Presidential Leadership Council reviews economic situations and topical issues

   Aden

The Presidential Leadership Council held a meeting today, Thursday, chaired by His Excellency President Dr. Rashad al-Alimi, Chairman of the Council, with presence of the Council's members Sultan al-Eradah, Dr. Abdullah al-Alimi and Othman Mujall and Aidarous Azubaidi, Tariq Saleh and Abdurhman al-Mahrami contributed to the discussions via video link, while Faraj al-Bahssani was not in attendance for founded justification.

The meeting began with briefings by President al-Alimi on his recent European tour included Belgium, the EU headquarters and his participation in the Munich Security Conference and the officials meetings held on the sideline of the Conference. The session devoted to discuss the developments in the national arena, particularly the indicators of the economic position in view of the policies and measures have been adopted by the government to deal with the repercussions of the Houthis' terrorist attacks on the oil facilities and seaports, the restrictions the militias have imposed on private-owned businesses, the movement of individuals, goods and live-saving humanitarian aids. The Presidential Council urged the government to redouble its efforts to improve good governance of the resources and public revenues, deposits and generous developmental interventions by brothers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The Council highly praised the Royal noble directives of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz to deposit an amount of one billion dollar in the account of the Central Bank of Yemen (CBY) that will enhance the CBY's capacities to run the monetary policy, maintain the national currency exchange rate, foil the terrorist militias' plans aiming to further worsen the world's worst humanitarian crisis. 

 

The Council also praised the positions of brothers and friends who declared their financial pledges at the United Nations Humanitarian Response Donors Conference.. hopping to optimally employ.such pledges, including pumping them through the Central Bank of Yemen, and ensuring

 they are received by those in need.throughout the country.

 

 The Council decided to continue its meetings to complete discussions on issues on its agenda, and take the necessary decisions thereon.