VOL. XL

No. 44

3-November-1997

YEMEN

Yemen Objects To Eritrean Red Sea Exploration Plans

The Yemeni Foreign Ministry has sent an official memorandum of protest to the EritreaGovernment over Asmara's plans to explore for oil in the Red Sea, according to the 30October edition of Al-Thawri, the weekly newspaper of the Yemen Socialist Party. InSeptember, Anandarko Petroleum Corp. of the US announced that it had signed its secondproduction sharing agreement with Eritrea for the offshore 2.3mn acre...