Al-Mithaq [Archives:2003/691/Press Review]

1 Dec. 2003
Main headlines:
– 250 international personalities invited to attend the international conference on democracy, law and human rights
– GPC competes with 89 candidates, 19 of whom in governorates local councils in the by-elections
– FM al-Qirbi: Cooperation with America and Saudi Arabia in fighting terror, satisfactory to all parties
– Executive council of Arab audition apparatuses convenes in Sana'a Saturday
– Education minister: We expect support for primary education programs to amount to $90 million in coming four years
On the 30th of November anniversary columnist Ahmed al-Mikhlafi wrote saying in an interview to a Yemeni newspaper last October the British ambassador to Sana'a mentioned that withdrawal of the last British soldiers from Aden in 1967 represented the end of the British Empire and that its country thought then to hand over power in Aden but also to keep a military base. But the power of the revolution and popular pressure caused the colonialists hasten in getting their troops out completely. The Yemeni revolution had expelled Britain from Aden and defeated the strategic thinking of towards the region. Since the beginning of the British colonization of Aden in June 1839 and till the last attempt in 1967 Britain worked for implementing a large group of arrangements and policies aimed at serving its interests and consolidating its presence there. it had concluded tens of agreements with sultans and sheiks and emirs and enhanced division by forming separate protectorates an administered them indirectly.
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