Ramallah, 27/01/2019– H.E. President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, on Sunday, visited the headquarters of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) in Ramallah, where H.E. Ms. Ola Awad, President of PCBS, along with PCBS staff welcomed the visit of H.E. the President.  

H.E. Ms. Awad briefed H.E. the President on PCBS directorates and their functions, in addition to the cooperation between PCBS and the Ministries, Government institutions, private sector institutions…etc, to ensure benefiting from the official statistics issued by PCBS in all aspects of life, as well as development plans that were prepared to develop the statistical work of PCBS.

H.E. the President highly appreciated and commended the work of PCBS and the accuracy of its statistics, which can be built upon in building modern Palestinian institutions, as well as in planning to ensure the utmost benefit of the Palestinian potentials towards building the future and employing all possible capacities, among of which the statistical data and indicators produced by PCBS that would help in policy making and development planning towards improving the lives and living conditions of the Palestinian people.