Press Review [Archives:2000/05/Press Review]

Al-Thawri
Socialist Part   Tension Continues Between Yemen and Saudi Arabia
Sana’a political sources confirmed that a state of tension in the Saudi-Yemeni relations continues and that the visit paid to Saudi Arabia by the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs has failed in decreasing the gap between the points of view regarding the joint border.
Observers noticed that the verbal letter Mr. Ba Jammal brought back to the president bore implied indications that no agreement was reached on those issues disagreed upon.
An Open Breach to the Constitution
The People’s General Congress concluded its breaches of the Constitution by its members’ voting on the Law of Local Government as MPs and Yemenis looked unbelievingly towards those grief breaches of the Constitution.
Voting was taken by the relaxed majority of the PGC while threats and shouts were exchanged between Mr. Al-Raa’i who was chairing the session and some MPs who openly expressed their anger of the way he run the meetings since last Saturday.
Well-informed Parliament sources disclosed that the breaches against the Constitution continued to the last minute, as forgeries were made in the results of voting through adding votes in the name of absent members such as Abdulla Khairan, Ahmed Al-Aansi, Ahmed Sofan, Saleh Al-Junaid and others.

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