Conclusion of the workshop on determining the airport campus
The second workshop in Sana’a concluded in determining airport campuses and surfaces to limit obstacles, restrictions and building requirements, organized by the General Authority of Civil Aviation and Meteorology.
The workshop aimed to review what has been done regarding future plans for airports in implementation of the recommendations of the first workshop and to complete proposals for the necessary modifications to define airport campuses and future needs in accordance with the law and international references.
The workshop, over a period of two days, with the participation of 56 specialists, technicians and engineers in the authority and its various sectors and relevant authorities, reviewed the developments in construction on the airport campus, including Sana’a International Airport and Taiz International Airport, and the repeated attacks on the airport campus.
At the conclusion of the workshop, Minister of Transport Zakaria Al-Shami stressed the need to preserve the sanctuary and lands of the Republic’s airports from attacks.
He called for the cooperation of the relevant authorities and to work in the spirit of one team to preserve the campus and the land of the airports, pointing out the need to hold awareness workshops for the employees and the relevant authorities.
The Minister of Transport urged the participants to implement the recommendations of the second workshop that serve the work in the fields of civil aviation, in particular, and aggression seeks to paralyze this vital sector for all Yemeni people.
For his part, the President of the General Authority of Civil Aviation and Meteorology, Dr. Mohamed Abdel-Rahman Abdel-Qader praised the interaction of the participants in the workshop and the axes it contained in contributing to the development and strengthening of civil aviation services and its various fields.
He stressed the importance of applying the workshop outcomes to practical reality in cooperation with the relevant authorities, in a way that contributes to preserving lives and public and private property.
In turn, the agency’s agent, Raed Jabal, confirmed that the workshop worked on knowing the local and international references in the light of which the standards and dimensions of airport campuses and barrier reduction surfaces were determined, the requirements for building restrictions in or around them were approved, and those references were approved and circulated to all airports.
In the conclusion, which was attended by the assistant undersecretaries at the authority, the director general of Sanaa airport Khaled Al-Shayef, the director of Taiz airport, Nabil Shamsan, and the general directors of the authority, the assistant undersecretary for the airport sector, Yahya Al-Kahlani, praised the interest of the leadership of the Ministry of Transport and the authority in the airports sector and support for efforts to preserve the airport campus.
He pointed out that the airport sector is seeking to develop and modernize in the fields of civil aviation, including the modernization and development of Sanaa International Airport as it is the first gateway to enter Yemen.
Six working papers were presented in the workshop that included problems and perceptions of Sana’a, Taiz and Hodeidah airports, and work to preserve the airport’s sanctuary from attacks.
The workshop came out with recommendations followed by the Director General of the Airports Sector, Amin Jamaan, most notably the submission of plans to amend the airport campus to the Prime Ministry to issue decisions and prepare a matrix of executive procedures and submit it to the Supreme Political Council to issue binding directives to the bodies related to their work in airports and prepare the axes of the third workshop on implementing the new procedures and plans and their application on the ground Indeed.
