UN-HABITAT AWARD, A RECOGNITION OF PREMIERS ACHIEVEMENTS
CAIRO, JUNE 19, (BNA) -- PRIME MINISTERS ADVISOR FOR CULTURAL AFFAIRS MOHAMMED BIN IBRAHIM AL MUTAWA SAID THE BESTOWAL OF THE UN-HABITAT SCROLL OF HONOUR AWARD ON PRIME MINISTER SHAIKH KHALIFA BIN SALMAN AL KHALIFA WAS A UN RECOGNITION OF HIS GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO HIS COUNTRYS WELFARE.
SPEAKING TO EGYPTS CHANNEL ONE, AL MUTAWA SAID THE AWARD WAS ONLY GRANTED TO SIX WORLD LEADERS INCLUDING THE KINGS OF SWEDEN AND THAILAND AS WELL AS THE LATE LEBANESE PRIME MINISTER RAFIQ HARIRI.
BAHRAINIS HAD NO IDEA WHATSOEVER ABOUT THE AWARD UNTIL IT WAS GRANTED TO THE PRIME MINISTER AND THERE WERE NO ENDEAVOURS TO WIN IT, AL MOTAWA NOTED.
MUTAWA HAILED THE UN HABITATS CHOICE ON THE PRIME MINISTER TO BESTOW ON HIM THE SCROLL OF HONOUR AWARD AS THE GESTURE CROWNED HIS TREMENDOUS EFFORTS IN PROVIDING LIMITED INCOME CITIZENS WITH DECENT HABITATION AND ESTABLISHING TOWNS TO ACCOMMODATE THEM, A CAMPAIGN WHICH HAS BEEN LED BY THE PRIME MINISTER SINCE THE 1960S.
HE SAID THE DECISION WAS TAKEN AFTER THE UN HUMAN SETTLEMENTS PROGRAMME REPETITIVE VISITS TO THE KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN AND ITS CONSTANT EVALUATION OF ITS URBANIZATION EFFORTS WHICH NOBODY WAS AWARE OF THE UN INTENTION TO BESTOW THE AWARD ON SHAIKH KHALIFA TILL IT WAS DECLARED.
MUTAWA TOUCHED ON THE INDIVIDUAL INCOME IN BAHRAIN AND THE GCC REGION AS A WHOLE WHICH WAS BOOSTED BY THE SOARING PRICES OF OIL IN RECENT YEARS, NOTING THAT DESPITE THE BOOM AND LIKE IN OTHER INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITIES, NEEDY PEOPLE IN THE GCC SOCIETIES WERE STILL FOUND.
HE SAID THE IDEAS OF THE PRIME MINISTER WERE BASED ON A PHILOSOPHY SAYING THAT STRONG ECONOMIES UNLIKE WEAK ONES COULD ASSIST THE POOR AND ELEVATE THEIR LIVING STANDARDS SO HE HAS FOCUSED SINCE THE 1970S ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ECONOMIC SECTOR, MAINLY ALUMINUM, OIL AND PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRIES TO ATTAIN PUBLIC WELFARE.
HE ADDED THAT THE PRIME MINISTER HAD STROVE TO MAKE OF BAHRAIN AN INVESTMENT HUB SO HE SUCCEEDED IN DIVERSIFYING THE SOURCES OF REVENUES, ALLEVIATING RELIANCE ON OIL AND CARING FOR HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT, TRAINING, HEALTH AND EDUCATION.
THE PRIME MINISTERS WISE POLICIES AND CONTINUOUS SUPPORT CONTRIBUTED TO BAHRAINS DEVELOPMENT AND REMARKABLY IMPROVED PEOPLES INCOME AND LIVING STANDARDS, AL MOTAWA SAID.
IN SEEKING TO DEVELOP THE GOVERNMENTS PROGRAMMES, THE PRIME MINISTER PLACED CITIZENS MATERIAL, SOCIAL AND HUMAN NEEDS ON TOP OF ALL PRIORITIES WHICH IS THE CHIEF GOAL OF THE UN- HABITAT, HE ADDED.
