India wheat ban exempts Kuwait

India has expressed its full willingness to supply Kuwait with all the food products it needs during the coming period, including wheat, which it had imposed a ban on exporting recalling the support Kuwait provided for India during the Covid-19 pandemic by supply of oxygen, reports Al-Rai daily.

The sources indicated that the Indian Ambassador stressed Kuwait’s role and the importance of its relief campaign in the Corona crisis, expressing his country’s readiness to support Kuwait with all kinds of foodstuffs it needs, including a decision to lift the ban of wheat exports to Kuwait.

Informed sources told Al-Rai the “Indian Ambassador to Kuwait HE Sibi George had assured the Minister of Commerce and Industry Fahad Al- Shariaan during a meeting his country’s readiness to support Kuwait with the food commodities it needs, recalling the great role Kuwait played with his country during the corona pandemic, which included supplying India with 215 metric tons of oxygen and more than a thousand cylinders to fill the deficit experienced by India’s hospitals during that period.”