[17 July 2008]

PARIS, July 17 (Saba) - Several representatives of donor countries and organizations and companies have affirmed their readiness to support the project of National Museum of Sciences Yemen intends to establish.

Donors' support came after the opening of the roundtable's activities by Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Saleh Basurra and Director-General of UNESCO Koichiro Matsuura in the French capital, Paris. The UNESCO-organized roundtable aimed to mobilize requisite assistance for establishing the museum.

Representatives of the European international foundations, Arab Gulf states, petroleum companies in Yemen and several businessmen, who have taken place in the roundtable, voiced their readiness to contribute to financing establishment of the museum's building, some of its wings and provide a number of its necessary equipments.

The minister Basurra has showed key goals of the project that the government intends to establish for such as spreading the scientific culture among Yemenis and reinforcing the youth's attention on science and scientific research in various fields.

Moreover, the minister demonstrated the steps Yemeni government has exerted in coordination with UNESCO including the implementation of many administrative, technical and scientific procedures.

Worth mentioning, the museum would be built on 20,000 square kilometers with an estimated cost of $6 million.

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Saba