Bahrain, Yemen sign cooperation agreements today

The Bahraini- Yemeni joint committee will hold a meeting for its two ministerial committees today in Manama.

The Bahraini side is headed by the minister of the economy and finance and the Yemeni side is led by its Yemeni counterpart Ahmad Bin Soufan. Hisham Sharaf Abdullah Wakeel, the secretary of the ministry of planning and development in Yemen for the international cooperation sector, said that during this session of the meetings of the committee the two sides will sign the two draft agreements on preventing double taxation, fighting smuggling and encouraging and protecting investment already agreed to on July 2002.

He added that the two sides will also sign three executive programs for cooperation in the area of education, youths, sports and the media. The joint ministerial committee will hold discussions to complete legal aspects pertinent to cooperation between the two states in the cultural, tourism, specifications and standarization, quality control, public works and urbanization.

He indicated that the two states will discuss means of encouraging the private sector to carry out joint investment projects and to sign future memorandum of understanding in the areas of oil industry, gas, chambers of commerce and industry, the exchange of expertise, a cooperation project between the two states' news agencies and also the plan to maintain cooperation and coordination between the two states' foreign ministries.

The Yemeni official indicated that bilateral cooperation in the economic, cultural and social areas between Yemen and Bahrain and with all other Gulf states will work for strengthening the ties and partnership cooperation by Yemen's joining the Gulf cooperation council.

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