Yemeni PM: New Govt Will Introduce Fresh Reforms

Yemeni Prime Minister Maeen Abdulmalik meets with the French Ambassador to Yemen Jean-Marie Safa. (Saba news agency)
Yemeni Prime Minister Maeen Abdulmalik meets with the French Ambassador to Yemen Jean-Marie Safa. (Saba news agency)
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Yemeni PM: New Govt Will Introduce Fresh Reforms

Yemeni Prime Minister Maeen Abdulmalik meets with the French Ambassador to Yemen Jean-Marie Safa. (Saba news agency)
Yemeni Prime Minister Maeen Abdulmalik meets with the French Ambassador to Yemen Jean-Marie Safa. (Saba news agency)

Yemeni Prime Minister Maeen Abdulmalik revealed on Saturday that the next government will usher in a host of economic reforms that will be implemented in cooperation with the country’s partners.

Abdulmalik added that corruption in state institutions will be dealt with strictly.

He noted that the coming period will be difficult as he revealed that a mini-technocrat government will be announced this week.

The challenges will be huge but it is not impossible for the new government to overcome, he said during a meeting with French ambassador to Yemen, Jean-Marie Safa.

The mission to save the national economy, put an end to the depreciation of the national currency, complete the restoration of the state and build its institutions and alleviate the suffering of the Yemeni people across the country without exceptions will be the top priority, Abdulmalik said.

The new government has a package of reforms which it will carry out with support from partners and friends of Yemen in the fields of development, economy and finance as well as measures to fight corruption and enhance accountability, he stressed.

The PM accused the Iran-backed Houthi militias of deepening the humanitarian crisis through refusing all proposed solutions to resolve economic crises and the military escalation.

Talks with the French diplomat tackled recent developments in Yemen and France’s continued support of state institutions and the Yemeni people. The officials also discussed priorities for the upcoming period and areas of cooperation between Yemen and France.

Abdulmalik touched on the advanced steps that have been achieved in implementing the Riyadh Agreement on the military, security and political levels, as well as the consensus between the political stakeholders to announce a Yemeni cabinet in the coming days.

Talks also went over the repeated Houthi targeted attacks on civilians in clear and flagrant rejection of the political solution.



New Reports Reveal Details of Hassan Nasrallah’s Assassination

People gather at a site damaged by Israeli airstrike that killed Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah during a commemoration ceremony in Beirut southern suburbs, Lebanon November 30, 2024. Reuters/Thaier Al-Sudani/File Photo 
People gather at a site damaged by Israeli airstrike that killed Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah during a commemoration ceremony in Beirut southern suburbs, Lebanon November 30, 2024. Reuters/Thaier Al-Sudani/File Photo 
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New Reports Reveal Details of Hassan Nasrallah’s Assassination

People gather at a site damaged by Israeli airstrike that killed Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah during a commemoration ceremony in Beirut southern suburbs, Lebanon November 30, 2024. Reuters/Thaier Al-Sudani/File Photo 
People gather at a site damaged by Israeli airstrike that killed Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah during a commemoration ceremony in Beirut southern suburbs, Lebanon November 30, 2024. Reuters/Thaier Al-Sudani/File Photo 

Several Israeli reports revealed last week new information about the assassination of former Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, saying the Joe Biden administration was reportedly furious about the operation.

The US did not try to stop the strike, but said the Israeli operation made them “look like fools,” a report by Israel’s Channel 13 said.

It showed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hesitated for a long time before he gave the order to execute the operation. Nasrallah was killed shortly after the Israeli PM gave a speech at the United Nations General Assembly.

On Sunday night, former Israeli Ambassador to the US, Mike Herzog, told Channel 13 that he attempted to provide advance warning of the strike.

Herzog said that it was agreed that Israel would update the Americans before the strike on Nasrallah’s compound, at the level of [then-National Security Advisor] Jake Sullivan.

In the interview, the former ambassador said, “We tried setting up a phone call with Jake Sullivan and he didn’t get back to us. He was angry because he thought we had deceived them, and we let them make public the initiative for a ceasefire and make them look foolish, while we are planning to eliminate Nasrallah.”

The US official who was informed about the Israeli operation is then-Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, who had received a phone call from then-Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.

Asked how Austin responded during the call, when Gallant informed him that the strike was about to occur, former US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro made a diplomatic statement, saying, “I’ll allow others to characterize that call.”

During his interview with Channel 13, Gallant said, “I updated Austin 15 minutes before the operation. I told him, ‘We’re about to eliminate Nasrallah’. He asked me, ‘When?’ I told him, ‘15 minutes’. He really did not like this. He told me, ‘This could lead to a regional war’. I told him, ‘With all due respect, this man murdered thousands of Israelis and hundreds of Americans. I suggest you carefully consider your response.”

Gallant continued, “So he (Austin) asks me, ‘Are you convinced he’s there?’ I told him, ‘There is a very high probability.’”

At the end of September 2024, Israel was informed about Nasrallah’s plans to attend a high-level meeting in Beirut’s southern suburbs.

The French newspaper Le Parisien, citing a Lebanese security source, revealed that an Iranian spy provided Israel with information regarding the arrival of Nasrallah in Beirut's southern suburbs.

The report noted that Nasrallah arrived in the exact vehicle as Abbas Nilforoushan, the Deputy Commander of Iran's Quds Force in Lebanon.

According to Le Parisien, the informant alerted Israel about Nasrallah’s planned arrival at the headquarters on Friday afternoon, just four hours before the strike.

But Israel’s Kan 11 channel said Israel received the information days before the strike.

Nasrallah, who had led Iran-backed Hezbollah for 32 years, was killed on September 27, 2024 when a series of Israeli airstrikes flattened several buildings in Beirut’s southern suburbs.