Antony Blinken in Kuwait City, Kuwait in July 2021. during the
2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, November 2021. Sabah started his career in 1978, joining the ministry of foreign affairs. During this period he was also Kuwait's envoy to
the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). He was also the acting foreign minister during this period. His tenure as minister of social affairs and labor lasted until October 2007 when he was named as minister of information. Then he was named an advisor in the Amiri Diwan. In February 2010, he was appointed to the
Supreme Petroleum Council. On 22 October 2011, Sabah became both deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs. Sabah replaced
Mohammad Al Sabah as foreign minister. He is also the first one not from Jabir or Salim after the independence in 1961, and the first one not from Jabir after 2006. However, his mother is from to the
Ahmed branch of Al-Sabah ruling family, as she is the sister of the current Kuwait Emir
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah. ==Personal life==