Kuwait seeks Arab ‘support’ for plan to set up data base
Social affairs officials call for eradicating poverty
Minister Al-Sabeeh during the 36th regular session of the Arab Council of Social
Ministers. CAIRO, Dec 15, (KUNA): The State of Kuwait Minister of Social Affairs and Labour Dr Hind AlSabeeh on Thursday said she is hoping Arab states would bless a Kuwaiti plan to establish a data base for experts.
Minister Al-Sabeeh, speaking to KUNA on sidelines of the 36th regular session of the Arab Council of Social Ministers, said the Kuwaiti initiative can result furnishing social affairs ministries in the Arab states with information and experience particularly in the sector of the handicapped.
She indicated that the GCC states, at the Arab meeting, are addressing the conference with joint rhetoric, noting particular concern for sustainable development, social affairs, issues concerning cases of special challenges and means of eradicating poverty. Minister AlSabeeh expressed hope that the Arab states would work out a common strategy to attain such goals.
The Arab council held its 36th session today to examine various issues including the five-year plan (2017-2021). Al-Sabeeh chairs the Kuwaiti delegation at the meeting.
Meanwhile, Arab social affairs officials on Thursday affirmed necessity of eradicating all forms of poverty in the Arab countries, as part of the sustainable development strategy ending in 2030.
The ministers and officials, at the end of the Council of Arab Social Affairs’ 36th regular session, said in a statement that they decided to hold a special session on sidelines of the UN forum on sustainable development, due in New York next year.
They asked the technical secretariat to pursue efforts, in coordination with specialized UN agencies, to back the Arab League member states’ efforts for executing the Arab declaration on implementing the sustainable development strategy (2030). They also decided to set up a panel to examine proposed plans, adopted the five-year scheme for 2017-2021 and the USD one million budget of the Arab social fund for 2017.