Doha/(QNA)/10 February 2009/ Doha hosts by next saturday the sixth U.S.-Islamic World Forum under the slogan of ''''Common challenges" . The three-day forum will bring together key leaders in the fields of politics, religion, science, arts and culture from across Qatar and the world. The International consulting Council for relations between United states and the Islamic World will hold its first session on February 15 at the Four Seasons Hotel whereas the forum-affiliate Arts and Culture Advisory Committee will hold a meeting on Friday, February 13th, on the eve of the forum commencing. Assistant Foreign Minister for Follow-up Affairs H.E. Mohammad bin Abdullah al-Rumeihi who is also head of the conferences''standing committee said that the 6th Forum session will focus on key ,vital and important issues related to human development, social changes, the Global economic crisis and most effective action plans to resolve it as well as security issues . Elaborating H.E . Mohammad bin Abdullah al-Rumeihi said that the aforesaid issues will be discussed in-depth by special workshops. During its previous sessions, the U.S.-Islamic World Forum was an immense and remarkable success and has become the foremost meeting for positive cross-cultural engagement among leaders from the United States and the Muslim world, that''s why it is continuing, H.E . Mohammad al-Rumeihi told QNA. H.E stated that the Forum will also provide a unique platform for dialogue including religious leaders, academics, and different civil society parties. Through the special session related to ''''The next generation'''', discussions will showcase the perspective of the region''s next generation composed of Muslim men and women under the age of 30. Moderators and speakers participating at this special session will be among specialists at the related fields as well as young attendees.
Before the opening session scheduled for next Saturday, Assistant Foreign Minister for Follow-up Affairs H.E. Mohammad bin Abdullah al-Rimeihi, Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World''s Director Dr. Stephen R. Grand and Senior Fellow and Director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy in the Foreign Policy Studies program at The Brookings Institution Martin Sean Indyk will hold a joint press conference about U.S.-Islamic World Forum?s goals. After the opening plenary on feb.14 evening, the forum will convene a working session entitled ," Common challenges.. Addressing together emerging global issues" followed by a special session related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. The second day ''s first session will be under the slogan of " The Global Economic crisis: How do we respond" and will analyze what does the global economic crisis mean for the United States and the Muslim World and if the the United States and Muslim World will be able and want to use this crisis to forge new strategic common ground and how will the global financial crisis affect Muslims in the developing world. Workshops will then start a series of sessions, the first one will tackle the " security dialogue" in the global transformations context and how prepared is the world for looming social, economic and technological transformations and how theses transformations will affect the U.S-Muslim World relations in the security domain. A session about "Energy and Governance" will be held and study relationship between trends in the energy market economic subsidies and political reform, how does the internal distribution of funds from energy revenues influence governments and what are the consequences of political reform or steps governments have taken. The second day schedule will contain a session about "Human development and social change dialogue" which will be focused on human development, displacement and security in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as the impact of internal displacement and refugees on the country itself, host countries, peace progress and future economic stability and progress. A special session will be held concerning the ''''Energy security in the 21th century" and seeks to analyze the big trends and how important will the search for alternative fuels be.