ESCOA and its activities in Yemen [Archives:2004/743/Community]

Mohammed bin Sallam
In her latest visit to Yemen, Ms. Mirfat Talaway, Executive Secretary of the Economic and Scoail Commission of East Asia (ESCOA), talked about the role ESCOA is playing in Yemen and 12 other countries in the region. ESCOA is exerting its support for complete regional integration, including the provision of international roads to connect Arab countries with each other, and the repair of passenger and goods railroads between the Arab orient and other countries. ESCOA is also assisting in unifying of Arab policies in several fields, including in statistics, information, standards and specifications, to facilitate cooperation among the Arab countries.
ESCOA also regularly dispatches experts to assist countries in the training of individuals or sectors to support development and reforms. Ms. Talaway stated that ESCOA, during her term in office, has obtained good results in its development programs despite the deficiency of the media presentation of the work of ESCOA.
Ms. Talaway unveiled that a Yemeni minister had asked her to support holding new seminars and sessions to increase awareness among the population about the environment and water. She in turn called on Yemen to build more water barriers and small-sized dams at the entrances of valleys, especially surrounding the Sana'a city, which is more desperate for water than other Yemeni cities.
She also referred to the five-year development plan, which aims at laying strategic water reservoir tank in the forms of small dams and water barriers to provide clean water, in addition to other projects in the fields of sanitation and poverty reduction. She concluded her statement by expressing her hope for the increase of cooperation among the 13 countries in the development fields, integration and in the improvement of the living conditions of their peoples.
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