almotamar.net - The French Cultural Centre in Sana'a is to organise in the mid of this month a cultural symposium on Yemen in its regional periphery. The symposium will be under patronage of the French ministry for Foreign and European Affairs and the Yemeni Foreign Ministry.

The symposium is expected to discuss the impact of Yemen unity on the country's regional policy and the importance of Yemen regarding the geo-strategic and the geopolitical field among the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa in addition to the religious factors in the political scene in Yemen and the region as well as the information environment in Yemen and the Arabian Peninsula and the topic of economic energy and the good governance.

Taking part in the symposium are Yemeni political and cultural personalities and others from France, among them are Dr Abdulkarim al-Eryany, advisor to the Yemeni president, Dr Khalid Tumaim, president of Sana'a University, Dr Hussein al-Amri, Judge Hamoud al-Hattar, the minister of Endowments, Dr Salah al-Attar, chairman of Investment Authority, Dr Ahmed al-Daghshi, Dr Mohammed al-Hadaa, Aesha Saeed, an official in charge of Somali and Ethiopian refugees at a non-governmental organisation, the editor in chief of News Yemen website Nabil al-Soufi, and Dr Raoufa Hassan. On the French side there will be the French ambassador to Yemen and other senior French figures.

Meanwhile the French Cultural Centre would organise an exhibition at the National Museum in Santa's under the title of One-Hundred Years of Photography in countries of the Arabian Peninsula.