YEMEN ENVOY TO UN MEETS ROMANIAN OFFICIAL

NEW YORK, May 14 (Saba)- Yemen and Romania discussed on Friday a
number of issues of sustainable development and climate change.

The discussions were made during a meeting held in New York between
the permanent representative of Yemen to the United Nations Abdullah
al-Saidi and Romanian Minister of Environment and Sustainable
Development Laszlo Borbely.

During the meeting, al-Saidi said that Yemen seeks to build bridges
of cooperation and coordination with international partners in all
economic fields during its presidency of the G77 and China in 2010.

"There is a close relationship among all areas of development in
general and any success achieved in one of them will help the rest
of the other areas", the Yemeni envoy said.

For his part, the Romanian Minister pointed out that Yemen will play
an important role in issues of sustainable development and climate
change.

Borbely also noted that his country is to chair in 2011 the 19th
session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development
(CSD) to be held at the UN headquarters in New York.

He expressed his country's willingness to activate the fields of
cooperation and coordination with Yemen in the framework of the G77
and China.

The G77 and China was established in June 1964 by 77 developing
countries signatories of the "Joint Declaration of the Seventy-Seven
Countries" issued at the end of the first session of the United
Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva.

Beginning with the first "Ministerial Meeting of the G77 and China
in Algeria on 10 - 25 October 1967, which adopted the Charter of
Algiers", a permanent institutional structure gradually developed
which led to the creation of Chapters of the Group with Liaison
offices in Geneva (UNCTAD), Nairobi (UNEP), Paris (UNESCO), Rome
(FAO/IFAD), Vienna (UNIDO) and the Group of 24 (G-24) in Washington,
D.C. (IMF and World Bank).

Although the members of the G77 have increased to 130 countries, the
original name was retained because of its historic significance.

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