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MANILA (AFP) - Philippine President Gloria Arroyo asked Kuwait to spare the lives of two Filipinos being tried for murder in the Middle Eastern kingdom, a report said Saturday.
Arroyo and Kuwait's Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Mohammad al-Ahmad al-Sabah met late Friday at the presidential palace.
Arroyo thanked the prime minister for sparing two Filipino workers who were earlier sentenced to death for murder and asked if similar clemency could be extended to the two currently on trial, the Philippine Daily Inquirer said.
However, the Kuwaiti PM said all judicial processes would have to be settled before clemency could be considered, the Inquirer reported.
The leaders also discussed the need for more labourers in Kuwait.
The Inquirer reported that in their meeting the prime minister said Kuwait needed more workers aside from the 110,000 Filipinos already working there.
"We have no quota for Filipinos, even one million are welcome," the Inquirer quoted the PM as saying.
The Philippine government earlier said that the visiting prime minister would oversee the signing of agreements on cooperation in the field of health services. However, the details of the agreement were not revealed.
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