Doha, October 25 (QNA) - Representative of United Nations Population Fund (Sub-Regional Office for the Gulf Cooperation Council) Karl Kulessa said Tuesday that the State of Qatar has the resources, will, and organizational skills to make FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 a wonderful event.

Speaking to Qatar News Agency (QNA), Kulessa said that hosting the World Cup for the first time in the Arab region is perfect and deserves to be celebrated. "That's something to celebrate. And I think that's how it should be. When I grew up, it was always either in South America or in Europe. Yeah. And then it started being in Korea, I believe, then in South Africa. Yes. And now we're here. It's perfect," he said.

Kulessa, who attended the Permanent Population Committee's celebration of the Qatar Population Day, hailed the second population policy cycle as highly important. "I think it is a very important policy because if you can manage the population well, it is good for the economy as well." " If you plan it well, right and you built the population numbers into your planning, it allows people and government to plan much better regarding for example education, health facilities, roads everything comes together when you understand your population and of course, Qatar is a master at this."

He added that Qatar managed the challenges facing both nationals and foreigners. "Of course, Qatar has the local population, the citizens of Qatar, and foreign populations, and they all have to be dealt with. They need, they need care, they need services, that's the challenge the government of Qatar has managed very well," he told QNA.

Kulessa stressed that Qatar has a "very special place" in managing its economic resources. "When I look at the numbers, especially, for example, doing covid, when I looked at the economic figures, I'm no economist, but I would say that Qatar has managed it very well," he said.

Asked about the population growth and how countries are struggling with sustainability, Kulessa said, "There are 8 billion people, but the very fact that there is no famine, that people are still has shown that the human civilization, the humanity has managed to adjust. When I was a kid, there were 3 billion people in the sixties, and they say, Oh, it was famine everywhere. Now the 8 billion people are in far less famine.

" So it's a question of will, it's a question of intellect. It's a question of government commitment to make sure that it's manageable. And it seems to be that 60 percent of the countries of the world now have a very low population growth rate. And most of the population growth rates are not sustainable in a handful of countries," he said. (QNA)