In implementation of 17 July 2010 minutes and in extension of February 2009 agreement signed by the ruling General People’s Congress (GPC) party in Yemen and the opposition alliance of the Joint Meeting Pastries (JMP) , the two sides have on Thursday signed minutes of a meeting where they exchanged names of the two sides participants in the national dialogue committee.
Presidential advisor Abdul-Karim al-Eryani has said that U.S.-Yemeni critic Anwar al-Awlaki was radicalized in the United States. "I can say with confidence that he [al-Awlaki] was not at all radicalized in Yemen. He was radicalized in the United States", al-Eryani said in an interview conducted by the US-based PBS TV. The Yemeni official made clear that
Arab states should prepare for the possibility that the Palestinian-Israeli peace process may be a total failure and prepare alternatives, Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa said on Saturday. He did not specify what the alternatives might be, but one possibility is a revival of an initiative first proposed eight years ago under which Arab states would
The European Union and Libya said Saturday they have lifted bans on granting visas to each others' citizens, easing a bitter row between the north African nation and Switzerland. Libya stopped issuing visas to citizens from Schengen zone countries in retaliation for Switzerland, a Schengen member, barring entry to senior Libyans including the country's leader Muammar Gaddafi and members of his family. The visa row has unsettled European countries with substantial business ties to oil exporter Libya, especially its near-neighbours Italy and Malta. "All the names of the Libyan citizens included in the list of the Schengen information
SURT, March 28 (Saba)- President Ali Abdullah Saleh said that the future of joint Arab work is with its improvement so that the Arab countries benefit from their potentials as the 22nd Arab summit kicked off on Saturday in the Libyan Surt city. In a speech to the Arab summit, the President addressed the efforts made by Yemen to put forward views and initiatives which aim at enhancing the joint Arab work within Arab efforts and initiatives presented to the Secretariat of the Arab League.
URT, LIBYA, March 27 (Saba)- President Ali Abdullah Saleh met on Saturday, in the Libyan city of Surt, with Syria President Bashar Al-Assad on the sidelines of the Arab summit, currently held in Libya. The two leaders discussed the bilateral relations and means of reinforcing them, in addition to other issues in the summit agenda and coordina
SURT, LIBYA, March 27 (Saba)- President Ali Abdullah Saleh met Saturday in Surt the Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani. The two leaders held a closed session talks on the sidelines of the 22nd round of the Arab summit during which they reviewed the
Signing the agreement of joining Yemen to the World Trade Organization (WTO) will be prior to the end of 2010, Ministers of Industry and Trade Yahay al-Mutawakel. Upon his arrival to Sana'a after his participation in the seventh round of WTO in Geneva, al-Mutawakel said that Yemen and the WTO have agreed on a timeframe to the accession of Yemen into the WTO in 2010.
