(MENAFN- Arab Times) KUWAIT CITY Nov 23 (KUNA): A senior Kuwaiti official has lauded the justconcluded meeting of undersecretaries of the GCC ministries of social affairs and labor as 'successful and fruitful'.
The conferees discussed a wide array of key issues and matters in the social domain primarily families and children the handicapped and the elderly Undersecretary of the Kuwaiti Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor Abdulmohsen Al-Muteiri told KUNA following the wrapping- up of the meeting. He pointed to full cooperation among the GCC member states concerning all social issues of common interest and appreciated the role of the GCC Secretariat in the organizing of activities workshops and festivals.
They conferees also thrashed out the agenda of issues to be discussed by GCC ministers of social affairs and labor during their forthcoming meeting he added. Also during the gathering Qatar asked to play host to the next meeting of undersecretaries of the GCC ministries of social affairs and labor.
For his part Director General of the Executive Bureau of the GCC Social Affairs and Labor Ministers Council Aqeel Al- Jassem said that meeting tackle the issues on the agenda from an approach that took into consideration the latest in the social sciences studies and the peculiarity of Arab Gulf societies. He spoke highly of Kuwait and His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Sabah's initiative to give impetus to social work in the Gulf countries.
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