Source: Prime Minister’s Office
A meeting chaired by Presidential Leadership Council member Major General Sultan Al-Arada, alongside Prime Minister Dr. Ahmed Awad Bin Mubarak, approved several measures in the financial and monetary aspects to enhance coordination between fiscal and monetary policy and develop public revenues at both central and local levels.
The meeting tasked a joint committee from the Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank of Yemen to set executive measures and submit proposals and recommendations for technical and financial treatments, for discussion and adoption of necessary decisions.
Major General Al-Arada emphasized the importance of correcting the accumulations that prevailed in the previous period due to exceptional circumstances, and establishing an integrative relationship at the central and local levels to ensure institutional work proceeds according to prevailing laws. He affirmed the Presidential Leadership Council’s support for the Prime Minister’s directions in enhancing transparency, accountability, and fighting corruption, considering this a national interest of concern to all.
On his part, the Prime Minister reiterated the government’s determination and insistence on implementing financial and administrative reforms, enhancing transparency and accountability, and combating corruption, seeing this as an inevitable choice imposed by current realities, with no room for delay or reluctance in this aspect. He pointed out the positive impact of these reforms over the short past period, which restored the trust of Yemen’s partners from donor countries and organizations in the government, and the importance of reinforcing it with more measures and reforms.
The Prime Minister also noted that the government has started taking serious, transparent, and responsible measures to tackle all forms of corruption through the relevant oversight bodies, directing the activation of concurrent financial oversight at both central and local levels, and establishing internal audit departments.
The meeting was attended by Minister of Finance Salem Bin Breik, Director of the Prime Minister’s Office Engineer Anis Baharitha, Prime Minister’s Advisor Ambassador Mujib Othman, Deputy Governors of the Central Bank of Yemen Mansour Rageh and Hussein Al-Dahamshi, Executive Director of the Rapid Response Unit Jamal Ben Ghanem, and Director of the Central Bank branch in Marib Jamal Al-Kamil.
