KUWAIT CITY, Feb 10:  The parliamentary Budgets and Final Audits Committee will discuss, in next meeting on Monday, various issues related to the funds of Kuwait Airways Corporation (KAC) over the last four years to pave the way for its privatization, Committee Chairman MP Adnan AbdulSamad said Wednesday.
“We invited Minister of Communications and State Minister for National Assembly Affairs Dr Mohammad Mohsen Al-Baseeri to our next meeting to resolve issues related to the KAC budget, particularly the alleged violations as we do not want any further delay in its privatization,” AbdulSamad asserted.
AbdulSamad added that after the Parliament approves the accumulated budgets of the corporation, the state should compensate the corporation for losses incurred over the last four years - about KD200 million — before its privatization.

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The Minister of information, Minister of Oil Ahmed Al-Abdullah confirmed the government is working on the amendments to print and publications law, plus the audio-visual law, reports Awan daily.
Speaking to reporters during an event at the Lebanese   embassy to mark the end of the Lebanese Minister of Information Dr Tareq Al-Matri’s visit to the state, Sheikh Ahmed said the amendments will be ready in the next three weeks.
On the other hand, the State Minister for Cabinet Affairs Roudhan Al- Roudhan told the daily the Ministerial Committee, which the amendments have been transferred to, will propose the required penalties involving fines and so on for Cabinet’s approval.
Meanwhile, Al-Roudhan denied information about the government taking back the severe penalties included in the amendments.