Al-Arhabi holds press conference in Riyadh

SANA'A, Feb.27 (Saba) - Minister of
Planning and International Cooperation Abdul Karim al-Arhabi confirmed on Saturday
that there
are common visions between the Yemeni government and donors towards Yemen's
challenges, including the security challenges.

In a brief press conference on the sideline of the meeting of the working group
between the government and donors in Riyadh, al-Arhabi said that the vision of
Yemeni government
and donors on the challenges that face Yemen based on a common perspective for
analyzing these challenges as a part of the economic and developmental problem in
Yemen.
He considered that the education and employment of young people is the best way to
address the extremism problem and to thwart the efforts of extremist efforts to
attract
and slide them into the pits of extremism and terrorism.
On another hand, al-Ahrabi stressed the importance of accelerating the integration
of Yemen into the GCC, saying that achieving this integration represents the best
way
to achieve a quick impact in the living conditions of citizens in Yemen.
"Yemen is an exporter of employment and skilled labor and the Gulf market is the
closest traditional markets for Yemen", al-Arhabi said adding that there are 1.5
million
Asian workers working in the Gulf markets and 80 percent of foreign workers in the
Gulf market do not have the qualifications, so Yemen is the best option with respect
to
the Gulf labor market.
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