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Mon. 31 Oct. Aden. Private.
Prime Minister Dr. Moeen Abdulmalik received today UAE Minister of State for International Cooperation Reem al-Hashemi and her accompanying delegation.
The meeting, which was attended by a number of Yemeni and Emirati officials, discussed the challenges facing the government, tackling the economic and humanitarian situation in the liberated governorates and the rest of the country’s governorates.
The war, launched by the Iranian-backed coup-backed Houthi militia, has destroyed the country’s infrastructure and has taken away 70 percent of the population living in areas under its control, including 04 million people living in the capital Sana’a, the prime minister said.
He pointed out that the Yemeni people have reached the stage of despair, and looks forward to the government change to improve the situation, including the cessation of the collapse of the local currency, which was reflected in the high rise in commodity prices, as the coup militias continue to deprive one million and 200 thousand employees of their salaries despite Looting for revenue.
The Prime Minister pointed out that the government will focus all its efforts in addressing the economic and service conditions mainly, and then normalize the situation and reconstruction of what was destroyed by the war.
“The Yemeni citizen is waiting for us to provide them with the most basic services, especially on the service and humanitarian sides, and whenever the government is strong in this regard, the interests of the Yemenis and their allies in the Arab alliance.”
Dr. Moeen, said that the government has begun to look into the economic problems, the collapse of the local currency against foreign exchange, means and ways of developing foreign exchange sources, to restore confidence in the local market and Yemeni investors who lost their money due to the currency’s decline.
The Prime Minister and the UAE delegation reviewed the mechanisms of activating the work of the sovereign and investment institutions in Yemen and the re-production, export and refining of oil, with the cooperation of brothers in the Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia.
The Prime Minister commended the efforts exerted by the UAE in Yemen since the start of the war and its active participation in countering the Houthi coup, in addition to providing relief assistance through the UAE Red Crescent Authority.
Yemen and its people are looking forward to an active role for Emirati brothers in reconstruction, he said.
For her part, the UAE official affirmed her country’s full support to the Yemeni government in order to achieve its tasks.
Hashemi, said that the UAE will continue to support Yemenis in their plight and that it will provide all possibilities for the government to achieve local development and reconstruction.