Coping with challenges must pack policies

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Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit stressed the need for Arab policies to meet the challenges of the Arab Economic and Social Council. Saudi Arabia has called for Arab cooperation to achieve economic development.
Aboul Gheit said that the challenges facing the Arab world, which are complex and interdependent, can only be addressed by a combination of economic instruments and social programs, with security, political and other measures.
At the opening of the Council meeting at the preparatory ministerial level of the Arab Summit in Tunis, he stressed that the march of Arab development had suffered a major setback in some countries, whose cities were devastated and destroyed, and their inhabitants subjected to displacement, asylum, displacement and displacement, which led the Arab countries to produce half of the world's refugees. He stressed the persistence of the seed of terrorism despite the victories of its most egregious manifestations, which could become an "evangelist" in many societies. He stressed that the ongoing struggle against terrorism, accelerating young minds with tolerance and spirit of belonging to the motherland, stressing that the most effective and influential investment is to invest in the # 39 education, health, awareness and training of human beings, as well as in the preparation and treatment of the future.
Aboul Gheit said that the great energy of the Arab economies, represented by their young companies, is still not fully exploited, but that it is sometimes lost and lost, stressing that it takes hundreds or even Thousands of initiatives and programs to stimulate this unused energy and launch it, This education is now of strategic importance which makes it the first challenge of societies. The Council welcomed the efforts and initiative of the United Arab Emirates to establish the Arab Group for Space Cooperation on the margins of the second session of the World Space Conference in Abu Dhabi. from March 19th to 21st. An official delegation of the United Arab Emirates, chaired by the Minister of Economy, Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri, was composed of Mohammed Ahmed bin Abdul Aziz Al Shehhi, Under-Secretary at the Ministry of Economy and Business. Foreign Minister, and Mohammed Saleh Shalawah, Adviser to the Minister.
The meeting was marked by a strong solidarity of the Arab States delegations with the initiatives announced by this State in the space sector. The Council welcomed the role played by the United Arab Emirates and its contribution to the development of Arab cooperation in the field of space science and its use for the development of the Arab countries, as well as the role of the United Arab Emirates. by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Sovereign of Dubai, Arab Scientists, the first cooperation initiative in the framework of the Arab Group for Space Cooperation, which received broad support from the delegations of participating Arab countries.
Al Mansouri said that the United Arab Emirates, under the leadership of their wise leaders, wanted to support joint Arab action and promote Arab integration in various economic and social spheres, especially those that are now the most important main axes of future development and establishment of economies able to monitor recent developments and trends affecting the movement. The global economy, especially innovation, technology, the digital economy, scientific progress and knowledge, emphasizing that the space sector is one of the most important areas and an important pillar of the economies of tomorrow.
Al Mansouri thanked the Economic and Social Council for commending the efforts and initiatives of the United Arab Emirates in this regard, as well as its call to keep pace with these initiatives. He urged Arab scientists to participate in and benefit from the satellite project.
He welcomed the solidarity of the Arab delegations with the State initiatives in this regard, stressing that this step would make it possible to scientifically and practically strengthen the capabilities of the Arab countries in the space sector and to increase their chances of taking advantage of it to support the economic and social development of the Arab region. And the expansion of Arab resources in various fields.
The meeting discussed a number of other economic and social issues on its agenda, which will be presented at the Arab summit next Sunday, including the master plan for the Arab Strategy for Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, the Arab Movement in the negotiations on climate change and the treatment of its problems, Arab Strategy for the Elderly and Arab Plan of Action to tackle the causes of terrorism.
Saudi Finance Minister Mohammed Al-Jady called for strengthening cooperation among Arab countries to achieve the desired economic development. In a speech delivered at the meeting, he said that Arab development aspirations needed more coordination and cooperation and that efforts should be continued to meet the needs of the peoples of the Arab region in various areas of development. especially economic development.
He added that the adoption of the summit by many Arab strategies in the economic and social sectors was aimed primarily at supporting the march of joint Arab action.
In this context, Al-Jada's reported the adoption of the Arab Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction 2030, the Arab Document on the Protection and Development of the Environment, the 39 Arab Agreement on the Exchange of Plant Genetic Resources and the Arab Strategy for Health and the Environment (2017-2030).