Typical. After the big announcements about reducing the bloated overseas diplomatic corps in an effort to reduce public spending on Saleh’s cronies, it comes down to….Romania.
The pro-government daily newspaper September 26 said Thursday, “The first step of the plan is to close down the embassy in Bucharest and other embassies to be decided later, according to Yemen’s diplomatic interests and as part of a plan to restructure its diplomatic representation abroad.”
Comment by Sajid Hussain
11/22/2005 @ 1:35 am
I need a directory of Diplomatic Corps. Your big coopration is alwayes with us.
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12/3/2010 @ 12:12 pm
[...] Good! 4.5 billion YR is about 220 million dollars US. Another area of enormous expense with disproportionately small return is the foreign embassies, which are used as a mechanism for getting outspoken politicians out of the country. For example the actual winner of the al Jawf governor’s election and the first member of Parliament to resign in protest of corrupt practices were both shipped abroad in diplomatic positions. In 2005, Yemen made repeated announcements that it would be closing unnecessary foreign embassies and reducing staff at others in an effort to cut costs. In the end, after months of hullabaloo, one Yemeni embassy was closed, Oct.11, 2005, Romania. [...]
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