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Prime Minister Hariri opens forum

UN forum in Beirut hears call for science and technology ‘renaissance’ in Arab States

16 July 2002
Kicking off a three-day United Nations forum in Beirut, participants from across the region called on Arab countries to overhaul their science and technology policies in order to create jobs and cut poverty.

UN agencies to host forum in Beirut on using technology to alleviate region's poverty

15 July 2002
Two United Nations agencies today announced plans for an upcoming seminar in Beirut focused on using new technologies to create jobs and alleviate poverty in the Arab region.

In talks with Palestinian officials, UN labour agency advances jobs plan for Middle East

12 July 2002
The head of the United Nations labour agency held talks in Geneva today with a senior Palestinian delegation aimed at advancing plans to create jobs in the Occupied Arab Territories, which have seen skyrocketing rates of unemployment amid the current tense security situation.