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  Prime Minister - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /prime_minister.htm   (1283 words)

  
 Prime Minister - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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.marylandheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Prime_minister   (1369 words)

  
 Prime Minister of South Yemen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Prime Minister, appointed by the President, served as the head of government.
Prime Ministers of the Democratic Republic of Yemen, 1994
South Yemen also rebelled as the Democratic Republic of Yemen for a period of weeks in 1994.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prime_Minister_of_South_Yemen   (144 words)

  
 Yemen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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 was one of the oldest centers of civilization in the Near East.
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.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/Y/Yemen.htm   (1808 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Yemen
Farther south and east, in the region that would later become South Yemen, were the Qataban and Hadhramaut kingdoms, which also participated in the incense trade.
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 (see Caliphate).
Despite this, the highlands of Yemen remained economically and culturally isolated from the outside world from the mid-17th century to nearly the mid-19th century, a period during which Western Europe was greatly influenced by modern thought and technology.
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 South Yemen: A Marxist Republic in Arabia, reviewed by J.E. Peterson, December 13, 1982
The cleaving of geographical Yemen into two separate political entities is a recent and largely artificial development, but one which is likely to endure because of the radically different experiences undergone by the north and south over the last century.
The emergence of a distinct South Yemen dates from the British occupation of Aden in 1839, which was followed by the gradual extension of British control over its hinterland.
Closer to home, South Yemen and Oman have been more often than not on the verge of war, Saudi Arabia has been implacable in its enmity, and North and South Yemen fought two border wars in the 1970s despite their declared commitment to unity.
www.wrmea.com /backissues/121382/821213007.htm   (757 words)

  
 Yemen
Yemen became a member of the Arab league in 1945 and the United Nations in 1947.
South Arabia, including Aden, was declared independent on November 30, 1967, and was renamed the People's Republic of South Yemen.
Yemen, one of the poorest countries in the Arab world, reported strong growth in the mid-1990s with the onset of oil production, but was harmed by low oil prices in 1998.
www.geocities.com /afgh_friends/y_countries.htm   (1625 words)

  
 March 2001
Haiti: Jean-Marie Chérestal is sworn in as prime minister.
On March 20 Domingo Cavallo is sworn in as economy minister and Ramón Mestre as interior minister.
Foreign Minister Faustino Imbali is sworn in as prime minister on March 21.
www.rulers.org /2001-03.html   (1116 words)

  
 Prime Minister   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In parliamentary systems like the Westminster system, the prime minister is the head of the government while the position of head of state is largely ceremonial.
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 (such as France) or unelected official (such as Germany) with varying degrees of real power.
When former New Zealand Prime Minister Jim Bolger became the Ambassador to the United States, he was referred to as “Prime Minister Bolger”, which was both poor style and factually incorrect.
nba.servegame.org /en/Prime_ministry.htm   (1431 words)

  
 Yemen
South Yemen believed it was the right time to impose Socialist unity based on Marxist ideology.
The people of the South had seen the development and political stability as well as the good foreign relations enjoyed by the North, where, in addition, conservatives who had violently opposed the South Yemen Marxist regime no longer regarded unity as "treason".
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.
www.internationalspecialreports.com /middleeast/00/yemen   (2882 words)

  
 Yemen - Atlapedia Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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.
South Yemen; In 1963 Aden was amalgamated with the British protectorate to form the Federation of South Arabia which resulted in rioting.
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)

  
 UNDP-POGAR: Country Index: Gender
Before the unification of North Yemen and South Yemen in 1994, women in the former South Yemen enjoyed a high degree of independence and equality.
The prime minister of Yemen announced in 1998 that each ministry must have a woman at the director-general level.
Yemen became a signatory to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) on May 30, 1984.
www.undp-pogar.org /countries/gender.asp?CID=22   (583 words)

  
 Government
"Therefore, from 1968 when South Yemen was declared an Independent State, until the day of unification, tension, sabotage, direct war and undeclared war was the norm of the relationship between those two countries," said Dr. El-Eryany.
They alleged that Saddam was encouraged to reunify Iraq with Kuwait by Yemeni unification, after seeing the capital city of Aden, South Yemen, disappear from the map, when Sana'a in the North became the capital.
Yemen had received much criticism because of its attitude during the gulf crisis.
www.internationalspecialreports.com /middleeast/00/yemen/government   (955 words)

  
 Leaders row as bombs hit Aden: The Guardian, 22 Jun 94
According to sources in southern Yemen, the issue is causing serious friction between Mr al-Baidh and several members of his government, notably the 'defence minister', Haytham Qasim Tahir.
The row in the south adds weight to claims by northern leaders that the separatists, intentionally or not, are proxies of Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states.
But they argue that to divide Yemen as a way of seeking revenge would not be in the long-term interests of these states.
www.al-bab.com /yemen/artic/gdn18.htm   (540 words)

  
 Security incidents in Yemen, 1990-94
April 26: Justice Minister Abd al-Wasi'a Ahmed Sallam (YSP, former justice and waqfs minister of South Yemen) injured by gunmen who opened fire on his car in Sana'a.
June 14: Hashim al-Attas, brother of prime minister Haydar Abu Bakr al-Attas, assassinated by "elements hostile to the unity of Yemen" in Shihr, Hadramawt province.
The police action was part of a move by the prime minister to implement national laws.
www.al-bab.com /yemen/data/incident94.htm   (1531 words)

