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Blinken arrives in Kuwait to deepen security ties

    • He addressed a group of American diplomats, toured the country’s Parliament and met with Kuwait’s Emir

    • The State Department said he would advance discussions with Kuwait on military cooperation, regional security and investments

    US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Kuwait to hold discussions in order to boost military cooperation, regional security and investment between the two countries.

    The top diplomat of the United States on Thursday held talks with high-ranking officials in the Gulf Arab sheikhdom that has long been a US ally in the region.

    US Secretary of State Antony Blinken addressed a group of American diplomats, toured the country’s Parliament and met at the royal palace with Kuwait’s ruling Emir, Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, the crown prince and foreign minister. The State Department said Blinken would advance discussions with Kuwait on military cooperation, regional security and investment during his short visit.

    Blinken arrived in Kuwait City late Wednesday from India. American forces are completing their withdrawal from war-scarred Afghanistan after a 20-year military campaign, a drawdown that’s rippling through the wider region.

    Kuwait has been a critical US partner since the 1991 Gulf War expelled the occupying Iraqi forces of Saddam Hussein.

    The country hosts some 13,500 American troops, most based at Camp Arifjan south of Kuwait City, and the forward command of US Army Central.