Minister of Social Affairs Malek Ezzahi held talks on Thursday with chair of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame, on ways of strengthening cooperation between Tunisia and the Committee.
The meeting took place in the margins of the 16th session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities (COSP16), being held at the United Nations Headquarters, New York, from June 13 to 15.
The meeting was attended by Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York Tarek El Adab.
It addressed cooperation between the two parties and the follow-up to the committee’s recommendations on the occasion of Tunisia’s presentation of its third report on the implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse