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VP inspects government’s troopsin Al-Boq’a, Sa’adah

Gulf-Yemeni economic summit needed for Yemen,says bin-Daghr

Info. Minister demands Lebanese governmentself-rescue

Supreme Judiciary Council decides creating board of accountability for judicialauthority’s staff

National Commission of Inquiry visits BirAhmed reformatory

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By Information Attache of the Yemeni Embassy in RiyadhWeekly Bulletin

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President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi presided over a meeting of his advisory board in the presence of his deputy, Ali Mohsen Saleh, and Prime Minister Ahmed bin-Daghr here on Monday.

The meeting discussed the overall local developments especially the severe economic consequences of the Houthi militia’s September 21 coup and

of the war the militia triggered.

It emphasized need to intensify the efforts of the government particularly the Economic Committee to achieve economic and developmental stability in the country.

Hadi acquainted on his latest visit to the United States and his meetings on the sidelines of the General Assembly session

with the US President Donald Trump and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

Vice President Ali Mohsen briefed the meeting on his recent visit to the frontlines of the fight between the army and the rebels in the northern provinces of Saada and Hajjah where the army had been making strategic gains.

President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi conducted Monday evening a telephone call with His Roay Highness (HRH), Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, Crown Prince, Deputy Premier and Minister of Defense in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.In the telephone conversation President Hadi touched upon several topics of common interest. The President detailed (HRH) the Crown Prince on the situations Yemen has been going through in different fields. Above all the economic challenges and hardships because of the implications of the practices of the Iran-backed Houthi putschist

militia which has continued to mess with the country’s resources, security and stability. As a result peoples’ living conditions have been seriously deteriorated and national currency value depreciated. President Hadi expressed his hope for the Kingdom’s supportive stances in supporting the Yemeni people throughout different stages.For his part, (HRH) the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz voiced the Kingdom’s standing alongside Yemen’s leadership and people in order to get rid of all challenges and re-establishing Yemen’s security and stability.

President Hadi conducts phone call with Saudi Crown Prince

Hadi meets his advisory board


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Hadi orders Economic Committee to address causes of Riyal depreciation

President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi has ordered the Economic Committee tasked with addressing the dramatic depreciation of the national currency to continue its extraordinary meetings

to address the causes of the depreciation issue.

Hadi chaired a meeting of the Committee on Monday in the presence of his deputy Ali Mohsen Saleh and prime

minister Ahmed bin-Daghr.

The Riyal has plummeted drastically, trading at 790 for one US dollar, down from 215 before the Houthi coup in 2014.

President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi received the Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to Yemen, the General Supervisor of the Saudi Program for Reconstruction in Yemen Mohammed Saeed Al Jaber.

They discussed a number of economic development projects meant to alleviate the suffering of the Yemeni people.

These include electricity, fuel and other services in Aden and the provinces of Socotra, Hadhramout, Marib, Al-Jouf and Dhalia.

Hadi praised the Saudi leadership represented by King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and his Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz for their support to Yemen on all levels.

Hadi receives Saudi ambassador to Yemen, discuss economic projecs


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King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia has ordered a USD 200 million grant to Yemen’s central bank to shore up the Yemeni Riyal.

The official Saudi Press Agency said the order represents the permanent Saudi stance by the side of the Yemeni people and government and out of

the Saudi interest to realize the stability of the Yemeni economy.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has confirmed its interest in continuing to support the Yemeni government until security and stability is restored in the country.

Saudi King orders $200 million grant to shore up

Yemeni currency

President Abd-Rabbo Mansour Hadi has praised Yemeni-US unique relations based on cooperation and facing joint challenges represented in terrorism and Iran’s interferences via Houthis and Hezbollah.

In his meeting with US Ambassador to Yemen Mathew Tueller on Wednesday, President Hadi pointed to challenges and repercussions of Iran-backed Houthi militia’s coup against

the state and their plots against the interests of the people via currency speculation by the funds looted from the Central Bank of Yemen in Sana’a before relocating it to Aden.

He also pointed to cooperation of Saudi Arabia and Yemeni capitals, which contributed in overcoming repercussions of currency collapse, hoping for a role to be played by the United States in this filed and continuous support to Yemen and its legality.

For his part, the US diplomat expressed pleasures for meeting with the President and pleasure for his successful visit to the United States and resulting fruitful meetings.

He praised President Hadi’s speech before the United Nations General Assembly on the real situation in Yemen, confirming support of the US to Yemen and its legality for facing different threats.

