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His Excellency, Mr. Kalthoum Ben Rajeb, Minister of Trade of Tunisia,His Excellency, Mr. Hassen Guizani, our gracious host, President of the Tunisian Competition Council,Dear Rola Dashti and colleagues from ESCWA and OECDColleagues, ladies and gentlemen, dear friends,It is my great pleasure to be here, seeing to fruition an initiative that started almost five years ago, when UNCTAD alongside UN-ESCWA and the OECD agreed to support and co-organize the Arab Competition Forum, now on its fifth edition.

A major UN forum opened on Tuesday in Bahrain. Its mission: to empower entrepreneurial leaders who can build a brighter future and achieve sustainable development for all.

The UN warns that losses during the Gaza war in housing, public services and the economic stall threaten to push even more Palestinians into poverty.

The relentless Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip has set back Palestine’s overall socio-economic development by more than 20 years, according to a new UN report released on Thursday.

The projection, which underscores how far Israel has gone in enforcing its deliberate ethnic cleansing of the enclave, is based on the highly improbable assumptions that the war ends now and the Zionist regime allows a five-fold increase of construction material imports into Gaza.