Kuwait’s Permanent Representative at the UN Ambassador Mansour Al-Otaibi held a reception at the Permanent Mission’s headquarters in New York in honor of Rehab Boresli, the country’s candidate for the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).
Addressing the reception, the Kuwaiti diplomat said Rehab Boresli has the required qualifications and professional experience to become member of this UN committee, calling on member states to vote for her in the elections due on June 14-16.
Speaking to KUNA following the event on Friday, he elaborated that the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) comprises independent experts and monitors the implementation by the party states of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
He hoped that the Kuwaiti permanent mission’s efforts to rally up support for the country’s candidate Boresli over the last couple of years would come to fruition during the committee’s elections.
Some 13 candidates from different countries are vying for nine seats in this committee.
Source: Kuwait News Agency