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Monday, March 16, 2009

Yemen’s Increase in Spending on Weapons over Last 10 Years

President Saleh’s recent visit to Russia raised a great deal of media fuss and this fuss was associated with the nature of the visit.

The official media mentioned that Saleh’s visit was meant for canceling Yemen’s debts as well as the economic cooperation, while the international media revealed that Yemen signed weapons deals at billions of US Dollars.

This was later affirmed by the official media as they revealed that the country signed a four-billion dollar weapons deal, the biggest deal ever.

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