Dr. Ashraf Sobhy, Egyptian Minister of Youth and Sports, held bilateral meetings with Juliane Bogner, Federal Minister for Families and Youth of the Republic of Austria, and Sim Ann, Senior Minister at the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth of Singapore. This came during the participation in the 2019 ECOSOC Youth Forum in the United States of America.

A number of important topics were discussed during the meeting including exchanging experiences, experiments and successful youth models that aim to achieve the social development, and the successful Egyptian experience achieved in the era of the political leadership which pays great attention to the development of the Egyptian youth movement and supporting it in a way that achieves the development goals in Egypt by integrating and empowering them to be the leaders of the future. 

The meeting also dealt with searching cooperation means between Egypt, Austria and Singapore in sports and youth fields.

Dr. Ashraf Sobhy met with Ambassador Dr. Riyad Mansour, president of the group of 77 and permanent representative of Palestine, to review the successful Egyptian youth initiatives and experiences including the experiment of youth runs youth, in addition to qualify youth and young people for the job market and spread the entrepreneurship culture.

The ECOSOC Youth Forum is discussing a number of topics including "Economic Growth and Decent Work - Good Education - Reducing Inequality - Issues of Peace, Security and Justice - Climate Issues - The Role of Youth Institutions and Maximizing their Participation to Achieve the Development Goals".