International Cooperation Minister Sahar Nasr met Saturday with the Head of the Middle East and Africa in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Carlos Conde within the framework of following up the outcome of the meeting held between President Abdel Fattah El Sisi and the OECD's secretary general.

Conde expressed the organization's keenness on promoting its relations with Egypt, especially after the meeting between Sisi and the OECD's secretary general in Paris, where they agreed about boosting joint cooperation in the framework of the organization's program of the Middle East and North Africa.

For her part, Nasr stressed, during the meeting, the importance of promoting bilateral cooperation especially that Egypt is the biggest country in the number of youth at the Middle East region, adding that half of the citizens are under the age of 25.

The Egyptian government made youth a top of the development agenda, measures were taken to fulfill their needs and merge them in the society, the minister underlined, noting that El Sisi announced 2016 as the year of youths.

Nasr called on the OECD to provide support for the youth to establish small and medium enterprises as they play a vital role in the social, political and economic fields.

She also reiterated that the youth should be backed to be businessmen and their ideas should be implemented on the ground.

Source: MENA