The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the first Palestinian ambassador to Kuwait since 22 years will take up assignment.

The ministry said that Rami Tahboub will present his credentials to Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah. Tahboub was sworn in before President Mahmoud Abbas for the post on Oct. 10. 

In August, Khalid Al-Jarallah, Kuwait’s foreign ministry undersecretary, said that Kuwait and Palestine reached an agreement on re-opening the embassy. 

“We are waiting for the allocation of a plot of land for the embassy and for the nomination by the Palestinians of the head of the diplomatic mission to achieve the official details related to the embassy,” he was quoted as saying. 

The Palestinians embassy was closed in 1990 in the wake of a deep Kuwaiti-Palestinian rift following the invasion of Kuwait by Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. 

Abbas apologized to Kuwait in December 2004 for the position taken by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) which did not condemn the invasion.

“We apologize to Kuwait and the Kuwaiti people for what we did,” Abbas said.