By Hend GadAllah

Dr. Ashraf Sobhy, Minister of Youth and Sports, launched the Bicycle Sports Festival, which was organized by the Central Administration for Sports Development (General Administration of the Grassroots). 1,500 young men and women from all countries participate in the Youth Conference in its 17th edition of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change COP27. It is held in Sharm El-Sheikh during (2-4) November in the Youth City.

The conference is held under the auspices of the Ministries of Youth, Sports and Environment, and under the supervision of the Department of the Official Youth Department of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, with the support of the United Nations in Egypt, and a number of its affiliated offices, such as UNICEF, the United Nations Population Fund, the United Nations Development Program, the World Health Organization, the UNESCO office, in addition to the International Organization for Migration, the Office of the United Nations Volunteers, and the Office of the United Nations Global Compact in the Egyptian partnership, with the participation of 5 Egyptian youth organizations (you think green - Acts - Enverox - Imam - youth who love Egypt).

He confirmed that the Ministry of Youth and Sports is very interested in holding many sports marathons within local and international activities and events, noting that these marathons have become an approach within those events  in a way that consolidates the importance of practicing sports alongside all events, in the context of ensuring that Spreading the culture of sports practice, making sports a way of life, and promoting public health, within the directives of the political leadership, and to achieve the Ministry’s vision and strategy in this regard.

The festival was attended by Major General Ismail El-Far, Head of the Youth Sector, Dr. Amr El-Haddad, Assistant Minister for Sports Development, Dr. Abdullah Al-Batesh, Assistant Minister for Youth Policies and Development, Dr. Sonia Abdel-Wahab, Head of the Central Administration for Sports Development, Ezzat Al-Dari, Head of the Central Administration for Youth Development, Iman Abdel-Jaber, Head of the Central Administration for Youth Development. The Central Administration of Civil Education, Dr. Ghada Gamal El-Din, Director General of the General Administration of the Popular Base, Iman Othman, Director General of the General Administration of Gifted and Creative People, Mohamed Fathi, Director of the Youth and Sports Directorate in South Sinai Governorate, Dr. Essam Serag El-Din, Head of the Economic Unit in the Office of the Minister of Youth and Sports.