Kuwait – January 7 (KUNA) — His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmed Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah received at Bayan Palace today the President of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States of America, Dr. Marcia McNutt, and her accompanying delegation, on the occasion of her visit to the country. The meeting was attended by the Director General of the Direct Investment Promotion Authority, Sheikh Dr. Mishal Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, and the Director-General of the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, Dr. Amina Rajab Farhan. (The End) T.M