Arabic News Weekly Edition for Yemen, 3/27/2000
Weekly Edition, Yemen - Week of March 27, 2000
- Yemeni - Saudi committee for drawing borders convenes tomorrow Saudi Arabia-Yemen, Politics, 4/1/2000
- Pensioning off some Yemeni officers and diplomats
The Yemeni government decided retiring (pensioning) this year 16 officers and soldiers in the interior ministry and 77 diplomats among whom are ambassadors. Yemen, Politics, 4/1/2000 - Yemeni clerics condemn visit of Israeli tourists
Several mosques preachers in Sanaa and other Yemeni provinces during their Friday's sermons on Friday launched a large scale campaign of criticism over the visit of the Israeli tourist delegation to Yemen last week Yemen, Politics, 4/1/2000 - Islamic conference regrets Yemen's new step in normalizing relations with Israel
The Islamic conference has expressed its regret for Yemen's joining the march of normalization with Israel, noting that Yemen has been known through all its history of its solid Arab and Islamic stances which reject provocation and blackmail. Yemen-Israel, Politics, 4/1/2000 - Yemeni Socialist Party denies accusations addressed to it
The opposition Yemeni Socialist Party has criticized what it described as criticism made against it by the internal and external media with the objective of defaming it. Yemen, Politics, 3/31/2000 - Israelis who visited Yemen wind up their visit, did not meet with Yemeni officials
The delegation of the Israelis who are of Yemeni descent on Wednesday ended visit to Yemen and claimed it had met with Yemeni Prime Minister Abdul Karim al-Iryani. Yemen-Israel, Politics, 3/31/2000 - King Mohammed gets message from Yemeni president Morocco-Yemen, Politics, 3/30/2000
- Session of Yemeni - Saudi sea border talks winds up Yemen-Saudi Arabia, Politics, 3/30/2000
- On the visit of the Israeli group to Yemen
A group of 12 Israelis of Yemeni descent had visited Sanaa and made tours in the quarters where Jews used to live in the city and they also spoke to several Yemeni Jews who are still living there. Yemen-Israel, Politics, 3/30/2000 - Canada backs Yemen's joining Commonwealth of Nations
Canada on Monday expressed its backing for Yemen in its efforts to join the Commonwealth of Nations. Yemen-Canada, Politics, 3/29/2000 - Israeli group visits Yemen
Israeli Radio said on Tuesday that for the first time in the history of Israeli- Yemeni relations a group of Israelis is currently visiting Yemen. Yemen-Israel, Politics, 3/29/2000 - Yemeni president starts visit to Canada
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Sunday started his first official visit to Canada. The visit will last for five days. Yemen-Canada, Politics, 3/28/2000 - Yemeni labor minister to deliver message to King Mohammed Morocco-Yemen, Politics, 3/27/2000
- Economic growth in Yemen
Yemen's minister of planning and development, Ahmad Muhammad Soufan, has stated that Yemen's economy scored a growth estimated at 4.5% in 1999 as a result of the economic reforms the country started in 1995. He expected growth to reach some 5.5% this year. Yemen, Economics, 3/27/2000 - Yemeni socialist party denies disputes in its leadership Yemen, Politics, 3/27/2000
- Yemeni national arrested for drug smuggling Morocco-Yemen, Local, 3/27/2000