NEWS STORY : Overseas Development Minister Andrew Mitchell Makes Speech at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
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Andrew Mitchell, the Overseas Development Minister, has made a speech at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies to launch a project on “Public Health, Science, and Technology in Muslim Societies”. He warned of a reversal of recent improvements in global living standards, saying:
“Thirty years of incredible human progress between 1990 and 2020 is now sharply in reverse, partly because of the Covid pandemic, and other events too like the illegal invasion of Ukraine and what it has done to the food chain and what it has done to inflation in very poor countries, mean that all the dials which were moving forward so successfully are now in reverse and we have to do something about that”.
He added that the British Government had been a leader in matters relating to international development, stating:
“Over the last 25 years in particular, the United Kingdom has invested hugely in supporting our partners to improve education, health and the environment, from Afghanistan to Nigeria, and from Bangladesh to the Gambia. Many tens of thousands of Muslim students have studied in the UK through our Chevening and British Council scholarships, returning to enrich their communities with what they have learnt. And two weeks ago I was in Jordan where I saw first-hand how UK support helps 150,000 children a year to receive a quality education”.
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