Almotamar.net, Saba - Yemen and Iran signed five executive cooperation programs on Sunday in fields of culture, tourism, higher education, vocational training and endowments.
The signing came after concluding of 8th meeting for Yemeni-Iranian ministerial committee co-chaired by Minister of Trade and Industry Yahya al-Mutawakel and Iranian Minister of Energy Parviz Fattah.
In the closing session of the meeting, the two sides affirmed importance of enhancing mutual cooperation between the two countries to serve common interests of both peoples.
They agreed to form a committee to follow up trade agreement signed between the two countries in 2003.
The Yemeni side expressed desire to benefit from the Iranian experiment in filed of small and medium enterprises
The two sides also agreed on activating agreement of encouraging investments in the two countries which was signed between the two nations in 1998.
In the session, several Iranian companies voiced desire to set up different investment projects in domains of electricity, banking sector and fisheries wealth.
Al-Mutawakel highlighted outcomes of the meeting to improve ties between the two countries in different fields.
He pointed out to the concern of the leaderships of both countries to boost the relationship and cooperation to serve common interests of both peoples.
For his part, the Iranian minister welcomed the signed programs wishing to be done on the ground to develop ties between the two countries.
The next meeting of the committee is scheduled to be held in Tehran capital of Iran by 2010.
Saba
Yemen, Iran sign five executive cooperation programs 
In 2007 the opposition Yemen Congregation for Reform (Islah) Islamic oriented Party maintained its having political and media sway over the Joint meeting Parties (JMP) block, also consisting of Yemen Socialist Party and the Nasserite Unionist Organisation. 
Yemen is practically a cool green paradise, with crisp mountain air, enormous acacia trees, pristine coral reefs and verdant fields bursting with khat, a psychoactive plant that induces mild euphoria. 
Sana'a: Yemen will not be able to combat terror without regional and international cooperation, said a Yemeni official, who warned of the ramifications of letting Yemen fight terrorism alone.
Many journalists covered the funeral of the murdered Minister, Pierre Gemayel, the latest victim in a string of political assassinations in Lebanon.
Doctors use the word “crisis” to describe the point at which a patient either starts to recover or dies. President George W. Bush’s Iraqi patient now seems to have reached that point. Most commentators appear to think that Bush’s latest prescription – a surge of 20,000 additional troops to suppress the militias in Baghdad – will, at best, merely postpone the inevitable death of his dream of a democratic Iraq. Yet as “Battle of Baghdad” begins, factors beyond Bush’s control and not of his making (at least not intentionally) may just save Iraq from its doom.