By NNN-KUNA,
Geneva : Arab health ministers held a meeting on Monday on sidelines of the ongoing 61st World Health Asssembly that got underway the same day, addressing issues related to the health services in some Arab territories.
Discussions of the Arab Health Ministers Council dealt with health conditions in Palestine and the Syrian Golan heights, Permanent Representative of Kuwait to the UN in Geneva, Ambassador Dharar Razouqi, said on Tuesday.
He told KUNA that the meeting was held on sidelines of the 61st WHA, addressing several issues including climate change, intellectual property and combating bird flu.
A Kuwaiti delegation is attending the assembly that began on Monday and will conclude next Saturday.
The assembly had kicked off with a minute of silence for thousands of the Cyclone victims in Myanmar and the earthquake in China. The representative of Myanmar, ambassador Wunna Maung Lwin to the UN in Geneva, then addressed the 61st WHA.
Lwin said that his country was hit by the most serious natural disaster in its history, and resulted in the death of more than 77,000 people reported dead and more than 55,000 missing.