Arab Economic, Social and Development Summit issues "Kuwait Declaration" 4 Kuwait

Moreover, the declaration spoke of human resource development called
for working to increase the efficiency of Arab human resources within
efforts to achieve the Millennium Goals by 2015, curbing poverty,
expanding the empowerment of women and youth, creating job
opportunities, improving the health and education sectors, and
raising incomes.

On education and scientific research, the declaration called for
developing education and learning systems to keep up with the
fast-paced developments in science and technology, elevating the
standards of educational institutions and making them more efficient,
and supporting the educational and scientific research plan approved
in the Khartoum and Damascus summits (2006 and 2008 respectively). It
also urged placing greater emphasis on scientific research and
allocating budgets for it, easing access to knowledge, consolidating
relations between Arab research centers, nationalizing modern
technologies, encouraging scientists and researcher and encouraging
their work.

As for health care, the declaration called for expanding basic health
care projects in the Arab world, activating the role of joint Arab
health institutions in order to raise service standards. It also
called for according special attention to tacking non-contagious
diseases such as diabetes, and producing effective medicine, easing
its registration and thus creating medicament security in the Arab
world.

The leaders lauded the initiative of the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad
Al-Jaber Al-Sabah of Kuwait for establishing a USD two billion fund
for supporting investment projects and small and medium enterprises
(SMEs) and its contribution of USD 500 million to this initiative.

--SPA