{"id":28364,"date":"2019-06-12T10:47:28","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T02:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=28364"},"modified":"2019-06-12T11:15:16","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T03:15:16","slug":"third-china-arab-state-libraries-meeting-kicks-off-in-kuwait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=28364","title":{"rendered":"Third China-Arab State Libraries&#8217; Meeting Kicks Off In Kuwait"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUWAIT, June 12 (NNN-KUNA) &#8211; The third China-Arab state libraries and information experts meeting, kicked off on Tuesday at the National Library of Kuwait, in Kuwait City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kamel Al Abdul Jalil, director-general of the National Library of Kuwait, said that the one-day meeting will be held within the framework of the executive program of the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum (CASCF) to discuss effective achievements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Culture is an important factor in strengthening political, economic and social relations between the two countries and peoples, thus maximising the benefits of China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative and providing excellent qualities and guarantees,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Kuwait is keen to cooperate and open up to civilisations and cultures of superpower countries, such as China,&#8221; he noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consulting Director of the Bureau of International Exchanges and Cooperation of China&#8217;s Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Yu Jian, said, the Chinese side hopes that all participants will have an in-depth discussion to reach practical cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are prepared to promote cooperation between Chinese and Arab libraries, and also in the information field and make contributions to deepening mutual understanding of civilisations,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2015, the Arab League (AL) witnessed the first meeting of Arab and Chinese libraries and information experts, where a memorandum of understanding was signed between the AL General Secretariat and the National Library of China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In July 2018, the China and Saudi Arabia Joint Commission completed the implementation of the first phase of the trial version of the Arabic-Chinese Digital Library.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Director of Somalia National Library, Mohamed Shail, said, since the launch of the CASCF in 2004, this forum has played an important role in the development of bilateral relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Arab countries have a historic opportunity to deepen cooperation with China, to promote social and technology development to the interest of the Arab world,&#8221; Shail said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the meeting, the National Library of Kuwait launched its Digital Library, which includes 1,000 written, audio and visual materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These materials documented Kuwait&#8217;s heritage, cultural, artistic and media production, that has been acclaimed throughout history.&#8211; NNN-KUNA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUWAIT, June 12 (NNN-KUNA) &#8211; The third China-Arab state libraries and information experts meeting, kicked off on Tuesday at the National Library of Kuwait, in Kuwait City. Kamel Al Abdul Jalil, director-general of the National Library of Kuwait, said that the one-day meeting will be held within the framework of the executive program of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,215,287,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28364"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}