KUWAIT: Director General of Public Authority for Youth Mishal Al-Rabie Tuesday stressed keenness on backing and helping initiatives of youth to start their projects and develop the promising economic sectors in a way that contributes to creating jobs at the private sector and supporting the State's development plan.

This came in a statement issued by the authority after Rabie's meeting with World Bank Regional Director for the Gulf Cooperation Council Esam Abu Sulaiman and Resident Representative of the Bank's office in Kuwait Ghassan Al-Khouja. The meeting discussed means of creating job opportunities to youth in the private sector and improving their skills in a way that serves labor market.

The officials also touched upon the outcomes of the previous meeting of the World Bank's technical team to Kuwait last April. Boeing company carrying out Kuwait Technical Entrepreneurship Complex project said that Kuwaiti youth have strategic minds that enable them to develop the technological sector, Rabie pointed out. He indicated that dozens of young Kuwaitis benefited from some projects in the promising economic sectors. - KUNA