Arabic News Weekly Edition for Yemen, 6/18/2001
Weekly Edition, Yemen - Week of June 18, 2001
- A Saudi - Yemeni trade agreement
Prince Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz, the second secretary of the Saudi prime minister, and defense minister has called during supervising a meeting with the Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to inaugurate the Saudi quality control forum and the conclusion of the first meeting of the businessmen council for the establishment of a free trade zone between the two states. Saudi Arabia-Yemen, Politics, 6/24/2001 - Yemeni president and the planned explosion against the US embassy in Sanaa
The Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has ruled out the involvement of the extremists of whom the Yemeni authorities arrested several of them recently of planning to explode the American embassy in Sanaa and considered that the Americans gave this matter a large but groundless dimension. Yemen-USA, Politics, 6/24/2001 - Yemen stressed taken security measures to protect the Americans
The Yemeni foreign minister Abu Baker al-Qurabi has announced that his country had taken all measures to ensure the security of the American diplomats following the decision taken by Washington to decrease number of the embassy employees and warning its citizens from travelling to Yemen. Yemen-USA, Politics, 6/22/2001 - New acts of arrests in Yemen
The US daily " Washington Post" said on Tuesday that the Yemeni authorities arrested 9 persons suspected to have links to Osama Bin Laden. Yemen, Politics, 6/20/2001 - Yemeni mediation between Jordan and Qatar over Hamas official
The Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has stressed that Yemen will continue its efforts to settle the urgent problem between Jordan and Qatar which resulted from the arrival of one of the leading figures of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas to Amman on the board of a Qatari airline plane. Yemen-Regional, Politics, 6/19/2001 - Yemeni president visits Washington
The US ambassador to Yemen Barbara Budin said that a visit will be held by the Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to Yemen during the two coming months will contribute to strengthen relations between the two countries. Yemen-USA, Politics, 6/18/2001