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Yemen Grants Syria Fishing Priority In Regional Watersff

31 October 2006 Yemen

Minister of Agriculture and Agrarian reform Dr. Adel Safar on Monday discussed with Ambassador of Yemen in Damascus Salah Ali Ahmad al-A’nsy the draft of a proposed cooperation agreement between the two countries in the filed of fishery.

The Minister stressed the importance of this cooperation with Yemen due to expertise that the Yemeni side has in this filed and necessity of signing this agreement very soon in addition to abiding by its contents because it is the first agreement to be signed concerning fishery resources.

For his part, the Yemeni Ambassador expressed his country’s keenness to established economic relations with the Arab countries, emphasizing that the Syrians will have the priority in the Yemeni regional waters.