Agreement between Yemen and Japan signed

SANA'A, Aug.11 (Saba) - Minister of Water
and Environment Abdul-Rahman al-Eryani and Leader of Water Sources and Disasters
Prevention
Team in the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Shinichi Masuda, signed
here on Tuesday a draft of the basic designs report for 19 water projects financed
by
the Japanese government.

The water projects, which would cost about $16 million within the general Japanese
grant with contribution of the General Authority for Rural Water Projects, are to
be carried
out in the rural areas in governorates of Sana'a, Taiz, Dhamar, Mahweet, and Ibb.
The agreement represented one of the distinct successes for the authority in
getting back the trust of donors to keep on their support to water projects in the
rural areas,
al-Eryani affirmed.
He pointed out the importance of these projects, noting the support of Japan and
donors to the development projects in Yemen especially in field of providing
drinking water
for the rural areas.
For his part, the JICA's official expressed his happiness for signing this
agreement between his country's government and the authority.
The authority's President Ali al-Sorimi confirmed that this agreement comes within
the cooperation and partnership between Yemen and Japan and expansion for the
pervious
agreements aiming at presenting the technical support to the authority through
executing those projects.
Japanese government had sent a team led by Masuda to explain the contents of the
basic designs report draft prepared by JICA's team in the period from March to May
2009
which is considered a completion for the previous technical, social and economic
studies.