EU AFFIRMS SUPPORTING YEMEN'S ACCESSION TO GATT

SANA'A, May 10 (Saba) - European Union (EU) affirmed on Monday supporting Yemen's accession to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).

The EU ambassador to Yemen Michele Cervone D'urso made the statement during his meeting with the Prime Minister Ali Mujawar.

D'urso asserted the commitment of EU to support development process in Yemen as well, highlighting the procedures and policies Yemen has exerted to encounter the economic challenges and to enhance decentralization.

Mujawar touched on the advanced Yemeni-EU relations in all fields, particularly in propping up the development projects in Yemen.

Valuing the EU support to the accession of Yemen to the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Premier pinned hopes of the government for more EU support in this regard, as the EU is the concerned body to support Yemen to realize the goal in the current year via Yemen's friends Group.

During the meeting, Mujawar and D'urso focused on the development programs support by EU through the Social Fund for Development (SFD) or the EU aid addressed the improving the fishery sector to ensure the security food and the national income.

The two officials also dealt with the agenda of the national economic, political and administrative reforms.

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