President praises Yemeni-US relations


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VP inspects government’s troops in Al-Boq’a, Sa’adah

Vice President (Lt Gen) , Deputy Commander-in-Chief Ali Mohssen Saleh paid Sunday an inspection visit to the military units of the government’s troops in Sa’ada-Al-Boq’a axis. His trip aimed to get firsthand knowledge about the military units’ situations and combat operations.

He held a meeting included commanders of Sa’ada’s axis, units of the troops stationed there and commanders of the Arab Coalition Forces.

(Lt Gen) Mohssen extended his own felicitations and the Commander-in-Chief, Field Marshal President Abd-Rabu Mansour Hadi’s to the commanders, ranks and troops on the occasion of the Yemeni Revolution September and October.

Then, he was briefed on the ongoing combat operations and the deployment of the national military troops. He applauded the significant advancements gained by the troops in battling Iran-

backed Houthi militia, highly appreciating the sacrifices have been extended by the troops, praising substantial support by the Saudi-led Arab Coalition.

The Vice President stated that the legitimate government along with Arab Coalition are determined to go on battling the Houthi putschist militia and reestablishing sustainable

peace that puts down the coup and reinstates the legitimate authority.

He cited the security, economic and humanitarian crisises that Yemeni people have been struggling with as a result of

the Iran-allied Houthi militia’s coup d’état.

(Lt Gen) Mohssen witnessed a military parade carried out by symbolic units of Sa’ada’s axis troops to celebrate the 56th Anniversary of 26 September Revolution and the 55th Anniversary of October Revolution.

He gave a word on the occasion in which he asserted that Houthi’s idea is strange, illogical inconsistent with the proposal of the democratic and Republic State. Therefore all Yemeni people will never accept or surrender to the militia’s control.

After that the Vice President got familiar with the reconstruction efforts aimed to repair the government’s border’s exit facility which seriously damaged by Houthi militia. He also paid an inspection trip to the market of Al-Boq’a. The market almost appeared to be entirely ruined.


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Vice President (Lt Gen) Ali Mohssen Saleh met Wednesday Ambassador of the United Kingdom to our country Michael Aron to know about the latest developments in the Yemeni national arena.The meeting also touched upon Yemeni-Britisch bilateral ties and underway efforts aiming to re-establish sustainable peace in Yemen.The Vice President reiterated the legitimate government’s principled stance toward peace. He stated that the government is very interested in achieving peace that is based on the three terms of reference: GCC’s Imitative , its executive plan, outcomes of National Dialogue and International Security Council no 2216. He highly appreciated the British friends’

role in supporting legitimacy and peace efforts. (Lt Gen) Mohssen highlighted the security, economic and humanitarian crisis our country has been experiencing because of the Iran-backed Houthi coup d’état and Houthis’ hostile policy aimed at killing, terrifying the citizens and causing their starvation. The Vice President highly appreciating the royal noble directive by Custodian of the Two Holly Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud to donate $200 million in urgent assistance to be deposited in the Central Bank of Yemen. He stated that thanks to the Saudi leadership interest, headed by Custodian of the Two Holly Mosques and his Crown Prince, His Royal Highness

(HRH) Prnce Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulqaziz, otherwise Yemeni economic slide would be doubled with catastrophic consequences.(Lt Gen) Mohssen stated that it is very important for the International community to take urgent measures to pressure the Houthis to come to peace and put international resolutions in place in order to achieve security and peace in Yemen, end the Yemeni peoples’ torment that Houthis pay no attention to.The British diplomat reiterated the UK’s interest in establishing peace and alleviating the Yemenis’ suffering, applauding the Vice President’s interest and the legitimate government’s efforts for peace.

VP meets with British

Ambassador to our country

Vice President (Lt Gen) Ali Mohssen Saleh met Thursday with Minister of Transport Saleh Al-Jabwani.

The Minister reported to the Vice President about underway efforts by the Ministry to reinstate its offices and improve transport services.

Aljabwani also detailed (Lt Gen) Mohssen on

the efforts have been made by the Cabinet of Minister to re-operate airports and seaports in the government-held provinces in coordination with the Arab Coalition.

The Vice President urged further efforts to improve transport services and repair what the Houthi putshist militia destroyed.

Minister of Transport briefs Vice President on

His Ministry’s actions


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In a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday over the drastic depreciation of the national currency against foreign currencies, Prime Minister Ahmed bin-Daghr said Yemen needs an economic summit with the Arabian Gulf countriesto look into Yemen’s situation.

