Almotamar.net - The ceremony of the Arab School Sport Championship, hosted by Yemen for the period 20-31 of this month, was opened Monday by Yemen's Prime Minister Dr Ali Mahmoud Mujawar at 22 May Hall for International Conferences and Sport Activities in Sana'a.
Thirteen sport teams from various Arab countries take part in the championship. The teams were distributed into three groups. The first group plays in Sana'a, including the teams of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar, the Emirates and Syria, the second group to play in Thamar including the teams of Yemen, Jordan, Palestine and Algeria, and the third group plays in Aden including the teams of Sudan, Iraq, Kuwait and Morocco.
At the championship opening ceremony the Yemeni prime minister affirmed the necessity that youth and education institutions in the Arab homeland work on embodying the meaning of unity and fraternity inside the nation and their continuous urging for discarding violence and terror and protect them against them.
The prime minister also called on the participant teams for honest competition and exerting all efforts for the achievement of the gathering goals regardless of games results. Mujawar also affirmed Yemen's keenness under leadership of President Ali Abdullah Saleh on supporting all what enhances trust between brothers and extends bridges of cooperation and love among the Arab countries.
On his part the deputy minister of education Dr Abdulaziz bin Habtour welcomed the delegations participating in the opening ceremony and the school teams, wishing that the championship would achieve its meanings in honest competition showing capabilities of the Arab youth.
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