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  Prime Minister   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A prime minister is the chief member of the cabinet in a parliamentary system of government, or alternatively an official in a presidential system or semi-presidential system whose duty is to execute the directives of the President and manage the civil service.
Prime Ministers can be found in both constitutional monarchies (as is the case in the United Kingdom, Norway and Japan), and in republics, where the head of state is an elected or unelected official with varying degrees of real power.
The Prime Minister shall be appointed by the President of the Republic after consultation and with the parties represented in the Assembly of the Republic, due regard being had to the [general] election results.
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 Prime Minister - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In some monarchies the prime minister exercises powers (known as the Royal Prerogative) that are constitutionally vested in the monarch and which can be exercised without the approval of parliament.
Prime Ministers can be found in both constitutional monarchies (as is the case in the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Norway and Japan), and in republics, where the head of state is an elected or unelected official with varying degrees of real power.
Contrary to popular and journalistic myth, most prime ministers in parliamentary systems are not appointed for a specific term of office and in effect may remain in power through a number of elections and parliaments.
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 Prime Minister of North Yemen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic was the head of government of that country in what is now northern Yemen.
The Prime Minister was appointed by the President.
Prime Ministers of the Yemen Arab Republic, 1962-1990
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prime_Minister_of_North_Yemen   (83 words)

  
 Yemen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Republic of Yemen is a country in the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia, and is a part of the Middle East, bordering the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden, and Red Sea, between Oman and Saudi Arabia.
Yemen is a republic with a bicameral legislature.
Yemen is in Southwest Asia, in the south of Arabia, bordering the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden, and Red Sea, west of Oman and south of Saudi Arabia.
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 MapZones.com : Yemen Map
Yemen, Republic of, country in south-western Asia, on the south-western coast of the Arabian Peninsula, formed in 1990 through the union of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen and the Yemen Arab Republic.
Yemen is bordered on the north by Saudi Arabia, on the east by Oman, on the south by the Gulf of Aden, and on the west by the Red Sea.
Yemen was ruled by a series of Muslim caliphs, beginning with the Umayyad dynasty, which ruled from Damascus in the latter part of the 7th century; Umayyad rule was followed by the Abbasid caliphs in the early 8th century.
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 Prime Minister - Unipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In some monarchies the prime minister exercises powers (known as the Royal Prerogative) which are constitutionally vested in the Crown and can be exercised without the approval of parliament.
The post of prime minister is one which may be encountered both in constitutional monarchies (such as Belgium, Denmark, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, and the United Kingdom), and in republics in which the head of state is an elected or unelected official with varying degrees of real power.
In some presidential or semi-presidential systems such as those of France, Russia, South Korea, or Taiwan the prime minister is an official generally appointed by the President but approved by the legislature and responsible for carrying out the directives of the President and managing the civil service.
www.unipedia.info /Prime_Minister.html   (1397 words)

  
 Yemen reunited by force: Middle East International, 22 Jul 1994
Dr Abd al-Karim al-Iryani of the GPC is widely tipped to become prime minister.
He is a former prime minister of North Yemen and, as planning minister during the war, played a key role in talks at the United Nations.
Internationally, Yemen owes a huge debt to the Americans who, after some initial dithering, swung decisively in favour of unity and told the Saudis to stop interfering.
www.al-bab.com /yemen/artic/mei6.htm   (788 words)

  
 Middle East and North Africa: Country Report
Although Yemen still boasts one of the freest and liveliest presses in the region, authorities have been steadily increasing their pressure on independent and opposition journalists since 1994, when civil war broke out between north and south.
In 1998, Minister of Information Abdel Rahman al-Akwa'a said the government was "formulating the legal bases" to regulate the licensing of private stations, but in 1999 the government showed no sign that it was ready or willing to share the airwaves.
On June 2, Yemen lost one of its finest and most courageous journalists when Dr. Abdul Aziz al-Saqqaf was killed in a traffic accident while crossing a street in the capital, Sanaa.
www.cpj.org /attacks99/mideast99/Yemen.html   (1975 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Abdullah as-Sallal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Abdullah as-Sallal (1917-1994) was the President of the Yemen Arab Republic from 27 September 1962 to 5 November 1967.
Muhammad al-Badr (1926-1996) was the last king of North Yemen, and leader of the monarchist regions during the North Yemen Civil War (1962-1970).
Abdul Rahman al-Iryani, as-Sallal's successor to the presidency in 1967, served as Prime Minister in 1963 and 1964.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Abdullah-as_Sallal   (560 words)

