President Saleh receives Italian Coast Guard Commander

SANA'A, June 24 (Saba) - President Ali Abdullah Saleh received here
on Wednesday General Commander of the Italian Coast Guard, visiting
Yemen currently.

The meeting discussed the first stage of the marine radars network
project lunched on Wednesday, in addition to the arrangements for
the second stage of the project that includes providing a number of
boats and helicopters for the coastguard authority.

The meeting highlighted the desire of some Italian companies' to
invest in Yemen.

President Saleh hailed the high level of cooperation between the two
friendly countries and the Italian support to Yemen in areas of
coastguard and combating terrorism.

Regarding the Italian companies, Saleh renewed welcomes to them,
affirming that they would get all facilities.

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