Major General Faraj Salmeen Al-Bahsani, member of the Presidential Leadership Council, met with the Russian Chargé d'Affaires to Yemen, Yevgeny Kudrov, to discuss strengthening bilateral relations and addressing rapid developments on the local and regional levels.
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The government has approved a rise in the payment of civil servants effective from September 2018, as per the directives of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
Earlier in the month Hadi had ordered a 30% increase in salaries to alleviate the impact of the sharp fall in the Riyal valuein light of along running armedHouthi insurgency.
Discussing Hadi's directives in a meeting in Aden on Sunday, the deputy premier and interior minister Ahmed al-Maysari and the ministers of Civil Service and Finance approved the new increasestarting from September's salary which will be paid next week.
Al-Maysari said the government is exerting enormous efforts to address the causes of the Riyal depreciation and salvage the economy by implementing a set of measures.