JOINT SAUDI-YEMENI FOLLOW-UP COMMITTEE HELD ITS 5TH SESSION HERE TODAY. DR. HASHIM BIN ABDULLAH YAMANI, THE MINISTER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY AND HEAD OF THE SAUDI SIDE TO THE COMMITTEE REVIEWED DEEP RELATIONS BINDING THE TWO BROTHERLY COUNTRIES AND THE ACHIEVEMENTS BY THE CONCERNED BODIES IN IMPLEMENTATION OF RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE 17TH MEETING OF SAUDI-YEMENI COORDINATION COUNCIL HELD IN YEMEN. ON HIS PART, ABDULKARIM ISMAEL AL-ARHABI, DEPUTY PREMIER FOR ECONOMIC AFFAIRS, MINISTER OF PLANNING AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AND HEAD OF THE YEMENI SIDE TO THE COMMITTEE COMMMENDED THE KINGDOM FOR SUPPORTING HIS COUNTRY IN ALL FIELDS NOTABLY THE KINGDOM'S DONATION OF $ 1 BILLION TO YEMEN AT DONORS CONFERENCE IN LONDON IN 2006.
