Kuwait calls on S Korea to boost health insurance

The State of Kuwait has recommended that South Korea continue increasing health care insurance for its citizens within framework of human rights. The Gulf state also urged the Asian state to pursue the Bumjumbura residential project to secure low-cost housing units for the South Koreans, by the fall of the year 2018. Abdullah Jassem Al-Jarbawi, the first secretary of the Kuwaiti mission at the UN in Geneva, praised, in a statement at a session of the Human Rights Council for reviewing the South Korean file, a plan for protection and boosting human rights according to the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action. He also hailed steps that were taken for expanding jurisdictions of the national committee for human rights. Moreover, the Kuwaiti diplomat praised amendments, forwarded by the South Korean delegation to the council regarding mental health, employees' elections and immigration laws.