  
 Yemen
Yemen is a very poor country with a population of approximately 19 million; more than 40 percent of the population live in poverty and the unemployment rate is 36 percent.
Yemen was invited by the Community of Democracies' (CD) Convening Group to attend the November 2002 second CD Ministerial Meeting in Seoul, Republic of Korea, as an observer.
Following unification of North and South Yemen in 1990, owners of property previously expropriated by the Communist government of the former People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (PDRK), including religious organizations, were invited to seek restitution of their property.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2002/18293.htm   (12617 words)

  
 Obituary: Abd al-Rahman al-Iryani: The Guardian, 25 March 1998
Coming to power in an unusually bloodless coup in 1967, he found a government severely weakened by war and trapped between the irreconcilable demands of an urban population impatient for reform, the resistance of conservative tribal sheikhs, and the army's insatiable appetite for weapons.
This unsatisfying end to his presidency belies the fact that al-Iryani was one of the key architects of modern Yemen, seeking to meld the conflicting interests of modernists and traditionalists into a workable system of government.
His nephew, Dr Abd al-Karim al-Iryani, is a former prime minister of north Yemen and currently foreign minister of the unified state.
www.al-bab.com /yemen/artic/gdn28.htm   (651 words)

  
 UNDP-Short Term Mission Needs Assessment for Prime Minister's Office, Yemen-Project Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
At the request of the Prime Minister (PM) made to the UN Resident Representative to Yemen a mission was undertaken by a specialist consultant to review the functions and operations of the Prime Ministers's Office (PMO).
Full support and a desire for reform by the Prime Minister, the acting Prime Minister and the 3 unit chiefs in the PMO as well as the Senior Ministers such as Ministry of Planning and Finance are at the core of this request.
The Prime Minister of Yemen and his office is at the forefront of the reform and development process, and its requires strengthened capacities to take on the new challenges.
magnet.undp.org /Docs/cap/Arab/Yem/UNDPMI~1.HTM   (3567 words)

  
 Yemen
The situation in North Yemen was also extremely precarious, where two presidents had been assassinated in less than a year.
A meeting was held in Taiz between the two prime ministers, and decisions were made to merge public institutions, including the central banks and national airlines, as well as the customs, taxes, ports, communications, information, and telecommunication networks of the two countries.
An agreement between North and South was finally reached, and in Aden on May 22, 1990, Saleh raised the flag of the new Independent Republic of Yemen.
www.internationalspecialreports.com /middleeast/00/yemen   (2882 words)

  
 Yemen - Atlapedia Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It is bound by the Red Sea to the west, the Gulf of Aden to the south, Oman to the east and Saudi Arabia to the north.
In Feb. 1989 former Prime Minister Haider Abu Bakr al-Attas was inaugurated as President.
Unified Yemen; In late 1989 a draft for a new constitution was announced and approved by both North and South Yemen.
www.atlapedia.com /online/countries/yemen.htm   (1380 words)

  
 Yemen (09/04)
Yemen became a member of the Arab league in 1945 and the United Nations in 1947.
Defense relations between Yemen and the U.S. are improving rapidly, with the resumption of International Military Education and Training assistance and the commercial transfer of some military spare parts.
The Summit was an excellent forum for Yemen to share its democratic reform experiences, and it has agreed to participate in future activities detailed in the Sea Island charter.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/35836.htm   (5051 words)

  
 Yemen
Saudi Arabia is to the north and Oman is to the east.
The junta proclaimed the Yemen Arab Republic, and after a civil war in which Egypt's Nasser and the USSR supported the revolutionaries and King Saud of Saudi Arabia and King Hussein of Jordan supported the royalists, the royalists were finally defeated in mid-1969.
Yemen: History - History Northern Yemen The earliest recorded civilizations of S Arabia were the Minaean and...
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 Yemen
Yemen is a republic with an active bicameral legislature.
Following unification of North and South Yemen in 1990, owners of property previously expropriated by the Communist government of the former PDRY, including religious organizations, were invited to seek restitution of their property.
Ministers frequently were called to Parliament to defend actions, policies, or proposed legislation, although they may and sometimes did refuse to appear.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27942.htm   (11074 words)

