Yemeni Premier resigns
Yemen, Politics, 4/30/1998

Yemeni television on Wednesday said that Yemeni Prime Minister Farah Bin Ghanim has submitted his resignation to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh who accepted it.

The report said that President Saleh "has assigned foreign minister and deputy Premier Abdul Karim al-Iryani to be in charge until a new government is formed."

Sources close to the Yemeni Premier said his resignation came after he failed to convince the Yemeni President to have a cabinet reshuffle "to replace several ministers whose performance was not satisfactory."

The sources added that Prime Minister Ghanim intended to replace Minister of Finance Alwai Saleh al-Salami, Transport Abdul Malik Ahmad and Fisheries Maseed Hussein, who are all members of the ruling People's General Congress party.

The sources stressed that the resigned Premier also asked the president "to be offered additional authorities to better monitor the state's affairs, especially the economic reform operations" which started in 1995, but his request was not met.

The sources elaborated that Bin Ghanim did not nominate all his Cabinet ministers in May 1997, describing that as why some of them do not perform well as expected. On April 1, the Yemeni Premier submitted his resignation to President Saleh who refused it, then he left Sanaa for Geneva and returned on Friday.

Ghanim was appointed as Prime Minister on May 15, 1997. He received a PhD in statistics in 1978 from Poland. He served as an ambassador for his country in Geneva.

Al-Iryani, the secretary general of the ruling party since 1995, is currently in Addis Ababa on a three-day official visit.

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