Al-Alimi discusses with the US ambassador support for the Yemeni presidential reforms
English - Wednesday 24 August 2022 الساعة 07:52 pm
Aden, NewsYemen:
On Tuesday, the President of the Presidential Leadership Council, Dr. Rashad Muhammad Al-Alimi, discussed with the US ambassador to Yemen, Stephen Fagin, the latest developments in the Yemeni situation, support for the council's reforms and efforts to bring peace to the country.
The meeting touched on international and international efforts to implement the terms of the ongoing armistice, and the pressures required to push the Houthi militias to fulfill their obligations under the UN Declaration and the Stockholm Agreement, especially with regard to opening the roads of Taiz and other governorates, and paying the salaries of employees from the revenues of fuel ships arriving through the ports of Hodeidah, facilitated by legitimate government.
During the meeting, the US ambassador presented the existing and future areas of US support, including humanitarian and development aid, whose appropriations this year exceeded one billion dollars for the first time.
Ambassador Fagin referred to the promising support for the Yemeni Coast Guard and Border Guard forces, in the framework of joint efforts to combat terrorism, in addition to the support provided through the US Agency for Development, especially in the field of institutional capacity building of the Central Bank and the Ministry of Finance, as well as the sectors of health, education, water and sanitation. .
The US ambassador also informed the President of the Presidential Leadership Council that the US government agreed to resume cultural exchange programs with the Yemeni government, especially the International Visitor Program, after seven years of suspension.
His Excellency the President valued the US government for this support, expressing that it would open wider horizons for strengthening the reforms led by the Presidential Leadership Council, to include rehabilitating the agricultural sector in the country.
