Qatar has stressed the importance of concerted international efforts in supporting established family policies, stressing that it places maintaining family cohesion at the top of its crucial priorities, especially at a time when the family system faces many challenges. In a statement during a ministerial discussion held on the sidelines of the 5th Budapest Demographic Summit, Minister of Social Development and Family HE Maryam bint Ali bin Nasser Al Misned expressed pride in representingQatar at the summit, praising the Hungarian initiative in pursuit of the desired goal of creating healthy, safe and productive societies. She stressed Qatar’s genuine keenness to preserve the family system in the country, which was embodied in the enactment of various state laws regarding the family as a social institution, in order to increase its support and organization, noting that the first official family policies were approved in the sixties of the past century. (QNA) page 5
