CAIRO, April 8, 2018 - President Abdel-Fattah El Sisi has asserted that reducing unemployment rates and creating more job opportunities for young people come at the top of the government's priorities and its strategy to achieve sustainable economic development. In pursuance of this orientation, labour market policies have been incorporated into the state public policy's areas of priority. In effect, employment issues have become axial in government strategies with a view to creating job opportunities for young people including through reforming technical education, offering vocational consultancy and the provision of comprehensive and systematic vocational training, President Sisi said in a statement to the Arab Labour Conference read out on his behalf by Manpower Mohammed Saafan, Emphasising that Egypt has managed to strongly and firmly face terrorism which sought to target the security and stability of the Arab nation, President Sisi pointed out that Egypt's leadership and government are pursuing intensive and all-out efforts to forestall and uproot forever the danger of terrorism. He also stressed that development and prosperity rely on productive and effective work, adding that the Egyptian government has reflected awareness of the fact that creating a legislative environment at all relevant levels can effectively contribute to economic growth and the achievement of sustainable development . President Sisi asserted in his statement to the 45th session of the Arab Labour Conference which opened in Cairo on Sunday that the Arab world is passing through a critical stage in its history, requiring moving ahead with setting up joint Arab action on solid and strong bases. Held under the sponsorship of President Sisi, the week-long conference is bringing together Arab labour and manpower ministers, representatives of Arab labour unions, employer organizations and the General Secretariat of the Arab League. President Sisi also stressed that the Egyptian government was keen on developing labour-related legislations in a way that goes in tandem with ongoing developments. These legislations have included in the foremost the issuance of a new union law that makes the Egyptian union system complying with international labour standards, President Sisi said In the statement to the conference's inaugural session, President Sisi also stressed that solving labour problems in the Arab world is an indivisible part of the challenges that the Arab peoples are facing. Such challenges, the President added, are the produce of current regional and international developments and the economic globalization as shaped by the rules of competitiveness. Under such conditions, it becomes necessary to modernise the productivity structures in both the public and private sectors, improve the business climate and elevate the efficiency of the human cadres, the President said. The President underlined that Egypt issued a new investment law that aims at putting an end to bureaucracy, especially in new projects, and offering more incentives to investors that are looking forward to establishing new projects in Egypt in the light of Egypt's comprehensive economic reform programme.
