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AN ANNOUNCEMENT that President Salih of Yemen has stopped chewing qat and taken up exercise and computing instead has been greeted with a mixture of approval and incredulity.
The president's gesture - intended to set an example to the nation - comes amid pressure from two normally incompatible…
YEMENIS went to the polls on April 27 to elect their third parliament since the multi-party system was introduced in 1990.
A total of 1,396 candidates from 22 parties, plus independents, were contesting 301 parliamentary seats. This time, 11 female candidates were standing and the proportion of…
The "war resolution". US-British-Spanish draft introduced on 7 March 2003.
FULL TEXT
"THE SECURITY COUNCIL,
RECALLING all its previous relevant resolutions, in particular its resolutions 661 (1990) of 6 August 1990, 678 (1990) of 29 November 1990, 686 (1991) of 2 March 1991, 687 (1991) of 3 April…
UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros Ghali held separate talks with the presidents of Yemen and Eritrea last weekend in an effort to resolve the conflict over a group of islands in the Red Sea. Earlier Eritrea had released 196 Yemeni soldiers and 17 civilians taken prisoner when it seized control…
"An update on inspection"
Delivered by Dr Hans Blix, executive chairman of Unmovic
27 January 2003
FULL TEXT - AS DELIVERED
The governing Security Council resolutions
The resolution adopted by the Security Council on Iraq in November last year asks UNMOVIC and the IAEA to "update" the Council 60…
by Brian Whitaker
Originally published in Middle East International, 11 June 1993
THE COALITION is dead, long live the coalition. A month of post-election haggling in Yemen has replaced the old, fractious, two-party government with a new one comprising three parties.
Together, President Salih's…
FRANCE has emerged as a key mediator in the dispute between Yemen and Eritrea over islands in the Red Sea. In separate talks with both sides last week, President Jacques Chirac's special envoy, Francis Gutmann, put forward details of a proposed peace mechanism.
Fighting broke out last December when…
Statement issued by the Military Alliance of the Iraqi National Coalition on 14 July 2002 at the end of a three-day conference in London. This is the organisation's own translation of the original Arabic version.
EXPLANATORY NOTE (from al-Bab): The main context of this document was a debate among…
EXILED southern Yemeni leaders warned of growing instability yesterday, and urged President Ali Abdullah Saleh to make peace with them.
Despite their defeat in the civil war three months ago - and the fact that several of them are wanted on charges of treason and war crimes - the seven exiles…
AMID extraordinary security, US Vice-President Dick Cheney set foot in Yemen last week and declared: "We have increasingly developed close relations between ourselves and Yemen."
Leaving behind most of his staff and the press corps in the presumed safety of Egypt, Mr Cheney arrived on a military…
ARAB ART ONLINE: Susan Hefuna: Al Sabr Gamil (Patience is Beautiful) 2007. Ink stained on wood 140 x 170 cm. More information | Click to enlarge
