Qatar Takes Part In UN Social Development Session
(MENAFN- The Peninsula) QNA
Doha: The State of Qatar is participating in the 61st session of the United Nations (UN) Commission for Social Development (CSocD61), which started yesterday at the UN's headquarters in New York. It will continue until Feb. 15.
Minister of Social Development and Family H E Mariam bint Ali bin Nasser Al Misned is heading Qatar's delegation.
Addressing the high-level general discussions at the opening session, which was chaired by Permanent Representative of Qatar to the United Nations Ambassador H E Sheikha Alya bint Ahmed bin Saif Al Thani, the Minister of Social Development and Family called for a review of the decisions of the historic World Summit for Social Development in Copenhagen.
She said that this international agreement, which places individuals at the centre of development and emphasises social justice and development as foundations for achieving sustainable peace and security, needs reviewing in terms of the provisions that have been achieved, and the reasons for the retreat from achieving its main objectives.
Although this international declaration was reached 25 years ago, the world is still experiencing the same challenges and tribulations, whether they are embodied in poverty, epidemics, or social disintegration.
The absence of justice, equality and solidarity still exists, which makes it necessary to work on a solution to these problems so that children will not live in the future with the same problems, she said. She called for concerted international efforts in the path of social development and development goals, research into the causes of success and failure, and identifying steps to correct them, ahead of the 28th anniversary of the World Summit for Social Development in Copenhagen.
Her Excellency commended Qatar's urgent response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its adoption of an approach based on the commitment to promoting labour rights and its economic returns for the entire population, by providing $20bn to help the private sector to continue paying wages and salaries and repel the fear of financial bankruptcy, a move that placed Qatar among the lowest rates of job loss during the pandemic among the countries of the world.
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