Prime Minister receives top EU official
The Source: SANA'A/hadhramaut.info/sabanews.net - 28/01/2012
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Prime Minister Mohammed Salem Basindwa has received Hugues Mingarelli, Managing Director for the Middle East and Southern Neighborhood at the European External Action Service.
The top EU official’s visit to Yemen aims at reaffirming the unequivocal political support of the EU to the transition process in Yemen and to the Yemeni people.
In the meeting, Basindwa praised the active role of the EU in supporting the development and transition processes in Yemen.
They discussed the level of cooperation between Yemen and the EU and ways of promoting and developing the existing partnership between the two sides in all areas.
The EU official said that the EU had agreed to prepare a special study, in collaboration with UNDP and the World Bank, to assess the needs of Yemen during the next phase.
Mingarelli has sign two financial agreements, for a total amount of 18 million euro, one aims at promoting human rights and child protection, the other focuses on sustainable employment generation.These agreements are a concrete demonstration of the EU’s commitment to enhance its support to Yemen’s ongoing transition and to the Yemeni people, signaling that the EU will remain a very close development and political partner.
The EU support to Yemen represents a total of almost 300 Million euro over the period 2007-2013. This amount complements EU Member States' direct contributions.
The EU remains a leading supporter of democratic renewal in Yemen.
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