AFZ TO PARTAKE IN TRAINING COURSE ON ECONOMIC ZONES

ADEN, May 22 (Saba) - Aden Free Zone (AFZ)'s Chairman, Abdul Jalil
al-Shaibi, is to participate in a training course on the economic
zones in Egypt's capital, Cairo, during May 24-28.

The course aims at exchanging experiences and information on the
private and model economic zones in Egypt and the GCC, European and
Asian countries, al-Shaibi told Saba.

Yemen is currently studying the specifications and laws of the
economic zones to be able to apply this system to attract more local
and foreign investments, mobilize, and activate the economic sector
in its various kinds, he pointed out.

Al-Shaibi added that the Ministry of Planning and International
Cooperation has organized a number of workshops and hired
international experts to discuss the importance of economic zones
and how to avail and create them in Yemen, in addition to
cooperation with international experts from the World Bank in the
preparation of a draft law on the private economic zones.

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