Yemeni & Eritrean governments exchange hostage fishermen [Archives:2002/35/Local News]

Eritrean Ambassador to Yemen Mr. Mohammed Othman Rido, declared that the Yemeni and Eritrean governments have exchanged a number of fishermen who were detained in both Eritrea and Yemen. He said that this step aims to keep the Yemeni-Eritrean relations healthy. In a special statement to the YT, Mr. Rido said that the Yemeni government has released the Eritrean ship called (sham whee) which was held in Hodieda port, 250 km west of Sana’a, for more than two months with eight of its crew members onboard.
Fishing in the south of the Red Sea remained a controversial matter between Yemen and Eritrea as the two countries could not reach a clear vision of the pronounced verdict of the dispute between the two countries over Hunaish Island.
Yemen believes that both Yemen and Eritrea were allowed -based on the verdict- to fish in the common regional water which has been ratified by International Court of Justice in The Hague.
However, Eritrea has a different interpretation of the pronounced verdict of the International Court of Justice leading to the conclusion that the dispute could practically still be considered unsettled.

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