KUWAIT CITY, April 29, (Agencies): The National Assembly’s Legislative Committee approved Sunday a proposal on setting up a national organization for human rights.
“The committee has approved the proposal but stated that the organization should report to the Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs instead of the Minister of Justice,” the Committee Rapporteur MP Mohammad Al-Dallal told reports.
He added that the proposal was referred to the Human Rights Committee for deliberation and approval.
Al-Dallal pointed out that the committee has mulled and passed bills on housing support, labor housing, setting up real estate companies and pricing flats in Al-Sawaber housing complex and trade fraud and counterfeit.
The committee refused to pass draft laws on countering favoritism in government agencies and protecting oil wealth as they contradicted Article 50 of the Constitution.
It referred the bills to relevant committees for further deliberations and approval.
Meanwhile, the intention shown by some MPs to cancel all laws and decisions which were approved by the Parliamentary Committee for Women’s Affairs during the last parliamentary term will take us back to square one, reports Al-Horriya daily.
The daily quoting reliable sources said they are surprised at the intention of these MPs because most of the decisions concern women’s affairs and were approved by the then parliamentary majority.
The sources inquired how these decisions can be cancelled just because they were approved by some female MPs?
In another development, MP Dr Waleed Al-Tabtabaei has forwarded a query to the Minister of Oil on role the oil companies play in upstream operations, feasibility studies and their level of acquaintance with the supplies of oil fields, and data on national security, reports Al-Seyassah daily.
Al-Tabtabaei asked for the names and numbers of international oil companies with whom the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) subsidiaries signed agreements for technical and operational services in the drilling, production, refinery, and petrochemical industries. He also asked for their period of services, cost involved and outcome of production and reserves — in terms of quantity and quality, within the last five years.
He wanted to know the level of power given to those companies as per agreements, the mechanism of endorsing contracts with the companies and regulations plus conditions stipulated in that regard. Al-Tabtabaei went on to ask about the research and studies those international companies conducted and their recommendations, in addition to procedures and their recommendations, in addition to procedures and policies KPC’s subsidiaries adopted to implement the recommendations.
He also required information on violations and shortage detected, and the benefits of signing the pacts, in terms of developing the skill and abilities Kuwaiti personnel, reducing the cost of production, using state of the art production techniques, safety and security to reducing casualties and environment contamination, the daily reiterated.