By Mohammad Al-Otaibi
NEW YORK, March 3 (KUNA) -- With a delegation from the Central Statistical Bureau, Kuwait participated in the 46th Session of the UN Statistical Commission under the slogan "better data, better lives," which kicked off Tuesday in the UN headquarters.
Maryam Al-Aqeel, the Director General of the Central Statistical Bureau and head of the Kuwaiti delegation, told KUNA that their participation in the three-day meetings was due to the keenness of the Kuwaiti leadership to ensure Kuwait presence and engagement in such international events.
Al-Aqeel added that their participation in these meetings and technical workshops stem from the desire of Kuwait leadership of the importance of statistical work, data, and indexes which are issued by the administration and form the basic path to planning and decision making.
Al-Aqeel thanked the Kuwait foreign ministry staff in the UN for facilitating the delegation's visit and participation in the meetings.
Kuwait also participated in a seminar on sustainable development indicators and development agenda beyond 2015.
Al-Aqeel noted that this seminar is part of a series of high-level seminars dedicated to topics of great importance for the global statistical community.
The seminar focused this year on monitoring requirements of new goals and objectives for the development work agenda in the post 2105.
The seminar also focuses on millennium development goals from a national perspective, said Al-Aqeel, saying that such seminar serves as a forum for both producers and users of data from various regions and to exchange views on new needed monitoring and viable methods.
Al-Aqeel also engaged in a GCC board of directors management meeting with the World Tourism Organization and emphasized His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah's vision to transform Kuwait into a financial and commercial center by the 2035, including keenness on tourism sector.
The Kuwaiti delegation includes Assistant Undersecretary of the Statistics Work sector Muna Al-Da'aas, Director General of Commercial, Agriculture, and Services Statistics Khalda Al-Kharraz, and Ibtisam Al-Rabah, the Supervisor of Economic Statics in the Statistical Bureau.
Established in 1946, UN Statistical Commission is a functional commission of the UN Economic and Social Council and it oversees the work of the United Nations Statistics Division. (end) mao.mb