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Riyadh Hosts International Workshop to Improve Yemeni Institutions

The workshop aims to build and develop the capabilities of Yemeni institutions. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
The workshop aims to build and develop the capabilities of Yemeni institutions. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
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Riyadh Hosts International Workshop to Improve Yemeni Institutions

The workshop aims to build and develop the capabilities of Yemeni institutions. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
The workshop aims to build and develop the capabilities of Yemeni institutions. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

The Coordination Group for Building and Developing the Capacity of Yemeni Institutions held on Tuesday its first workshop in Riyadh, with the participation of a number of Yemeni and Saudi institutions and international organizations.

The two-day workshop aims to discuss means to strengthen the work of the Yemeni government and institutions.

Saudi Ambassador to Yemen Mohammad Al Jaber said that the workshop was organized by the Saudi Program for the Development and Reconstruction of Yemen and aimed at building and developing the capabilities of Yemeni institutions, with the participation of five Yemeni parties and eight international organizations, including the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the European Union, various UN entities, and a number of Saudi ministries.

Al Jaber noted that the workshop focused on working with international organizations to support and build the capacities of Yemeni institutions, and raise the contribution of the international community, along with Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states, to the development and reconstruction of Yemen.

The international gathering also sheds light on the efforts of the Saudi Development and Reconstruction Program for Yemen, and the successes it has achieved in building the capacities of Yemeni ministries, including electricity and finance, and various other bodies within local authorities.

“We expect the workshop to produce a roadmap for each of the capacity-building tracks of Yemeni institutions, under the supervision of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, with continuous support from the Saudi Development and Reconstruction Program for Yemen,” the ambassador said.

For his part, Waed Badeeb, Yemeni Minister of Planning and International Cooperation, said that the workshop would target, in its first round, the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation, the Ministry of Electricity, the Ministry of Finance, and the Central Bank of Yemen.

Badeeb valued Saudi Arabia and all donors for standing by Yemeni institutions, meeting their urgent need to recover from the repercussions of the war, strengthening their capabilities, and providing technical support.

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Taiwan’s Representative to Saudi Arabia: 260,000 Pagers Exported in Two Years

Taiwan’s representative to Saudi Arabia Samee Chang. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
Taiwan’s representative to Saudi Arabia Samee Chang. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
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Taiwan’s Representative to Saudi Arabia: 260,000 Pagers Exported in Two Years

Taiwan’s representative to Saudi Arabia Samee Chang. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
Taiwan’s representative to Saudi Arabia Samee Chang. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Taiwan is investigating who is responsible for modifying the pagers that were turned into explosives in the hands of the Lebanese people, including members of Hezbollah.

Taiwan’s representative to Saudi Arabia Samee Chang told Asharq Al-Awsat that 260,000 pagers were exported from his country between 2022 and 2024, and 16 percent of them were sent to the United States and Europe.

He expressed his regret that the pagers were planted with explosives that were used in the attack in Lebanon last month, clarifying that the devices were not directly exported from Taiwan to Lebanon.

He explained that the components of the device are made of material that is not liable to explode.

Apollo Gold, the Taiwanese company that exported the pagers between 2022 and 2024, has never received any complaints that its devices have caused harm or exploded.

The attack in Lebanon has raised several questions and they are being probed by authorities in Taiwan, he went on to say.

One thing is for certain, the devices were not harmful in the shape they were exported from the country, stressed Chang.

Asked about whether the attack may harm Taiwan’s economy, he replied that his country’s industry sector has a strong reputation that will be difficult to undermine given the trust it has from clients.

The size of the sector and Taiwan’s investments cannot be measured by a small number of pagers, as they only make up a mere fraction in the country’s trade relations with countries all over the world, he stressed.

Separately, Chang revealed that Taiwan was considering cooperation with Saudi Arabia in the chip industry, saying he was optimistic over the broad potential for cooperation in the technology sector.

There are no limits to the cooperation between them, he added.

Taiwan constantly wants to maintain the relations and discuss opportunities for joint investments, he stated.

Taiwan was among the first countries to leap to cooperate with Saudi Arabia in all fields to help the Kingdom achieve its Vision 2030 that is spearheaded by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz and Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Crown Prince and Prime Minister, Chang said.