Almotamar.net - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Yemen has achieved important progress this year for strengthening the public finance and the base of revenues which will help reduce inflation and bigger stability in the exchange market and more investment and spending suitable for the poor in the medium-term.
In a statement on Monday on the visit of the Director of the Administration of the Middle East and Central Asia to Yemen and his meeting with Yemeni officials and donors, the IMF added that Yemen embarked on implementing an economic programme for three years aims to achieve rising and sustainable growth and reduction of poverty rates under a world difficult environment and receding oil production.
The IMF indicated that Yemen is still facing great challenges due to retreat in quantities of oil production, increase in unemployment proportion, expansion of poverty and the people’s developmental needs.
IMF said the community of donors is important for changing Yemen into a non-oil economy and keeping the general support for the ambitious governmental reform programme.
While the IMF has pointed out in its statement that it looks forward to Riyadh’s ministerial meeting on Yemen, it called on the donors to the speedy launch of the required support for the budget.
On the other hand the final meeting was held in Sana’a Tuesday between the Yemeni government and the IMF, chaired by Yemen’s Deputy Premier for Economic Affairs, the Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Abdul Karim al-Arhabi and the official of Yemen programme at the IMF Hassan al-Atrash.
The meeting was devoted to discussing a group of issues related to the agenda of the IMF team in Yemen at the top of which the arrangements of appointing a resident representative and opening representative bureau for the IMF in Sana’a next September.
The official of the IMF programme in Yemen affirmed keenness of the Fund on continuing the offer of technical and financial support to Yemen to Help the Yemeni government in developing and raising the efficiency performance of the public financial administration, praising what has been achieved of accomplishments during the past period at the level of the public finance.
The United Arab Emirates acknowledged on Tuesday that two of its pilots were killed when their military aggression plane crashed over Jawf province, a military official said
The official added that the aggressive crashed plane was an apache that was
Artillery of the army and popular shelled a gathering of Saudi-paid mercenaries in al-Moqadra area in Serwah district of Marib province, a military official said on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, dozens of Saudi-paid mercenaries were killed and others injured in Wadi al-Theek in the district, the official added.
The army and popular forces carried out on Monday unique military operations in Taiz province.
A military official said that a number of Saudi-paid mercenaries were killed at the hands of the army and popular forces in al-Jazami Hill in al-Kadaha area in al-Ma'afer district.
A Saudi aggression fighter jet targeted a citizen's car driving in Fara area of Kutaf district in Saada province overnight, killing the driver and injuring his friend, a security official said on Monday.
The army artillery and popular committees launched a fierce attack on Saudi-paid mercenaries' sites in Jawf province, a military official said on Monday.
The attack destroyed a military vehicle belonging to the mercenaries and killed all on board in Sabran area in khab and shaaf district.
Scores of Saudi enemy soldiers were killed and injured on Sunday when the army and popular forces repelled a Saudi military attempt to sneak into Shurfah site in the border province of Najran, a military official said.
The operation was accomplished successfully against the Saudi
The army and popular committees have killed a total of 18 Saudi-paid mercenaries in sniper operations over the past hours in the central province of Marib, a military official said on Sunday.
Ten mercenaries were killed in Nehm district and eight others were killed in Serwah district, said the official.
Saudi aggression warplanes have launched more than 49 airstrikes over the past hours on several residential areas across Yemen, a security official said on Sunday.
The airstrikes targeted the areas of Malahiz and Husama in Dhahir district, and areas Thuban, Masahif and Sdad in Bakim district of northern Saada province.
IMF urges donors to support Yemen’s reforms
