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The "war resolution". US-British-Spanish draft introduced on 7 March 2003.
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"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…
The Yemeni-Saudi border dispute took a new turn last week when the United States offered to mediate. "We would be happy to help ... we would like to see this problem solved," Assistant Secretary of State Edward Walker announced in Sana’a after talks with President Ali Abdullah Salih.
Walker then…
SEVERAL leading figures in the Yemeni Socialist Party fear they could be targets for assassination following the murder of Jarallah Omar al-Kuhali, the party's deputy secretary-general.
Jarallah Omar was shot dead by a man armed with two guns as he finished making a speech at a conference organised…
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
