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Qatar joins Arab meet on financial reforms
QNA
Cairo
State of Qatar participated in the 34th regular session of the Committee on Coordination and Follow-up of Arab Organizations, which convened on Sunday at the General Secretariat of the League of Arab States in Cairo.
Qatar was represented by a delegation from its Permanent Mission to the League of Arab States, headed by First Secretary at the Mission, Dr Issa SalemAl Kuwari.
Over the course of five days, the meetings will address various administrative, financial, organisational, and structural issues related to specialised Arab organisations.
The outcomes will be submitted to the 116th regular session of the Arab Economic and Social Council, scheduled to take place from August 31 to September 3. The committee will also review reports and recommendations from the Technical Committee on the Unified Basic Regulations, based on its two sessions held in November 2024 and June 2025.
In this context, Director of the Department of Arab Organizations and Federations (Technical Secretariat of the Committee), Dr Raed Al Jubouri, explained that the committee convenes annually to discuss reports from financial oversight bodies and heads of internal audit units of specialised Arab organisations.
It also reviews final accounts, external audit reports, periodic reports on the scheduling of member states' arrears to the budgets of Arab organisations, reports from the Arab Monetary Fund, and updates on the participation of the General Secretariat in legislative and executive meetings of the specialisedorganisations.
He noted that two technical committees were formed under the committee's umbrella: one focused on unifying the basic regulations of specialized Arab organisations, which developed and updated a unified basic system later approved by the Arab Economic and Social Council, and the other on unifying financial and accounting systems, which likewise received Council approval.
Al Jubouri highlighted that over the past seven years, the Committee on Coordination and Follow-up and its subcommittees worked on preparing the foundational systems for self-financed Arab organizations, all of which have been formally adopted by the Arab Economic and Social Council.