  
 Walta Information Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The peace proposal forwarded by Yemen for settling the Ethio-Eritrean crisis was in tune with the peace package proposed by the organization of African Unity, the United Nations and other international organizations.
Even then, Yemen wishes that a speedy settlement be found for the crisis especially in consideration of the sound relations Yemen has with the two countries.
Yemen's interests are closely linked to the protection of the sovereignty of neighbouring countries.
www.telecom.net.et /~walta/conflict/articles/article823.html   (2086 words)

  
 National Review: All you need to know about South Yemen
Ismail's fanatical and invariably silly attempts to foster revolution in neighboring North Yemen and Oman were becoming a source of embarrassment to Moscow, then seeking to establish ties with the conservative Arab states of the Persian Gulf.
By 1985, South Yemen was receiving some financial aid from these Gulf states, and, by last autumn, the Soviets had achieved a long-sought diplomatic breakthrough: the establishment of relations with both Oman and the United Arab Emirates.
Frantic efforts by the Soviets to bring the conflict under control have included their installation of a former prime minister, Haider Abu Bakr al-Attas, as the successor to Hassani, whose whereabouts are unknown (Ismail is believed to have been killed).
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_v38/ai_4148019   (589 words)

  
 NTU Info Centre: President of South Yemen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The President of the Republic served as head of state, appointing a Prime Minister to serve as head of government.
This was followed closely in 1970 by the renaming of the country to People's Democratic Republic of Yemen.
This lasted until unification with the Yemen Arab Republic in 1990, when the then-Chairman became the Prime Minister of the united Yemen.
www.nowtryus.com /article:President_of_South_Yemen   (224 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | 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 /2/hi/middle_east/country_profiles/784383.stm   (569 words)

  
 Yemen
Formerly divided into two nations, the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen and the Yemen Arab Republic, the Republic of Yemen occupies the southwest tip of the Arabian Peninsula on the Red Sea opposite Ethiopia and extends along the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula on the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean.
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...
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0108153.html   (1069 words)

  
 Yemen News
During the 14 years they lived in Yemen after fleeing war in their native Ethiopia, Dereje Lakew and his wife were grateful to the country for sheltering them but longed for more freedom.
Prime Minister and his government are subject nowadays for the interrogations of the parliament.
Yemen said Sunday one of its military aircraft crashed and killed its pilot during a routine exercise.
www.topix.net /world/yemen   (1196 words)

  
 Government multi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Yemen is the only multi-party democracy in the Arabian Peninsula.
When unification took place in May 1991, leaders from both north and south were chosen to head the new state, pending national elections.
Within the last generation, the Republic of Yemen has begun the development process and is stretching its wings.
lennon.csufresno.edu /~aaa34/government.htm   (157 words)

  
 CPJ News Alert
Sanaa', Yemen, July 15, 1999 -- In a meeting today with press freedom advocate Terry Anderson, Yemen's prime minister said harassment and threats against journalists are "abhorrent to our laws and ideals" and should be condemned.
The deputy prime minister said, "There is a commitment by the government to improve human rights.
Since Yemen's 1994 civil war, tensions between north and south have often focused on the issue of northern political dominance.
www.cpj.org /news/1999/yemen15July99.html   (850 words)

  
 CIA - The World Factbook -- Yemen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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.cia.gov /cia/publications/factbook/geos/ym.html   (1117 words)

  
 Welcome to Yemen
Economy—overview: The northern city Sanaa is the political capital of a united Yemen, and the southern city Aden, with its refinery and port facilities, is the economic and commercial capital.
Former South Yemen's willingness to merge stemmed partly from the sharp decline in Soviet economic support.
Yemen's GDP has been supplemented by remittances from Yemenis working abroad and by foreign aid.
www.middleeastnews.com /Yemen.html   (1293 words)

  
 The Daily Star - Politics - Chief suspect in Cole attack had permit through Yemen military posts
SANAA: A former Yemeni minister provided the prime suspect in the trial of six militants charged over the October 2000 USS Cole bombing with a permit facilitating his entry through military points, a defense lawyer alleged on Wednesday.
Yemen's public prosecutor has issued an arrest warrant for Nashiri, who was described at the time of his arrest in the UAE as the chief of naval operations for the Al-Qaeda network and for its operations chief in the Gulf.
He and the five others were charged on July 7 with carrying out the bombing of the US destroyer Cole in Aden harbor, was claimed by Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.
www.dailystar.com.lb /article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=7706   (449 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Aden, the former capital of South Yemen, is the commercial capital
Council of Ministers appointed by the president on the advice of the prime minister
Yemen has been a Muslim country since 628 AD.
www.arab.net /yemen/yemen_overview.htm   (294 words)

  
 Yemen
Days of independence: North Yemen (San'a) November 1918, South Yemen (Aden) November 30, 1967.
The government is made up of 29 ministers, where the Minister of Foreign Affairs also is Deputy Prime Minister.
Yemen has the highest population density on the Arabian peninsula, but is by far also the poorest country in the region, due to very small oil resources.
lexicorient.com /e.o/uyemen.htm   (149 words)

  
 Pravda.RU Iraq Information Minister: Umm-Qasr Still in Iraqi Hands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The minister said that the group of US troops 'ran away' after meeting with desperate resistance from Iraqi troops and local defence forces.
Iraqi Information Minister Mohammad Saeed Sahaf has denied Washington's accusations that Iraq is using defenceless women and children as a "living shield" for its strategic facilities.
According to the officials, 'America is methodically arousing the hatred of Arabs from Yemen to Saudi Arabia, so we should not be surprised if this rage is unleashed in new explosions.' More details...
english.pravda.ru /hotspots/2003/03/26/45077.html   (2199 words)

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