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Sheikh Nawwaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah
After the announcement of the death of the Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, all eyes are on the Crown Prince of Kuwait, Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.
Article 4 of the constitution and article 1 of the succession law of the emirate stipulate that “Kuwait is a hereditary emirate of the descendants of Mubarak Al-Sabah”, while article 4 of the succession law of the emirate states that ” if the position of Emir is vacant, the Crown Prince will be called Emir.
During the following lines, we shed light on the most outstanding information available on Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah:
Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is the half-brother of the late Emir Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, and the sixth son of the 10th Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah (who ruled Kuwait between 1921-1950)
He held the position of Crown Prince for 14 years, as the Emir issued a decision recommending him on February 7, 2006, a week after the Emir assumed power, and members of the National Assembly pledged their allegiance to him in a special session. as stipulated in the country’s constitution.
Sheikh Nawwaf was born on June 25, 1937, in Fareej Al-Shuyoukh (now the site of the Al-Muthanna Complex) in Kuwait City, according to the official website of the Crown Prince’s Court.
Sheikh Nawwaf held various political and ministerial positions, beginning with his work as Governor of Hawalli from 1962 for sixteen years, then Minister of the Interior in 1978 and Minister of Defense in 1988.
When the first Kuwait government was formed after the liberation of Kuwait in 1991, Sheikh Nawwaf was assigned to the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor, then became Deputy Chief of the National Guard in 1994, before assuming the post of Minister again. of the Interior in 2003 until he was recommended as Crown Prince in 2006.
The crown prince had assigned him some of the prince’s duties after he left for the United States for treatment about two months ago.
His CV on the Crown Prince’s Diwan website indicates that he studied in various Kuwaiti schools and that he is married with four sons and a daughter.
The foreign relations file is expected to be among the top priorities of the country’s new Emir, as the death of the Emir of Kuwait comes at a time when the Gulf region is witnessing major changes, as the crisis of the The Gulf has been going on for more than three years, and Kuwait and the Sultanate of Oman have not joined Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates in the past. Boycott of Qatar: Kuwait also did not join Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates in normalizing relations with Israel. The region is also experiencing increasing tension in relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
