The preparatory committee for the Arab Economic and Social Development Summit will hold a high-ranking meeting at the Arab League on September 2 to follow up on the preparations made for the upcoming summit due at the end of this year in Kuwait. Assistant Secretary General for Economic Affairs at the Arab League ambassador Mohammed bin Ibrahim Al-Tuwaijri told KUNA that the league prepared a report to be submitted to the committee over the preparations of the upcoming Arab economic summit. During the committee's meeting, the programs and projects will be selected to be viewed by the ministerial level meeting ahead of the summit. The committee members are from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria, Sudan and Tunisia. In earlier statements, Al-Tuwaijri said the economic summit is expected to mainly figure out a set of weighty issues, chiefly investment, production development, trade, and the revamping of infrastructure, especially overland, sea and air transport, communications, power grid, health, and education. The Arab economic summit was proposed by Kuwait and Egypt during the recent Riyadh Arab summit with a view to meeting critical challenges facing the Arab world, including deteriorating standards of living, mounting poverty, and unemployment.
