Third Donors Conference Canceled in Yemen
OK the Saudis are peeved. This is a big move. It reminds me of when the US canceled the MCC award and the Forum for the Future after al Badawi was released.
Why would the Saudis be peeved? Maybe Yemen’s false announcement on the seven captured Saudi al Qaeda that wasn’t true, and which Yemen’s news agency retracted today. Maybe its the rest of the BS that Saleh is shoveling lately as counter-terrorism including the release of al Qaeda prisoners to fight the Southerners. About third of the six billion promised at the 2006 donors conference came from Saudi Arabia. The other Gulf states also ponied up substantial funds.
Yemen says they canceled the donors’ meeting because of a conflict in scheduling with a conference on Gaza.
Yemen, Donors delay third consultative meeting
SANA’A, Feb. 20 (Saba) – Yemen and its Development partners of donor countries, organizations and funds agreed on Friday delaying the third consultative meeting.
The date of the meeting, which was to be held next Sunday in Sana’a, will be set later, head of the Foreign Aid Coordination Unit at the Planning and International Cooperation Ministry Nabil Shaiban said.
He made clear that Yemen and donors agreed on delaying the meeting because it will coincide with another donor meeting to be held on Sunday would be dedicated for mobilize efforts to reconstruct the Gaza Strip. Ministers of Foreign and Finance of Gulf States will take part in the Gaza reconstruction meeting.
The third consultative meeting between Yemen and donors was to be held to follow up the implementation of the London Donor Conference’s results.
