PM discusses cooperation ties with WB

SANA'A, Feb. 21 (Saba) - Prime Minster Ali Mujawar discussed here on
Saturday with World Bank (WB) Vice-President for Middle East and
South Africa Daniela Gressani cooperation ties in the administrative
reforms, reorganizing, human development and basic service sectors.

The meeting dealt with the global financial crisis and its impacts
on Yemen out of which is its effect on the general budget due to the
decline of crude oil prices and the level of foreign investments
flow.

The Premier demonstrated the main steps applied by the government
for confronting the falling in the oil prices such as reducing
expanses and working on developing the promising sectors as well as
enhancing the partnership with the private sector, highlighting the
government's efforts in the human development and improving the
basic educational and healthy services.

The WB official Gressani expressed her satisfaction of ideas
presented by the Premier regarding the priorities that should be
focused on in the joint work between Yemen the WB during the
forthcoming period, particularly supporting the government's
programs and policies for making the qualitative development in
basic and secondary education and improving the technical education
graduates' skills and expanding the health care programs.

Gressani pointed out that she will argue the WB's officials to raise
the International Finance Corporation (IFC)'s contribution to
support the private sector's investment participation in Yemen.

She stressed on the significance of the achieved steps in the
fingerprint and photo system and restructuring some governmental
bodies, indicating that Yemen's success in this respect would
represent a model at the international level.