The Secretary-General of the League of Arab States Amr Moussa said the Arab world has 65 million poor, and said that poverty and unemployment are two phenomena that threaten the independence of our nations.
The outburst came during a conference Moses began its work in Sharm el-Sheikh yesterday with representatives from 22 Arab countries, discussed the issue of ministers and experts and officials of social security and insurance to the Arabs, the subject of a new Arab strategy to ensure that the Arab citizen.
Quoted by the newspaper "Middle East" in a report quoted Moussa as saying at the conference that the Arab world suffers from a modest level of living of its citizens and low rates of bilateral trade and investment, and the migration of funds and qualified Arabic abroad, in addition to the problems of food security, water and non-optimal use of resources.
The decisions of Moses to the Arab Economic Summit held in Kuwait earlier this year, the adoption of the integrated program to support employment and reduce unemployment in the Arab countries through the Arab Labor Organization, as well as the summit's decision on the implementation of the Arab Program for Poverty Reduction in the Arab countries with a policy economic, social, which would reduce the poverty rates in half in the period up to 2015.
He criticized the Director-General of the Arab Labor Organization, Ahmed Mohammed Luqman, labor legislation and social security, saying that such legislation excludes large segments of workers and low-income, pointing out that Arab countries have achieved steady economic development, but it was not accompanied by social development, the same amount, and stressed that the social security is a human right, in accordance with Article 22 and Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Lukman said "More than half of the workforce in the Arab countries not covered by social insurance system," and pointed to the evolution of the concept of social security as a result of the impacts of privatization, globalization and the shrinking role of the state in basic services. And keenness of the delegations of Egypt and Jordan on the advantages offered by the labor laws in both countries to workers there, and the provision of social security for them.
Only 65 million? I thought there would be more with a population of 358 million in those 25 countries.
SvaraRadera