Monday, March 22, 2010

Riyadh meeting assessed development issues in Yemen: FM says



Riyadh meeting assessed the technical aspects of development issues in Yemen, Foreign Minister Abu Bakr al-Qirbi said on Monday.

During an interview with the Saudi al-Madina newspaper, al-Qirbi said that Riyadh meeting was a preparatory step for the Yemen friends meeting.

Yemen has got great support for development in London Donor conference in 2006, but unfortunately the financial pledges have not implemented on the ground except approximately 10 percent, al-Qirbi said.

Consequently, Riyadh meeting was an attempt to evaluate reasons caused the slowness in the implementation to how to tackle that to speed up the previous commitments and to avail from in the fourth five-year plan (2011-2015), he said.

All the ideas and the fourth five-year plan that would cost much will be submitted to Yemen friends meeting to evaluate the situation.

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