Mrs. Mubarak shed light on linking education with society needs

Egypt's First Lady Mubarak stressed the importance of linking education with the new needs of society and the requirements of major renaissance and added that this would help push forward the development issues in the country.

She also shed light on developing the quality criteria in the educational institutions to cope with the international criteria.

This came in a celebration held on the first anniversary of the establishment of the German University in Cairo.

Mrs. Mubarak received yesterday Executive Director of the UN office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention Antonio Maria Costa who handed her the office Shield in appreciation of her efforts in the social domain, especially child protection and women rights.

The meeting tackled the efforts to curb drug trafficking and addiction as well as crime reduction.

Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak, attends on Tuesday, as a guest of honour for this year, the inauguration of the 56th session of Frankfurt International Book Fair.

The fair will be opened by German Chancellor Gerhard Shroeder, in the presence of Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa.

Some 6,700 publishing houses and book stores will take part in the six-day fair along with 1,000 writers from 111 countries.

Mrs. Mubarak will arrive in Frankfurt on Monday on a several days visit during which she is to attend many activities of the fair.