ESCWA officials visits Doha on Friday
Qatar, Politics, 2/28/2002

Mervat al-Ttellawi, the director of UN Economic and Social Committee for West Asia (ESCWA), will tomorrow evening will pay a visit to Doha which will last for three days.

She will hold several important meetings with high ranking Qatari officials concentrating on evaluating cooperation between Qatar and ESCWA in the area of development, the future cooperation plan and maximizing utmost benefits from expertise owned by the committee, especially in high- tech projects, revitalizing the role played by the woman and the fields of information, telecommunications and planning.

In this regard Tellawi will meet with Sheikha Mouza Bint Nasser al-Manad, wife of prince of Qatar, the minister of municipal and agriculture affairs, the minister of state for foreign affairs, the secretary general of the planning council, the director of the family development administration and the director if the social affairs department at the ministry of social services and housing.

This is, however, the first visit of its kind for Tellawi since she assumed the post of ESCWA's executive director.

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