Labor Minister urges Arab countries to open their markets for Palestinian workforce

Labor Minister Nasri Abu Jish today called on the Arab countries to open their markets for the Palestinian workforce to help Palestine cut down on unemployment and poverty rates.

Abu Jish told WAFA on the sidelines of the Arab Labor Organization’s 47th session held in Cairo that Palestine’s participation in this meeting gives it an opportunity to be in touch with the Arab counterparts to discuss how to help the Palestinian workers.

He said he met some of his counterparts to solicit their support for the upcoming donor meeting on support for employment in Palestine, which will be held on the sidelines of the International Labor Organization’s meeting next March in Geneva, and that an arrangement was made with a number of Arab ministers, mainly Kuwait and Qatar, to sign a memorandum of understanding on receiving Palestinian workers, especially in the fields of education and engineering.

Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency