Arabic News Weekly Edition for Yemen, 8/9/1999
Weekly Edition, Yemen - Week of August 9, 1999
- Syrian Yemeni relations highlighted Syria-Yemen, Politics, 8/13/1999
- President Saleh refuses Blair request to release prisoners
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Wednesday received a message from British Prime Minister Tony Blair relating to bilateral relations, areas of joint cooperation as well as matters of mutual concern. Yemen-UK, Judicial, 8/12/1999 - Sudan, Yemen plead for emergency Arab summit
Sudan and Yemen pleaded on Tuesday for the holding of an emergency Arab summit to examine the situation in the Arab states at the turn of the century. Sudan-Yemen, Politics, 8/11/1999 - Britain inquires about fairness of its citizens trial in Yemen
A spokesman for the British Foreign Ministry said in London on Tuesday that British Prime Minister Tony Blair sent a message to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh that centered on finding out whether the British convicts who were sentenced to imprisonment after being found guilty of planning acts of destruction in Yemen had underwent fair trials. Yemen-UK, Politics, 8/11/1999 - A message from Yemeni president to Syrian president
The assistant secretary general of the Baath Arab Socialist Party, Abdullah al-Ahmar, on Monday received the assistant secretary general for political affairs and chairman of the General People's Conference in Yemen, Yahya al-Mutawakil, who gave him a message addressed to Syrian President Hafez al-Assad from President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen. Syria-Yemen, Politics, 8/10/1999 - British prisoners in Yemen
A Yemeni court on Monday sentenced seven British citizens to prison terms ranging between three and seven years on charges of planning for terrorist acts in Yemen. Yemen-UK, Judicial, 8/10/1999 - Yemen - EU dialogue Yemen-European Union, Economics, 8/10/1999
- Yemeni opposition decides to boycott presidential elections
Yemeni opposition, whose candidate did not receive enough votes from the Parliament to participate in the coming presidential elections, decided to boycott these elections, due on September 23. Yemen, Politics, 8/9/1999 - Yemen: Today issuing the final judgment in the case of major terrorism Yemen, Judicial, 8/9/1999