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.