Alecso adopts Saudi-backed reforms at General Conference in Oman

RIYADH: The Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization has adopted a series of Saudi-backed initiatives aimed at strengthening governance, improving institutional performance and expanding educational and cultural cooperation across the Arab world.

The proposals were agreed at the end of its 28th General Conference in Muscat on Thursday, which marked the end of Saudi Arabia’s two-year presidency. Oman will now take up the mantle.

Among the proposals were recommendations made by a Saudi-led committee, with representatives from 12 member states, to reform the conference’s rules of procedure, establish a general conference bureau and create three committees to oversee preparations, legal affairs and strategies and action plans.