Al-Arhabi promises massive Gulf labor opportunities

In a lecture titled “The Challenges and Potentials of the International Migration,” Abdul-Karim al-Arhabi, Vice PM and Minister of Planning and International Cooperation, announced the intention of tremendous job opportunities in the GCC countries, pointing out indications of opening the Gulf labor market potentials to receive Yemeni labor force.

The statement was announced at the debate organized by the Ministry of Expatriate Affairs on May 11-12. It was attended by the ministers of Finance, Social affairs, a number of Arab and foreign ambassadors, as well as various organizations.

Al-Arhabi explained that the limited recourses forced the Yemenis to emigrate since the collapse of Marib dam. He commended the Yemeni tolerance to emigration hardships and their ability to use the opportunities furnished by immigration, noting the dependency on the expatriates transfers during the seventies because of the good relations with the neighboring countries. 

Al-Arhabi attributed the emigration reasons to insufficient natural recourses and population increase, confirming the need for finding new markets, ensuring that the petrol-dollar markets capacity for absorption of millions of labor force. 

The Minister called for the reconsideration of the training programs because of the problems that face the unskilled job seekers in the Gulf countries, bringing more burdens upon the Ministry of Expatriate Affairs. Still, he assured the ministry’s ability in overcoming such problems.

Al-Arhabi called for a government role for finding the new labor markets, ensuring the importance of organizing migration and the control of the illegal migration.

Dr. Saleh Sumai, Expatriate Affairs Minister, mentioned the prevalence of two world orders: the rich who own the wealth and the under developed who have limited recourses.

Sumai said that the huge civilization gap between these orders created this migration phenomenon.  Sumai blamed the dominant, unfair international powers for ignoring this important issue and focusing only on the international security and stability issues. By giving a cart blanche to the major powers, they were able to impose their conspiracy theory of security conservation, which is deceit to control the weak. He also pointed to the disparity of regional consideration regarding migration issues.

Sumai also disclosed that his ministry and the International Emigration Organization are planning on funding two workshops over the regional migration issues, including four counties in the Gulf: Yemen, Oman, Saudi Arabia and UAE.

The workshops are destined to identify priority issues in order to develop partnership regarding migration in the four countries and to raise the skills of immigrant employees in these countries. 

Sumai said that immigration plays an important role in public Yemeni wealth as it provides for 70 percent of the hard currency, in addition to the expatriates’ investment capacity which the Chamber of Commerce rates it internally as being YR5 billion and externally at YR3 billion.

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