DEPUTY PM AFFIRMS IMPORTANCE OF STUDYING GCC MARKET'S NEEDS

SANA'A, Feb.22 (Saba) - Deputy Prime Minister for Internal Affairs
Sadiq Amin Abu Ras affirmed on Monday the importance of studying the
needs of the GCC markets in order to set up training programs for
the Yemeni workers.

During his opening the events of the regional conference on Yemeni
labor and the GCC labor market requirements organized by Saba Center
for Strategic Studies, Abu Ras pointed to the deep-rooted brotherly
relations between Yemen and the GCC countries.

Yemen is full of the capable cadres to meet the work requirements,
said Abu Ras affirming that Yemen will do its efforts to take into
account and implement the conference's recommendations on the ground.

For his part, the Representative of the Arab Labor Organization
(ALO) Mohamed Dowd pointed to the important and distinct role of the
Yemeni labor force in the integration of the Arab labor force,
praising the joint cooperation between the organization and the
three parts of production - the government, employers and laborers-
and the other relevant parts in Yemen.

Dowd indicated that the organization, through the previous
conferences on the employment and training, has affirmed the need to
work for developing the human resources development systems and
implementing projects to reduce poverty and the integral employment
program approved by the Kuwait Economic Summit in January,2009.

Furthermore, Dowd stressed the necessity of the technical and
vocational preparation for the workforce as it is the basis for
addressing the unemployment and to provide job opportunities for the
new batches of workers annually, pointing that the rate of
unemployment at the Arab level exceeded 14 percent.

He noted the need for effective real-Arab cooperation, which aims
to improve the economic performance and the investment climate and
focus on the development of human resource systems and the quality
of the labor force and unleash the innovative and productive
potentials, especially among women and youth.

In this respect, Dowd expressed the ALO's readiness to effectively
contribute to the human resources systems development, narrow the
gap between the outputs of education and vocational training and the
needs of the Arab labor markets, promote the employment issues and
address the unemployment problems in the Arab World.

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