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<text id=93CT1564>
<title>
Yemen--Government
</title>
<article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Yemen
Government</hdr><body>
<list>
<l>Names:</l>
<l> conventional long form: Republic of Yemen</l>
<l> conventional short form: Yemen</l>
<l> local long form: Al Jumhuriyah al Yamaniyah</l>
<l> local short form: Al Yaman</l>
</list>
<p>Digraph: YM
</p>
<p>Type: republic
</p>
<p>Capital: Sanaa
</p>
<p>Administrative divisions: 17 governorates (muhafazat, singular
- muhafazah); Abyan, 'Adan, Al Bayda', Al Hudaydah, Al Jawf, Al
Mahrah, Al Mahwit, Dhamar, Hadramawt, Hajjah, Ibb, Lahij,
Ma'rib, Sa'dah, San'a', Shabwah, Ta'izz
</p>
<p>note: there may be a new capital district of San'a'
</p>
<p>Independence: 22 May 1990 Republic of Yemen was established on
22 May 1990 with the merger of the Yemen Arab Republic {Yemen
(Sanaa) or North Yemen} and the Marxist-dominated People's
Democratic Republic of Yemen {Yemen (Aden) or South Yemen};
previously North Yemen had become independent on NA November
1918 (from the Ottoman Empire) and South Yemen had become
independent on 30 November 1967 (from the UK)
</p>
<p>Constitution: 16 April 1991
</p>
<p>Legal system: based on Islamic law, Turkish law, English
common law, and local customary law; does not accept compulsory
ICJ jurisdiction
</p>
<p>National holiday: Proclamation of the Republic, 22 May (1990)
</p>
<p>Political parties and leaders: General People's Congress, 'Ali
'Abdallah SALIH; Yemeni Socialist Party (YSP; formerly South
Yemen's ruling party - a coalition of National Front, Ba'th, and
Communist Parties), Ali Salim al-BIDH; Yemen Grouping for Reform
or Islaah, Abdallah Husayn AHMAR
</p>
<p>Other political or pressure groups: conservative tribal
groups; Muslim Brotherhood; Islamist parties; pro-Iraqi
Ba'thists; Nasirists
</p>
<p>Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal
</p>
<p>Elections:
</p>
<p> House of Representatives: last held NA (next to be held 27
April 1993); results - percent of vote NA; seats - (301); number
of seats by party NA; note - the 301 members of the new House of
Representatives come from North Yemen's Consultative Assembly
(159 members), South Yemen's Supreme People's Council (111
members), and appointments by the New Presidential Council (31
members)
</p>
<p>Executive branch: five-member Presidential Council (president,
vice president, two members from northern Yemen and one member
from southern Yemen), prime minister
</p>
<p>Legislative branch: unicameral House of Representatives
</p>
<p>Judicial branch: Supreme Court
</p>
<p>Leaders:
</p>
<p> Chief of State and Head of Government: President 'Ali
'Abdallah SALIH (since 22 May 1990, the former president of
North Yemen); Vice President Ali Salim al-BIDH (since 22 May
1990); Presidential Council Member Salim Salih MUHAMMED;
Presidential Council Member Kadi Abdul-Karim al-ARASHI;
Presidential Council Member Abdul-Aziz ABDUL-GHANI; Prime
Minister Haydar Abu Bakr al-'ATTAS (since 22 May 1990, the
former president of South Yemen)
</p>
<p>Member of: ACC, AFESD, AL, AMF, CAEU, ESCWA, FAO, G-77, IBRD,
ICAO, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, ILO, IMF, IMO, INTELSAT, INTERPOL,
IOC, ITU, LORCS, NAM, OIC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WFTU,
WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
</p>
<list>
<l>Diplomatic representation in US:</l>
<l> chief of mission: Ambassador Muhsin Ahmad al-AYNI</l>
<l> chancery: Suite 840, 600 New Hampshire Avenue NW,
Washington, DC 20037</l>
<l> telephone: (202) 965-4760 or 4761</l>
<l> consulate general: Detroit</l>
<l> consulate: San Francisco</l>
</list>
<list>
<l>US diplomatic representation:</l>
<l> chief of mission: Ambassador Arthur H. HUGHES</l>
<l> embassy: Dhahr Himyar Zone, Sheraton Hotel District,
Sanaa</l>
<l> mailing address: P. O. Box 22347 Sanaa or Sanaa, Department
of State, Washington, DC 20521-6330</l>
<l> telephone: [967] (2) 238-842 through 238-852</l>
<l> FAX: [967] (2) 251-563</l>
</list>
<p>Flag: three equal horizontal bands of red (top), white, and
black; similar to the flag of Syria which has two green stars
and of Iraq which has three green stars (plus an Arabic
inscription) in a horizontal line centered in the white band;
also similar to the flag of Egypt which has a symbolic eagle
centered in the white band
</p></body></article></text>