Al-Arhabi affirms allocating rest pledges of London donors

SANA'A, July 17 (Saba)- Deputy Premier for Economic
Affairs and Minister of Planning and International Cooperation
affirmed importance of allocating rest pledges of London donors
conference to carry out projects of investment program within third
five year plan.

In closing session of the two-day meeting for the
Yemeni-Gulf technical committee, al-Arhabi pointed out that there
is notable progress in allocation for these pledges, highlighting
results of the meeting.He urged to write a short report about these
results to present it to the coming meeting of the Gulf Foreign
Ministers that will be held next September.

Al-Arhabi reviewed measures taken by the Yemeni government to deal with the food prices skyrocket, indicating to the cooperation between the government and world food program to conduct a survey to study impacts of this increase on line of poverty in the country. There is another survey done by UNICEF over poverty among children.

The meeting praised notable progress in allocation of pledges.Around 75percent of these pledges were allocated.Head of the economic studies department in the GCC secretarial general Abdul-Aziz al-Awaishaq said that the $900 million agreements were signed to carry out key projects.

Al-Awaishaq pointed out to the concern of the Gulf
countries to overcome all obstacles in order to pace qualification
of Yemen to integrate into the GCC bloc.