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The Assistant Foreign Minister for International Co-operation along with other officials at a meeting in New York.
Qatar’s permanent delegation to the United Nations, in partnership with Reach Out To Asia (Rota), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) and the Safe World Foundation, organised a high-level meeting on “Priority to Education in Peaceful Societies” on the sidelines of the United Nations Summit on
Sustainable Development.
The high-level meeting was opened by HE Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, the Assistant Foreign Minister for International Co-operation.
The meeting focused on the need to deal with education issues as a priority in all the circumstances of emergency and other essential goal for the implementation of the development plan of the post-2015 as well as the importance of identifying the role of youth in their
implementation.
The meeting highlighted the findings of the Global Youth Consultation for the United Nation’s World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) which took place in Doha from September 1 and 2 in preparation for the world summit for humanitarian action, which will be held in Istanbul, in 2016.
It discussed the role of Arab and African youth in supporting and promoting the sustainable development goals, especially goals 4 and 16 and possessing the leading role in the
implementation of those goals.
Speaking at the meeting, Sheikh Mohamed bin
Abdulrahman said that Qatar considers education as an important matter of the development agenda, and an essential element in building a world of peace and prosperity.
He expressed Qatar’s concern for the millions of children out of school, pointing out that the 50% proportion of them live in areas of conflict.
He called on the international community to enable young people to play a more active role in the
development agenda.
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