Delegates were also called to vote on the new ISSF Constitution draft, which was rejected in spite of 64 per cent approval with 148 votes in favour and 84 votes against.

Aimed at replacing the existing one that dates back to 1980, the new draft would have needed a two thirds majority in favour - 155 votes - to pass.

"The ISSF General Assembly has expressed its democratic decision, and we respect it," said ISSF President Olegario Vázquez Raña. 

Delegates voted 174-65 in favour of the KSF suspension, which has led to ISSF Administrative Council member Duaij Khalaf Al-Otaibi of Kuwait resigning.

Kuwait were suspended by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in October for "undue Government interference" only three years after the lifting of a similar suspension shortly before London 2012.

The ISSF was one of several International Federations to follow the IOC’s lead along with the likes of FIFA and the International Swimming Federation.

IOC-recognition for the Asian Shooting Championships - held in Kuwait City in November - was also withdrawn, meaning no quota places could be secured for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

Kuwait's Sheikh Salman Sabah Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah stood down as President of the Asian Shooting Confederation in the wake of the dispute and was replaced by Bahrain's Sheikh Ali bin Abdulla Al Khalifa.

Sheikh Salman, Kuwait's Minister of Information and Minister of State for Youth Affairs, was behind a new law which gives him control over all sports clubs in the country.

The IOC claimed this compromises the autonomy and independence of sporting bodies.

Sheikh Salman had stood unsuccessfully in 2014 to replace Mexico's Vázquez Raña as President of the ISSF but was defeated after insidethegames revealed he had been using his Government position to try to influence voters.

He blamed allies of Association of National Olympic Committees President Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah for his defeat to Raña, who has held his post since 1980.

Last month, Kuwait stepped up their protests over their Olympic exclusion by suing the IOC for $1 billion (£753 million/€898 million).

When making the announcement, Sheikh Salman claimed that the ban was unfairly put in place and that an "appropriate probe had not been conducted".

The development marked the latest in the ongoing saga which has seen Kuwait athletes banned from competing at Rio 2016 under their own flag.

Hopes of representing their nation at next month’s Olympic Games were all-but ended when the rights of all sporting officials and athletes to take independent opinions and actions were curtailed following the passing of controversial new Statutes by the National Assembly.

Under the new measures, the Public Sports Authority gain the power to dissolve all sporting bodies including the Kuwait Olympic Committee, as well as assuming control over all appointments and financial matters.

The second and final day of the ISSF General Assembly in Russia’s capital was attended by 130 Member Federations, therefore reaching the quorum.

Officially closing the General Assembly, Vázquez Raña added: "I would like to thank the organisers of the General Assembly, and especially the ISSF vice-president Vladimir Lisin, for their great hospitality, as well as the delegates for their constructive work during this meeting.

"We are part of a family.

"We need to stand together, and be united in the benefit of our sport."