Yemen, UK review activating Yemen Friends working groups
The Source: SANA'A\Hadhramaut\Saba - Tuesday -03/JUNE/2014
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Deputy Foreign Minister Amir al-Aidaros discussed here on Tuesday with UK ambassador to Yemen Jane Marriott issues related to activating the 3 working groups stemmed from the 7th meeting of Friends of Yemen group. The Friends of Yemen agreed in the 7th meeting held in London on 29 April to establish a Steering Committee and Working Groups in political, economic and security areas.
The new structure aims to enhance the group's work and fully support Yemen in three main areas: the political transition, economic reform and development, and security and justice sector reform.
At the meeting, al-Aidaros and Marriott also discussed the ways to enhance the cooperation relations between Yemen and the UK in all areas.
The Deputy Foreign Minister praised the efforts carried out by the group's co-chairmanship [Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, UK and Yemen] to push the group's work forward, stressing that Yemen relies on the success of group's new structure in mobilizing the international support Yemen needs in various fields.
Marriott commended the Foreign Ministry's efforts to follow up the results of the group's meetings and to develop its work mechanism, underscoring the UK's keenness to activate the group's work to help Yemen to tackle the transition phase's challenges.
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