Yemen stops support to a demonstration on Iraq's invasion anniversary
Yemen-Iraq, Politics, 3/19/2004

The Yemeni government went back on its promise it had vowed to offering the opposition parties a licensing to organize a huge demonstration today ( Saturday), on the occasion of the first anniversary of Iraq's occupation at the hands of the American occupation forces and its allies.

A source in the Yemeni opposition leaderships which seeks to lead the demonstration said that the secretary general of the ( ruling ) People's Congress, Abdul Karim al-Eryani, preconditioned that the demonstration to be made Friday morning or the afternoon of the same day.

The Yemeni opposition says that what is agreed was to start the demonstration on Saturday evening, in commitment to the date approved as the international day in solidarity with the Iraqi people in the first anniversary of Iraq's occupation crisis.

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