Cairo, November 13, 2019, SPA -- Saudi Vice President of General Authority for Statistics Abdullah bin Mohammed Al-Batel chaired the 40th meeting of Arab Permanent Technical Committee for Statistics at the headquarters of the Arab League in Cairo today with the participation of delegations from its member states. The two-day meeting will follow up the implementation of the recommendations of the 39th meeting of the committee and the activities of the Department of Statistics and Databases. The meeting will also review activities of statistics departments in Arab countries in 2018 and 2019 and Arab regional and international statistical cooperation. -- SPA 14:09 LOCAL TIME 11:09 GMT 0010 www.spa.gov.sa/w1209200