Yemen rejects Riyadh building of a wall on its borders
Yemen-Saudi Arabia, Politics, 2/2/2004

News reports in Sanaa said that Yemen notified Saudi Arabia its objection to build a separation wall along its borders in a way violates the border demarcation agreement between the two countries.

The rejection came after the Saudi authorities started to build the wall in an area on which Yemen says that it is considered by the border demarcation agreement as an empty zone.

The two Yemenis and Saudis border committees in charge of implementing their bilateral border treaty had met more than one time in Sanaa and Riyadh in order to draw the final arrangements, on laying border markers and establishing land border crossings.

The two committees witnessed several differences on defining the crossing, their number and where it will be established and that was postponed to later meetings.

The two countries chose the German "Hansa Luftbild" company to put the border markers, according to items and appendixes of the border treaty signed in Jeddah in June 2000. The two sides postponed the company's work because of the continued differences on the position of some of these markers.

Worthy mentioning that the Yemeni- Saudi agreement on demarking joint borders between the two states, which is of 1350 KM length had ended an old conflict between the two states that lasted for decades. Observers fear that the new Saudi measures might lead to a military confrontation between the two states.

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