Qa'dah 29, 1431 H/Nov 06, 2010, SPA -- Activities of programs and workshops on planning and evaluation of institutional performance of the deans of vocational and technical institutes; general managers of the Ministry of Technical and Vocational Education in Yemen and specialists started here today. The week long activities are organized by the General Organization for Technical and Vocational Training in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in cooperation with the Ministry of Technical Education and Vocational Training in Yemen. At the opening ceremony, Dr. Ibrahim Omar Hajry, Yemen's Minister of Technical and Vocational Education delivered a speech in which he stressed that the convening of these programs and workshops comes within the strong bilateral and historical relations between Yemen and Saudi Arabia in various fields.