Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Abdul-Karim al-Arhabi, who chaired the talks session, noted that the smart card project to be implemented in cooperation with UAE is one of the important and vital projects.
The project would revolutionize the quality of work of the Civil Status and Civil Registration Authority in our country and establish an extensive database of civil registration, so at to contribute to succeeding the development plans, al-Arhabi indicated.
He called upon the committee to mover forward to succeed the project and discuss the appropriate mechanisms for its implementation and identify its priorities and examine the possibility to avail from the current databases to form a national database required by the smart card.
Al-Arhabi praised the UAE's role in supporting development process in our country.
For his part, Head of the UAE side in the joint committee, Nasser Al Mazrui, presented an explanation on the UAE's successful experience in the use of smart card, reviewing a number of technical aspects relating to the project and its benefits in different fields, topped by field of security and crime control as well as various economic ,health and other practical fields.
He noted to the importance of the smart card in the e-government system when it is created in the future, stressing the readiness of the UAE to cooperate fully to succeed the smart card project in our country.
In the talks, Undersecretary of Internal Ministry and Head of Yemeni side in the joint committee, Ryiad al-Qurashi, affirmed that the smart card project is a strategic project via which the ministry seeks to develop the system of the civil status and civil registration authority in our country.
Al-Qurashi expected to establish the smart card project in Yemen within two to three years.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): BA
Quelle/Source: Yemen News Agency, 11.01.2010
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