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| Yemen rejects Riyadh building of a wall on its borders |
| 2004-02-05 |
| Hypocrisy thy name is Islam! News reports in Sanaa said that Yemen notified Saudi Arabia its objection to build a separation wall along its borders in a way violates the border demarcation agreement between the two countries. The rejection came after the Saudi authorities started to build the wall in an area on which Yemen says that it is considered by the border demarcation agreement as an empty zone. It wouldn’t be to keep out terrorists by any chance? The two Yemenis and Saudis border committees in charge of implementing their bilateral border treaty had met more than one time in Sanaa and Riyadh in order to draw the final arrangements, on laying border markers and establishing land border crossings. The two committees witnessed several differences on defining the crossing, their number and where it will be established and that was postponed to later meetings. The two countries chose the German "Hansa Luftbild" company to put the border markers, according to items and appendixes of the border treaty signed in Jeddah in June 2000. The two sides postponed the company’s work because of the continued differences on the position of some of these markers. Worthy mentioning that the Yemeni-Saudi agreement on demarking joint borders between the two states, which is of 1350 KM length had ended an old conflict between the two states that lasted for decades. Observers fear that the new Saudi measures might lead to a military confrontation between the two states. Gets my vote! Yemen seems to have a fairly capable military by the standards of the region. Of course the UN should be referring this to the World court. |
| Posted by:phil_b |
| #7 Hansa Luftbild Sounds like Haliburton/lite to me. Hit the Bat! |
| Posted by: Deanie babie 2004-2-5 3:38:19 PM |
| #6 Good |
| Posted by: Raj 2004-2-5 12:29:55 PM |
| #5 Saudi Arabia has been dispute with(North)Yemen since 1918. After becoming independent of the Ottoman Empire, Yemen claimed territory that Ibn Saud felt he had acquired in conquering southern Arabia. That led to war in the '30s ending with Yemen signing the Taif Agreement in 1934 and ceding the disputed territory plus more. The Yemeni's have been trying to reverse the agreement ever since. The $986 million wall is the latest solution. Frost wasn't completely correct when he wrote, "SOMETHING there is that doesn't love a wall....". Hansa Luftbild thinks they're great. |
| Posted by: Gasse Katze 2004-2-5 10:47:40 AM |
| #4 Israel should make sure to refer to this in it's brief refuting the WC legitimacy -- the one in which arab states, including Saudi Arabia, say that such a wall is unthinkable. |
| Posted by: PlanetDan 2004-2-5 8:15:15 AM |
| #3 Raptor: In the magnificent logic of an exgirlfriend.... if you don't know (the difference) I'm certainly not going to tell you. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-2-5 7:14:18 AM |
| #2 Muslems building a wall to keep out Brother Muslems.Seems a little strange that the Saudis can build a seperation wall,and that's ok. Israelies build a wall and that is wrong. Can you say hypocrite? See,I knew you could. |
| Posted by: Raptor 2004-2-5 6:23:23 AM |
| #1 hi·lar·i·ous Thanks for posting it. |
| Posted by: Bernardz 2004-2-5 6:04:36 AM |