Doha, Qatar: In response to the recommendation of the UNDP’s Governing Council in 1989, which approved July 11 each year to be observed by the international community as the World Population Day, the Permanent Population Committee (PPC) of the State of Qatar, in cooperation with Qatar Museums, is organising a celebration today at the National Museum of Qatar (NMoQ).
This annual event aims to raise awareness of population-related issues and to focus attention on their urgency and importance in the context of comprehensive development plans and programmes and the need to find solutions for such issues.
In addition to the staff of Qatar museums, this celebration will be attended by members of the Permanent Population Committee, members of its Technical Bureau, members of the task teams following up on the implementation of the Programme of Action of Population Policy and others interested in population and development issues.
The ceremony will be opened by Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Hamad Al Thani, Director of the National Museum of Qatar. He will deliver a speech in which he will stress the importance of cooperation between Qatar Museums and PPC and the significance of bolstering this cooperation.
Besides, he will highlight the role of Qatar museums in protecting Qatari heritage manifested in the country’s museums and archaeological sites.Then, Sultan Ali Al Kuwari, PPC Vice-Chairman, will deliver a speech in which he will thank Qatar Museums for hosting the activities of this celebration.
He will also underscore the importance of celebrating World Population Day, whose goals are in harmony with the goals of the State of Qatar and its interest in population issues. Such interest stems from its continuous project and approach to building an advanced society founded on the principle of respect for human rights and continuous improvement of the standard of living of its residents, whether citizens or residents.
This approach was translated into the issuance of Qatar National Vision 2030 in 2008, which aims to “develop Qatar’s people to enable them to sustain a prosperous society.”
This vision provided the general framework for the development of successive national development strategies and formed the basis for successive population policies that aim to bring about a quantitative and qualitative change in population variables and related issues, through an array of executive plans and programmes.