In September 2014 Yemen saw a coup by the Houthi militia that evolved in 2015 to a war that has since plunged the country in an unprecedented humanitarian and economic crises including the devaluation of the Yemeni Riyal from a pre-war exchange rate of nearly YR 214 to the present YR 800versus one US dollar.

“Yemen needs a Yemeni-Gulf economic conference at a summit-levelto look into its situation,” said bin-Daghr, adding, “We cannot win the battle againstHouthis and their Iranian allies in wretched conditions the Yemeni people

suffer.”

Bin-Daghr called on the brotherly Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to streamline the use of their granted deposit for Yemen’s central bank and Yemeni companies and traders who want hard currency to import commodities to their country.

He praised Saudi Arabia for granting Yemen an oil products grant and most recently a USD 200 million deposit to Yemen’s central bank to shore up the Riyal, saying the deposit will put an end to this appalling devaluation of the Riyal.

He also called for neutralizing the country’s resources of oil, gas and taxes.

He also said:”I call on the Houthi rebels to cede to the government (at least) the financial authority and therefore deal responsibly with the Central Bank in Aden. In

return, we are ready to bear the full responsibility in managing the economic, financial and fiscal policy and bear any consequences for that before our people and the international community.”

Bin-Daghr pointed to the fact that the root cause of this economic deterioration and continuous depreciation of the Riyal is the Houthimilitia’s sabotage of Yemen’s historical transformationby mounting the 2014 military coup and triggering the ongoing conflict in 2015.

Gulf-Yemeni economic summit needed for

Yemen, says bin-Daghr


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Government warns of riots harming Yemen’s national

securityThe Cabinet has continued its meetings on Wednesday for discussing current conditions and latest political, security and economic conditions, especially those associated with improving the price of local currency against foreign currencies.

Presided over by Prime Minister Ahmad Obeid bin-Daghr, the meeting confirmed support to President Hadi as legal president to the Republic of Yemen and his federal project rejecting Houthi and separatist rebellion and all terrorist acts.

The cabinet valued the recent Saudi grant of USD 200 million and confirmed that the grant will help keeping the economic condition stable.

The government demanded unifying the financial and administrative cadre to all military and security units in the framework of the financial and administrative cadre of the ministries of defense and interior and calling different parties not to pay salaries to illegal military and security

units.

The Minsters Council directed a call to the so –called “the Transitional Council” to work politically and abandon any military and security units do not work under the legal authority.

It also called all parties to return to political activities away of calls to riots, which will harm all and will not exclude anyone.

The council urged the political parties, social organizations and Yemeni people to reject sabotage acts and regional incitement calls called by some to undermine the state and its efforts of normalizing life and stressed unifying fronts for protecting the unity of Yemen and its security and stability.

The cabinet denounced the kidnapping of the Head of Islah Charitable Society in Aden Mohammad al-Shugaina and killing him barbarically.

The council urged the security authorities in Aden to shoulder responsibility tostrongly face the serial of chaos and crimes

and protect citizens, warning of any little doing.

“The sole beneficiary from this chaos are Houthi rebels and their allies in terrorist Iranian regime, which support their plots and political calls for chaos and violence and security and service failure for propagating legality and Saudi-UAE-led Arab Coalition have failed in managing the country and handing it over to violent and terrorist groups and failed to provide security and peace to Yemeni people,” said the ministers.

The Council of Ministers called all honest Yemeni people and political parties and forces to adopt public pea


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In a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday over the drastic depreciation of the national currency against foreign currencies, Prime Minister Ahmed bin-Daghrblamed the Houthi militia’s coup of September 2014 and secondly other causes for “the collapse” of the national currency.

In September 2014 Yemen saw a coup by the Houthi militia that evolved in 2015 to a war that has since plunged the country in an unprecedented humanitarian and economic crises including the devaluation of the Yemeni Riyal from a pre-war exchange rate of nearly YR 214 to the present YR 800 versus one US dollar.

“The causes that led to the collapse of the Riyal are the Houthi coup and new political causes which the Houthis, the separatists and the terrorists and their backer conducted in sync,” said bin-Daghr.

“But our defense of the supreme national interests will not falter the least bit, we will safeguard Yemen united, federal and

new,” he said.

“It is no secret that the attacks on the government come from these three parties together with Iran.”

“Houthis have destroyed Yemen, therefore we have a long time to suffer as a result,” he emphasized.

Citing the rebels’ operation of their own de factocentral bank and collection of revenues to it in Sana’a as another setback to the government, he said: “There are two financial and fiscal policy administrations , there is a Houthi mess up that aims to destroy our country.”

