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Gamal Mubarak: No Interference in Iran''s Affairs despite Divergence with Tehran; Allowing Parties to Enter Universities Would Destroy Educational Process
Gamal Mubarak, Assistant Secretary and Policies Secretary of the National Democratic Party (NDP), refused to have his say on Iran's recent events, pointing out that Egypt and the Arab countries refuse to interfere in Iran's internal affairs. He stressed it is up to the Iranians themselves to settle this dispute. After that, a dialogue can be started on the prospects of the relations between the Arabs and Iran, particularly as there are crucial and deep differences on a number of issues, most notably the conflict in the region, foreign relations and nuclear weapons. He said so at an open dialogue with the graduates of the Future Generation Foundation as part of the Outstanding Graduate Program. The dialogue was attended by Trade and Industry Minister Rachid Mohamed Rachid, Dr. Hani Helal, Minister of Higher Education, Mou'taz el-Ulfi, Vice-Chairman of the Foundation, Mohamed Farouk Hafeez, Secretary General of the Foundation, as well as Dr. Sharif Wali and Dr. Mohamed Kamal, members of the Shoura Council. Mr. Mubarak pointed out that the Arab countries refuse Iran interfering into their own affairs and taking advantage of the internal problems in some countries such as Iraq. Likewise, he said the Arab countries do not want to interfere in Iran's current events. Gamal Mubarak stressed his opposition to parties interfering in universities. "Allowing parties to be active in universities would destroy the educational process and would split the students and members of the Faculty Staff, too. This would empty the educational message of its content" he said. "Yes, some trends play a role within the universities; this is irregular, though, and this mistake must not happen again. This does not mean preventing students from participating in activities concerning public and political issues, yet without turning universities from sources of knowledge into lands of partisan conflicts" he then added. He pointed out that the Future Generation Foundation will consider whether to take part in the project to develop Egypt's 1,000 poorest villages by training teachers and instructors. He added that the most important thing now is to study what will happen after the global financial crisis. Gamal Mubarak, who is also President of the Future Generation Foundation, explained that the Outstanding Graduate Program aims to train graduates and provide them with job opportunities by giving them the various skills required by the job market. Minister Rachid affirmed that the industrial training center has trained 340,000 Egyptians so that they might be qualified for the labor market. He also said that the Competition and Anti-Monopoly Law is continuously changed so that it can keep abreast with local and international changes and be in line with the culture of the Egyptian society. He pointed out that importing some commodities aims to serve the interests of the Egyptian people and the national industry, especially as industries which have been protected in Egypt in the past have become some of the worst. He also affirmed imports are beneficial and stressed that the ministry will only protect from impair competition. He pointed out that the Egyptian market is changing for the better, as proved by the fact that activities in the field of contracting works have increased by 17% while declining throughout the world. Dr. Hani Hilal said the ministry has shut down a few departments and specializations in some faculties and open others according to the needs of the labor market. He pointed out that the current slogan is education for employment, stressing that there are 2.5 million higher education students who need the basic skills required by the labor market.
