Kuwait's Oil Minister Quits After Eight Days On The Job

Kuwait government has accepted the resignation of its new oil minister, Bader al-Humaidhi, just eight days after he took the job at the world's seventh-largest oil exporter. Changing the oil minister usually has no effect on Kuwait's oil export policy, which is set by a council that includes oil industry and other government officials.

"Humaidhi has presented his resignation in writing, stipulating his reasons... to the prime minister, putting the best interests of Kuwait ahead of his," Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Faisal Al-Hajji was quoted as saying by official news agency Kuna.

The cabinet was informed on Monday that the resignation had been accepted, he added. Daily newspapers earlier reported that the country's ruler had rejected Humaidhi's resignation.

Humaidhi offered to quit after some lawmakers opposed his appointment because they disagreed with his policies in his previous post as finance minister. An Islamist MP asked to question Humaidhi last month after media reported he had made financial and administrative mistakes as finance minister.

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