Minister Azzi: Reliance on foreign labor is the result of youth resistance to engage in specific work areas

Students of universities from across Lebanon visited the thirteenth Vocations’ Exhibition organized by the Sagesse University. The event was held at Sagesse campus in Furn al Chebak, Beirut under the patronage of Labor Minister Sajaan Azzi in the presence of the President, deans of colleges, administrative staff and students. Some 100 financial, banking, insurance, health, commercial and industrial establishments took part in the exhibition, along with security and military institutions. In his opening speech, Monsignor Kamil Mubarak, the President of the University, called on students of Sagesse and other universities to seize the opportunity and look for jobs that allow them to serve their country. He announced that the University plans to create new schools to complement the seven already established schools. For his part, Azzi urged students visiting the exhibition to join the domestic labor market which he said is “in need of their potentials.” He pointed out that the “use of foreign expertise is mainly due to insufficient qualified domestic skills and because young people from both sexes refuse to work in certain sectors.” (An Nahar, Al Diyar, 17 April 2015)