The Houthi coup and forcing of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi’s government out of Sana’a in2015 “caused the state to lose 85% of its financial resources.”

Furthermore, he said, “in the last two weeks Houthis assigned some banks and money exchangers to buy the US dollar from all over Yemen at any expense”causing eventually this dramatic depreciation.”

“A sufficient evidence is thata number of money exchangers closed business blaming ‘a party’ they did not name for the collapse. This party to our best knowledge and the knowledge of others, is none other than the Houthis,” he said.

He said that some of the individuals assigned by the Houthis to buy the dollars any expense have been arrested in Aden.

“To be realistic, this is not the only reason of the collapse though. There are other causes the most important of which is the suspension of oil and gas export.”

He also named several more causes that lead to the overall economic deterioration and in particular the Riyal collapse; the informal speculation in oil trade, the irregularities in the military and security setup in the provinces liberated from Houthis and the spike in assassinations and other destabilizing acts in these provinces.”

Houthi coup led to the collapse of the

Riyal, says bin-Daghr


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Supreme Judiciary Council decides creating board of accountability for judicial authority’s

staffSupreme Judiciary Council (SJC) has approved to establish a board of accountability for judicial authority’s staffers. The board of accountability is to be created in accordance with Article no (111) of Judiciary Authority Law no (1) of 1991 and its amendments.

The board is chaired by judge Qaher Mustafa, and included membership of Judge Hashim Abdellah

Al-Jifery, judge Nabeel Abdulhabeeb Al-Naqeeb.

The SJC has made the decision in its weekly meeting held Wednesday presided over by judge Ali Nasser Salim.

The SJC also has approved the general policy for admitting the 23rd batch of High Judiciary Institute’s studentse.

Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Interior Ahmed Almaysari presided over a meeting of the Economic Committee.

The meeting held Thursday in the de facto capital Aden to discuss the implications of the economic hardships the country has been struggling with.

Almaysari stated that the political leadership alongside

with Arab Coalition headed by Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are very interested in managing the economic challenges. To this end, they are doing their utmost efforts to maintain the value of national currency.

The Deputy Premier appreciated the Saudi supportive stances in supporting Yemen, depositing $200 million in the Central Bank of Yemen.

Adviser of the President of

the Republic Sadiq Me’ayad, Chairman of the Economic Committee cited steps have been taken by the Committee with the aim of tackling the reasons that gave rise to the slide of national currency.

For his part, Governor of the Yemeni Central Bank cited several practical measures have already been adopted to stop the depreciation of the Yemeni Rial (YR).

The Economic Committee holds

meeting chaired by Dep. Premier


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The Governor of the Central Bank of Yemen (CBY) Dr. Mohammad Zimam has confirmed that the Saudi grant directed by the Custodian of the two Holy Mosques King Salman Bin Abdul-Aziz, estimated at USD 200 million, has been deposited on Wednesday in the bank in Aden.

Zimam valued the brotherly support of Saudi officials led by King Salman and his Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman for their care of economy in our country and providing financial aid, which help alleviating severe economic conditions and reviving the Yemeni Rial.

“ We always have been witnessing the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia standing by Yemen in different stages and conditions like quick rescue of deterioration of the Yemeni Rial,” said Zimam, adding there are other measures the government and the Central Bank are taking to stop deterioration of the Rial and reviving the economic situation.

The Saudi new grant of USD 200 million is added to the USD one billion deposited in 2012 and to the two billion deposited early 2018, in addition to the oil monthly grant of USD 60 million, which their revenues go to the bank in Aden, said

Governor of the CBY Zimam.

He confirmed that he will not allow playing with the currency, warning the private banks and money exchangers of doing anything harm the national economy and the exchange price.

Measures against the spoilers of national economy will face strict legal measures with the help of regional and international concerned bodies.

He pointed to the bank’s current measures of improving humanitarian conditions via helping the commercial banks of increasing imports of basic goods to the people.

Zimam confirms depositing Saudi grant in the CBY

Info. Minister demands Lebanese government

self-rescueMinister of Information Mua’mer Al-Iryani called on the Lebanese government and Lebanese Minister of Information Melhem Arriashi, to comply with its stated self-rescue policy toward the conflicts in the region. He urged the Lebanese government to act to stop Houthi putschist militia’s subversive and destructive activities in Lebanon which are being carried out with Hezbollah’s political and security cover and financial support.

