Al-Arhabi to hand over letter from President Saleh to UAE counterpart

SANA'A, March 13 (Saba) - Minister of Planning and International

Cooperation Abdul Karim al-Arhabi is to hand over next Tuesday a

letter from President Ali Abdullah Saleh to the President Khalifa

bin Zayed Al Nahyan of United Arab Emirates.



Well-informed sources were quoted on Thursday by the weekly 26

September as saying that al-Arhabi will pay a visit on Tuesday to

Abu Dhabi, the capital of UAE, for this purpose.



The letter deals with the underway arrangements for the coming Arab

summit of Doha to be held late in the current March and the latest

regional and international developments of common interests as well

as the bilateral relations between Yemen and UAE.



During the visit, al-Arhabi will hold talks with a number of UAE

officials on developments and economic cooperation between both

countries.



Worth mentioning, UAE has pledged in the London Donor Conference to

grant Yemen about $ 500 million to support development projects in

the country as well as UAE has donated Yemen about 500.000 tons of

wheat to alleviate the Global Financial Crisis consequences.



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