(TAP) - Preparations for the National Youth Congress were under focus at a an inner Cabinet meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Habib Essid on Monday afternoon at the Government Palace in Kasbah, as part of the government plan to implement the Presidential initiative launched January 14, 2016 on the celebration of Revolution and Youth day, and in accordance with Article 8 of the constitution of the second Republic considering "Tunisian youth as active force in national development."

The congress is scheduled for August 12.

The Prime Minister recommended to this opportunity working to well prepare a "representative congress embodying the national will to draw on Tunisian youth in building the second republic, at the state or community levels, through the establishment of a national strategy on youth affairs.” 

Habib Essid also recommended mobilising resources needed to live up to this important national youth event.