http://www.english.hadhramaut.info GAI to organize symposium in Lehi over investments in Yemen [The Source: /www.sabanews.net - 21/3/2009] General Authority for Investment GAI is organizing in

Lehi city of Netherlands a symposium over investments in Yemen entitled " Trade and Investment" in cooperation with the Yemeni embassy in Netherlands for period 24th to 25th March. The GAI chairman Saleh al-Atar told Saba that the symposium aims at enlightening Dutch businessmen about opportunities of investment in Yemen as well as holding bilateral talks between Yemeni and Dutch investors to discuss possibilities of setting up joint projects in Yemen in different fields. Al-Atar said that the representatives of ministries of agriculture and tourism, authority of the minerals wealth and Yemeni corporation for oil and gas will participate in the symposium in addition to Yemeni businessmen. He made it clear that the event comes within memorandum of understanding singed between Yemen and Netherlands in 2004 to encourage Dutch investors to do joint ventures with their Yemeni counterparts.