Almotamar.net - Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Hisham Sharaf met on Monday with Charge d'Affaires of Saudi Embassy in Yemen Bandar al-Otaibi.

Sharaf and al-Otaibi discussed the bilateral cooperation aspects in the field of higher education and scientific research.

The meeting touched on a request made by Yemen for increasing the scholarships for Yemenis to study in the Saudi universities and the possibility of supporting the scientific research in Yemen.

The two sides discussed a project submitted by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research to Saudi Arabia ,the United Arab Emirates and the United States of America to dispatch a number of Yemeni undergraduates, graduate students and staff to a number of prestigious universities in the world and the possibility of Saudi King's support for this project, which would raise the level of Yemeni graduates in various disciplines so as to contribute the human development process in Yemen.