HE ALSO HAILED THE CEREMONY ORGANIZED BY THE ARAB LEAGUE, MARKING THE BESTOWAL OF THE AWARD ON THE PRIME MINISTER ARAB LEAGUE SECRETARY GENERALS DESCRIPTION OF THE EVENT AS A SOURCE OF HONOUR TO ALL ARABS.
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SPEAKING TO EGYPTS CHANNEL ONE, AL MUTAWA SAID THE AWARD WAS ONLY GRANTED TO SIX WORLD LEADERS INCLUDING THE KINGS OF SWEDEN AND THAILAND AS WELL AS THE LATE LEBANESE PRIME MINISTER RAFIQ HARIRI.
BAHRAINIS HAD NO IDEA WHATSOEVER ABOUT THE AWARD UNTIL IT WAS GRANTED TO THE PRIME MINISTER AND THERE WERE NO ENDEAVOURS TO WIN IT, AL MOTAWA NOTED.
MUTAWA HAILED THE UN HABITATS CHOICE ON THE PRIME MINISTER TO BESTOW ON HIM THE SCROLL OF HONOUR AWARD AS THE GESTURE CROWNED HIS TREMENDOUS EFFORTS IN PROVIDING LIMITED INCOME CITIZENS WITH DECENT HABITATION AND ESTABLISHING TOWNS TO ACCOMMODATE THEM, A CAMPAIGN WHICH HAS BEEN LED BY THE PRIME MINISTER SINCE THE 1960S.
HE SAID THE DECISION WAS TAKEN AFTER THE UN HUMAN SETTLEMENTS PROGRAMME REPETITIVE VISITS TO THE KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN AND ITS CONSTANT EVALUATION OF ITS URBANIZATION EFFORTS WHICH NOBODY WAS AWARE OF THE UN INTENTION TO BESTOW THE AWARD ON SHAIKH KHALIFA TILL IT WAS DECLARED.
MUTAWA TOUCHED ON THE INDIVIDUAL INCOME IN BAHRAIN AND THE GCC REGION AS A WHOLE WHICH WAS BOOSTED BY THE SOARING PRICES OF OIL IN RECENT YEARS, NOTING THAT DESPITE THE BOOM AND LIKE IN OTHER INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITIES, NEEDY PEOPLE IN THE GCC SOCIETIES WERE STILL FOUND.
HE SAID THE IDEAS OF THE PRIME MINISTER WERE BASED ON A PHILOSOPHY SAYING THAT STRONG ECONOMIES UNLIKE WEAK ONES COULD ASSIST THE POOR AND ELEVATE THEIR LIVING STANDARDS SO HE HAS FOCUSED SINCE THE 1970S ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ECONOMIC SECTOR, MAINLY ALUMINUM, OIL AND PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRIES TO ATTAIN PUBLIC WELFARE.
HE ADDED THAT THE PRIME MINISTER HAD STROVE TO MAKE OF BAHRAIN AN INVESTMENT HUB SO HE SUCCEEDED IN DIVERSIFYING THE SOURCES OF REVENUES, ALLEVIATING RELIANCE ON OIL AND CARING FOR HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT, TRAINING, HEALTH AND EDUCATION.
THE PRIME MINISTERS WISE POLICIES AND CONTINUOUS SUPPORT CONTRIBUTED TO BAHRAINS DEVELOPMENT AND REMARKABLY IMPROVED PEOPLES INCOME AND LIVING STANDARDS, AL MOTAWA SAID.
IN SEEKING TO DEVELOP THE GOVERNMENTS PROGRAMMES, THE PRIME MINISTER PLACED CITIZENS MATERIAL, SOCIAL AND HUMAN NEEDS ON TOP OF ALL PRIORITIES WHICH IS THE CHIEF GOAL OF THE UN- HABITAT, HE ADDED.
HE ALSO HAILED THE CEREMONY ORGANIZED BY THE ARAB LEAGUE, MARKING THE BESTOWAL OF THE AWARD ON THE PRIME MINISTER ARAB LEAGUE SECRETARY GENERALS DESCRIPTION OF THE EVENT AS A SOURCE OF HONOUR TO ALL ARABS.
HMQ/MT 19-JUN-2007 19:58
