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Will the Union of Yemen be a model applicable in other Arab countries?
Al-Riyadh Editorial
Published in Alriyadh on 14 - 02 - 2014

The Egyptian-Syrian union failed earlier but the United Arab Emirates succeeded. The Yemen's step of becoming a federal state consisted of six provinces may be the solution which success possibilities are very possible if the opponents accept it. The basic value in such organization is that it provides each province with a special independence that keeps it away from the bureaucracy of the center and the monopoly of authority. However, The issue needs this transformation's ability of going on peacefully and avoiding, at the same time, a real split of an independent state. However, its success may keep Yemen away from sectarian or tribal conflicts.
Yemen is a poor country in regard to resources but this does not mean that it does not have natural resources that may contain oil, minerals and fish fortunes. However, the exploitation of such wealth needs a political stability and a social agreement even in regard to wealth distribution if it happens that one of the union provinces becomes richer than the others. The self administration shall put an end to the center's conflict with the other provinces through competitions about who can reach the stage of creating economic and social initiatives, modern administration and development of education bases. The extra human resource in Yemen can be an actual value inside it and work force in its Arab circumference, especially in Gulf Cooperation Council countries which are still importing the good powers from various resources especially the Asian countries. Yemen is closer and more understanding in regard to the nature of social relationships, in addition to many factors that makes such project valuable in many aspects.
Modern Yemen managed to avoid many slippery conditions in spite of the economic pressures, the high percentage of poverty and the spread illiteracy. The success of his new experiment may be a solution for other troubled countries such as Iraq, Syria & Libya which are suffering the sectarian and tribal wars & have become a center for attracting terrorism members and becoming a toy in the hand of the external powers.
Iraq is about to be split due to its (bad) political administration that never sought achieving its union but transformed it to the state of the sect while the Kurd North achieved its independence and became a successful model in security stability and attraction of investments which led it towards becoming, politically and economically, a successful province.
Syria is a model for the whole Arab crisis since its independence until today. The war course and incidents between the state and the opposition led to a model of a regional and international conflict which may be ending by drawing new maps under international pressure and practices.
As for Libya, the conflicts came along to destroy everything. It is a model of Iraq, in spite of that it is the tribe supported by armed militias which is calling for dividing or splitting the state to provinces so that it can enjoy the wealth of its province and deprive another tribe from such wealth. However, this trend shall lead to a civil war or to an international military intervention for imposing a new method of governance.
In spite of its poverty and few resources, Yemen managed to provide a model that no one can claim it to be successful or otherwise. However, it came after dialogues, governmental and local meetings which concluded that it is the only solution. The value of such developments is that they are purely Yemeni ones with no influence of an Arab or external country that led to such organization. This means that the operations have been the result of a popular response through a national will. This end may become the window from which Yemen may overlook vast visions in regard to making its political and national future.


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