Minister of Civil Service and Social Security Hamoud al-Soufi said.
 
Upon his departure to Saudi Arabia, along with Minister of Expatriates Affairs Saleh Hussein and Chairman of the General Corporation for Social Insurances Ahmed Saif, al-Souf made it clear that all technical procedures have been finalized to carry out the system stage by stage in coordination with the Ministry of Expatriates Affairs.
 
He said that the first stage includes four countries, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Kuwait. He pointed out that the system depends on the law of social insurance No. 26 of 1991.