http://www.english.hadhramaut.info Deputy PM affirms importance of studying GCC market's needs [The Source: sana'a/hadhramaut.info/sabanews.net - 22/02/2010]  Deputy Prime Minister for Internal Affairs Sadiq Amin Abu Ras affirmed on Monday the importance of studying the needs of the GCC markets in order to set up training programs for the Yemeni workers During his opening the events of the regional conference on Yemeni labor and the GCC labor market requirements organized by Saba Center for Strategic Studies, Abu Ras pointed to the deep-rooted brotherly relations between Yemen and the GCC countries.Yemen is full of the capable cadres to meet the work requirements, said Abu Ras affirming that Yemen will do its efforts to take into account and implement the conference's recommendations on the ground.For his part, the Representative of the Arab Labor Organization (ALO) Mohamed Dowd pointed to the important and distinct role of the Yemeni labor force in the integration of the Arab labor force, praising the joint cooperation between the organization and the three parts of production – the government, employers and laborers- and the other relevant parts in Yemen.Dowd indicated that the organization, through the previous conferences on the employment and training, has affirmed the need to work for developing the human resources development systems and implementing projects to reduce poverty and the integral employment program approved by the Kuwait Economic Summit in January,2009.Furthermore, Dowd stressed the necessity of the technical and vocational preparation for the workforce as it is the basis for addressing the unemployment and to provide job opportunities for the new batches of workers annually, pointing that the rate of unemployment at the Arab level exceeded 14 percent.He noted the need for effective real-Arab cooperation, which aims to improve the economic performance and the investment climate and focus on the development of human resource systems and the quality of the labor force and unleash the innovative and productive potentials, especially among women and youth.In this respect, Dowd expressed the ALO's readiness to effectively contribute to the human resources systems development, narrow the gap between the outputs of education and vocational training and the needs of the Arab labor markets, promote the employment issues and address the unemployment problems in the Arab World.