  
 Prime Minister's Speeches - 2002 - Lord Mayor's Banquet
But if, on the basis of a general warning, we were to shut down all the places that Al-Qaeda might be considering for attack, we would be doing their job for them.
States which are failed, which repress their people brutally, in which notions of democracy and the rule of law are alien, share the same absence of rational boundaries to their actions as the terrorist.
North Korea's admission that it has a programme to produce Highly Enriched Uranium was an important confession.
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 Yemen Country Analysis Brief   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Yemen, a small non-OPEC oil producer, is important to world energy markets because of its oil and natural gas resources and strategic location on the Bab el-Mandab strait, one of the world's most active shipping lanes.
In July 2002, the government of Yemen approved of an agreement in principle with the Saudi Arabia for studies to be made on the first international pipeline (oil, liquefied natural gas, or liquefied petroleum gas) from Saudi southern oil fields to the Yemeni port at Hadramawt.
Yemen's plans include the construction of several gas-fired power stations, expansion of the national power grid, and the introduction of renewables, such as solar energy, to rural areas.
www.eia.doe.gov /emeu/cabs/yemen.html   (4182 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Country profiles | Country profile: Yemen
The modern Republic of Yemen came into being in 1990 when traditionalist North Yemen and Marxist South Yemen merged after years of border wars and skirmishes.
Tensions persist between the north and the south; some southerners say the northern part of the state is economically more privileged.
TV and radio are vital sources of news in Yemen because of high levels of illiteracy.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/country_profiles/784383.stm   (569 words)

  
 Northern Yemenis 'will attack Aden in two days': The Guardian, 11 May 94
A NORTH Yemeni minister, Dr Abdul Ali al-Karim al-Iryani, yesterday predicted that northern forces would attack the southern port of Aden within the next two days.
The minister repeated northern claims that the number of casualties during the war so far had been 'unbelievably small', with less than 100 dead on the northern side.
The north's great fear is urban insurrection, and use of the telephone system appears to be rationed for similar reasons.
www.al-bab.com /yemen/artic/gdn15.htm   (412 words)

  
 1976-77   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Three people including a former prime minister of North Yemen, were killed when a gunman fired into their Mercedes outside the Royal Lancaster hotel in London.
A dispute at the Grunswick film-processing laboratories in north London erupted into violence as angry pickets attempted to prevent bus loads of workers crossing the picket line.
She is the first woman to become a British prime minister.
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 President of North Yemen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For Presidents after this see: President of Yemen
See also: Prime Minister of North Yemen, President of South Yemen, North Yemen
This page was last modified 22:24, 8 April 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/President_of_North_Yemen   (56 words)

  
 NITLE Arab World Project
After the 1986 coup South Yemen was preoccupied with recovery, with some political liberalization (including the introduction of a multi-party system) and with economic reforms intended to encourage private economic activity and bring in outside investment to replace the aid formerly given by the USSR.
The presidential council was abolished and Salih became untrammelled president and was re-elected in October 1994, the YSP was excluded from government, and the Hashid YRP was rewarded by a larger share in a coalition government with the GPC, including the portfolios of education and justice which it cherished.
For the future Yemen looked mainly to the development with outside help of its oil wealth, partly exploited in the north but almost wholly undeveloped in the south, and also to the planned development of Aden as a free trade zone and the site of an anticipated major industrial development.
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 Yes, Minister/Yes, Prime Minister
If the Minister will help us to implement the opposite policy to the one that he is pledged to, which once he is in office he will see is obviously incorrect, we will help him to pretend that he is in fact doing what he said he was going to do in his Manifesto.
Minister I am quite frankly appalled, this is savagery, barbarism, that a Minister of the crown should say these things, it's...
French Ambassador: Prime Minister, I cannot tell you the gravity of the affront my government would feel if her Majesty were to refuse a gift in exchange for the one our President accepted from her.
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 CIA - The World Factbook -- Yemen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Yemen, one of the poorest countries in the Arab world, has reported strong growth since 2000, but its economic fortunes depend mostly on oil.
Yemen has embarked on an IMF-supported structural adjustment program designed to modernize and streamline the economy, which has led to substantial foreign debt relief and restructuring.
Yemen has worked to maintain tight control over spending and to implement additional components of the IMF program, but a high population growth rate and internal political dissension complicate the government's task.
www.odci.gov /cia/publications/factbook/geos/ym.html   (1117 words)

  
 GNN - Government News Network
Benefits Minister James Plaskitt called in to Castle Morpeth Borough Council offices at Longhirst Hall today (Friday 7 October) to personally congratulate the Council's Revenue Unit for being one of the best in the country.
Anti-fraud minister James Plaskitt was in Houghton le Spring today to see for himself how the latest technology is catching benefit cheats in the North East.
Companies across the North East have been invited to a special free two hour breakfast event to showcase the fact there are a host of profitable sales opportunities in Russia.
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