Yemen Moves to Block UN and NATO Anti-Piracy Efforts
What’s the problem? The black market economy may suffer if security is established in the Gulf of Aden and Bab al-Mendab?
Its amazing how much smuggling (drugs and medicine, weapons, persons, oil, counterfeit money) is going on. All with the knowledge of and/or facilitation by administration officials and in some cases, deployment of state apparatuses.
Yemen warns of an Israeli scheme for internationalization of the Red Sea
Monday, 10-November-2008
Almotamar.net - Yemen has expressed its concern against dangers of the military presence in the south of the Red Sea on the Arab national security and what it represents of an introduction for passing of a scheme for internationalization of the Red Sea waters.Yemen Foreign Minister Dr Abu Bakr al-Qirbi on Sunday expressed concern of the Yemeni Republic with what appears in the offing as a result of the intensive multi-national military presence at the southern inlet of the Red Sea and the dangers of that on the Arab national security and what it represents of a prelude for implementing the project of internationalizing waters of the Red Sea that was previously suggested by Israel and was faced with an Arab rejection.
The Yemeni Foreign minister also affirmed in an interview to al-Mithaq newspaper in its today’s issue that there are efforts exerted by Yemen under auspices of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, including his latest movement to a number of Arab countries for crystallization of unified Arab stand in the face of what is going on of military massing up and acts of piracy in the Red Sea.
Minister al-Qirbi renewed confirmation of Yemen’s stand calling for the countries on the Red Sea to bear their responsibility and coordinate their efforts for fighting the acts of piracy and not to depend on foreign countries in this regard.
The Minister has called the attention to a series of early arrangements and measures taken by the Yemeni government for facing the piracy, the more important is the deployment of more than one thousand soldiers along the Yemeni coasts and building an advanced centre for observation in addition to sending calls to the international community to support those measures.
