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Article: YEMEN - Abdul-Qader Ba-Jammal.
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- APS Review Gas Market Trends
- Article date:
- June 26, 2006
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The Prime Minister since early April 2001, Ba-Jammal was retained in the February 2006 cabinet reshuffle. In 2001 he had succeeded Abdel-Karim al-Iryani who had been in this post since May 16, 1998. Now Dr. Iryani is a presidential adviser. Until early April 2001, Ba-Jammal was foreign minister and played a key role in the territorial negotiations with Saudi Arabia which led to a comprehensive agreement in June 2000.
Ba-Jammal is a southerner from Hadhramout. He began his political career in the Marxist People's Democratic Republic of (south) Yemen, where he was planning and oil minister in the 1980s. Following the abortive 1986 coup in Aden, he was imprisoned ...