Yemen joins in GEF General Assembly meeting

SANA'A, May 21 (Saba) - Minister of
Water and Environment Abdul-Rahman al-Eryani is to represent Yemen in the 4th
meeting of the
General Assembly of the Global Environment Facility (GEF).
Upon his departure, the Minister said that the meeting would hold in the Uruguayan
capital, Montevideo, on May 24 - 28.
The meeting will address the issues pertaining to the financings of the environment
projects to be implemented in the middle of 2010 and facilitate granting them to
the
least developed countries, al-Eryani said.
Global Environment Fund, which is affiliated with the GEF, has financed the project
of Socotra Archipelago biodiversity, he added.
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