The State of Kuwait will attend as an elected member the first meeting of the Universal Postal Service's (UPU) Council of Administration (CA). Eights Arab countries -- Algeria, Egypt, Kuwait, Libya, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates -- were elected to the 40 member CA on Wednesday. Kenya chairs the UPU-CA as the 41st member. Kuwait will be represented at the meeting by a delegation of the Communications Ministry. Director of International Postal Relations and Marketing Saeed Al-Mazidi told the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that the election of eight Arab members to the CA would boost Kuwait's role. Al-Mazidi added that this would also help improve postal services and bring them to modern standards. Earlier on Wednesday, Kuwait's Communications Undersecretary Engineer Abdulaziz Al-Osaimi said the election of his country as CA member was a great success for Kuwaiti diplomacy. Head of the Kuwaiti mission in Geneva Ambassador Dharar Razzooqi heads the Kuwaiti delegation at the UPU Congress. The UPU's 24th Congress elected Qatar, by acclamation, as the host of the next Congress in 2012. More than 2,200 participants assembled this afternoon to take part in the 24th Universal Postal Congress, which started in Geneva on July 23 and will continue through August 13.
