Society news [Archives:2005/846/Local News]

A member company of the Indian Reliance Group signed on Saturday an agreement of Public Telecommunications Corporation (PTC) and the Flag Telecom to link Yemen with a new telephony system at a cost of 36 million dollars.

A delegation from the Arab Lawyers Union (ALU) headed by the union's Secretary-General Ibrahim al-Seblai and the Governor of Hadhramout Abdul-Qader Ali Helal met in Mukalla on Saturday for the first round of the ALU's permanent bureau meeting in Mukalla city on Sunday.

The meeting of assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization (UNESCO) Abdul-Wahed Badr-Khan appreciated the development of Yemeni media and focused on the development of media in Yemen in the framework of the democratic practices and freedom of the expression.

Twenty-two sanitation management officials from Sana'a, Hajja, Hadramout, Dhamar, Ibb, Abyan, Mahra, Dhale'a, Abyan and Hodeida are participating in a training workshop on solid waste management which began in Sayoon. The GTZ and the public works ministry are involved in the workshop.

A Saudi interior ministry delegation is supposed to visit Yemen for a security discussing on Sunday.
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