A 123 m (404 ft) high fountain off the coast of Manama. The mechanism is contained in a barge, anchored to the seabedArab Labor Conf. kick-starts in Bahrain
3/6/2010
MANAMA, The 37th session of the Arab Labor Conference kicked off here Saturday, focusing on employment, personnel training and vocational education.
In a keynote speech during the gathering, Bahraini Crown Prince Salman Bin Hamad Al Khalifa said the convention of the Arab Labor Conference under the current hard global economic circumstances requires that Arab societal development should be given a top priority.
This conference is a key gathering for discussing common Arab action given that it is a conflux for basic production elements that can determine the success of an economic or development process in society, he said.
He stressed the significance of the conference which brings together Arab ministers of labor, representatives of civil society organizations and Arab and global non-governmental organizations.
For his part, Assistant Secretary General of the Arab League for Economic Affairs Mohammed Bin Ibrahim al-Twergi said the Arab world is still facing a set of challenges, mainly security, poverty, joblessness, low growth rates and outflow of Arab capitals and experts.
In order to be able to grapple with such problems, the Arab world is required to further expand investments in the region, to improve the investment atmosphere, to wipe out investment attraction impediments and barriers and to spur the private sector to boost its involvement in the fulfillment of Arab development goals, he suggested.
In this context, he hailed an initiative made by His Highness the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah during the Arab Economic and Social Development Summit in Kuwait in January 2009 for establishing a USD-2-billion fund for supporting small and medium-sized projects in the Arab world, to which Kuwait contributed half a million dollars.
The conference primarily revolves around employment, an Arab strategy for personnel training, technical and vocational education, and the impacts of global economic and financial changes on the Arab labor market.
3/6/2010
MANAMA, The 37th session of the Arab Labor Conference kicked off here Saturday, focusing on employment, personnel training and vocational education.
In a keynote speech during the gathering, Bahraini Crown Prince Salman Bin Hamad Al Khalifa said the convention of the Arab Labor Conference under the current hard global economic circumstances requires that Arab societal development should be given a top priority.
This conference is a key gathering for discussing common Arab action given that it is a conflux for basic production elements that can determine the success of an economic or development process in society, he said.
He stressed the significance of the conference which brings together Arab ministers of labor, representatives of civil society organizations and Arab and global non-governmental organizations.
For his part, Assistant Secretary General of the Arab League for Economic Affairs Mohammed Bin Ibrahim al-Twergi said the Arab world is still facing a set of challenges, mainly security, poverty, joblessness, low growth rates and outflow of Arab capitals and experts.
In order to be able to grapple with such problems, the Arab world is required to further expand investments in the region, to improve the investment atmosphere, to wipe out investment attraction impediments and barriers and to spur the private sector to boost its involvement in the fulfillment of Arab development goals, he suggested.
In this context, he hailed an initiative made by His Highness the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah during the Arab Economic and Social Development Summit in Kuwait in January 2009 for establishing a USD-2-billion fund for supporting small and medium-sized projects in the Arab world, to which Kuwait contributed half a million dollars.
The conference primarily revolves around employment, an Arab strategy for personnel training, technical and vocational education, and the impacts of global economic and financial changes on the Arab labor market.
