[28/03/2024 07:12]

ADEN-SABA
Council of Ministers devoted its session today, Thursday, in the interim capital Aden, presided over by Prime Minister Dr. Ahmed bin Mubarak to discuss the state's general budget spending proposal of the fiscal year 2024.

The plan provided by Finance Ministry including economic and social indicators, challenges and obstacles facing the consistency of the public finance, objectives and priorities of expenditures plan, in addition to the policies and reforms relating to the implementation of the plan.

The Cabinet has decided to set up a panel from Ministers of Finance, Defense, Interior, Public Health and Population, Water and Environment, Local Administration and the Secretary General of the Council of Ministers to review the expenditures plan, incorporate the observations of the ministers about it and put forward it the Cabinet to take necessary measure to put it in place.

The Council of Ministers has approved a proposal to finance an externship program for the Universities' professors to travel on joint research programs with Arab and foreign universities. The program is set to be carried out this year 2024.

The draft bill of the proposal strictly set out the criteria to finance the externship program, the provisions must be met by the applicants for the annual research grant, establishing a panel chaired by Higher Education Minister with memberships of three rectors of public universities and three professors to select the awarded scholars.

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