São Paulo – The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) announced yesterday (1st) that it will promote, in partnership with the Egyptian Institute for Diplomatic Studies (IDS), a workshop for five Arab countries interested in cooperating to fight poverty through economic development.
The event will be held on the 12th and 13th, in Cairo, and will bring together representatives from Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, Sudan and Morocco. According to the Unctad, the workshop is part of the project “Promoting sub-regional growth-oriented economic and trade policies towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals in selected Arab countries.”
The organization informed that the project aims to encourage development-oriented trade strategies. The workshop will be attended by national and international experts, government officials from the participating countries, representatives of the League of Arab States and of the private sector.
According to the Unctad, the conference and the project as a whole center around Millennium Goals 01 and 08, which aim, respectively, at halving extreme poverty by 2015, and fostering a global partnership for development by promoting growth-oriented regional integration.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