Al-Iryani said:”The party of Hezbollah, which is part of the Lebanese government, did not only provide Iran-backed Houthi militia with logistic, expertise and militants, but also turned the southern

Dahia of Beirut to a platform for running the media machinery of the coup d’état in Yemen to attack the Saudi-led Coalition for restoring legitimate authority”.

The Minister called on the Lebanese government to stop the two satellite TV channels: Al-Masira and Assahat, websites and dozens of Houthi militia’s operatives in Lebanon.

Al-Iryani stated that such illegal activities contribute toward prolonging the war, undermine Yemen’s security and stability and don’t serve the relations between the two brotherly countries and peoples.


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Kafine, Arrabiah discuss

rehabilitating fishery facilities

Minister of Fishery Fahd Kafine met Monday with Adviser in Royal Divan, General Supervisor of KSrelief Center Dr Abdullah Arrabiah.

Cafine’s conversations with Arrabiah focused on the need for rehabilitating fishery facilities and infrastructure which seriously damaged by the war waged by Iran-backed Houthi militia in different provinces.

The Minister praised humanitarian assistance provided by KSrelief Center at this critical stage Yemen has been experiencing.” KSrelief Center humanitarian and relief actions reached to al Yemeni provinces, significantly helped mitigating the humanitarian crisis”, said Kafine.

Speaker of Arab Parliament Dr Masha’l Asslami put forward two drafts bill designed to rebut the UN High Commissionaire’s report about Yemen. The drafts worded Tuesday by the Committee of Legislative, Legal and Human Rights Affairs of Arab Parliament.

The two drafts will be submitted to the general session of Arab Parliament scheduled for tomorrow Wednesday to be approved.

In a press statement Dr Asslami said the first draft bill about” rejecting the report by the UN High Commissionaire

for Human Rights issued on August 28, 2018, and its content which included stances, conclusions, recommendations by the Team of Experts about human rights situations in the Republic of Yemen over the period September 2014 to June 2018”.

Asslami noted that the second draft bill about” Appreciating “Masm” Project for de-mining in Yemen which launched by KSrelief Center and demanding the UN to make Yemen a free-mines country”.

Asslami said” The draft bill includes several articles

expressively voicing Arab Parliament’s position that disapproves the report’s content which is lacking accuracy and objectivity as it overlooked documented violations systematically committed by Iran-back Houthi militia and its backers in Yemen…. The report also ignored Houthi militia’s using the seaport under its control to smuggle weapons and ballistic missiles to attack the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its people, firing more than (170) ballistic missiles against the Kingdom’s cities including Mecca and Riaydh “.

Arab Parliament’s speakers submits two drafts bill to dispute High Commissionaire’s report about

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Arab Parliament says Houthis present evidence every day

they are not for peaceThe Arab Parliament has affirmed that peaceful solution to the Yemeni crisis shall be based on the three relevant terms of references represented by the Gulf Initiative, the outcomes of the National Dialogue Conference and the UN Security Council resolutions mainly resolution no. 2216 (2015.)

In a statement issued on Wednesday the parliament said the rebels “are presenting new evidence every day of theirunwillingness ..for peaceful solution.”

The parliament cited the rebel militia’s no-show in Geneva for peace talks with the government in September 6.

It said that “the actions of the Houthi militia, backed by the Iranian regime, against the children in Yemen represent war crimes and crimes against humanity and a threat to regional and international

security.”

It called on the United Nations to take urgent and decisive measures against the militia’s forcible recruitmentof child fighters in the war with the Yemeni government.

It condemned the Iranian intervention in Yemen through supporting the Houthisto continue threateningYemen’sneighbors including with ballistic missiles.

It also called on the United Nations to use all measures to counter the militia’sattacks on and militarization of government institutions, schools and hospitals;confiscation ofhumanitarian aid; planting of sea mines; using boat bombsto target oil tankers in the Red Sea.

The National Commission of Inquiry into allegations of human rights violations visited the Beer-Ahmed reformatory in Aden on Wednesday and looked into the situations of the prisoners there.

The Commission listened to a number of prisonerslaying their

demands; the implementation of court-issued orders to release some of them; bringing those who have charges against them to court quickly; subjecting those who should be interrogated to interrogation at the hand of the Criminal Investigation Police; and treatment of the

psychologically ill prisoners.

The Commission members assured the prisoners of their understanding of their demands and their commitment toconvey the prisoners’ demands to the competent authorities and to follow up onany abuses they may be subjected to.

National Commission of Inquiry visits Bir Ahmed

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