Kadri: Unilateral coercive economic measures imposed on Syria have affected development indicators

Nairobi-Sana

Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Rima Kadri stressed the necessity of lifting unilateral coercive economic measures imposed on Syria to keep pace with the developments of sustainable development.

During the first decade of the third millennium, Syria has made important development achievements attested to by the human development reports and the Millennium Development Reports prepared by international organizations during those years, but since 2011 Syria is facing exceptional circumstances due to the war, she said. Terrorism on them, which caused destruction in the infrastructure and environmental and negatively affected the development plan that was working on them in a significant upward trend.

Qadri reviewed the indicators of development achieved by Syria before the terrorist war against it compared to the indicators reached during the war and the challenges facing the work of the Syrian government regarding population issues.

Minister Qadri drew attention to the practices of the Israeli occupation against the people of the occupied Syrian Golan, depriving them of their basic rights and adopting discriminatory and racist policies against them.

Minister Qadri, who heads the Syrian delegation to the Nairobi International Conference on Population and Development, which started yesterday, met with a number of ministers and heads of state participating in the conference, including Algeria, Iraq, Cuba, Armenia, Kenya, Trinidad and Tobago, during which they reviewed developments in Syria and the victories achieved by the Syrian Arab Army His battle against terrorism.

Minister Qadri also chaired one of the sessions of the Conference on Persons with Disabilities and the Nairobi Conference Plan of Action, during which she outlined Syria's achievements in this field to support and empower this category.

The Syrian delegation during the days of the conference, which lasted from 12 to 14 of this month participated in the official opening of it and technical sessions and workshop women held in the presence of the First Lady of Kenya and women leaders from all countries participating in the conference.

It is noteworthy that the Nairobi Conference on Population and Development is held on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Cairo International Conference on Population and Development in 1994, where 179 countries participated in the adoption of a program of action that is the road to development and aims to see what they have achieved and to renew their commitment to the implementation of its recommendations.