Arabic News Weekly Edition for Yemen, 3/23/1998
Weekly Edition, Yemen - Week of March 23, 1998
- Vatican envoy on trip to Amman, Sanaa
The Papal envoy will arrive in Sanaa later today to hold talks pertaining to relations between the two countries, especially the "possibility of building a Catholic center in Sanaa, where there are no Christian places of worship" Jordan-Yemen-Vatican, Religion, 3/27/1998 - Head of Arab Monetary Fund due in Sanaa on Monday
The head of the Arab monetary fund, Gassem El-Manaay, accompanied by the head of the fund's economic department, Faress Ben Gamada, will visit the Yemeni capital on Monday. Yemen, Economics, 3/27/1998 - Yemen - military exercises Yemen, Military, 3/27/1998
- Yemen - robbery Yemen, Local, 3/26/1998
- Yemen signs five oil contracts Yemen, Economics, 3/26/1998
- Joint projects between Egypt and Yemen
Egypt and Yemen have decided to exchange agricultural delegations between the two countries during the coming weeks. Egypt-Yemen, Economics, 3/26/1998 - Eritrean visit lowers tensions with Yemen
Informed sources in the Yemeni capital said they believe the coming period will view mutual visits to bridge the differences between the two sides. Yemen-Eritrea, Politics, 3/25/1998 - Yemeni communist party protest prison sentences
The Yemeni communist party objected yesterday to the death sentence issued by a Yemeni court against 5 southern leaders, including former South Yemeni officials. Yemen, Judicial, 3/25/1998 - Yemen court Yemen, Judicial, 3/24/1998
- Yemen, Saudi Arabia talk on border demarcation
Saudi Defense and Aviation Minister Emir Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz on Sunday received the secretary general of the Yemeni Presidium, Lt. Gen. Abdullah al-Bashir, who delivered a communique from Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Saudi Arabia-Yemen, Politics, 3/23/1998 - First Eritrean delegation to Yemen since 95 conflict
This delegation is the first to visit Yemen since Eritrea's occupation of Hanish Island in the Red Sea in 1995. In 1996, following a French mediation, the two countries agreed to submit their conflict to an international court in London. Yemen-Eritrea, Politics, 3/23/1998 - Yemen to sentence 15 former Southern Yemeni officials tomorrow
The accused, including the former secretary-general of the Yemeni Socialist party, are being tried under charges of "greater treason, violating the constitution and committing killing crimes." Yemen, Judicial, 3/23/1998