almotamar.net - Yemen Minister of Expatriates Affairs Dr Saleh Samee revealed Monday that his ministry is in the process of signing contracts with lawyers bureaus in Riyadh, Jeddah, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Britain and America for defending issues of Yemeni expatriates in the countries where they live.

While he and the Minister of civil service Hamoud Khalkid al-Soufi and Yemen's ambassador to Saudi Arabia inaugurating in Riyadh yesterday a system of securities fir Yemeni expatriates in Saudi Arabia, he said the yenned was heading for a new stage as the political leadership and he government look at the Yemeni expatriates through a new strategy based on the fact that they are an inexhaustible national wealth.

Mr. Samee addressed the sons of the Yemeni community in Riyadh by saying " We have come here to be acquainted with your issues and concerns and to inaugurate the system of social securities of the expatriates to affirm to you that we are in Yemen approaching a new stage where we challenge poverty and unemployment and truly work for alleviating them.

The minister added that the ministry has embarked on restructuring and revising its legislations and formed special committees for the restructuring the ministry and there is a focus on taking care of planning migration and defending the issues of expatriates as they are the core of the ministry's tasks.

The minister also urged the Yemeni community in Riyadh to help succeed the system of social securities as it is a human and social service that benefit expatriates and their families and also urged them to invest in their homeland.