Yemen Monitor/Newsroom:
The Saudi newspaper Al-Riyadh reported that the Joint Committee to Determine the Development Needs of Yemen held its twenty-second meeting at the General Secretariat in Riyadh on Tuesday, February 4, 2025. The meeting included the participation of member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), the Republic of Yemen, the Islamic Development Bank, the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the General Secretariat.
The meeting was chaired by Ambassador Hamad Al-Mish’an, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs for Development and International Cooperation in Kuwait (the country holding the GCC presidency), representing the GCC, and by His Excellency Dr. Wa’ed Badhib, Minister of Planning and International Cooperation, representing Yemen.
Dr. Abdulaziz Hamad Al-Owaisheq, Assistant Secretary-General for Political and Negotiation Affairs at the GCC General Secretariat, explained that the meeting discussed food security needs in Yemen.
He added: “The meeting also reviewed a number of urgent projects in other priority sectors, after they were studied by the UNDP,” stressing the GCC’s keenness to strengthen partnership with Yemen and international organizations to implement these projects and meet the development needs of the brotherly Yemeni people.
