WB Vice President Visits Sanaa [Archives:2000/46/Local News]

Mr. Jean-Louis Sarbib, World Banks Vice President for Middle East and North Africa will start a 4-day visit to Yemen on Tuesday, November 14. Sources at the WB told the Yemen Times that during his visit to get on hand information about what is going on in Yemen, Mr. Sarbib would meet the President Ali Abdullah Saleh, Prime Minister, Speaker of Parliament, Minister of Planning and Development, parliamentarians, NGOs and press people. Mr. Sarbib is also likely to visit some projects like the Social Fund, Water Secretariat, Sanaa University Sewage project, Akhdam society and other donor countries representatives and see the areas they are working in. It is the first visit for Mr. Sarbib to Yemen but the second for WB vice president for the MENA region for Kamal Darwish paid a visit to the country two years back. Mr. Sarbib will hold a press conference on Wednesday, November 15 at the Taj Sheba Hotel.
Yemen has been conducting an economic reform package program since 1995 which has agitated the anger of opposition parties which always question such partnership between Yemen and WB.

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