Kuwait - KUNA
The Kuwaiti diplomatic mission in Cuba has hosted local officials dignitaries, celebrating Kuwait's National Days, falling on the 25th and 26th of the current month.
Ambassador Bader Al-Awadhi and embassy staff received senior officials and diplomats at a reception, organized to mark the national occasions.
Among the eminent guests who attended the gathering was Cuban Minister of Construction Rene Mesa Villafana, Foreign Ministry officials, legislators, diplomats and ordinary Arab residents of the country.
Kuwait celebrates the National, or Independence, Day, on February 25th, and the Day of Liberation the next day, when the country was liberated from the Iraqi occupation that began on August 2, 1990, when troops of the executed Iraqi ruler, Saddam Hussein, invaded it.