almotamar.net - Meetings of a special three-day scientific symposium started on Tuesday at the University of Aden on environment and incentives for investment in Yemen. The event is organized by Aden University and attended by a number of economic establishments, researchers, private sector institutions, businessmen and a number of parties having relation to the economic question as well as representatives of government institutions.

The symposium discusses three major premises on the reality of investment in the light of the general policy and promising investment fields, the environmental advantages of the Yemeni economy and necessary requisites for the existence of investment environment as well as implementation of the economic development strategy of the city of Aden.

In his address to the symposium the governor of Aden Ahmed Mohammed al-Kublai emphasized the importance of holding the symposium of which he predicted to yield positive result in the diagnosis of investment reality and its hindrances with transparency reflecting the freedom of expression based on collective participation in the decision-making and that would constitute a scientific guarantee for activation of procedures towards investment environment. The governor laded the political leadership headed by President Ali Abdullah Saleh in creating safe climates and necessary guarantees and facilities for the investment environment, calling on media men to play their role in reporting facts related to the state intentions regarding expansion of the area of investment in all development areas.

On his part the president of Aden University Dr Abdulwahab Raweh said the scientific symposium represents a real indication of the president of the republic interest in investment dossier sand that the symposium will be a beginning of activating investment and serving evolvement of the development process, reviewing the historical status of the city of Aden internationally. Dr Raweh also called on businessmen to contribute to discuss the necessary requirements for activation of investment and to disclose hindrances blocking the process of investment.