UN General Assembly
1988

I should like to refer here to the establishment of the Arab Council for Childhood and Development, which makes every effort to create better conditions for the bringing up of Arab children and to develop methods of control over the implementation of laws relating to children in the Arab world. Egypt has been elected vice-president of that Council. Egypt calls for the early preparation of the international convention on the rights of the child so that it may be adopted next year on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child. Referring to social development, I must express our appreciation of the constructive contribution of the united Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in the field of cultural development and the preservation of the ancient historical heritage of Egypt, in particular the revival of the library of Alexandria as an Egyptian and international cultural edifice. The current world economic situation remains a source of deep concern, in view