>\nWith a lot of pride and boastfulness, Kuwaiti people will celebrate tomorrow the fifth anniversary of the UN honoring of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah as a “Humanitarian Leader” and of Kuwait as a “Humanitarian Center.” The UN gesture came in recognition of Kuwait’s outstanding and unique contributions under the wise leadership of His Highness the Amir.<\/p>\n
The well-deserved international honoring was a normal crowning of Kuwait’s long history of humanitarian, benevolent and altruistic activities in different world countries.<\/p>\n
On September 9, 2014, then-secretary general of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon held a special function at the UN headquarters in New York to express the UN and the international community’s appreciation for His Highness the Amir and Kuwait’s generosity and kindness.<\/p>\n
The UN move came as Kuwait had shown exemplary humanitarian leadership in supporting global humanitarian and relief operations under the compassionate and passionate leadership of His Highness the Amir.<\/p>\n
Based on its highly appreciated values and principles, the State of Kuwait has adopted numerous humanitarian initiatives to offer aid to people in need across the globe.<\/p>\n
As a key player in this regard, the Kuwaiti people largely contribute to international humanitarian and relief efforts through charities and non-governmental organizations.<\/p>\n
They provide nonstop altruistic aid and help to many humanitarian projects and activities in various world countries, mainly in Asia and Africa, particularly during natural disasters.<\/p>\n
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The conferences and gatherings hosted by Kuwait at the behest of His Highness the Amir over the past years have contributed to making Kuwait a “Humanitarian Center.” Kuwait is still extending its growing charitable activities aiming at the alleviation of humanitarian sufferings and woes and participation in development projects worldwide.<\/p>\n
The oil-rich Gulf country is also playing a crucial part in humanitarian efforts spearheaded by the United Nations through its specialized agencies in a much-appreciated fashion that unequivocally and obviously reflects deep-rooted partnership between Kuwait and the UN.<\/p>\n
Capitalizing on its current rotating non-permanent membership of the UN Security Council (UNSC), Kuwait has underlined on several occasions that unimpeded humanitarian aid and help should be given to refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs).<\/p>\n
Kuwait has spared no effort to provide a decent life to them, given that the UN refugee agency’s statistics estimate that there are now 40 million IDPs, 25.4 million refugees and 3.1 million asylum-seekers across the globe.<\/p>\n
Kuwait’s benevolent aid and funding have saved tens of thousands of lives worldwide, and have even galvanized others to participate in coordinated international action.<\/p>\n
On many occasions, Kuwait has restated that it would never give up its regional and international responsibilities towards economic, social and environmental development.<\/p>\n
As an effective UN member and through different agencies, Kuwait extends unremitting development assistance to developing and least-developed countries, which are 106 in number.<\/p>\n
The Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) is playing a great part in this regard by means of offering donations and concessionary loans to infrastructure projects in development countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
With a lot of pride and boastfulness, Kuwaiti people will celebrate tomorrow the fifth anniversary of the UN honoring of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah as a “Humanitarian Leader” and of Kuwait as a “Humanitarian Center.” The UN gesture came in recognition of Kuwait’s outstanding and unique contributions under the wise […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,18],"tags":[335,1255,1254,60,204],"class_list":["post-21302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-local","tag-amir-sheikh-sabah","tag-emir-of-kuwait","tag-humanitarian","tag-kuwait","tag-un"],"yoast_head":"\n