– The National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters (NCCAL) congratulated Abdulaziz Al-Babtain, an eminent Kuwaiti poet and writer, on the occasion of being awarded the UN Arabic Language Day.

NCCAL’s Spokesman and Assistant Secretary General for Culture Affairs Dr. Issa Al-Ansari conveyed, in a press statement Saturday, that the Minister of Information and Culture, Minister of State for Youth Affairs, NCCAL Chairman Abdulrahman Al-Mutairi, and NCCAL Secretary General Kamel Al-Abduljalil congratulated Al-Babtain.

Al-Babtain obtaining this award came in a ceremony celebrating UN Arabic Language Day, which falls on December 18 of each year at the UN headquarters in New York and the UN International School at the Arabic Language department, Al-Ansari explained.

The efforts of Al-Babtain in the cultural field, especially in supporting the Arabic language, are well-known and pioneering, Al-Ansari indicated.

Since its founding in 1989, the Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation has encouraged teaching the Arabic language, translating from it to other languages, as well as launching training and educational courses.

Al-Babtain explained the great role of the Arabic language in communication between civilizations and people at all times and how the UN General Assembly (UNGA) adopted Arabic as the official language in 1973.

Permanent Representative of Kuwait to the UN Mansour Al-Otaibi received the award on behalf of Al-Babtain, in the presence of the President of UNGA Abdullah Shahid and several representatives of Arab countries.

Source: Kuwait News Agency