[24/09/2024 05:38]

NEW YORK – SABA
Chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council Dr. Rashad al-Alimi held discussions with the World Bank's Managing Director of Operations Anna Bjerde here today on areas of bilateral cooperation.

Talks went over means of promoting partnership between the government and the World Bank in economic and development and institutional capacity building fields and on reinforcing progress achieved on the track of comprehensive reforms.

Al-Alimi praised the World Bank's development interventions, mainly the bank's financing of several vital projects in health, education, agriculture, fisheries, food security, and social protection fields.

He thanked the World Bank's interventions in building and strengthening institutional capacities, supporting the Central Bank, encouraging economic growth, and supporting the private sector's resilience.

He noted the WB's opening of a representing office in the temporary capital Aden, emphasizing the government's keenness to offer all facilities to international organizations to perform their mission across the country.

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