UNESCO REPRESENTATIVE PRAISES YEMEN DEVELOPMENT

SANA'A, May 14 (Saba)- Regional representative of the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Hamad bin
Saif al-Hamami to the Gulf states and Yemen has made his first ever
official visit to the country where he discussed with a number of
concerned Yemeni officials the bilateral relations and means to
reinforce them in a way to thoroughly benefit from the UNESCO's
programs and plans.

In an interview by Saba, al-Hamami expressed his admiration of the
tangible Yemeni development in fields of education, science and
culture which reveals the well-planned and steady steps towards
acquiring a remarkable position in these vital fields.

He affirmed that the transfer of Yemen membership from the UNSECO
Cairo Office to that of the UNSECO Doha Office, which includes the
six Gulf states, would give a great push to the Gulf states to offer
a hand to Yemen, besides the UNESCO, noting the joint projects in
the area of education as Yemen is a member of the Arab Bureau of
Education for the Gulf States.

Al-Hamami pointed out that his talks with Yemeni officials at the
ministries of education, culture and higher education addressed
requirements and priorities as well as proposed plans and
difficulties to help improve performance of the concerned ministries
on the ground to better and upgrade inputs and outputs of their
activities in order to cover a wide range of the targeted groups.

AMAM