Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Ahmed Nasser Al-Muhammad Al-Sabah denied the rumors that the Egyptian government was pressuring Kuwait to allow Egyptian workers to the country.
“These two examples are both incorrect”, Al-Sabah said during a press conference in response to a question about what is rumored about Egypt pressuring Kuwait to enter a group of its workers, in addition to the “intransigence” of the Egyptian authorities in dealing with Kuwaiti students in Egypt.
Al-Sabah urged media professionals not to take such “illogical” rumors seriously, especially in exceptional circumstances, noting the need to “take information from their main sources”.
The minister stressed that “the relationship between Kuwait and Egypt has privacy, controls and pillars, and it is a rooted and ancient relationship”.
Al-Sabah’s statements came in light of a state of verbal exchange between a number of citizens of the two countries against the background of campaigns of incitement via Twitter against Egyptians working in Kuwait, accusing Egypt of lack of transparency in the transmission of the real picture of the Coronavirus in its territories, and that workers who entered Kuwait two weeks ago were infected with Corona .
For his part, the Egyptian ambassador to Kuwait, Tariq Al-Quni, affirmed in a press statement the embassy’s follow-up to “continuous distortion and incitement campaigns” against Egypt and the community on social media, especially with regard to the outbreak of the virus among the community members returning from Egypt recently, indicating in this regard that data the Kuwaiti Ministry of Health has not yet detected any case of an infected Egyptian citizen coming from Egypt.
Al-Quni appealed to the Egyptian community in Kuwait to fully comply with the instructions and directives issued by the authorities.
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