Almotamar.net, Saba - In its weekly meeting on Tuesday , chaired by Prime Minister Dr Ali Mohammed Mujawar has continued its discussion of the level of implementation of the projects of investment programme funded by foreign loans and assistance for the year 2008 and the first half of 2009.
The cabinet also approved the draft law of seaports submitted by Minister of Transport and directed to follow up completing the constitutional procedures to issue the law.
The law aims at making a legal framework that enable the competent port authorities to carry out its responsibility in ports planning, construction, maintenance, operating, management and development and encouraging participation of private sector in providing the basic infrastructure for the ports as well as the ports services and facilities.
Moreover, the law ensures a fair competition and creates the suitable environment for competition to improve Yemen ports and their services and facilities to cope with the best level of services offered in the international ports.
The law draft includes aspects related to the seaports establishment and development, drawing their polices , national strategies and mechanisms for providing various services to vessels as well as ensuring the safety, ports protection and other legal proceedings that enhance this process.
The cabinet agreed on Tuesday on the accession of Yemen to the agreement of International Mobile Satellite Organization (IMSO) in its 2008 amended form.
The cabinet directed Transport and Parliament and Shura Council Affairs Ministers to follow up the completion of the necessary constitutional procedures required for issuing the accession law.
A note, submitted by Transport Minister, affirmed that the accession of Yemen to IMSO agreement would benefit Yemen from IMSO services in fields of Maritime telecommunications and safety.
The advantages of the agreement would help Yemen to develop its technical capacities in such areas to the appropriate levels identified by the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) 1974 and to promote Yemen's obligation for being a side of the International Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue (SAR) 1979.
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 discusses development of Yemen airports and seaports 
