Cabinet on Tuesday approved a project of establishing a comprehensive medical city in Aden governorate, at an estimated cost of $300 million.

In its weekly meeting chaired by Prime Minister Mohamed Salem Basindwa, the cabinet charged the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation with looking for the funding required to start the executive procedures as soon as possible.

According to the medical city projects' draft, it will be built on an area of 600,000 square meters reach in Alshab town, with a capacity of 1000 beds.

The cabinet also ratified approved two loan agreements. The first contributes to funding a project to develop a transmission and distribution electricity network in Aden governorate. The loan agreement signed between Yemen and the Kuwaiti Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) worth of $35 million.

The second approved loan agreement, also worth of $35 million, aims to contribute to financing the project of Abyan province reconstruction. It was initially signed between the government and the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development (AFESD).

Moreover, the cabinet agreed approved Yemen's accession to the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances (ICPPED).

The ICPPED is an international human rights instrument of the United Nations and intended to prevent forced disappearance defined in international law as a crime against humanity. The text was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 20 December 2006 and opened for signature on 6 February 2007. It entered into force on 23 December 2010. Some 91 states have signed the convention, and as of May 2013, 37 have ratified or acceded.

The government's approval of the accession to ICPPED is part of the actual implementation of its program, which is pertaining to enhancing the national protection of human rights and public freedoms, completing the legal and legislative system of human rights and freedoms, and providing guarantees ensuring the protection of every human being from the crime of enforced disappearance and not to be occurred again in the future.

It approved forming a ministerial committee chaired by the Human Rights Minister to oversee the preparation of a draft law on missing and forcibly disappeared persons.

The cabinet also ratified the Convention for the creation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) (Rome Statute).

Almost 108 countries have ratified the ICC's statute so far, including Yemen on 27 December 2002.

According to its statute, the ICC has jurisdiction on crimes of genocide and crimes against humanity, war crimes and aggression

The Court has jurisdiction in accordance with its statute with respect to crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression.

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