Yemen to take part in ESCWA meetings in Beirut

SANA'A, May 13 (Saba) - Yemen is to
participate in the session 26th of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission
for
Western Asia (ESCWA) to be convened in Lebanon on Wednesday, the weekly 26 reported
on Thursday.
Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Abdul-Karim al-Arhabi will head
the Yemeni delegation to the meeting, Undersecretary of the Planning Ministry, head
of
the Yemeni delegation in the preparatory committee Mohammed al-Hawiri said.
Al-Hawiri said that the two-day meetings would address the ESCWA programs,
consultations and building capacities in the coming two years in areas of water,
energy, transport
and women.
The meeting of the senior officials that would precede the ministerial meeting will
focus on issues pertaining to youth, creating job opportunities and the
institutional
construction in addition to ESCWA's activities since the session 25th and action
plan of 2010 - 2011.
The meeting will be held under the auspices of the Lebanese speaker of the
Parliament Nabih Berri. Several international and Arab figures will take part in
the meeting including
the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Secretary
General Abdul Rahman al-Attiyah and the UN Under-Secretary-General and ESCWA
Executive Secretary
Bader AlDafa.
ESCWA's member states are Yemen, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon,
Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria and United Arab Emirates.
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