Almotamar.net, Saba - The Yemeni cabinet has on Tuesday praised the signing on Saturday of a joint minute for the implementation of February 2009 agreement by the General People’s Congress (GPC) and the Joint Meeting Parties (JMP) represented in the parliament. The agreement is related to formation of a committee to prepare for the comprehensive national dialogue and its mechanisms to be under the care of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
In its meeting on Tuesday chaired by Prime Minister Dr Ali Mohammed Mujawar, the cabinet considered the positive results of the dialogue underway between the GPC and the JMP.
Meanwhile, the cabinet ratified in its meting the agreement of funding grant of the fourth phase of Social Fund for Development (SFD)'s project, signed with the International Development Association (IDA) on June 28, 2010.
Under this agreement, the IDA will grant the Fund an equivalent amount to 38.7 million units of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs).
The Cabinet instructed Minister of Legal Affairs to take the required procedures to issue the legal certificate that confirms that the agreement has fulfilled all necessary procedures for approval and it has become legally effective and binding to the Yemeni government under its provisions.
The fourth phase of the SFD project aims at improving ways of access to the basic services and promoting the economic opportunities for the society and introducing poverty through a number of programs including the social and local development program, which provides small grants for the implementation of sub-projects in infrastructure and other services.
The second program focuses on developing the small and smallest enterprises through providing small grants to build their institutional capacity to enable them to provide developmental services in the financial field and businesses.
The third program is based on capacity-building through providing small grants, commodities, training, and consultative services for implementing the sup-projects to promote capacities of chosen governmental agencies, local authorities and organizations relaying on the local community as well as private sector groups and individuals within the SFD's activities.
The fourth program is concerned with creating job opportunities through labor-intensive projects in the sectors of irrigation and water harvesting and agricultural lands rehabilitation.
The United Arab Emirates acknowledged on Tuesday that two of its pilots were killed when their military aggression plane crashed over Jawf province, a military official said
The official added that the aggressive crashed plane was an apache that was
Artillery of the army and popular shelled a gathering of Saudi-paid mercenaries in al-Moqadra area in Serwah district of Marib province, a military official said on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, dozens of Saudi-paid mercenaries were killed and others injured in Wadi al-Theek in the district, the official added.
The army and popular forces carried out on Monday unique military operations in Taiz province.
A military official said that a number of Saudi-paid mercenaries were killed at the hands of the army and popular forces in al-Jazami Hill in al-Kadaha area in al-Ma'afer district.
A Saudi aggression fighter jet targeted a citizen's car driving in Fara area of Kutaf district in Saada province overnight, killing the driver and injuring his friend, a security official said on Monday.
The army artillery and popular committees launched a fierce attack on Saudi-paid mercenaries' sites in Jawf province, a military official said on Monday.
The attack destroyed a military vehicle belonging to the mercenaries and killed all on board in Sabran area in khab and shaaf district.
Scores of Saudi enemy soldiers were killed and injured on Sunday when the army and popular forces repelled a Saudi military attempt to sneak into Shurfah site in the border province of Najran, a military official said.
The operation was accomplished successfully against the Saudi
The army and popular committees have killed a total of 18 Saudi-paid mercenaries in sniper operations over the past hours in the central province of Marib, a military official said on Sunday.
Ten mercenaries were killed in Nehm district and eight others were killed in Serwah district, said the official.
Saudi aggression warplanes have launched more than 49 airstrikes over the past hours on several residential areas across Yemen, a security official said on Sunday.
The airstrikes targeted the areas of Malahiz and Husama in Dhahir district, and areas Thuban, Masahif and Sdad in Bakim district of northern Saada province.
Cabinet praises signing of agreement between GPC and JMP
