Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki started on Wednesday a one-day official visit to Kuwait.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki started on Wednesday a one-day official visit to Kuwait.

Maliki is expected to focus on boosting economic and political ties between the two Arab neighbors.
Talks will discuss ways of boosting "economic and trade ties and other issues of concern between the two countries," State Minister for Cabinet Affairs Rudhan al-Rudhan said ahead of the visit.

The Iraqi premier is due to meet with Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah and hold official talks with his counterpart Sheikh Nasser Mohammad al-Ahmad al-Sabah.

The visit is Maliki's first to Kuwait after his re-election to the post and after a Kuwaiti premier ground-breaking trip to Baghdad in January, the first by a Kuwaiti premier since the Iraqi troops invaded the emirate in 1990.